Maintaining your privacy and your trust is very important. We strive to be especially clear on how we use your personal information and data if and when we collect it, and on the ways in which we can work together to protect your privacy.
General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or “GDPR”) (enforced from 25 May 2018) and Data Protection Act 2018 (amended 1st January 2021) and UK GDPR (as of 1st January 2021)
This Privacy Policy explains:
- Identity and contact information of the data controller
- Legitimate interests of the organisation (or third party, if applicable)
- Purpose of the processing and the lawful basis for the processing
- Any recipient or categories of personal data to be processed
- Details of the source of personal data (direct/indirect)
- Recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data
- Details of data transfers to a third country and safeguards
- The retention period or criteria used to determine the retention period of the data
- The existence of each data subjects rights
- The right to withdraw consent at any time (where relevant)
- Right to complain to the supervisory authority/regulator
- Details of any part of a statutory or contractual requirement and possible consequences of failing to provide the personal data
- The existence of any automated decision making, including profiling and information about how decisions are made
Identity of the Data Controller
For the purposes of the Data Protection & Privacy Legislation the Data Controller is:- TCi (GB) Ltd, a limited company registered in England under 05838425, whose registered address is:
Unit 21 Hele Manor, Roundswell Business Park, Barnstaple, EX31 3UL
The Data We Hold
Like most businesses, we generally keep and process business-card categories of data on our contacts in order to identify you and provide contact information. This information enables us to maintain and continue our legitimate business pursuits and contracts through our communication with customers, suppliers and contacts.
This Data Usually Includes:
Personal data such as: Name, email address, phone number, company, work address
In some cases, we require further data such as:
Date of birth, photograph, passport, driver’s licence, and other information that allows us to identify who you are.
In the case of employees and sub-contracted employees, Special Category data may be required, such as: criminal records checks and family or financial details.
Information You Send Us
We may collect any personal correspondence that you send us, or that is sent to us by others about your activities, including activities with our third-party partners.
We may also collect anonymous non-data about you such as information regarding your computer, network, and browser.
What We Do with Your Data
We use your contact details to stay in touch via direct emails, telephone and sometimes even by post if we feel that what we have to say might be of interest or relevance to you.
In general, we will only use any data for the purpose for which it was collected, except with your permission. The purpose of collection is determined by the circumstances in which the information was collected and/or submitted.
Information is used to enable us to operate our business, especially as it relates to an individual. This may include:
- the provision of TCi (GB) Ltd and related services to an individual;
- verifying an individual’s identity, vetting and clearances for contracted activity;
- communicating with an individual about:
- their relationship with us;
- our services;
- our marketing and promotions to customers and prospects; and/or
- competitions, surveys and questionnaires;
- marketing and promotions to customers and prospects;
- investigating any complaints about or made by an individual, or if we have reason to suspect that an individual is in breach of any of our terms and conditions or that an individual is or has been otherwise engaged in any unlawful activity;
- carrying out regulatory checks and meeting our obligations to our accrediting bodies;
- preventing and detecting crime (such as identity theft and fraud);
- preparing high-level anonymised statistical reports, which would contain details such as the average number of company directors being authorised signatories to a company’s accounts. The information in these reports is never personal and you will never be identifiable from them. We may share these statistical and anonymised reports with third parties including non-TCi (GB) Ltd companies; and/or as required or permitted by any law (including the Act).
- If you publicly post about TCi, or communicate directly with us, on a social media website, we may collect and process the data contained in such posts or in your public profile for the purpose of addressing any customer services requests you may have and to monitor and influence public opinion of TCi.
When We Disclose Your Data
Upon your authorisation and instruction, to your advisers.
It may be necessary for us to disclose an individual’s data to third parties in a manner compliant with the Act in the course of our business, such as for processing activities like verification, vetting, due diligence, website hosting, data analytics and payment processing.
We will not sell an individual’s data to unrelated third parties under any circumstances.
We may only disclose this data if we employ other companies to perform tasks on our behalf, and we need to share information with them to provide products and services.
There are some circumstances in which we must disclose an individual’s information:
- Where we reasonably believe that an individual may be engaged in fraudulent, deceptive or unlawful activity that a governmental authority should be made aware of;
- As required by any law (including the Act) including court orders;
- As required by UK and overseas regulators and authorities in connection with their duties, including the regulator or authority having access payment details (including information about others involved in the payment);
- In order to sell our business (as we may transfer data to a new owner).
If the Company gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of the business to another company, we may share information with that company before and after the transaction closes.
Fraud prevention agencies, in particular, we will always tell fraud prevention agencies if you give us false or fraudulent information. They will also allow other organisations (in the UK or abroad), including law enforcement agencies to access this information to prevent and detect fraud, money laundering or other crimes; and/or
We will not disclose an individual’s data to any entity outside of the United Kingdom or European Union, that is in a jurisdiction that does not have a similar regime to the Act or an implemented and enforceable privacy policy similar to this policy.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that any disclosure to an entity outside of the United Kingdom will not be made until that entity has agreed in writing with us to safeguard data as we do.
Where We Keep Your Data
We keep your information on our secure on-site server. We may also store your information if we have previously corresponded on relevant platforms such as our internal ERP system, email server and UK data protection law compliant 3rd party applications including Mailchimp, SurveyMonkey, People (HR software) and HubSpot CRM.
Any data that we collect from you will be stored in the European Economic Area (EEA), but may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the EEA, with and by third parties where the European authorities have ensured adequate safeguards for the protection of data.
Data may also be processed by third parties and/or staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our third party partners. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
We will retain data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
By consenting to our Privacy Policy, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
How We Process Your Data
We will only process your data with your consent. At times it is necessary to pass your data to third parties in order to facilitate a contract.
