QuickLeap is committed to ensuring compliance with data protection laws and safeguarding your personal information.
QuickLeap is a trading style of QuickLeap Ltd Company Number 06675913. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct authority - QuickLeap Ltd - No838864
QuickLeap Ltd (QL) is purely the data processor, all personal information is transferred to QL and personal data subsequently falls within QL data protection policy.
The personal data that QL processes to provide these services relates to its clients and other individuals as necessary, including staff and suppliers' staff.
This policy sets out QL's commitment to ensuring that any personal data, including special category personal data, which QL processes, is carried out in compliance with data protection law. QL is committed to ensuring that all the personal data that it processes is done in accordance with data protection law. QL ensures that good data protection practice is imbedded in the culture of our staff and our organisation.
These should be considered, and may not all be necessary:
'Data Protection Law' includes the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679; the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and all relevant EU and UK data protection legislation.
This policy applies to all personal data processed by QL and is part of QL approach to compliance with data protection law. All QL staff are expected to comply with this policy and failure to comply may lead to disciplinary action for misconduct, including dismissal.
QuickLeap complies with the data protection principles set out below. When processing personal data, it ensures that:
It is processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject.
It is collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.
It is all adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.
It is all accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date and that reasonable steps will be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay.
It is kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed.
It is processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.
QuickLeap facilitates any request from a data subject who wishes to exercise their rights under data protection law as appropriate, always communicating in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form and without undue delay.
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QuickLeap ensures that all staff who handle personal data on its behalf are aware of their responsibilities under this policy and other relevant data protection and information security policies, and that they are adequately trained and supervised.
Note: Breaching this policy may result in disciplinary action for misconduct, including dismissal. Obtaining (including accessing) or disclosing personal data in breach of QL's data protection policies may also be a criminal offence.
QuickLeap has processes in place to ensure that it can facilitate any request made by an individual to exercise their rights under data protection law. All staff have received training and are aware of the rights of data subjects. Staff can identify such a request and know who to send it to.
All requests will be considered without undue delay and within one month of receipt as far as possible.
The right to request information about how personal data is being processed, including whether personal data is being processed and the right to be allowed access to that data and to be provided with a copy of that data along with the right to obtain the following information:
The right to allow a data subject to rectify inaccurate personal data concerning them.
The right to have data erased and to have confirmation of erasure, but only where:
The right to ask for certain processing to be restricted in the following circumstances:
The right to receive a copy of personal data which has been provided by the data subject and which is processed by automated means in a format which will allow the individual to transfer the data to another data controller. This would only apply if QL was processing the data using consent or on the basis of a contract.
The right to object to the processing of personal data relying on the legitimate interests processing condition unless QL can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
This includes the following personal data revealing:
QuickLeap processes special category data of clients and third parties as is necessary to provide legal services for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
QuickLeap processes special category data of employees as is necessary to comply with employment and social security law. This policy sets out the safeguards we believe are appropriate to ensure that we comply with the data protection principles set out above. QL has a data retention policy which sets out how long special category data will be held onto.
QuickLeap takes ultimate responsibility for data protection.
This policy was last updated on March 2023 and shall be regularly monitored and reviewed, at least every two years.
If you have any questions about our data protection policy or your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer.
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