What data we collect
The personal data we collect from you includes:

  • Questions, queries or feedback you leave, including your email address if you contact Helica Instruments Limited.
  • Your email address and subscription preferences when you sign up to our email alerts.
  • How you use our emails – for example whether you open them and which links you click on your Internet Protocol (IP) address, and details of which version of web browser you used information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques
    We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use helicaendosupport.co.uk.

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • The pages you visit on helicaendosupport.co.uk.
  • How long you spend on each helicaendosupport.co.uk page.
  • How you got to the site.
  • What you click on while you’re visiting the site.
  • We do not collect or store your personal information through Google Analytics (for example your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

Why we need your data:
We collect information through Google Analytics to monitor how you use the site. We do this to help:

  • make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users
    make improvements, for example improving site search.

We also collect data in order to:

  • Gather feedback to improve our services, for example our email alerts.
  • Respond to any feedback you send us, if you’ve asked us to send email alerts to users who request them allow you to access government services and make transactions.
  • Provide you with information about local services if you want it
    monitor use of the site to identify security threats
    The legal basis for processing personal data in relation to site security is our legitimate interests, and the legitimate interests of our users, in ensuring the security and integrity of helicaendosupport.co.uk.

The legal basis for processing all other personal data is that it’s necessary to perform a task in the public interest.

What we do with your data
The data we collect may be shared with other government departments, agencies and public bodies. It may also be shared with our technology suppliers, for example our hosting provider.

We will not:

  • Sell or rent your data to third parties.
  • Share your data with third parties for marketing purposes.
  • We will share your data if we are required to do so by law – for example, by court order, or to prevent fraud or other crime.

How long we keep your data
We will only retain your personal data for as long as:

  • It is needed for the purposes set out in this document
    the law requires us to.
  • We will keep your email data until you unsubscribe. We will keep your feedback data for 2 years. We will delete access log data after 30 days.

Children’s privacy protection
Our services are not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, children 13 years of age or younger. We do not intentionally collect or maintain data about anyone under the age of 13.

Where your data is processed and stored
We design, build and run our systems to make sure that your data is as safe as possible at all stages, both while it’s processed and when it’s stored.

All personal data is stored in the European Economic Area (EEA). Google Analytics data may be transferred outside the EEA, but this cannot be used to personally identify you.

How we protect your data and keep it secure
We are committed to doing all that we can to keep your data secure. We have set up systems and processes to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure of your data – for example, we protect your data using varying levels of encryption.

We also make sure that any third parties that we deal with keep all personal data they process on our behalf secure.

Your rights
You have the right to request:

Information about how your personal data is processed a copy of that personal data that anything inaccurate in your personal data is corrected immediately.

You can also:

  • Raise an objection about how your personal data is processed
    request that your personal data is erased if there is no longer a justification for it.
  • Ask that the processing of your personal data is restricted in certain circumstances.
  • If you have any of these requests, get in contact with our Privacy Team.

Links to other websites
helicaendosupport.co.uk contains links to other websites.

This privacy policy only applies to helicaendosupport.co.uk, and does not cover other websites and services that we link to. These services, such as helica.co.uk, have their own terms and conditions and privacy policies.

Following a link to another website
If you go to another website from this one, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.

Following a link to helicaendosupport.co.uk from another website
If you come to helicaendosupport.co.uk from another website, we may receive information from the other website. We do not use this data. You should read the privacy policy of the website you came from to find out more about this.

Changes to this policy
We may change this privacy policy. In that case, the ‘last updated’ date at the bottom of this page will also change. Any changes to this privacy policy will apply to you and your data immediately.

If these changes affect how your personal data is processed, GDS will take reasonable steps to let you know.

Contact us or make a complaint
Contact the Privacy Team if you:

have a question about anything in this privacy notice
think that your personal data has been misused or mishandled.

Last Updated May 2019.