Privacy notice

The Advanced Machinery and Productivity Institute (AMPI) is a group of partners led by the National Physical Laboratory. AMPI as an entity may change and the privacy policy will evolve as AMPI evolves.

The Advanced Machinery and Productivity Institute (AMPI) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This notice (together with any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect, or that you provide, will be processed. Please read the following carefully to understand the practices employed regarding your personal data and how it will be treated. AMPI can be contacted either by email AMPI.SIPF@npl.co.uk or by post, see details below:

AMPI c/o National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW | Tel: 020 8977 3222 The website https://ampiuk.org/ is owned and operated by NPL. By continuing to use the website and by submitting information to the website, you are accepting the practices described in this notice.

AMPI collects information that you provide including, for example, your name, your email address, company details etc and other information including, for example address, etc. to enable us to deliver our products and services as outlined on the website (e.g., funding programmes, training, attendance at AMPI themed events etc). We also collect information automatically when you visit our website, namely your IP address, the pages you had previously visited or when you use our services, including usage, log and cookies information or similar technologies.

Personal data

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and its implementation the Data Protection Act 2018 (‘the Act’), personal data is defined as ‘any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’), by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Lawful processing

The lawful basis for processing is set out in Article 6 of the UK GDPR. At least one of these must apply whenever personal data is to be processed:

a) Consent: you have given AMPI (e.g., any of the following depending on the situation freely, specific, informed or unambiguous) consent for your personal data to be processed for a specific purpose.

b) Contract performance: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract you have with AMPI, which had asked you to take specific steps before entering into a contract.

c) Compliance with legal obligation: the processing is necessary for AMPI to comply with the law (e.g., the tax/social security obligation/employment law) (not including contractual obligations).

d) Protection of vital interests: the processing is vital to an individual’s survival.

e) Public interest: the processing is necessary for AMPI to perform a task that is in the public interest or for its official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law.

f) Legitimate interests: the processing is necessary for AMPI legitimate interests, or the legitimate interests of a third-party, unless there is a good reason to protect the individual’s personal data that overrides those legitimate interests.

Data rights

Your data subject rights are listed below:

  • the right of access
  • the right to rectification
  • the right to erasure or right to be forgotten
  • the right to restriction of processing
  • the right to be informed
  • the right to data portability
  • the right to object
  • the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing

Under the UK GDPR and the Act, you may ask for a copy of the information we hold about you and you may request rectifications be made to this information if it is inaccurate or not up to date. Please write to the data protection officer (‘DPO’), at the aforementioned address or email dataprotectionofficer@npl.co.uk

Personal data we collect

Information that you provide by completing forms in writing, email, through our web site or social media. This includes information provided at the time of registering with us, to use our website (where applicable), to become a member of staff, to enter into a contract for our services, to support or subscribe to our services (where applicable), to request materials or to request further services, when you respond to a survey and/or when you report a problem with any of our communication channels or services.

We collect the following classes of information:

  • name(s) and address(es), email, phone number(s) and other relevant (e.g. age group, interests, subscriptions, and etc.) personal details and preferred (e.g. activities, events, news, and etc.)
  • staff details relevant to their employment status with us
  • use of social media relating to NPL
  • records of donations
  • records of volunteering
  • photographs, recordings (audio and video)
  • information about our relationship with you, correspondence, meeting notes, attendance at events etc.
  • occupation, skills and professional activity, network(s) and interests where relevant to our needs
  • Financial information (e.g. bank details) where they may be relevant to our needs

If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

Details of transactions you carry out and of the fulfilment of your orders.

Details of your access to our databases or other materials.

To help us improve our services, if you send us personal information which identifies you via email, we may keep your email, your email address and ‘screen’ name. We may also collect information that is available from your browser.

We me also collect cookies during your visits to our website. Please refer to our Cookie Policy.

How we collect your personal data

There are two main ways in which we collect your personal data:

a) directly from you

  • that you provide to us
  • that we automatically collect (e.g. IP addresses, OBA)

b) from third parties.

Personal data that you give to us may be through one of a number of ways. These may include: · directly via our website https://ampiuk.org/

  • via a form which could be online as part of our website, or a form provided to us as a hard copy or electronically
  • contacting us with enquiries or comments by telephone, email or hard copy correspondence.

Personal data may be given to us through another organisation with which you have registered, and we may be required to process that data in order to fulfil services that you expect of us. This could include one of the following:

  • via another authorised body with whom joint education or professional development takes place
  • via professional bodies with whom there is a sharing of registration for events or activities

How we use your personal data

We will process any of your personal data, in accordance with our obligations under the Act and the UK GDPR, for the following reasons:

  • to provide you with the services you have requested
  • to comply with the Act and the UK GDPR
  • for administrative purposes
  • to assess enquiries
  • to provide you with information about us and our services. If, at any time, you do not wish to receive further information about us and our services, contact us at dataprotectionofficer@npl.co.uk

Sharing your personal data

We may disclose your personal information to third parties 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 enforce or apply any agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the organisation, or other individuals. This includes exchanging information with Partners, other companies and organisations for the purposes of safeguarding or other statutory regulations

we have to comply with as well as those organisations with whom you and we have reciprocal agreements for providing services for education or professional development.

Third party websites

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Protecting your personal data

The data that we collect from you will be processed at our servers in the UK. It may also be processed by organisations operating in the EEA that NPL has instructed.

The above applies in the case where we may collect photographs and recordings, including both audio and video.

If personal data is transferred outside the UK or EEA to a country without a designated adequacy rating, AMPI will request the data subject’s consent before processing the data, unless the processor’s Binding Corporate Rules, Standard Contractual Clauses or ad-hoc contractual clauses stipulate that the data will be processed in accordance with the UK GDPR.

Security of your information

To help protect the privacy of data and personally identifiable information you transmit through use of this our website, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know that information to provide benefits or services to you. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. We commit to taking appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees’ privacy responsibilities.

How long we store your personal data for

We store your personal data in accordance with our data retention policy. This policy is reviewed and updated internally to ensure we do not store your data for longer than is necessary. We also review how and where we store any data to ensure that we meet our obligation to store data securely.

In addition, some of the data we hold may be subject to certain legal and regulatory obligations, which provide a minimum retention period for different types of data. The retention period varies depending on the data we hold.

Cookies

AMPI’s website uses cookies to record visits to the website. This helps us to improve the website and provide you with a good experience when you browse the website.

Please see our Cookies Policy for more information.

Changes to the NPL privacy notice

This privacy notice was first uploaded on xx August 2022. AMPI reserves the right to update this privacy notice from time to time. Such variations become effective on posting on this website. Your subsequent use of this website or submission of personal information to AMPI will be deemed to signify your acceptance to the variations.

Complaints

If you have anything you would like to complain either message dataprotectionofficer@npl.co.uk

Should this be insufficient, and you need further information on your rights and how to complain to the ICO, please refer to the ICO website.

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate)