PRIVACY POLICY

Unite Holdings Group Ltd understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.unite-uk.com (“Our Site”) and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it.

1. Definitions and Interpretation

In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:

“Account”

means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of Our Site;

“Cookie”

means a small text file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site. Details of the Cookies used by Our Site are set out in Part 14, below; and

“Cookie Law”

means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003;

2. Information About Us

Our Site is owned and operated by Unite Holdings Group Ltd, a limited company, registered in England under company number 14118738.

Registered address: Business Central, 2 Union Square, Darlington, Co Durham, United Kingdom, DL1 1GL. Our Head Office is 80 High Street, 1st & 2nd Floor, Yarm, TS15 9AP.

Email address: info@unite-uk.com

Telephone number: +44 (0)1642 040901

3. What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

4. What Is Personal Data?

Personal data is defined by the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (collectively, “the Data Protection Legislation”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.

Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.

5. What Are My Rights?

Under the Data Protection Legislation, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:

The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 15.

The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 13 will tell you how to do this.

The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 15 to find out more.

The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we hold. Please contact u using the details in Part 15 to find out more.

The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.

The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.

The right to withdraw consent. This means that, if we are relying on your consent as the legal basis for using your personal data, you are free to withdraw that consent at any time.

The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.

Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way.

For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 15.

It is important that your personal data is kept accurate and up-to-date. If any of the personal data we hold about you changes, please keep us informed as long as we have that data.

Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. We would welcome the opportunity to resolve your concerns ourselves myself, however, so please contact us first, using the details in Part 15.

6. What Data Do You Collect and How?

Depending upon your use of Our Site, we may collect and hold some or all of the personal and non-personal data set out in the table below, using the methods also set out in the table. Please also see Part 14 for more information about our use of Cookies and similar technologies and our Cookie Policy.

Data Collected and How We Collect the Data

Identity Information including e.g. name, title, date of birth, gender

Via creating and account or booking with us.

Contact information including e.g. address, email address, telephone number.

Via creating and account or booking with us.

Business information including e.g. business name, job title, profession.

Via creating and account or booking with us.

Payment information including e.g. card details, bank account numbers.

Via booking with us.

Profile information including e.g. preferences, interests, login details, booking history.

Via browsing our site and creating an account or booking with us.

Technical information including e.g. IP address, browser type and version, operating system.

Via browsing our site and creating and account or booking with us.

Data from third parties including e.g. technical information, contact information, profile information.

Via browsing our site and creating and account or booking with us.

7.How Do You Use My Personal Data?

Under the Data Protection Legislation, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. The following table describes, as a guide, how we may use your personal data, and our lawful bases for doing so:

What We Do, What Data We Use, Our Lawful Basis

Registering you on Our Site.

Contact information including e.g. address, email address, telephone number. Identity Information including e.g. name, title, date of birth, gender. Business information including e.g. business name, job title, profession.

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Providing and managing your Account.

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Providing and managing your access to Our Site

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Personalising and tailoring your experience on Our Site

Profile information including e.g. preferences, interests, login details, booking history. Technical information including e.g. IP address, browser type and version, operating system.

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Administering Our Site or business

Technical information including e.g. IP address, browser type and version, operating system.

Data from third parties including e.g. technical information, contact information, profile information.

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Supplying our services to you.

Contact information including e.g. address, email address, telephone number.

Profile information including e.g. preferences, interests, login details, booking history.

Identity Information including e.g. name, title, date of birth, gender.

Technical information including e.g. IP address, browser type and version, operating system.

Data from third parties including e.g. technical information, contact information, profile information.

Legitimate business interests ie improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Managing payments for our services.

Payment information including e.g. card details, bank account numbers.

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Personalising and tailoring Our services for you.

Profile information including e.g. preferences, interests, login details, booking history.

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Communicating with you.

Contact information including e.g. address, email address, telephone number.

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

Supplying you with information by email or post that you have opted-in-to (you may opt-out at any time)

Contact information including e.g. address, email address, telephone number.

