Introduction
Ambro Events needs to gather and use certain information about individuals.
These can include customers, suppliers, business contacts, employees and other people the organisation has a relationship with or may need to contact.
This policy describes how this personal data must be collected, handled and stored to meet the company’s data protection standards — and to comply with the law.
Why this policy exists
This data protection policy ensures Ambro Events:
Data protection law
The Data Protection Act 2018 describes how organisations — including Ambro Events — must collect, handle and store personal information.
These rules apply regardless of whether data is stored electronically, on paper or on other materials.
To comply with the law, personal information must be collected and used fairly, stored safely and not
disclosed unlawfully.
The Data Protection Act is underpinned by eight important principles. These say that personal data must:
People, risks and responsibilities
Policy scope
This policy applies to:
It applies to all data that the company holds relating to identifiable individuals, even if that information
technically falls outside of the Data Protection Act 2018. This can includes:
Data protection risks
This policy helps to protect Ambro Events from some very real data security risks, including:
Responsibilities
Everyone who works for or with Ambro Events has some responsibility for ensuring data is collected, stored and handled appropriately. Each team that handles personal data must ensure that it is handled and processed in line with this policy and data protection principles. However, these people have key areas of responsibility:
The IT manager is responsible for:
The Marketing Manager is responsible for:
General staff guidelines
Data storage
These rules describe how and where data should be safely stored. Questions about storing data safely can be directed to the IT manager or data controller. When data is stored on paper, it should be kept in a secure place where unauthorised people cannot see it. These guidelines also apply to data that is usually stored electronically but has been printed out for some
reason:
Data use
Personal data is of no value to Ambro Events unless the business can make use of it. However, it is when personal data is accessed and used that it can be at the greatest risk of loss, corruption or theft:
Data accuracy
The law requires Ambro Events to take reasonable steps to ensure data is kept accurate and up to date.
The more important it is that the personal data is accurate, the greater the effort Ambro Events should put into ensuring its accuracy.
It is the responsibility of all employees who work with data to take reasonable steps to ensure it is kept as accurate and up to date as possible.
Subject access requests
All individuals who are the subject of personal data held by Ambro Events are entitled to:
Disclosing data for other reasons
Providing information
Ambro Events aims to ensure that individuals are aware that their data is being processed, and that they
understand:
To these ends, the company has a privacy statement, setting out how data relating to individuals is used by the company.
This is available on request. A version of this statement is also available on the company’s website.