BIZZFEED UK Limited are committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Notice contains important information about what personal details we collect; what we do with that information; who we may share it with and why; and your choices and rights when it comes to the personal information you have given to us.

Who we are?

This Privacy Notice is provided to you by BIZZFEED UK Limited

Your personal data – what is it?

“Personal data” is any information about a living individual which allows them to be identified. Identification can be directly using the data itself, or by combining it with other information which helps to identify a living individual. The processing of personal data is governed by legislation relating to personal data which applies in the United Kingdom including the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018, and other legislation relating to personal data and rights, such as the Human Rights Act.

The data we may collect about you:

Personal Data that we may collect includes:

· Name

· Email Address

· Telephone Number

· Workplace /Employer

The company does not collect sensitive data.

BIZZFEED UK Limited will use the minimum amount of personal information necessary to carry out its functions.

Where do we obtain data from?

We collect personal data either directly from you, from personal information you have provided us or from your employer.

Use of and entering your data into the app constitutes your consent.

Why do we use your information?

We will use this data to carry out certain functions within the app. Your data is processed by your employer so that feedback may be provided to you in response to any communication you have submitted.

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

BIZZFEED UK Limited may process personal data for the following reasons:

The Data Controller will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal data we hold about you must be:

· Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way;

· Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes;

· Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes;

· Accurate and kept up to date;

· Kept only as long as is necessary for the purposes we have told you about;

· Kept and destroyed securely, including ensuring that appropriate technical and security measures are in place to protect your personal data and to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure.

Sharing your personal data:

We may share your personal data internally with relevant departments for the purpose of fulfilling one or more of the above stated legal bases. We may also engage the services of other agencies to meet legal requirements, or fulfil another lawful basis

Where we have arrangements to share your personal data, there is a contract, memorandum of understanding or information sharing agreement in place to ensure that the requirements of the Data Protection legislation on handling personal information are met. Where we are required to disclose information by law, for example for safeguarding purposes, we may do so without these arrangements.

We engage with third party processors who handle some, or all, of the above mentioned information on our instruction.

BIZZFEED UK Limited will take steps to ensure any disclosures of personal data are necessary and proportionate, as required by law. Whenever we share your personal information, sharing options will be evaluated to ensure that your data is shared in the most secure manner.

How do we keep your personal information secure?

We are committed to ensuring that your personal data is safe and processed securely. In order to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised manner, altered or disclosed, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial measures. These include information security awareness training for our staff.

We limit the access to your personal information to those employees who have a business need to know, for instance through secure work areas and access controls on all of our systems. Employees, contractors and other third parties who handle personal data will only process your personal information in line with our direct instructions.

How long do we keep your personal information?

BIZZFEED UK Limited keeps your personal information for as long as it is needed in accordance with the company’s retention schedule.

Your rights and personal data:

BIZZFEED UK Limited respects your rights. We fully observe your right to access your personal data, to object to the processing of personal data, or to erase, restrict or rectify your personal data. Relevant requests can be made to hayley@bizzfeed.net

Contact details:

If you are not happy with how your personal data has been processed, you should contact customer services in the first instance (customerservice@bizzfeed.net) If we are unable to satisfy your concerns, you have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner’s Office for a resolution.

You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at the following address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF 

www.ico.org.uk