Legitimate business interests i.e. improving our Services and complying with contractual obligations to provide you with the Services.

With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email, text message or post with information, news, and offers on our services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.

Third Parties whose content appears on Our Site may use third-party Cookies, as detailed below in Part 14. Please refer to Part 14 for more information on controlling cookies. Please note that we do not control the activities of such third parties, nor the data that they collect and use themselves, and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such third parties.

We will only use your personal data for the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected unless we reasonably believe that another purpose is compatible with that or those original purpose(s) and need to use your personal data for that purpose. If we do use your personal data in this way and you wish us to explain how the new purpose is compatible with the original, please contact us using the details in Part 15.

If we need to use your personal data for a purpose that is unrelated to, or incompatible with, the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, we will inform you and explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

In some circumstances, where permitted or required by law, we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent. This will only be done within the bounds of the Data Protection Legislation and your legal rights.

8. How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?

We will only use and store information for so long as it is required for the purposes it was collected for. How long information will be stored for depends on the information in question and what it is being used for. For example, if you ask us not to send you marketing emails, we will stop storing your emails for marketing purposes (though we’ll keep a record of your preference not to be emailed).

We continually review what information we hold and delete what is no longer required. We never store payment card information.

9. How and Where Do You Store or Transfer My Personal Data?

We will only store your personal data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the Data Protection Legislation.

The security of your personal data is essential to us, and to protect your data, we take a number of important measures, including the following:

limiting access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties with a legitimate need to know and ensuring that they are subject to duties of confidentiality;

procedures for dealing with data breaches (the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, your personal data) including notifying you and/or the Information Commissioner’s Office where we are legally required to do so.

10. Do You Share My Personal Data?

We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions.

If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to a third party. Any new owner of our business may continue to use your personal data in the same way(s) that we have used it, as specified in this Privacy Policy.

In some limited circumstances we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

We may share your personal data with other companies in our group. This includes subsidiaries our holding company and its subsidiaries.

We may sometimes contract with the following third parties to supply certain services.

If any of your personal data is shared with a third party, as described above, we will take steps to ensure that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the third party’s obligations under the law, as described above in Part 9.

In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

11. How Can I Control My Personal Data?

1.1 In addition to your rights under the Data Protection Legislation, set out in Part 5, when you submit personal data via Our My Site, you may be given options to restrict our use of your personal data. In particular, we aim to give you strong controls on our use of your data for direct marketing purposes (including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in our emails and at the point of providing your details and by managing your Account).

1.2 You may also wish to sign up to one or more of the preference services operating in the UK: The Telephone Preference Service (“the TPS”), the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (“the CTPS”), and the Mailing Preference Service (“the MPS”). These may help to prevent you receiving unsolicited marketing. Please note, however, that these services will not prevent you from receiving marketing communications that you have consented to receiving.

12. Can I Withhold Information?

You may access certain areas of Our Site without providing any personal data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on Our My Site you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.

You may restrict our use of Cookies. For more information, see Part 14 our Cookie Policy.

13. How Can I Access My Personal Data?

If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.

All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 15.

There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.

We will respond to your subject access request within 28 days and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.

14. How Do You Use Cookies?

Our Site may place and access certain first-party Cookies on your computer or device. First-party Cookies are those placed directly by us and are used only by us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Site and to provide and improve our services. By using Our Site, you may also receive certain third-party Cookies on your computer or device. Third-party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than us. For more details, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

15. How Do I Contact You?

To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details:

Email address: info@unite-uk.com

Telephone number: +44 (0)1642 040901

Postal Address: Our Head Office is 80 High Street, 1st & 2nd Floor, Yarm, TS15 9AP. Registered Address: Unite Holdings Group Ltd, Business Central, 2 Union Square, Darlington, Co Durham, United Kingdom, DL1 1GL

16. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.

Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of Our Site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 17/05/2023.

It is recommended that you print a copy of these Terms and Conditions for your future reference.