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Data Protection Policy

Our commitment to GDPR compliance and safeguarding your personal information

Data Protection Policy (GDPR)

QuickLeap is committed to ensuring compliance with data protection laws and safeguarding your personal information.

Introduction

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.

QL's Other Data Protection Policies

These should be considered, and may not all be necessary:

  • Record of processing activities
  • Privacy notices (website, clients, employees)
  • Personal data breach reporting process and a breach register
  • Data retention policy
  • Data subject rights procedure
  • Data protection impact assessment process
  • IT security policies

'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.

Scope

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.

Data Protection Principles

QuickLeap complies with the data protection principles set out below. When processing personal data, it ensures that:

Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency

It is processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject.

Purpose Limitation

It is collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.

Data Minimisation

It is all adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.

Accuracy

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.

Storage Limitation

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.

Integrity and Confidentiality

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.

Process/Procedures/Guidance

QuickLeap:

  • Ensures that the legal basis for processing personal data is identified in advance and that all processing complies with the law
  • Does not do anything with your data that you would not expect given the content of this policy and the fair processing or privacy notice
  • Ensures that appropriate privacy notices are in place advising staff and others how and why their data is being processed, and, in particular, advising data subjects of their rights
  • Only collects and processes the personal data that it needs for purposes it has identified in advance
  • Ensures that, as far as possible, the personal data it holds is accurate, or a system is in place for ensuring that it is kept up to date as far as possible
  • Only holds onto your personal data for as long as it is needed, after which time QL will securely erase or delete the personal data - QL data retention policy sets out the appropriate period of time
  • Ensures that appropriate security measures are in place to ensure that personal data can only be accessed by those who need to access it and that it is held and transferred securely

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.

Data Subject Rights

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.

Subject Access

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 purpose of the processing
  • The categories of personal data
  • The recipients to whom data has been disclosed
  • The retention period
  • The right to lodge a complaint with the ICO
  • The existence of any automated decision making
Rectification

The right to allow a data subject to rectify inaccurate personal data concerning them.

Erasure

The right to have data erased and to have confirmation of erasure, but only where:

  • The data is no longer necessary
  • Where consent is withdrawn
  • Where there is no legal basis for the processing
Restriction of Processing

The right to ask for certain processing to be restricted in the following circumstances:

  • If the accuracy of the personal data is being contested
  • If our processing is unlawful but the data subject does not want it erased
  • If the data is no longer needed but required for legal claims
  • If the data subject has objected to the processing
Data Portability

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.

Object to Processing

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.

Special Category Personal Data

This includes the following personal data revealing:

  • Racial or ethnic origin
  • Political opinions
  • Religious or philosophical beliefs
  • Trade union membership
  • The processing of genetic data, biometric data for identification
  • An individual's health
  • A natural person's sex life or sexual orientation
  • Criminal convictions or offences

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.

Responsibility for the Processing of Personal Data

QuickLeap takes ultimate responsibility for data protection.

Contact the Data Protection Officer
  • Name: QuickLeap Ltd
  • Address: Newsham House, 103 Manchester Road, Bury BL9 0TD
  • Email: admin@quickleap.co.uk

Monitoring and Review

This policy was last updated on March 2023 and shall be regularly monitored and reviewed, at least every two years.

Policy Documents

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