TCi understands that it must ensure that our suppliers and customers comply with UK data protection legislation.
How We Look After Your Data
TCi (GB) Ltd takes the security of your data very seriously. We use a secure IT services provider and fully protected email system which complies with UK data protection legislation.
We will take all reasonable precautions to protect your data from unauthorised access. This includes appropriately securing our physical facilities and electronic networks.
Examples of such precautions include:
- Data encryption
- Firewalls
- Intrusion detection systems
- Physical protection of premises where data is stored (24/7)
- Background checks for employees accessing our facilities
The security of communications sent by electronic means or by post cannot be guaranteed. Each individual that provides information to us via the internet or by post does so at their own risk. We cannot accept responsibility for misuse or loss of, or unauthorised access to, data where the security of information is not within our control.
Privacy or security practices of any third party (including third parties that we are permitted to disclose your data to in accordance with this policy or any applicable laws) may be subject to separate privacy and security policies than that of TCi.
If you suspect any misuse or loss of, or unauthorised access to, your data, you should let us know immediately.
We are not liable for any loss, damage or claim arising out of another person’s use of the data where we were authorised to provide that person with the data.
How to Access and/or Update Data We Hold
Current regulation gives you the right to request from us the data that we hold about you.
Information will be provided within one month of receipt of the request, that is required to be in a written format.
If you cannot update your own information, we will correct any errors in the data we hold on you within 30 days of receiving written notice from you about these errors.
It is your responsibility to provide us with accurate and truthful data. We cannot be liable for any information that is provided to us that is incorrect.
We are not required to comply with repeated or vexatious requests.
You have the right to request that information held on you by TCi is erased, where there are no additional legal and/or regulatory requirements for TCi doing so.
Your Rights
Our Company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to be informed – You have the right to be informed of what data Our Company holds.
The right to access – You have the right to request Our Company for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us via our contact details at the bottom of this document.
How We Collect Your Data
Most information will be collected in association with generally dealing with us or engaging with us at an exhibition or through social media/web activity. However, we may also receive data from other sources such as advertising, an individual’s own promotions, public records, mailing lists, contractors, staff, recruitment agencies and our business partners. You directly provide Our Company with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data through:
- Registrations/Subscriptions/Purchases. When an individual registers, subscribes and or purchases a product, service, list, account, connection or other process whereby they enter data details or grant access to information in order to receive or access something, including a transaction or services;
- Customer/supplier Accounts. When an individual submits their details to open an account
- Supply/Contact. When an individual supplies us with goods or services or contacts us in any way;
- Pixel Tags. Pixel tags and web beacons may enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read and they tell us whether mail has been opened.
- Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.
- Use or view our website via cookies.
As there are many circumstances in which we may collect information both electronically and physically, we will endeavour to ensure that an individual is always aware of their data being collected, in particular by third parties.
We may also collect anonymous non-data, which may be used and shared on an aggregated and anonymous basis. We may retain and evaluate information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive.
In the event we obtain personal data from a third party, we will communicate all information to the data subject either: no later than one month after having obtained the data, during the first communication with the data subject, or before sharing the data with another organization.
Cookies
We may use cookies on Our Site for a number of reasons, all of which are designed to improve your experience of using it. Cookies allow you to navigate around Our Site better and enable Us to tailor and improve Our Site by saving your preferences and understanding your use of it.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies
- Analytics cookies
- Functionality cookies
- Targeting cookies
- Third party cookies
- Persistent cookies
- Session cookies
Our website is regularly updated with software that may use cookies, you can see our Cookie Policy document on our TCi website at all times, with a live update of what cookies are active on the site.
Controlling Cookies
Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. You can change these settings if you wish, however please be aware that this is not generally a per-site setting and will prevent all websites from using cookies, not just TCi’s. Please also be aware that by disabling cookies in your browser, you may impair the functionality of our site.
For further guidance on how to control your cookies, please refer to the Cookie Policy on our website.
Consent to the collection of your Data
You have the right of opting to not have us collect your data and communicate with you at certain times. This may prevent us from offering you some or all of our services, or other services you access with or through us.
Opting In
Where relevant, you will have the right to choose to have your information collected and/or receive information from us; or
Opting Out
Where relevant, you will have the right to choose to be excluded from some, if not all, information collection, and/or the receiving of that information from us. You may revoke your consent at any time, and the decision to opt out should be made through the same media by which you opted in.
If you believe that you have received information from us that you did not opt in to receive, you should contact us on the details provided at the bottom of this page.
Complaints and Disputes
You have the right to object to:
- Processing based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling);
- Direct marketing; and
- Processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics
Unless we hold compelling legitimate grounds for processing or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
You can choose how you would like to receive marketing and other non-business critical communications. You have the right to opt out at any time.
Any changes made to these contact preferences can take up to 72 hours to come into effect.
If you have a complaint about our handling of your data, you should address this complaint in writing to the details provided at the bottom of this page.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of your data infringes the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you lodge a dispute regarding your data, we both must first attempt to resolve the issue directly between us.
If we become aware of any unauthorised access to your data, also known as a data breach, which is likely to result in a high risk for the rights and freedoms of the data subjects, we will inform you without undue delay after becoming aware of it and the ramifications it may hold.
Additions to this Policy
We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the platform. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you in writing that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If we decide to change this policy, we will post the changes at www.tcigb.co.uk. It is your responsibility to refer back to this policy to review any amendments.
How to Contact TCi
TCi (GB) Ltd, Unit 21 Hele Manor, Roundswell Business Park, Barnstaple, EX31 3UL
info@tcigb.co.uk
0333 0220 824
This policy was last reviewed/updated on
27-06-2025