This policy sets out how Newable uses and protects an individual’s personal data, including data from our website.
Introduction
Newable Partnership Ltd and its subsidiaries (“Newable”) is committed to implementing leading data protection standards and to respect human rights in data management. This policy sets out how Newable will collect, use and protect an individual’s personal data, including data from Newable’s websites. It will also inform you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. Newable is also committed to obtain user data through lawful and transparent means, with your explicit consent, where required and will only collect and process your data, limited to the stated purpose.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or any questions or concerns regarding the manner in which your personal data is being processed, then please send your query to the Data Protection Officer, detailed below.
1. How Your Personal Data is Collected
Newable is the Data Controller for personal data about clients, event attendees, newsletter subscribers or when sending marketing material, which you expect to receive or have consented to receive.
Newable uses different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct Interactions – you may give us your identity, contact and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- register as a user of our products or services;
- subscribe to our publications;
- request marketing communications to be sent to you or you update your marketing preferences;
- respond to a promotion or survey;
- attend seminars, training or other events;
- provide feedback
Recruitment records also contain personal data
Newable will also collect anonymised statistics to improve its website.
2. The Data we Collect about You
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include anonymised or aggregated data, where it is not possible to identify an individual from the data.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:
- Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, date of birth and gender.
- Contact Data includes billing address, postal address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes bank account details
- Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your log-in data, browser type and version, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website, products you viewed or searched for, length of visits to certain pages and page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs).
- Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you and any requests for support, your interests, preferences, feedback, survey responses, promotion responses and where you have registered for training or an event.
3. Your Legal Rights (including Access to Your Data)
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Newable will only use your personal data when the law allows us to.
As an individual whose personal data is processed by Newable, you have the right to:
- Be informed (which is the purpose of this Privacy Notice);
- access the data Newable holds about you. Object to direct marketing (by contacting Newable at the address below or by email to dpo@newable.co.uk);
- Object to any processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interest (to undertake the service that you would expect or in line with a contract);
- Request erasure of data Newable holds about you (in some circumstances, this may not be possible if Newable has a legal obligation to retain it); and,
- Request that your data be restricted or blocked from processing.
The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) includes a right for individuals to have inaccurate personal data rectified or completed if it is incomplete. An individual can make a request for rectification verbally or in writing and Newable has one calendar month to respond to a request.
You have the right to know if Newable is processing your personal data, and if so, to be provided with a copy of such personal data, along with other supplemental information, regarding the nature and scope of the processing.
It is important that such requests are handled fairly, ensuring that the application of those rights do not undermine other obligations, such as preserving the data protection or privacy rights of third parties, preserving any confidential duties and ensuring compliance with law enforcement activity.
To exercise any of these rights, write or email your request to Michael Walsh, Data Protection Officer at the address below or by email to dpo@newable.co.uk. 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.
Newable will confirm to you that inaccurate personal data has been rectified or completed if it is incomplete.
4. Contacting You
Newable will only contact you if you’ve asked to be contacted or if your contact details are featured in a third-party contact list, in which you’ve been included by consent. You have the ability to opt-out of being contacted by Newable at any point.
You will receive telephone or emails from Newable if you have contacted us using an online contact form.
Newable also engages in business to business marketing activity.
5. Third Party Processors
Our carefully selected partners and service providers may process personal information about you on our behalf as described below:
Digital Marketing Service Providers
We periodically appoint digital marketing agents to conduct marketing activity on our behalf, such activity may result in the compliant processing of personal information. Our appointed data processors include:
- Prospect Global Ltd (trading as Sopro) Reg. UK Co. 09648733. You can contact Sopro and view their privacy policy here: http://sopro.io. Sopro are registered with the ICO Reg: ZA346877 their Data Protection Officer can be emailed at: dpo@sopro.io.
6. Your Duty to Inform us of Changes
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes, by contacting us.
7. Storing Your Data
Newable will store your data securely and do its utmost to protect your data and privacy using suitable security technology.
Newable may contract with third parties to process your data on its behalf and they will do so in accordance with our principles and instructions and not for any other purpose. Newable will require any third parties with whom your data is shared, to comply with our company policy.
Newable will ensure that any third parties used in connection with the running of its website and services (for example, hosting providers) act according to its strict contractual obligations.
8. Changes to this Policy or Data Breach
Newable keeps this Privacy Notice under regular review and will publish any changes to this policy on its websites.
Where the changes to this policy are significant, Newable may also choose to email all of its registered users with the new policy.
Newable will also notify individuals of any data breach which affects you and will undertake incident investigation and corrective action to minimise the incident re-occurring.
9. Use of Cookies and Web Beacons (Pixels)
Newable will collect anonymised statistics using cookies and pixels.
A cookie is a small computer file containing letters and numbers, which a website may send to a user’s computer to improve their experience.
Newable uses cookies to:
- collect anonymised data about the number of visitors to its website (and pages), so that it can improve the website and ensure that content is easy to find and engaging; and,
- remember preferences for text size and colour, for example.
For information on controlling cookies visit:
A pixel is a small tracking image inserted into some of our marketing and communications to track engagement.
Newable uses pixels to:
- collect anonymised data about the number of times an email has been opened and read (if at all), so that it can determine the impact of specific email campaigns; and,
- collect anonymised data about when an email has been opened and read and the type of device used, so that it can better understand the customers it serves.
For information on pixels and other web beacons visit:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/regulation/22/made
10. Anonymised Data
Newable will only share anonymised data or anonymised and aggregated data about its users with advertisers or other third parties.
11. Security Procedures and Staff Training
The GDPR requires Newable to follow strict security procedures when storing and disclosing information that you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access.
Newable will not sell, trade or rent your personal information.
Newable may provide aggregated data about its customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third parties but this data will never include personally identifying information.
Data processors given access to your data to provide services on behalf of Newable are subject to contractual restrictions to ensure that your data is protected. Your data will not be used independently by any such third party.
Newable reserves the right to access and disclose personally identifying information about you to comply with applicable laws, to comply with lawful government requests, to operate its systems properly and to protect its users.
All Newable staff are required to undertake and pass annual data protection and cyber security training. Where required, Newable will provide additional training to those areas of the business that Newable considers to be at a higher risk.
12. Data Retention
Newable will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider any applicable legal requirements, together with the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.
13. Legal Information under the GDPR
For the purposes of the GDPR, Mashudul Karim is the Data Protection Officer for Newable and can be contacted at:
Newable Partnership Limited, 140 Aldersgate Street, London, EC1A 4HY, United Kingdom.
Alternatively, you can email dpo@newable.co.uk.
Any queries regarding Newable’s use of data and its data policies should be addressed to the Data Protection Officer.
Newable Partnership Limited is registered in England under registration number 14356119
For further information about Newable’s data protection processes, please refer to our separate data protection policy.
14. Your Right to Complain
If you think that there is a problem with the way Newable handles your data or if you have a complaint, then please direct it to Newable’s Data Protection Officer, using the contact details set out in section 9 of this Notice.
You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at:
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.