Privacy Statement for:
Bioss Career Path Appreciation (CPA/MCPA/IRIS)
Introduction
We are:
Hidden Horizons registered in Belgium with company number 0455 803 691, and registered address: Louis Schmidtlaan 48 – 1040 Brussels, and the associate practitioner responsible for conducting the CPA/MCPA/IRIS.
Bioss International Ltd. (BIL), a company registered in England with company number 02575635, with registered address c/o Haines Watts, New Derwent House, 69-73 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X 8TA, the owner of the Intellectual Property deployed within a CPA, and responsible for the CPA Privacy Statement.
We (BIL), our practitioners and our associate practitioners are committed to data privacy, that is to say the fair and lawful treatment of personal information in full compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).
BIL’s data privacy contact is available at [email protected] and this contact will route any questions to the appropriate person within Bioss.
When you undergo a Bioss Career Path Appreciation, we will inevitably process personal information about you. This Privacy Statement therefore explains:
- The lawful purposes for which BIL processes your personal information.
- What personal information BIL processes about you.
- How your personal information is retained.
- To whom BIL may disclose your personal information.
- The measures taken by BIL to help protect your personal information.
- How to exercise your rights under data protection law.
The lawful purposes for which we may process your personal information. We process personal information for the following purposes only:
What personal information we process about you?
When you participate in CPA, we will process personal information about you, including:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your employer’s details
- Your job title
- Your data of birth
- Your age
- Your gender
- Information you provide during the CPA interview (some of which may be regarded as “Sensitive Personal Data” according to the meaning defined within the GDPR)
- A CPA report prepared following your CPA interview
Retention of your personal information.
Unless you notify us to the contrary, we will retain personal data and CPA reports indefinitely in order to conduct, over time, longitudinal research studies that continue to validate the CPA methodology.
To whom we may disclose your personal information.
We will only disclose your personal information to you, and the organisation requesting the CPA at the time of your CPA was conducted.
The measures taken by us to help protect your personal information.
We implement appropriate technical and organisational security measure to protect your personal information.
We maintain secure data storage in Belgium and the UK. We are registered with the Data Protection authorities in the necessary countries as required.
CPA data are held in a secure environment the UK in the Genie database which is administered by Bioss Southern Africa (BSA). BIL has a contract with BSA that ensures BSA meets the same data protection standards required of organisations based in the EU.
Further details of our server and network security can be provided on request.
How to exercise your rights under data protection law
Citizens in the European Union have numerous rights under data protection law, details of which can be located on the website of the relevant data protection authority. The most applicable rights in relation to the data we collect about you are:
The right to access a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- The right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
- The right in certain circumstances to have inaccurate personal information rectified, blocked, erased, or destroyed.
If you wish to know more about exercising your rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you, or if you wish would submit a complaint to us about how your personal information is handled, please address any queries to BIL’s data privacy contact, available at [email protected] who will route any query to the appropriate person within Bioss.
