Privacy Policy

Data Protection Officer

Our Data Protection Officer is Iva Warren. She is responsible for overseeing data protection across Union of Safeguarding Officers 

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You can contact Iva at:

Email: connect@theuso.org.uk

Data Protection Rights 

Data protection rights defines how Union of Safeguarding Officers uses the PII (Personal Identifiable Information). The rights are detailed in the ICO website (Information Commissioner’s Office) : www.ico.org.uk.

No charge is to be paid for exercising data protection rights. Responses are provided within a month of raising any data protection request.

Data protection rights are detailed below.

Right of Access

Data subjects have a right to access their stored data, to know if data is being processed, purpose of processing, categories of personal data being processed, recipients of data

Right to Transparency: 

Data subjects are to be informed about how their data being processed using clear and plain language

Right to rectification

Data subjects have a right to update existing data.

Right to Erasure or Right to be forgotten: 

Data controllers must erase personal data in a timely manner as per the data subject request and inform the other controllers also.

Right to Data Portability: 

Data Subjects have the right to receive data in a structured machine-readable format. Right to have the data transmitted to another controller.

Right to object processing: 

Data subjects can object to processing of their data at any time.

Right not to subject to automated decision making e.g., loan approval applications

Right to complain 

The data collected and stored is protected with care. In case, there are any questions or complaints with respect to data usage, they may be raised by sending a mail to the DPO. Responses are provided within a month of receipt of compliant 

Complaints may be escalated to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office). Contact details of ICO :0303 123 1113. website: https:// ico.org.uk/make-a-compliant 

Record Keeping: 

A record of all processing activities of data is to be maintained.