Northern Research Group Limited Privacy Policy

Our contact details

Name: Northern Research Group Limited

Address: King George Chambers, St. James Square, Bacup, Lancashire, England, OL13 9AA

E-mail: office@northernresearchgroup.uk

The type of personal information we collect:

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details).

When you visit the Northern Research Group website at https://northernresearchgroup.uk, our hosting servers will establish an encrypted connection between your browser and our website. By the use of cookies, we may collect general information about your computer (such as IP address, operating system and browser).

We use a standard WordPress service to collect anonymous information about users’ activity on the site in order to improve our services.

How we get the personal information and why we have it:

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for the following reason:

• You have made a query via the contact form.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting office@northernresearchgroup.uk

(b) We have a legitimate interest. This is where the use of your personal information is necessary for our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests, so long as that legitimate interest does not override your fundamental rights, freedoms or interests. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting office@northernresearchgroup.uk

Under data protection laws, we can only use your personal information for the purposes we have told you about, unless we consider that the new purpose is compatible with the purpose(s) which we told you about. If we want to use your personal information for a different purpose which we do not think is compatible with the purpose(s) which we told you about, we will contact you to explain this and what legal reason is in place to allow us to do this.

We use the information that you have given us in order to provide you with information about our activities.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored. We will only hold your personal data for as long as is necessary. How long is necessary will depend upon the purposes for which we collected the personal information and whether we are under any legal obligation to keep the personal information.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at office@northernresearchgroup.uk if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at office@northernresearchgroup.uk

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk