PRIVACY NOTICE

We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

This notice was last updated on Monday January 4th, 2021 and complies to the UK GDPR, underpinned by the Data Protection Act (2018) and ICO (Information Commissioners Office), and covers all post-BREXIT regulatory compliance.

Scope & Responsibilities

Our scope is all data subjects, whose personal data is collected, in line with the requirements of the UK GDPR.

The Data Protection Officer (DPO) is responsible for ensuring that this notice is made available to data subjects prior to B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) collecting/processing their personal data.

All Employees/Staff of B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) who interact with data subjects are responsible for ensuring that this notice is drawn to the data subject’s attention and their consent to the processing of their data is secured.

Who we are?

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) provides virtual business to business networking meetings, training & consultancy for businesses nationally in the UK.

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you.

When we do so we are regulated under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, which is underpinned by the Data Protection Act (2018).

We are responsible as the ‘data controller’ for all personal information collected for the purposes of those laws. The Data Protection Officer (DPO) is Chris Burn of B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online), Unit 4, Corum 2, Corum Office Park, Crown Way, Warmley, Bristol, BS30 8FJ.

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) can be contacted via email in the first instance on [email protected] or by phone on 0333 344 9044.

The personal information we collect and use

Legal bases for processing of personal data:
The lawful bases for processing are set out in Article 6 of the UK GDPR. At least one of these must apply whenever B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) processes your personal data:

  • Consent – the processing is necessary as an individual/organisation has given B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) clear consent for us to process their personal data for a specific purpose/service.
  • Legitimate Interests – the processing is necessary, as B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) has ascertained the legitimate interest of the individual/organisation and explained why the processing of personal data is required to action the legitimate interest. B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) reviews our legitimate interest to hold personal data annually via a Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA)

You can find more about the UK GDPR lawful bases here or by visiting www.ico.org.uk.

How we use your personal information

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) uses your personal information:

  • To provide and maintain our services (e.g., allow access to online networking meetings)
  • To allow you to participate in any interactive features of our services when you choose to do so (e.g., webinars, training events, social events)
  • To provide customer care and support (e.g., throughout the period of your partnership)
  • To monitor the analysis/usage of the services (e.g., Zoom reports & recordings, Google Analytics)
  • To produce invoices for our services (e.g., VAT invoices, receipts, DD mandates)

Information collected by us

While providing our services B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) collects the following personal information when you provide it to us:

  • Names and, contact details (e.g., subject name, email address, mobile number)
  • Financial details (e.g., bank account names, sort codes & account numbers for Direct Debit payments)
  • Addresses (e.g., business and/or home addresses)
  • Third Party personal data (e.g., when working with an approved 3rd party supplier)

Who we share your personal information with?

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) may share certain personal details with our approved service partners & the required legal bodies. We would always inform you ahead of acting on any instructions to proceed with any of our services, should this be the case.

This data sharing enables B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) to supply the above documented services to you in a professional and timely manner, whilst undertaking quality control procedures. Furthermore, it ensures compliance with all necessary UK GDPR & Data Protection Act (2018) lawful requirements.

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.

We will not share your personal information with any other third party.

Whether information must be provided by you, and if so why

The provision of certain personal data including (but not limited to) contact name, bank details, invoice address, email address & telephone number is required from you to enable B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) to provide our virtual business to business networking meetings, training & consultancy services. We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide this and any other additional information to us.

How long your personal information will be kept

  • We will hold your personal data, including but not limited to, name, address, and contact details for the duration of your B2B Networking Events We will hold your personal data for a maximum period of 3 months after B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) partnership has been terminated, allowing us to provide after-sales service with your consent.
  • Bank details are held, and additionally protected by the GoCardless Direct Debit Guarantee, only for the duration of your B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) partnership.
  • All passwords & login details will be securely deactivated & destroyed on termination of any agreement and/or when any written agreement reaches its natural end date.
  • Financial documents & invoices will be kept for a period of 7 years in line with HMRC regulations.
  • We are required by law to keep certain ‘special category data’ for longer periods and this would be advised at the time.
  • Any personal data held in hard document form is securely stored pre-destruction and is destroyed with a Certificate of Destruction in line with our ‘Document Destruction & Retention Schedule’.

Reasons we can collect and use your personal information

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) collects your personal data to enable us to provide our virtual business to business networking meetings, training & consultancy services.

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) may also contact you by email, phone, video call or letter in line with the service you have paid for. We may occasionally email you or send a letter about something relevant to the service you have paid for.

Furthermore, we may email you to inform of company updates and items of interest via our official channels.

Your rights

Under the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act (2018) and ICO guidance you have several important rights free of charge. At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:

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

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

  • Call, email, or write to us.
  • Let us have enough information to identify you,
  • Let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your UK driving licence or UK passport and a recent bank statement or utility bill), and
  • Let us know the information to which your request relates.

Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator (e.g., ICO) of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses, and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

Cookies

We use cookies to collect, store and share bits of information about your activities when you use our website. Cookies do different things, like letting you navigate between pages quickly and generally improving your experience of a website. If a website does not use cookies it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the website – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it will not recognise you and it will not be able to keep you logged in.

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) only use essential cookies on their website to track the performance of the website via Google Analytics. This non personal data helps us to understand how to improve the website content for the benefit of all users. If you want to block cookies, then you can do this through your browser via the help function. You can also visit www.aboutcookies.org for further guidance.

How to complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your personal data.

The UK General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) who may be contacted here or by telephone on 0303 123 1113.

Changes to this privacy notice

This privacy notice was last reviewed and published on Monday January 4th, 2021.

B2B Networking Events Limited (t/a B2B Networking Online) is a UK based company, registered in England & Wales, under company registration number 12215519. We only trade within the UK.

We may change this privacy notice from time to time, when we do, we will inform you via email and/or our company website.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information, we hold about you.
The Data Protection Officer (DPO) is Chris Burn.