The Council is registered as a "Controller" under the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 as we collect and process personal information about you.
The Jersey Construction Council is committed to protecting your personal information when you use our services and website. This Privacy Statement relates to our use of any personal information you provide through the jerseyconstruction.org website.
In order to provide you with the best experience, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
The Jersey Construction Council is committed to safeguarding your personal information. The material contained on the Site is for information only and does not constitute legal or other advice. The Jersey Construction Council will act in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.
For members, the categories of Personal Data that we process is limited to their name, email address, and contact number. The purpose for which we may process your Personal Data are for the legitimate interest for the provision of the services of the Jersey Construction Council, or for the legitimate interest for the offering of the services of the Jersey Construction Council's to prospective professional individuals or any organisations that they represent.
Such as newsletters, competitions and blog comments we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of your name, email address, postal address or website URL. Different services may ask for different information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the Jersey Construction Council to provide you with the services you selected.
The Jersey Construction Council also uses cookies and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software (Google Analytics, WordPress.com Stats, Awstats) to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
We need to collect and hold information about you in order to:
The Jersey Construction Council uses your personal information in a number of ways including the following:
The Jersey Construction Council may contact you:
You may opt‑out of receiving marking material and other information from us at any time. This can be done by unsubscribing from email communications at the bottom of each email or by contacting our data protection officer to have your details removed by emailing info@jerseyconstruction.org.
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies). The Jersey Construction Council does not sell or otherwise transfer any personal data to commercial companies or other organisations, with the exception of web statistics (see below) which is hosted and managed by a third party company (Google, Inc). We collect this information to help us understand how the website is used in order to maintain and improve it and to deal with your requests such as managing your account(s) and providing you with information about products and services.
The Jersey Construction Council maintains continuous logs of its web server activity. These log files include the details of website users’ IP address, browser type and page last visited etc. The log files are used to analyse how the website is being used by visitors and may be kept in an anonymised form for historical records.
The Jersey Construction Council website uses hosted web analytics software. This hosted service is provided and managed by a third party company (Google, Inc). The service ‘Google Analytics’ uses ‘cookies’ (a text file sent to users’ computers as they browse our website) to help analyze how users navigate our website. The information generated by the cookie regarding our website (including IP addresses) will be anonymised and transmitted to and stored by Google, Inc. on servers that may be hosted in the United States. Google, Inc. will use this information for the purpose of evaluating use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other related services to the Jersey Construction Council.
Google, Inc. may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google, Inc’s. behalf. Google, Inc. will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google, Inc. You may decline the use of cookies by configuring your web browser to do so, but it may affect your user experience. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google, Inc. in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to jerseyconstruction.org, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on jerseyconstruction.org, The Jersey Construction Council may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where the Jersey Construction Council reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of Guernsey (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), we may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service. Where you contribute to jerseyconstruction.org, the Jersey Construction Council will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.
The Jersey Construction Council has a Data Protection Officer who is responsible for matters relating to privacy and data protection. The Data Protection Officer can be reached at info@jerseyconstruction.org.
Information held on the Jersey Construction Council has been been provided by an individual and provided consent to this information being held.
You have the right to access any of the information that we hold on you. You have the right to have any inaccurate information corrected and you have the right to object to the use of your information for direct marketing. To exercise these rights, please contact us by writing to the Jersey Construction Council at the address shown on the contact page of our Site or email us at info@jerseyconstruction.org.
This Privacy Statement may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any the Jersey Construction Council website.
We store your contact information to understand your needs and provide you with a personalised service.
Links on our website may lead to other websites which are not under our control. Using these links does not mean these organisations can access information about you which is held by the Jersey Construction Council.
Any individual has the right to complain to the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner if they are concerned about the use fotheir personal information.
• The right of access to obtain a copy of your Personal Data held by the Jersey Construction Council;
• The right to have inaccurate Personal Data rectified, or completed if it is incomplete;
• The right to have your Personal Data erased, unless the data is necessary for The Jersey Construction Council to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation;
• The right to request the restriction or suppression of your Personal Data;
• The right to data portability in order for you to obtain and reuse your Personal Data for your own purposes across different services;
• The right to object to the processing of your Personal Data, unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the individual; or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
• The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data at any time, where this is the sole legal basis for the processing; and
• The right to lodge complaints with the Jersey Data Protection Authority regarding our processing of your Personal Data.
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