Leicester UCU is committed to ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of members, potential members, and our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
Reference to personal data may include any information which directly or indirectly identifies you. This may include: your name, address, contact details, date of birth. Sensitive personal data may include information which reveals your membership of Leicester UCU.
The personal data you supply to us will be held in electronic and/or manual format.
The processing of personal data by UCU shall be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This policy reflects our duties under the GDPR to use information fairly, keep it secure, make sure it is accurate and keep it up to date. This policy does not apply to other organisations to which we may link and whose privacy policies may differ.
Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. It may change from time to time, so please check back periodically. This policy was last updated on the date at the top of this page.
Leicester UCU is the data controller. Our contact details are:
Email: ucu@le.ac.uk.
All information that Leicester UCU holds concerning you as an individual (your personal data) will be held and processed in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR.
Your data is used by the Leicester UCU to manage your membership record and our relationship with you as a valued member.
We process the data you provide to enable us to carry out our legitimate interests as a trade union and to help us deliver services to you, which includes the following purposes:
By joining Leicester UCU you should understand that Leicester UCU may use some or all of the personal data you have provided for the above purposes.
Where the processing of personal data is based on our legitimate interests, it is to act in the interests of you as a member or of members as a whole or our staff. Where based on our legitimate activities these are in furtherance of our objects, and policies adopted as a trade union.
We will keep your personal data confidential and will take appropriate measures to protect it against loss, theft or misuse and to safeguard your privacy.
Some of your personal data will be available to Leicester UCU’s officers and reps, UCU’s employees and officials, and others instructed by UCU for the purposes of carrying out trade union duties.
The type of personal data shared will be relevant to the purpose for which the data is used, so for example, unless you have expressly asked us not to, workplace representatives will be given your workplace contact details.
Leicester UCU will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information to any third party without your consent except under special circumstances where we believe that the law requires it.
When you supply any personal information to the branch or any site using the uculeicester.org.uk domain, for instance in responding to surveys or petitions or contacting the membership department we will explain how we will use it, and each web page will explain why we may be requesting information and for what purpose, and will also tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide to Leicester UCU will only be used by us unless we are obliged or permitted by law to pass to any third party.
So that we can communicate with you effectively it is important that the contact details we hold for you are up to date. You can check your personal details are accurate and amend them by logging into MY UCU (https://ucu.custhelp.com).
Leicester UCU may contact you by email – either directly, via survey or other on-line software, or as part of a mailing list we hold and maintain.
Your membership data is processed to enable to us to meet our legitimate interest to keep you informed of news and our activities. We send our members regular communication by email to their designated email addresses.
You can alter the email address we hold. In order to do this, email ucu@le.ac.uk.
If you decide to leave Leicester UCU we will only retain your data so long as is reasonably necessary. Generally this will be no longer than 6 years.
We will retain data for longer where there is a legal or employment related reason for doing so e.g. where an employment issue continues after membership ends. In these circumstances data will only be retained for as long as is reasonably necessary and this period will not exceed 6 years Should we need to retain data for longer than 6 years we will provide a clear explanation of our reasons for doing so.
We do not process personal data for automatic decision-making or profiling.
You have a right to access your personal information held in our records, whether electronically or in hard copy. You should contact ucu@le.ac.uk should you wish to have access to this information.
We also recommend that you advise us should we need to update or complete any of our records containing your personal information.
If you wish to rectify or to erase your personal information, please also contact ucu@le.ac.uk.
As an individual you have a statutory right to object to the UCU processing your data. If you wish to do so you must contact ucu@le.ac.uk.
Leicester UCU has implemented technical and organisational measures to ensure the processing of personal data remains secured; however, absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
We make every effort to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control. However, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
For any of the above purposes, we may transfer some or all of your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Countries outside the EEA may not have data protection laws as comprehensive as those that exist in the EEA. We have, however, taken steps to ensure that data is held securely where it is transferred to our service providers outside the EEA.
We will not sell your information to a third party.
We may amend this policy at any time by posting a revised version on the website.
The change will take effect on the date that we post it on this page. We will take your continued use of the site and our services after that date as your acceptance of the change, so if an amendment is not acceptable to you then you should stop using the web site and our services.
This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. We may use cookies on this website solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.
A cookie is also set by us once you’ve read and/or accepted the cookie usage notice in order to prevent you being asked again each time you visit.
Some cookies may be set when forms are submitted in order for our website to be able to provide the relevant information back to you on subsequent visits.
Users have the opportunity to set their web browser to accept, issue a notification of, or refuse cookies at any time. Continuing to use this website gives consent to cookies being used. Please note that if you refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Each browser is different, so check its ‘Help’ menu to learn how to change your cookie preferences. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
We use some providers of third-party services to enhance the functionality and usability of our website. Pages that use these third-party services may present cookies from these websites. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. We may also work with third parties to collect user data through our websites for the purpose of serving ads targeted to your interests. You can opt out of interest-based advertising through ‘Do Not Track’ settings in your web browser or mobile devices or through such other methods as Twitter may specify from time to time at Twitter (or any successor url). Please check the policies of each service for further information. These third-party services include, but are not limited to, Google Analytics* which monitors traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website, YouTube so that we can embed videos, Google, Twitter and Facebook.
*Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), uses “cookies” to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
If you have any queries about this Policy, please contact ucu@le.ac.uk.
The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, United Kingdom
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