Privacy Policy

How We Use Your Information

This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Bushby Heating collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:

Visitors to Our Website

When someone visits www.bushbyheating.co.uk we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our web site. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our web site, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Use of Cookies

You can read more about how we use cookies on our Cookies page .

E-newsletter

We use a third-party provider, ‘Mailchimp’ to deliver our occasional e-newsletters. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. These can vary from time to time and so in order to obtain up-to-date information on each e-newsletter.

People Who Contact Us Via Social Media

We use the supplier standard interfaces to manage our social media interactions.

If you send us a private or direct message via social media the message will be stored by us, using these standard applications, which may change from time to time and at the discretion of the platform provider.

People Who Call Us

When you call us, we record the data, time and inbound telephone number; sometimes, we also record the content of the conversation in a media file called a ‘WAV’ file. This file is kept secure and we have policies and procedures that allow some of our senior management and IT team to review the recordings. The review of recordings can be made to support training purposes for staff members, or it can be to review complaints made for service failures.

People Who Email Us

Where available, we use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt and protect email traffic. If your email service does not support TLS, you should be aware that any emails we send or receive may not be protected in transit.

We will also monitor any emails sent to us, including file attachments, for viruses or malicious software. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send is within the bounds of the law.

When emailing us, you should consider that we may retain that email and content, including file attachments, in perpetuity or for as long as we deem necessary to conduct lawful business relations with you.

People Who Make A Complaint to Us

When we receive a complaint from a person we make up a file containing the details of the complaint. This normally contains the identity of the complainant and any other individuals involved in the complaint.

We will only use the personal information we collect to process the complaint and to check on the level of service we provide. We do compile and publish statistics showing information like the number of complaints we receive, and these are periodically reviewed by senior management team members, so that we can look to continuously improve upon our services.

Similarly, where enquiries are submitted to us we will only use the information supplied to us to deal with the enquiry and any subsequent issues and to check on the level of service we provide.

Our Service

As a user of our services you should also expect that we will keep, process and secure your personal and commercial information, using appropriate technical means. This will include the periodic review of information that you have supplied to us, to enforce continued accuracy and accountability, periodic privacy notices with regards to the suppliers that we use to provide for our service (‘our suppliers’), updates to security protocols, and all practical and generally accepted good business and housekeeping processes.

Job Applicants, Current and Former Employees

All of the information you provide during the recruitment process will only be used for the purpose of progressing your application, or to fulfil legal or regulatory requirements if necessary.

We will not share any of the information you provide during the recruitment process with any third parties for marketing purposes or store any of your information outside of the European Economic Area. The information you provide will be held securely by us and/or our data processors whether the information is in electronic or physical format.

We will use the contact details you provide to us to contact you to progress your application. We will use the other information you provide to assess your suitability for the role you have applied for.

We do not collect more information than we need to fulfil our stated purposes and will not retain it for longer than is necessary. The information we ask for is used to assess your suitability for employment. You don’t have to provide what we ask for, but it might affect your application if you don’t.

We might ask you to participate in assessment days, complete tests or occupational personality profile questionnaires, and/or to attend an interview – or a combination of these. Information will be generated by you and by us. For example, you might complete a written test, or we might take interview notes.

If you are unsuccessful following assessment for the position you have applied for, we will remove your details from our system. If you should like to reapply for any positions in the future, you will be asked to reapply and resubmit your details.

For the purposes of temporary employment positions, we will obtain, store and process your personal information in a respectful manner; having regards to your data security rights under both the Data Protection Act 1998 and EU General Data Protection Regulations.

If we make a conditional offer of employment we will ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete pre-employment checks to progress to a final offer. We are required to confirm the identity of our staff, their right to work in the United Kingdom and seek assurance as to their trustworthiness, integrity and reliability.

You will therefore be required to provide:

Proof of your identity – you will be asked to attend our office with original documents, we will take copies.
Proof of your qualifications – you will be asked to attend our office with original documents, we will take copies.
You will be asked to complete a criminal records declaration to declare any unspent convictions.

We may provide your email address to the Government Recruitment Service who will contact you to complete an application for a Basic Criminal Record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service, or Access NI, which will verify your declaration of unspent convictions.

We will contact your referees, using the details you provide in your application, directly to obtain references.

We will also ask you to complete a questionnaire about your health. This is to establish your fitness to work. This is done through a data processor.

If we make a final offer, we will also ask you for the following:

Bank details – to process salary payments.
Emergency contact details – so we know who to contact in case you have an emergency at work
Membership of a Pension scheme.

Some roles may require a higher level of security clearance – this will be made clear on the advert. If this is the case, then you will be asked to submit additional information to us.

Our Code of Conduct requires all staff to declare if they have any potential conflicts of interest. If you complete a declaration, the information will be held on your personnel file.

Use of Data Processors

Data processors are third parties who provide elements of our recruitment service for us. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct.

Under the EU-GDPR 2018 and Data Protection Act 1998, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you.

You can read more about these rights here at ico.org.uk/for-the-public/is-my-information-being- handled-correctly

Complaints or Queries

We try to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.

This privacy notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of our collection and use of personal information. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed. Any requests for this should be sent to the address below.

If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information, you can contact us at sales@bushbygas.co.uk. Should you feel your complaint is not being handled to your satisfaction, we also operate an independent team of personnel at sales@bushbygas.co.uk. We also fully respect your rights to contact our Supervisory Authority (www.ico.org.uk).

Access to Personal Information

Bushby Heating tries to be as open as it can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information. Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR legislation. If we do hold information about you, we will:

Give you a description of it.
Tell you why we are holding it.
Tell you who it could be disclosed to.
Let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.

To make a request to us, for any personal information we may hold you need to put the request in writing addressing it to our Data Controller: sales@bushbygas.co.uk or by writing to us at:

Bushby Heating
175 Main Road
Biggin Hill
Kent
TN16 3JR

Disclosure of Personal Information

In many circumstances we will not disclose personal data without consent, however when we investigate a complaint, for example, we will need to share personal information with the organisation concerned and with other relevant bodies.

This privacy notice does not cover the links within our web site linking to other web sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other web sites you visit.

Changes to This Privacy Notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 18/09/2019.

How to Contact Us

If you want to request information about our privacy policy, you can email us at sales@bushbygas.co.uk or write to us at: