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ABP Privacy Notice

Purpose

We value your privacy and take our obligations under privacy and data protection law very seriously. This Privacy Notice gives you information about how we collect and process your personal information.

This Privacy Notice describes in detail who is responsible for the personal information that we collect about you via the following channels: (i) through your use of our website; (ii) when you visit our ports or other ABP premises; (iii) when you enter into a relationship with us for the provision of services or communications with us, and (iv) when you register your interest to join ABP as an employee or apply for a job at ABP (whether directly with ABP or via a recruitment agency).

In particular this Privacy Notice describes:

  • Who we are
  • What is personal information?
  • What personal information we collect about you
  • What sensitive personal information we collect about you
  • How we collect your personal information
  • Information about third parties
  • How we use your personal information
  • How long we keep your personal information
  • Who we share your personal information with
  • How we protect your personal information
  • Transferring your personal information out of the EEA
  • Your rights regarding your personal information
  • How to contact us
  • Updates to Privacy Notice

In this Privacy Notice:

  • references to you or your means any individual whose Personal Information we may collect via the channels described above;
  • references to Customer means any organisation or individual that we supply goods or services to; and
  • references to the Website means the websites which are operated by or on behalf of a member of the ABP Group and such other of the Group's websites as we may operate from time to time.

If you are an employee, worker or contractor of the ABP Group, then please refer to the ABP Privacy Notice on iPort or request a copy from [email protected]

Who We Are

This Privacy Notice is issued on behalf of the ABP Group so when we say “we”, “our”, “ABP” or “us” we mean Associated British Ports or the other relevant company in the ABP Group responsible for processing your data. ABP is the “data controller” for the personal information collected and used in connection with the provision of services or communications by us to you, or when you visit our websites, ports or other ABP premises. This means we are responsible for deciding how we can use your personal information. Specifically, your data will be controlled by the particular ABP entity that is providing the services or communications to you.

The ABP Group is made of different legal entities, details of which can be found at www.abports.co.uk

What is Personal Information

Personal information means information about a living person by which that person can be identified either directly or indirectly.

Sensitive personal information is a special category of personal information which is particularly sensitive and which requires higher levels of protection, such as information about a person's health or sexual orientation. For the purposes of this Notice, information about criminal convictions will be categorised as sensitive personal information.

What Personal Information We Collect About You

We may collect Personal Information from you in the course of our business depending on the context of our particular relationship with you. In particular:

Websites

If you visit our websites we collect the following information about you:

  • if you visit our website, technical information such as your internet protocol address used to connect your computer to the website, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug in types and versions, operating systems and platforms;
  • if you voluntarily complete any online forms on our website (including on ABP’s careers website) or any survey we collect the information requested by that form (e.g. email address, name, address, telephone number, location), marketing preferences; and
  • we use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our Websites and statistical information about the number of visitors to our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Internet Services and also allows us to improve our Internet Services. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, see our Cookie Policy.

Our Websites are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children via our Websites.

Candidates for employment at ABP

If you apply for a job at ABP or register your interest with ABP for job opportunities, we may collect the following information about you:

  • the information you have provided to us in your curriculum vitae and covering letter;
  • the information you have provided on our application or registration form (whether provided online via our careers website or otherwise) such as name, title, address, telephone number, personal email address, date of birth, employment history, qualifications, right to work information;
  • any information provided to us during an interview;

ABParking, ABP marinas or ABPmer

  • If you are a customer of ABParking please click here for the ABParking Privacy Notice.
  • If you are a customer of ABP marinas, please click here for the ABP Marina Privacy Notice.
  • If you are a customer of ABPmer, please click here for the ABPmer Privacy Notice.
  • If you are a customer of W.E Dowds Shipping Limited, please click here for the WE Dowds Privacy Notice.

