Baker Hicks Limited is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. When we say “we”, “our”, “us” or “BakerHicks” in this privacy notice, we are referring to Baker Hicks Limited, BakerHicks AG and BakerHicks GmbH, (trading as BakerHicks) as the context requires, which are part of the Morgan Sindall group of companies.
Baker Hicks Limited (Kent House, 14-17 Market Place, London W1W 8AJ) is the “data controller” for the purpose of data protection legislation. This notice is provided to explain the basis on which any personal information we collect from you, or which you provide to us, is processed. Baker Hicks Limited is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in accordance with its privacy notice. We have a separate Cookie Policy that sets out similar information relating to the cookies and other technologies that we use.
Morgan Sindall Group’s Information Security team oversees our compliance with data protection laws. They guide the content of this privacy notice and also act as our data protection officer. Please direct any complaint or query relating to how we have processed your personal information to dataprotection@morgansindall.com or to the Head of Information and Security, Morgan Sindall Group, Kent House, 14-17 Market Place, London W1W 8AJ.
We ask that you do not provide any sensitive personal data. This is data revealing information about an individual's racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade-union memberships, and includes genetic data, biometric data (for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual), data concerning health, or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation. If you do provide it, this will be an indication that you explicitly consent to us processing this information.
Whose personal information do we process and how do we collect it?
We collect and process the personal information of individuals enquiring about BakerHicks’ services. This is collected by an online contact form and includes an individual’s name, email address and telephone number if supplied. We have a separate privacy policy for those applying for a job or work placement with us.
How your personal information is used
We use information held about you to respond to online enquiries. We never sell your data to third parties or allow third parties to contact you without your permission.
Where do we store your information and for how long do we keep it?
Your personal information is retained by us on our website’s content management system. Our data retention periods vary depending on the nature and context of the personal information that we have in our care and are calculated taking into account the following factors:
guidance from official bodies such as the ICO;
how long we need to keep the information to fulfil the original purpose for which it was collected; and
legal obligations to which we are subject.
Who do we share your information with?
Your personal information is shared only with our IT service provider and our website provider.
Sending data outside the EEA
This section tells you about the safeguards that keep your personal information safe and private, if sent outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Your personal data may, during the course of some our data processing, be transferred outside of the EEA. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA. When we do this, all appropriate technical and legal safeguards are put in place to ensure you are afforded the same level of protection as within the EEA.
Your rights
You have a number of rights under data protection law in relation to the way that we process your personal data. You may contact us using the contact details above to exercise any of these rights and we will respond to any request received from you within one month from the date of request.
If you are not satisfied with the way that we have treated your data or responded to a rights request, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (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.
Links to third party websites
We are not responsible for the content, reliability, privacy and data protection practices of third party websites, plug-ins and applications that you may link to from our website. As such, we recommend that you review the privacy and data protection policies of any third party websites before making further use of their services.