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This notice aims to inform you about how we collect and process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us in connection with your use of our website. It covers information that could identify you and which relates to you (“personal data”). In the context of the law and this notice, “process” means any use of personal data, including to collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information. This notice tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal data. Our policy is not just an exercise in complying with the law, but a continuation of our respect for you and your personal data.
We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us.
Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.
Please note that our website is not intended for users under the age of eighteen (18) years old.
Our Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website or Website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website/application you visit.
We are Agri-EPI Centre Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (Company Number 09922991) with registered office at Midlands Agri-Tech Innovation Hub Poultry Lane, Edgmond, Newport, England, TF10 8JZ. In this notice we refer to Agri-EPI Centre Limited as ‘The Agri-EPI Centre Ltd’, ‘Agri-EPI’, ‘Agri-EPI Centre’, ‘AEC’, ‘us’ or ‘we’.
Agri-EPI Centre is the controller and responsible for your personal data. We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this notice.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact our data privacy manager in the following ways:
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data relating to you. We have collated these into groups as follows:
We may aggregate anonymous data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Anonymous data is data that does not identify you as an individual. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law because it does not reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate profile data to assess interest in a product or service or suitability for a project.
However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can identify you in any way, we treat the combined data as personal data and it will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances.
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
The next part of this notice tells you how we use your personal data in relation to our different processing activities.
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service we are providing to you but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
We may process information on the basis there is a legitimate interest, to you or to us of doing so.
For example, we may process your Identity, Contact, Technical, Marketing and Profile Data on this basis for the purposes of:
Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation.
For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
This may include your personal data.
We also need to retain financial records (which may include your Identity, Contact and Profile Data) in order to comply with accountancy and tax rules.
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out above in this notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
When you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by e-mail, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply.
We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business and we do so on the basis of our legitimate interests in managing our business and communications.
We keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you and provide our services.
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Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely.
Your web browser should allow you to delete any you choose. It also should allow you to prevent or limit their use.
Our Website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use.
When you first visit our Website, we ask you whether you wish us to use cookies. If you choose not to accept them, we shall not use them for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for any other purpose.
If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our Website.
We use cookies in the following ways:
We provide more information about the cookies we use in our cookie policy: https://agri-epicentre.com/cookies-notice/.
Our Website is hosted in the United Kingdom and your data will not be transferred out of the EEA.
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 28th April 2020.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes either by email or by updating your details within our Website.
At any time you may review or update personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by contacting us by email dataprotection@agri-epicentre.com.
In certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of these rights set out below, please contact us
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
You have the right to:
If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our Website, you should adjust your details using the settings options, or email us at the following address: dataprotection@agri-epicentre.com.
Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by contacting us.
In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.