Updated: 7th July 2024
This privacy policy explains how Spartan Elite Security Ltd collects, uses, and protects any personal information you provide when using this website. Spartan Elite Security Ltd is dedicated to safeguarding your privacy. If we request specific information that can identify you while using this website, be assured it will be utilized solely in accordance with this privacy statement.
Spartan Elite Security Ltd may update this policy periodically by revising this page. Please review this page regularly to stay informed of any changes and ensure your satisfaction with our privacy practices.
You can navigate through our privacy policy using this table of contents to find the information you need. Just click on any section below to open it.
Table of Contents:
- Legal Information & Your Privacy
- Terms of Use
- GDPR Compliance
- Applicant Date
- ICO – Certification Copy
Legal Information & Your Privacy
What We Collect
We may collect the following information:
Name
Contact information including email address
Demographic information such as postcode, preferences, and interests
Other information relevant to customer surveys and offers
What We Do With the Information
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with better service, and for the following reasons:
Internal record keeping.
Improving our products and services.
Periodically sending promotional emails about new products, special offers, or other information we think you may find interesting, using the email address you have provided.
Contacting you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax, or mail.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have implemented suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive with your permission. Cookies help analyze web traffic and allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then remove the data from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, please note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling Your Personal Information
We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information.
Use of Our Website
By using our website, you agree to these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
License to Use Website
Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
Republish material from this website (including republication on another website).
Sell, rent, or sub-license material from the website.
Show any material from the website in public.
Reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose.
Edit or modify any material on the website.
Redistribute material from this website (except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution, such as press releases).
Acceptable Use
You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish, or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.
You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.
Restricted Access
Access to certain areas of our website is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion.
If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that that user ID and password are kept confidential.
We may disable your user ID and password at our sole discretion without notice or explanation.
User-Generated Content
By submitting material to our website, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant us the right to sub-license these rights and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.
Limited Warranties
Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website (excluding user content) is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties, and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose, and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).
Limitation of Liability
Nothing in these terms and conditions (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms and conditions, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, will be limited as follows:
To the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
We will not be liable for any consequential, indirect, or special loss or damage.
We will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, reputation, data, or information.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
Our maximum liability in relation to any event or series of related events will be dependent on our insurance levels at the time.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities, and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.
Breaches of These Terms and Conditions
Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website, and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
Variation
We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment
We may transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
Spartan Elite Security Ltd is committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and protecting the personal data of our users. This section outlines how we adhere to GDPR principles regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information.
Lawful Basis for Processing
We collect and process personal data only when we have a lawful basis to do so under GDPR. These lawful bases include the user’s consent, the necessity to fulfil a contractual obligation, compliance with legal obligations, protection of vital interests, performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority, and legitimate interests pursued by the data controller or a third party.
Rights of Data Subjects
Under GDPR, individuals have certain rights regarding their personal data, including the right to:
Access:
You have the right to access the personal data we hold about you and to receive a copy of it.
Rectification:
You have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies in your personal data.
Erasure:
You can request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Restriction of Processing:
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances, such as when its accuracy is contested.
Data Portability:
You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another controller.
Objection:
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain conditions, such as for direct marketing purposes.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage to personal data. These measures include encryption of personal data, ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of processing systems and services, and timely restoration of availability and access to personal data in the event of a physical or technical incident.
Data Transfers
We may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) only if adequate data protection measures are in place as required by GDPR.
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer who oversee our GDPR compliance. You can contact our Data Protection Officer at info@spartanelitesecurity.co.uk
Complaints
If you believe that we have not complied with your data protection rights under GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or another supervisory authority.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this GDPR section to reflect changes in our data processing activities or legal requirements. We encourage you to review this section periodically for the latest information on our GDPR compliance.
Introduction
Spartan Elite Security Ltd is committed to protecting the privacy of our applicants
We employ industry-standard encryption protocols to safeguard all information transmitted between your device and our servers. Moreover, regular security audits and updates ensure that our systems are equipped with the latest security patches, addressing potential vulnerabilities promptly.
Furthermore, we are committed to complying with all relevant data protection laws, including GDPR, ensuring that your data is handled both legally and ethically under the oversight of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which we have been accredited since 2020 – certificate: ZA 759811. A copy of our certificate is available at the bottom of this page.
This Privacy Policy for Applicant Data outlines how we collect, use, store, and protect personal information provided by applicants during the recruitment process.
Information We Collect
We collect personal information that you provide to us through our application form, including but not limited to:
Name
Contact details (email, phone number, address)
Resume/CV
SIA Licence copy
Educational background
Employment history
References
Any other information you choose to provide
Use of Information
We use the information collected to:
Evaluate your qualifications for potential employment
Communicate with you about your application
Verify your information and conduct reference checks
Comply with legal and regulatory requirement
Data Storage and Security
We take the security of your personal information seriously. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Your data is stored securely in our systems and is accessible only to authorized personnel involved in the recruitment process.
Data Sharing
We do not share your personal information with third parties, except in the following circumstances:
With your consent
To comply with legal obligations
To protect and defend our rights and property
With service providers who assist us in the recruitment process and are bound by confidentiality agreements
Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
If you are not selected for a position
Your data will automatically deleted and removed from our database.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
Access the personal information we hold about you if we offer a position to our company.
Request correction or deletion of your personal information
Object to the processing of your personal information
Withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on your consent to process your data
To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@spartanelitesecurity.co.uk
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and we will notify you of significant changes by email or through our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data handling practices, please contact us at:
SPARTAN ELITE SECURITY LTD
43 Berkeley Square
Mayfair
London
W1J 5AP
Email: info@spartanelitesecurity.co.uk
Tel: 0800 933 0000
Your Data is safe and secure.
Data protection number: ZA759811