Road Tankers Northern Ltd, we understand the importance of you having confidence in us, to do the right thing. Giving you peace of mind that we do everything with the utmost professionalism, discretion and integrity is part of our values.
With this in mind and in line with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we would like to share our Privacy Policy with you, which includes details about how we look after the personal data that you provide us in the course of your relationship with us and what we do with it. It tells you how we process this, who we share it with and how we dispose of it. It also informs you of your rights and how to exercise these and also refers you to our other relevant data protection policies in how we keep your data secure and safeguard your privacy.
You provide us with personal data via online queries through our website, over the telephone, face to face, by email or by paper documents that you complete. This includes, but isn’t limited to, name, address, date of birth, email address, personal telephone numbers, bank details and medical information. We use this information to obtain relevant insurance, manage claims or to deliver risk management solutions as outlined in the service agreement. Our legal basis for collecting and processing this data is therefore for the performance of a contract.
We may obtain sensitive data directly from you in order to arrange appropriate insurance policies, or as part of our claims process in order to defend future claims or to assist with the management of ongoing claims or notifications. We may also obtain sensitive personal data in the course of providing you with a tailored health and safety or employment support service. The provision of this information is subject to you giving us express consent. If we do not receive this consent from you, then we may be unable to consider insurance claims or advise on issues involving sensitive personal data in a risk management capacity.
We may obtain information from third parties if this is permitted by law, or use legal public sources to obtain information about you, for example, to verify your identity. This includes, but isn’t limited to, companies such as Creditsafe.
Please note that we are required by law to check details of all clients against the HM Treasury Financial Sanctions list.
This information shall only be obtained from companies that we are satisfied meet the requirements of GDPR.
We use your personal data to manage and administer your insurance policies, including claims management and risk management services. We undertake at all times to protect your personal data, including any health and financial details, in a manner which is consistent and in line with GDPR concerning data protection. We also take reasonable security measures to protect your personal data in storage. For further information of the organisational and system measures taken to safeguard your data, please refer to our Information Security Policy.
We may use your personal data to share email updates about our services, relevant blogs regarding insurance and risk management subjects and invitations to our events. You have the right to opt out at any point. At no point will Road Tankers Northern Ltd share or sell your data to third party marketing companies.
We will keep information about you confidential and from time to time we will share your personal data within the Road Tankers Northern Ltd Group in order to deliver the services we provide, as agreed in our contract with you. We may also share information to satisfy compliance or audit requirements. This may include allowing regulatory companies, such as the ISO or the FCA, temporary access to personal data. Road Tankers Northern Ltd will ensure that any access is limited and under strict supervision.
We will not share your information without obtaining your express consent except with the following third parties where we need to share this in our role as intermediary and to satisfy our contract with you:
All Road Tankers Northern Ltd employees have received training on protecting personal data and are duty bound as part of their contract of employment to confidentiality and data protection. A summary of our rules and procedures in respect of IT use and the protection of personal data are contained in our Acceptable Use Policy which is available on our website.
We do not transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, however we may transfer your data to insurance companies and their counterparts who may transfer your data outside of the EEA in order to manage your insurance policies. If they transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, we will ensure that the receiver agrees to provide the same or similar protection as we do and that they only use your personal data in accordance with our restrictions.
Our data retention periods are in line with the amount of time we need to keep your personal information in order to manage and administer your insurances or risk management services provided by us, and to handle any insurance claims. We will also retain your personal data to comply with any legal, statutory and regulatory obligations. More information about this can be found in our DataRetention Policy, which can be found on our website. In all cases our need to keep your personal data will be reassessed on a regular basis and information which is no longer required will be disposed of permanently and confidentially.
Your personal data is kept on our Company IT systems, the security of which is governed by our Information Security Policy. A copy of this is provided on our website.
You have the right to access personal data that we hold about you. This is referred to as a subject access request. In order to make a subject access request please write to the Data Protection Leader at Road Tankers Northern Ltd.
Our response to a formal request shall include details of the personal data we hold about you, including the following:
You have the right, without undue delay, to have any personal information about you which is not accurate, corrected. You also have the right to any incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
You have a right to request for us to erase personal data concerning you, without delay. This refers only to data that we are not legally required or entitled to keep for a specified length of time in order to comply with any legal, statutory and regulatory obligations.
Subject to exemptions, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data when:
We shall communicate any rectification or erasure of personal data as described above to each recipient to whom the personal data has been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. We shall provide you with information about those recipients if you request it.
You have the right to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format, and have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us.
You have the right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you, including any personal profiling; unless this relates to necessary processing for the performance of a task carried out in public interest or an exercise of official authority vested in us. We shall no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, which override the interests, rights and freedoms of you, or in the establishment, exercise and defence of legal claims.
We do not carry out any automated processing, which may lead to an automated decision based on your personal data.
If you would like to invoke any of the above data subject rights with us please write to the Data Protection Leader at Road Tankers Northern Ltd
In order to provide the highest level of customer service we need to keep accurate personal data about you. We take reasonable steps to ensure accuracy of personal data or sensitive information we obtain. We ensure that the source of any personal or sensitive data is clear. We will consider when it is necessary to update the information, such as names and/or addresses and you can help us by informing us when these changes occur.
If you have any queries which are not answered by this Privacy Policy, or have any concerns about how we use the personal data we hold, please write to the Data Protection Leader at Road Tankers Northern Ltd
Road Tankers Northern Ltd will review this policy regularly to make sure we meet the highest standards and the protect your information. We reserve the right to update this policy at any time. We will not significantly change how we use data given by you to us, without your prior agreement.
If you have a complaint please write to the Data Protection Lead at Road Tankers Northern Ltd
If your complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction and you wish to make a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), you can contact them on 0303 123 1113. You also have the right to judicial remedy against a legally binding decision of the ICO where you consider that your rights under this regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data. You have the right to appoint a third party to lodge the complaint on your behalf and exercise your right to seek compensation.
