PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are: 

Diversity+ is a privately funded consultancy business. Our aim is to help businesses improve diversity and inclusion within their workplace.  

This notice explains how we or those delivering services on our behalf, use and store your personal information. 

Why do we need this notice? 

General Data Protection Legislation (GDPR) governs the way in which we can use, process, and store personal data (information about an identifiable, living person). It applies to all organisations within the EU, as well as those supplying goods or services to the EU or monitoring EU citizens. GDPR has been retained in UK domestic law. This notice is prepared to provide you with information on how your personal information is used and stored.  

How we use your information 

We use your personal information to allow us to provide business advice & support services.   

We will use the information you supply to us to: 

• Verify your identity where required 

• Reply to your enquiry by post, email, or telephone; 

• Maintain our records; 

• Provide services to you; 

• Send you information on our other services; 

• Look at the services you and other clients use; and 

• Report on the number of clients using our services. 

What is our purpose & legal basis for processing your information? 

We provide business advice & support services to you. Where you have requested a service, we use your personal information to provide you with that service. 

 

What happens if you do not wish to provide your personal information? 

You are not obliged to provide us with your personal information however without this information we are limited in the services we can provide to you.  

Marketing communications 

Where we have your consent to do so, we will send you information and updates about our services. These updates may include information on events that we are holding and information about the business support & advice services that are available to you from us or those who work with us.  

If you decide that you no longer wish to receive these messages, then you can opt out of future communications. We will still communicate with you for other purposes in the ordinary course of any other relationship we may have with you. 

Who do we share your information with? 

We will generally comply with requests for specific information from regulatory and law enforcement bodies where this is necessary and appropriate.  

Other than that, your personal information will not be shared by us to third parties, unless you have consented to this as part of the service, we are to provide you.  

​Categories of personal data which may be processed: 

• Contact name 

• Contact email address 

• Contact phone number 

• Contact address 

• Contact post code 

• Contact date of birth 

• Contact gender 

• Contact ethnic group 

• Contact disability status 

• Contact employment status 

Where we may collect personal data from  

• Directly from you 

• From third party databases that we have consent to use  

How long do we keep your information for? 

We only keep your personal information for the minimum period of time necessary. Sometimes this time period is set out in the law, but in most cases, it is based on your personal or business needs. 

Where your information may be held internationally 

The personal information that we collect from you may be transferred to, and processed, at a destination outside the European Economic Area.  

Where this is the case, we ensure that the organisation processing the data provides an adequate level of protection for your rights and complies with the conditions of data protection law set out in the General Data Protection Regulations.  

Using the Diversity+ website 

Our website uses cookies to help you navigate, provide feedback, and analyse your use of our products and services. This is necessary for us to deliver services to you.  

Your rights under data protection law: 

• access to your information – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.  

• correcting your information – we want to make sure that your information is accurate, complete and up to date. You may ask us to correct any information about you that you believe does not meet these standards. 

• Deletion of your information – you have the right to ask us to delete information about you where: 

I. you think that we no longer need to hold the information for the purposes for which it was originally obtained 

II. we are using that information with your consent and you have withdrawn your consent – see withdrawing consent to using your information below  

III. you have a genuine objection to our use of your information – see objecting to how we may use your information below 

IV. our use of your information is contrary to law or our other legal obligations. 

Objecting to how we may use your information 

You have the right at any time to tell us to stop using your information for direct marketing purposes. In addition, where we use your information to perform a task or service, if you ask us to, we will stop using that information unless there are overriding legitimate grounds to continue.  

Restricting how we may use your information  

In some cases, you may ask us to restrict how we use your information. This right might apply, for example, where we are checking the accuracy of information that we hold about you or we are assessing the objection you have made to our use of your information. This right might also apply if we no longer have a basis for using your information, but you don't want us to delete the data.  

Withdrawing consent to use your information 

Where we use your information with your consent you may withdraw that consent at any time, and we will stop using your information for the purpose(s) for which consent was given.  

Please contact us as at diversityplusinfo@gmail.com if you wish to exercise any of these rights 

Changes to our privacy notice 

We keep this privacy notice under regular review and will place any updates on our website. If you do not have access to the internet, you can contact us to request hard copy of this document. 

Contact information and further advice 

Please contact us at diversityplusinfo@gmail.com if you would like further information or advice about this privacy notice and how we handle your personal information.