GDPR
AMRT’s Data Protection Policy sets out below, our commitment to protecting personal data and how we implement that pledge with regards to the collection and the use of personal data.
Our commitment is to: -
- Ensure that we comply with the eight data protection principles, listed below.
- Meet our legal obligations as laid down by the Data Protection Act 1998.
- Process personal data only in order to meet our operational needs or fulfil legal requirements.
- Ensure that data is collected and used fairly and lawfully.
- Take steps to ensure that personal data is up to date and accurate.
- Establish appropriate retention periods for personal data.
- Ensure that data subjects’ rights can be appropriately exercised.
- Provide adequate security and storage measures to protect personal data.
- Ensure that all Team Management are made aware of good practice in Data Protection.
- Provide suitable training for all staff responsible for personal data.
- Ensure that a nominated Team officer is responsible for Data Protection compliance and provides a point of contact for all data protection issues.
- Ensure that everyone handling personal data knows where to find additional guidance.
- Ensure that queries about Data Protection, both internal and external to the Team, are dealt with efficiently and promptly.
- Regularly review Data Protection measures and guidelines within the Team.
The Data protection principles: -
- Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully.
- Personal data shall be obtained for one or more specified and lawful purposes and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.
- Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed.
- Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
- Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under the Data Protection Act 1998.
- Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised and unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
- 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.