Business Customers, Potential Business Customers, Stakeholders

If you are a business customer or stakeholder of ABP, or if you or we would like to develop a business relationship, we may collect:

  • your contact information such as name and prefix, job title, business and personal: address, telephone / mobile / fax numbers and email address;
  • financial information and account details such as national insurance number, bank account number or other financial account number and account details;
  • credit checking information such as details of your credit history, credit reference information and credit scores;
  • information about you collected from publicly available resources e.g. details of your professional online presence such as your LinkedIn profile; Companies House or HM Land Registry or public databases;
  • your interests and marketing preferences (including subscriptions to any newsletters), including any opt outs you provide;
  • professional information (such as previous positions and professional experience) for business development purposes;
  • any survey or consultation responses or other information which you may voluntarily provide to ABP;

Interactions with VTS

If you contact VTS by telephone or communicate with VTS over the VHS, such communications are recorded to ensure the effective provision of marine vessel traffic services including ensuring health and safety and environmental compliance, to facilitate prompt and accurate incident review, response and investigation and to enable verification of instructions for contractual purposes.

Interactions with ABP

If you contact or correspond with ABP we may collect:

  • contact details such as your name, image and contact information (including business and personal email, telephone and postal address); and
  • your marketing preferences;

ABP’s premises / port estate

If you visit or work at any of ABP’s premises (e.g. offices, port estate, car parks), we may collect:

  • information collected by our information technology systems (e.g. door entry and reception logs, CCTV, automatic number plate recognition, body worn cameras or other surveillance system recordings, access control system, communications systems),
  • information collected by our security personnel about your visit (e.g. vehicle registration, your name, company and job title);
  • training records (e.g. your name and details of the port related training you have carried out) and other information required by ABP for health and safety purposes if you have an operational role on the port/terminal; and

What Sensitive Personal Information We Collect About You

We may collect Sensitive Personal Information from you in the course of our business depending on the context of our particular relationship with you. In particular:

Candidates for employment at ABP

If you apply for a job at ABP or register your interest with ABP for job opportunities, we may collect the following types of more sensitive personal information about you:

  • information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records;
  • information collected by ABP’s drugs and alcohol tester if you are subject to such test being carried out as a pre-condition to your employment;
  • information regarding unspent criminal convictions which you have declared as part of your application process;
  • information relating to equal opportunities, such as ethnicity, nationality, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and gender.

ABP’s premises / port estate

If you visit or work at any of ABP’s premises (e.g. offices, port estate, car parks), we may collect the following for sensitive personal information about you:

  • information collected by ABP’s drugs and alcohol tester if you are working on operational areas of the port / terminal and are subject to ABP’s Drug and Alcohol Policy (e.g. name, date of birth, test results),
  • information about your disability or health status which aids us in making appropriate adjustments, and;
  • information about you if you are involved in any incident (e.g. a health and safety incident) while on ABP’s premises (e.g. details of any injury which you may have suffered and how it occurred).

How We Collect Personal Information

We collect personal information from you in person when you meet with us, when you visit ABP premises, when you make an enquiry or booking or enter into an agreement with us, through correspondence or other communications with you and via our Websites or other social media pages (e.g. ABP’s Twitter or Facebook pages).

If you apply for a job at ABP, we may collect personal information from a recruitment agency, and from your named referees (where applicable).

We may also collect personal information from publicly accessible sources such as Companies House, LinkedIn or public databases. Occasionally, we may obtain personal information about you through third parties such as your employer or a credit checking agency.

Third Party Personal Information

In the course of us providing goods or services to you, you may provide us with personal information relating to third parties. For example, your employees or your visitors, or your referees if you are applying for a job.

We will use this personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. If you are providing personal information to us relating to a third party, you confirm that you have the consent of the third party to share such personal information with us and that you have made the information in this Privacy Notice available to the third party.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Your personal information may be used by us, our employees, service providers, and disclosed to third parties for the following purposes. For each of these purposes, we have set out the legal basis on which we use your personal information.