Privacy Policy

We may collect the following data about you:
• Contact details/ Personal details; date of birth, your name, email address, and telephone number so that we can contact you in
response to an enquiry you make via our Site or in relation to the products and services that we have from time to time agreed to
provide to you; marital status and dependants, emergency contact, driving licence, national insurance number, utr number, salary,
annual leave, pension and benefits information. Recruitment information (including copies of right to work documentation, references
and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process).Information about your race or ethnicity,
religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions.Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and
sickness records, including:where you leave employment or engagement and under any share plan operated by a group company the
reason for leaving is determined to be ill-health, injury or disability, the records relating to that decision, details of any absences (other
than holidays) from work including time on statutory parental leave and sick leave; and where you leave employment or engagement
and the reason for leaving is related to your health, information about that condition needed for pensions and permanent health
insurance purposes. Genetic information and biometric data.Information about criminal convictions and offences.
• Details work: start date, if different, the date of your continuous employment or engagement, leaving date and your reason for leaving,
location of employment workplace, location during working hours, Employment records (including job titles, work history, working
hours, holidays, training records and professional memberships).
• Correspondence: we collect any additional personal data you may provide to us from time to time if you contact us by email, letter or
telephone, through our Site, by submitting a comment on our Site, or by any other means;
• Survey responses: information from surveys that we use for research purposes, if you choose to respond to them;
• Transaction details: bank account details, payroll records and tax status information. We or our third party providers will collect
information relating to transactions you carry out through our Site and for the purposes of fulfilling your orders;
• Details of visits to the Sites: details of your visits to our Site, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other
communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

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>3. If you fail to provide personal information
If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have entered into with you (such
as paying you or providing a benefit), or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (such as to ensure the health
and safety of our workers).
>4. Reasons we can collect and use your personal information
We rely on the following as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal information:
-Consent
-Legal obligation
>5. How is your personal information collected?

We collect personal information about our fire protection operatives, employees, workers and contractors through the application and
recruitment process, either directly from candidates or sometimes from an employment agency or background check provider. We may
sometimes collect additional information from third parties including former employers, credit reference agencies or other background
check agencies.
We may also collect personal information from the trustees or managers of pension arrangements operated by a group company.
We will collect additional personal information in the course of job-related activities throughout the period of you working for us.

>6. Keeping your information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an
unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your
information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We will also use technological and
organisation measures to keep your information secure.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a
suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
Indeed, while we will use all reasonable efforts to secure your personal data, in using the site you acknowledge that the use of the internet is
not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to
you via the internet. If you have any particular concerns about your information, please contact us using the details below.
>7. Who we share your personal data with
We may provide your personal data to our suppliers and service providers, including other companies in our group, who provide certain
business services for us and act as “processors” of your personal data on our behalf. In addition, we may disclose your personal data if
we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to protect the rights,
property, or safety, of our business, our customers or others. This includes, in specific cases, exchanging information with other
organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.
In some cases, the personal data we collect from you may, for the purposes set out above, be transferred outside the European
Economic Area (EEA) and such destinations may not have laws which protect your personal data to the same extent as in the EEA. We
are required by data protection law to ensure that where we or our “processors” transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, it is
treated securely and is protected against unauthorised access, loss or destruction, unlawful processing and any processing which is
inconsistent with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

>8. How long we keep your personal data for
We retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes(s) for which it was provided. What this means in practice
will vary between different types of data. When determining the relevant retention periods, we take into account factors including:
-legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time;
-statute of limitations under applicable law;

-potential or actual disputes;
-guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities.
Otherwise, we securely erase your personal data from our systems when it is no longer needed.
>9. Why might you share my personal information with third parties?
We will share your personal information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to administer the working
relationship with you or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, such as providing your identity information with a project
site manager, main contractor or the person or body corporate responsible for the health and safety of the construction site.
>10. Which third-party service providers process my personal information?
”Third parties” includes third-party service providers (including contractors and designated agents) and regulators. The following
activities may be carried out by third-party service providers: payroll, invoice processing, pension administration, benefits provision and
administration, IT services, online communication.
>11. How secure is my information with third-party service providers?
All our third-party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with
our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to
process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
>12. What about other third parties?
We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible sale or restructuring of the
business. In this situation we will, so far as possible, share anonymised data with the other parties before the transaction completes.
Once the transaction is completed, we will share your personal data with the other parties if and to the extent required under the terms of
the transaction.

We may need to share your personal information with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law. This may include making returns
to HMRC, disclosures to stock exchange regulators (including a Regulatory News Service) and disclosures to shareholders such as
directors’ remuneration reporting requirements.
We may also need to share your personal information with the person or persons responsible for health and safety or security of any site
where you will be working on. This may include your name, date of birth and address.

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>13. Cookie Policy
What are Cookies?
We collect information about your use of our Site through cookies. Cookies are information that files stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone
that help websites remember who you are and information about your visit. Cookies can help to display the information on our Site in a way that
matches your interests. Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile, or other device when you visit a
website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit. When you visit the site again, the cookie allows that site to
recognise your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. Most major websites use cookies.
>14. What types of cookies are used on this Site?
The cookies we and our business partners use on our Site are broadly grouped into the following categories:
-Essential – Some of the cookies on our Site are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested. An example of this
could be a cookie used to enable you to log into your account on our Site or which allows communication between your browser and our Site. Our
cookie preference cookie described in the section “How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?” is also an essential cookie. You may not be able
to use our Site without these cookies.

-Analytics – We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our Site. An example is counting the number of different people
coming to our Site or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited our
Site once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our Site was
performing and improve it without these cookies.

-User Cookies – We use cookies to improve your experience by remembering your preferences so we know how you like to use our Site. Examples
of this would be remembering you so that you are served with the same content or to remember you when you come back to our Site.
-Social Sharing – We use third party cookies to allow you to share content directly on the social networking/sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter or
Google+. Examples would be if you wanted to “like” or “tweet” about us or our products or services. Please see our “Third Party Cookies” section
below for more details.

-Interest-Based Advertising – You will have noticed that when you visit websites you will be shown adverts for products and services you may wish
to buy. The money made by website owners for showing third party adverts on their websites often pays for the cost of running the website and
therefore usually allows you to use the website without having to pay a registration or usage fee. To try and ensure that the adverts you see are
relevant to you third party cookies may be used to collect information about the types of things that interest you, for example websites you visit and
the geography that you are based in. Having these cookies does not increase the number of adverts you will be shown, but simply makes the adverts
you see more relevant. Please see our “Third Party Cookies” section below for more details.
>15. How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links
provided when you visit our website. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies,
you may still use our website though your access of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web
browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

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>16. What rights do you have?
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

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