Design Technology Safety Training is committed to processing personal information about its customers in ways that comply with its legal and regulatory obligations, and being clear about what it does with their personal information.

In compliance with UK and European data protection regulations, including GDPR, this privacy policy explains what personal information we collect when you:

• visit our website
• are a recipient of services from one of our Consultants
• are accredited for H&S training by The Design & Technology Association

Design Technology Safety Training is the sole owner of the information collected on this site and may collect personal information we receive when:

• you use our website
• you enquire about or use our Consultant’s services
• you contact us or connect with us

We may collect the following types of information:

• your name, address, email address, telephone number(s) and other contact details
• information required to provide you with a service, and details of our services that you have used
• your organisation’s name, your position in the organisation; the organisation’s address, organisation’s email address and telephone number

We collect your personal information to:

• provide you with any services that you may request and to promote our services
• meet our legal and regulatory obligations
• for the operation and improvement of our website

Access to your personal information is only allowed when required by law. We do not, and will never, sell or share your personal information with any third parties except when processing enquires as necessary in the following ways:

• forwarding your requests for services and/or training to one of our Consultants
• registering H&S training accreditation with The Design & Technology Association

For full details of the third-party suppliers we use, please contact us at info@designtechnologysafetytraining.co.uk

Design technology Safety Training uses a number of different cookies on this website in the course of its operation, which is standard practice for most websites. We will not use the cookie to identify you personally and we do not use cookies to collect personal information about you, and we do not generally store any personal information that you provide to us in your cookies.

You can configure your web browser to refuse cookies, to delete cookies, or to be informed if a cookie is set and further information about how to disable cookies can be found online for all popular web browsers. However, changing the cookie settings in your browser may result in the Design Technology Safety Training website not operating properly.

Our web server records IP addresses and writes these to log files that allow us to analyse visitor numbers on this website, track user’s movement around the website and from page to page, we use this information to see how visitors use and interact with our website. Google Analytics is implemented on this website and collects various data points from visitors to the website. IP Addresses are used to distinguish visitor numbers to the website.

Google Analytics will record the country you access this website from using your IP Address. Data gathered by Google Analytics allows us to analyse visitor numbers on this website, track user’s movement around the website and from page to page, we use this information see how visitors use and interact with our website. Google Analytics data is stored for a period of 26 months which allows us to build a year upon year picture of visitor numbers to our website. Data gathered by Google Analytics may be stored outside of the European Union in line with its undertakings through the EU-US Privacy Shield Program.

Further information can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=en&gl=de

You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en-GB

If you submit an enquiry through our contact form or via email, that enquiry will be emailed to a mailbox monitored by Design Technology Safety Training, the email is then stored securely on our email server which enables us to respond to your enquiry.

Your enquiry will be promptly forwarded to one or more of our Consultants to ensure it is dealt with and acted upon by the most appropriate person. If you submit an enquiry through our contact form or via email, a copy of that message will be stored on our web server and will be deleted after 14 days or once the enquiry is effectively dealt with.

This website utilises SSL encryption. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client, typically a web server (website) and a browser, or a mail server and a mail client (e.g., Outlook). SSL allows sensitive information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and login credentials to be transmitted securely.

This website is backed up on a regular basis for security and disaster recovery purposes. The backups are stored securely with Dropbox. Dropbox may store these backups outside of the European Union in line with its undertakings through the EU-US Privacy Shield Program. Further information can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/privacy Website backups will be stored for a maximum of 30 days before being deleted.

This website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that Design Technology Safety Training is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please let us know as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) in relation to your personal information. You may have the right to:

• access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with data protection law
• object to us processing, or ask us to restrict our processing of your personal information for any of the purposes listed in this policy, at any time
• ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal information that we hold about you free of charge
• ask us to erase or delete your personal information (in certain circumstances). We will do our best to respond to such requests, but these are subject to certain limitations such as legal requirements
• Request a transfer of your personal information (in certain circumstances).

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights or to review, verify, correct or question anything detailed in this policy or are unhappy with any aspect of how we use your data please contact us at info@designtechnologysafetytraining.co.uk

You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephone on 0303 123 1113, or by using the live chat service which is available through the Information Commissioner’s website www.ico.org.uk.

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance:

Design Technology Safety Training
Registered data handler: James Patrick
Registration reference: ZA530430
Tel: 07590577831
Email: info@designtechnologysafetytraining.co.uk

Updated 16/02/2025