E-newsletters privacy notice

Who we are

The Engineering Council is the UK regulatory body for the engineering profession. The Engineering Council is a registered charity, number 286142, whose registered office is 
10 Lower Thames Street, London, EC3R 6EN.

Contact details

The person responsible for data protection matters at the Engineering Council can be contacted by:

• email dpo@engc.org.uk 
• post (to the above address)
• telephone: 020 3206 0500

Personal data

What is personal data

Personal data is any information that can be used to identify an individual. 

What personal data do we collect 

The personal data that the Engineering Council collects and processes on you is:

What we use your personal data for

The personal data we collect will be used to send you copies of our digital newsletters and other related email communications, specifically those for which you explicitly subscribe.

What the lawful basis is for processing your data

Our basis for processing your personal data is consent. 

Special or sensitive data 

The Engineering Council does not collect or process special categories of personal data or sensitive data such as race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, etc. 

Consent 

By consenting to this privacy notice, you are giving the Engineering Council permission to process your personal data specifically for the purposes identified above. You may withdraw consent for this purpose at any time by using the “unsubscribe” button on any of our digital newsletters, or by contacting the Engineering Council’s Data Protection Lead.

Sharing your data 

The Engineering Council will not pass on your personal data to any other organisation. 

Retention 

The Engineering Council will process your personal data for as long as you subscribe. When you unsubscribe, we will delete your contact information for the specific newsletter or communications you have requested. This may take up to one calendar month to take effect.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we hold about you.
• Right to rectification – you have a right to correct personal data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to erasure – in certain circumstances you can ask for the personal data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
• Right to restrict processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Right to data portability – you have the right to have the personal data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
• Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing of your personal data such as direct marketing.
• Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you have the right to be object to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.

If we receive a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, we may forward them on as appropriate to any third party involved (as listed above) in the processing of your personal data.

Subject Access Request

A Subject Access Request form and copy of the procedure can be requested by emailing dpo@engc.org.uk  

Subject access requests may be forwarded on, where appropriate, to any third party involved (as stated above, where applicable) in the processing of your personal data.

Complaints

If you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by the Engineering Council (or third parties as listed above), you have the right to lodge a complaint:

• directly with the Engineering Council data protection lead; and/or
• the Information Commissioner’s Office

The details for each of these contacts are:

Data Security:

All data held or processed by the Engineering Council is held in a secure server managed by the Engineering Council.  

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will notify you if there is a substantial change in the way we process your data. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data.