1. Key details
Policy prepared by: Jennifer Blacow
Approved by board / management on: 10 May 2018
Policy became operational on: 10 May 2018
·Next review date: 10 November 2020
2. Why this policy exists
Aspiedent is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our Services. Our Data Protection Policy explains how Aspiedent collects, uses and protects the data that we hold.
3. Your Personal data - what is it?
(a) Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable living individual, and includes, name, residential address, telephone numbers, email addresses and other identifying information.
(b) Special category data is data which needs greater protection due to its sensitivity. This is likely to include anything that can reveal one or more of the following:
- racial or ethnic origin;
- political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership;
- genetic / biometric data;
- physical or mental health; or
- sex life and sexual orientation.
(c) Aspiedent is an Autism and Aspergers training and consultancy company, which means that in some circumstances, Aspiedent collects, processes and stores special category data relating to its customers, including information relating to mental and physical health and trade union membership.
(d) This data protection policy applies to any personal data (including special category data) we collect, use or create about you. This includes information:
- which we collect from visitors to our website;
- which is given to us by phone, social media, email, in letters, in forms and other correspondence; and
- which is given in person.
4. Definitions
(a) “Aspiedent”, “we”, “us” or “our” means Aspiedent CIC.
(b) “Aspiedent data storage” includes physical, electronic or cloud-based storage of data.
(c) “Personal data” has the meaning as defined in Paragraph 3 of this Policy.
(d) “Services” means services provided by Aspiedent to its customers, including Autism Training and Consultancy to employers and adults with autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) and employment training and employment support to people with ASCs.
(e) “Special category data” has the meaning as defined in Paragraph 3 of this Policy.