COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
In order to extend our services, we may collect personally identifiable information. Information that may be collected could include, but may not be limited to:
- date of birth,
- current and previous residential addresses
- National Insurance Number,
- Driving Licence details,
- National Identity Card details,
- National Entitlement Card Number,
- Electricity Supply Number,
- PVG Scheme Membership Number,
- Passport Number (if applicable),
- mailing address,
- e-mail address,
- contact number.
In some cases, other PII not listed here may be required depending on the type of application that has been completed. If you enter personal information but do not complete the form or make a payment for the service provided by the Site, some or all of this information may be stored and used in accordance with the subsequent section “How we use your Personal Information”.
The information we collect is used to provide the application review and submission service offered by the website. Clear Check may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age and gender.
Certain Information about users’ computer hardware and software which may include: IP Addresses, Internet browsers, referring website address and access times may be automatically collected by Clear Check This information may be used to maintain QOS (Quality of service), to provide general statistics regarding use of the website and for general service operation.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Clear Check collects and uses your PII to:
- Provide the services offered by the website and requested by the user.
- Inform users of other services available
- Contact you in order to conduct research or carry out surveys relating to your opinion of services offered currently or services planned for the future
Clear Check does not:
- Sell, rent or lease its customer data to any third party.
- Disclose PII to third parties without consent of the user.
In order to determine what services are most popular and to deliver customised content or advertising to users who’s behaviour may indicate an interest in a particular subject, details of what pages users visit within the website may be collected.
Clear check will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Clear Check or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Clear Check; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Clear Check, or the public. Clear Check may share PII with third party service providers which may be located within a country outside of the European Economic Area, solely to perform services for Clear Check and not for any independent use or disclosure outside of Clear Check. By agreeing to these terms within the Privacy Policy, you consent to the storage or transfer of your PII to the third party service providers.
A User may request confirmation at any time of what Personal identifiable information is held and what that this consists of. Such requests should be made in writing. The requested information will be provided within 40 days of the request and may incur a fee of up to £10 for each subject access request.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
https://dbs-check.org.uk/ may contain links to other external websites however we are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of such websites. Users are therefore encouraged to review the privacy policies of websites you choose to link to from dbs-check.org.uk/ in order to understand how those websites collect, use and share your information.
USE OF COOKIES
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. - Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Template Generator and the WebTerms Generator.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: [email protected]
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information is secured from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card or debit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. The website does not collect payment information and at no point receive or therefore store the payment card information. Users are redirected to a third-party payment gateway to submit a payment. Whilst we use industry standard procedures to safeguard your Personal Identifiable information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
USERS UNDER SIXTEEN YEARS OLD
We do not knowingly collect PII from children under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16,you are not permitted to use this website or avail of the services offered.
OPT-OUT & UNSUBSCRIBE
You may opt-out of receiving communication from us Should you wish to opt-out, you may do so by contacting us:
– Web page: www.dbs-check.org.uk
– Email: [email protected]
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time. Users are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy in order to remain informed about how we use, store and protect information. Any changes made to this statement will only apply to users who positively consent to the new version.
CONTACT INFORMATION
COMPANY ADDRESS
dbs-check.org.uk – Clear Check, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX.
dbs-check.org.uk is a trading name of Clear Check Ltd. Registered in England & Wales: Company No.: 05853202
Email Address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0333 030 0005
December 2019