This is a statement of Data Protection Compliance adopted by IP Forensics Ltd and any of its subsidiary companies.
IPF needs to collect and use certain types of information about people with whom it deals in order to operate. This includes current, past and prospective employees, suppliers, clients/customers, and others with whom it communicates. In addition, it may occasionally be required by law to collect and use certain types of information of this kind to comply with the requirements of government departments for business data, for example. This personal information must be dealt with properly, however it is collected, recorded and used – whether on paper, in a computer, or recorded on other material.
We regard the lawful and correct treatment of personal information by IP Forensics Ltd as very important to successful operations, and to maintaining confidence between those with whom we deal and ourselves. We ensure that our organisation treats personal information lawfully and correctly.
To this end we fully endorse and adhere to the Principles of Data Protection, as enumerated in the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
Specifically, the Principles require that personal information:
Shall be processed fairly and lawfully and, in particular, shall not be processed unless specific conditions are met;
Shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes;
Shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed;
Shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date;
Shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes;
Shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under the Act; Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
Shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
Therefore, IP Forensics Ltd will, through appropriate management, ensure strict application of criteria and controls:
Observe fully conditions regarding the fair collection and use of information;
Meet its legal obligations to specify the purposes for which information is used;
Collect and process appropriate information, and only to the extent that it is needed to fulfil operational needs or to comply with any legal requirements;
Ensure the quality of information used;
Apply strict checks to determine the length of time information is held;
Ensure that the rights of people about whom information is held, are able to be fully exercised under the Act. (These include: the right to be informed that processing is being undertaken, the right of access to one’s personal information, the right to prevent processing in certain circumstances and the right to correct, rectify, block or erase information which is regarded as wrong information.);
Take appropriate technical and organisational security measures to safeguard personal information;
Ensure that personal information is not transferred abroad without suitable safeguards.
In addition, IP Forensics Ltd will ensure that:
There is an individual with specific responsibility for data protection within the organisation;
Everyone managing and handling personal information understands that they are contractually responsible for following good data protection practice;
Everyone managing and handling personal information is appropriately trained to do so;
Everyone managing and handling personal information is appropriately supervised;
Anybody wanting to make enquiries about handling personal information knows what to do;
Queries about handling personal information are promptly and courteously dealt with;
Methods of handling personal information are clearly described;
A regular review and audit is made of the way personal information is managed;
Methods of handling personal information are regularly assessed and evaluated;
Performance with handling personal information is regularly assessed and evaluated.
Data Protection Policy
Data Protection Policy
In cases where it is appropriate and reasonable, we will profile any subjects names through the live databases to which we have access. In some circumstances, this may leave “footprints” under the search purpose that you have provided to us on the subject’s credit file.
If your Instruction is a trace, and dependent upon the information we obtain from these databases, we may then determine further enquiries such as obtaining telephone numbers for addresses at which we believe your subject may be located. We may also utilise other public databases and/or Registries that we feel would be of value in this enquiry, e.g. The Family Records Office, Land Registry, Gazette etc etc.
Once this research has been completed, we may then conduct enquiries by telephone at and around the locations identified. At no stage will we divulge to a third party any personal data relating to the Data Subject.
Whatever the instruction, we confirm that no part of this enquiry will be sub-contracted to any other agent without your prior approval. We also confirm that no information concerning the Data Subject given to us by yourselves, or obtained during the course of this enquiry, will be used for any other purpose.
At all stages of enquiries we recognise that we are acting as your Data Processor, and as such we will comply totally with the Data Protection Act, GDPR and the guidelines contained within the 8 Principles.
Data Subject Access requests (DSAR)
It is the right of an individual to request any “personal data” that an organization holds on them. This right is a principle of the current EU Directive 95/46/EC and is retained in the GDPR. It is designed to regulate the processing of information from which a living individual can be identified or singled out either from the information on its own or when combined with other information. As long as the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive there will be no fee charged for a Data Subject Access request and any request will be responded to within one month of receipt.
Data Subject Access requests should be directed to: paul.thomas@ipfltd.com .
Data Breach
IPF, in line with the requirements in the GDPR, will report any data breach to the data protection commissioner, within 72 hours of becoming aware of any such breach.