Introduction
In order to operate efficiently, CK International must collect information about people with whom we work. These may include members of the public, current, past and prospective employees, clients, suppliers & other companies.
Any personal information CK International collects must be handled properly under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR). GDPR regulates the way that CK International handles personal data that may be collected in the course of carrying out the business functions and gives certain rights to people whose personal data may be held by CK International. The correct treatment of personal data is integral to the successful operation of CK International and to maintaining trust of the company’s stakeholders: CK International fully appreciates the underlying principles of GDPR, supporting and adhering to its provisions.
Information covered by GDPR
GDPR uses the term personal data. For information held by CK International, personal data essentially means any recorded information held by the company and from which a living individual can be identified. It will include a variety of information including names, addresses, telephone numbers, photographs of people and other personal details. It will include any expression of opinion about a living individual or any indication of CK International intentions about that individual.
Information we may collect about you
We may collect the following information about you:
Information you give to us. You may give us information about you by filling in a form, contacting us by phone or e-mail or in person. This includes information you provide if you complete an application form or otherwise apply for a job here, either directly, or via a third party.
The information you give us depends on the reason for you contacting us, but may include your name, job title, address, date of birth, e-mail address and phone number, financial and debit card information, personal identification documents, data relating to access or dietary requirements and your political opinions.
Information we collect about you. We use cookies to automatically collect information about individuals who visit our website. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
CK International uses cookies to:
Improve the performance of this website on your device.
Site survey: keep track of which browser has or has not seen the survey notification.
These cookies are stored only in the browser and are not accessed by or shared with any other service or third party. You have the option to opt-in or opt-out of receiving cookies:
Users who opt-in will continue to let the browser store the aforementioned cookies
Users who opt-out will have the browser delete all the cookies stored under the ckinternational.co.uk domain.
You can opt out of cookies via the popup below.
Information we receive from other sources. We work closely with other organisations, such as business partners, sub-contractors, analytics providers, search information providers, and we may receive information about you from them. For example, we could gain access to your business contact details via recognised business data providers who collate information from sources including publicly available information such as Companies House.
The categories of information we receive from these sources may include your name, address, date of birth, e-mail address and phone number, financial and debit card information, personal identification documents, data relating to access or dietary requirements and political opinion.
We may also collect information about you from publicly available sources, such as media reports, in order to better understand the people who we interact with. This may include information relating to your political opinions.
Use of your information
We need to obtain, store and use information about you for legitimate business purposes – namely so that you can enjoy and benefit from our services. We may use information we hold about you in the following ways:
to confirm your identity
to administer the membership of your company/organisation
to let you know about other relevant services, both ours and those of other parties whose products and services we have agreed should be made available to you
to update and correct our membership records
to carry out statistical and market analyses, including benchmarking exercises, to enable us to understand you better and improve our services
to develop, test and improve our systems
to notify you about changes to our services
to ensure the content of our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
to administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
to improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
We may combine information we receive from other sources with information you give to us for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
Contacting you
An important part of our work is communicating with our membership, telling them about our activities and how we are supporting their interests, and seeking their views on current issues. To do so, we use personal information to keep in touch with individuals within our member organisations, as well as partners and other individuals.
We will use the contact information you have given us to send you important information. This may be by post, email, text message or telephone.
We may also use the information we hold about you in order to provide you with information about other products or services we feel may interest you.
Because we operate primarily with businesses rather than individuals, we do not generally seek your consent to send you marketing communications. We believe that such communications are both in our legitimate interests, to raise awareness of our work and promote our services, and in your interests. However, you do have the right to ask us to stop sending you marketing communications. If you would like to stop receiving these, please visit the preferences centre or contact [email protected]