Privacy Policy
Who we are
This website (the "Website") is the website of Equinox Information Services Ltd. For the purposes of this agreement, "Equinox IS", "us" or "we" shall mean a company registered in England and Wales under company number 09331995 and with its registered address at 60 Windsor Avenue, London, England, SW19 2RR, and its affiliates and their officers, directors, and employees.
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Equinox Information Services Ltd. ("Equinox IS"). uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website or share when communicating with us.
Equinox IS is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this policy.
Equinox IS may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page intermittently to ensure that you are happy with any changes or updates. This policy is effective from 1 January 2020.
It applies to use of our website, our professional services or during any communications with you.
How we collect your information
Your personal information such as name, address, email address and phone number, or any other personal data which may reasonably identify you, may be collected by:
- Attending meetings and/or during telephone calls to us;
- Corresponding with us by email, in which case we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses;
- Supplying us with your personal information by signing up to receive a newsletter or to attend an event;
- Supplying us with your personal information as part of the recruitment or supplier engagement process;
- Using our website, during which other personal data may be automatically collected, such as your IP address (please see section on cookies, below).
Sensitive Information
We will not collect sensitive (special category) personal information from visitors to our website, clients or our employees, except where necessitated by the terms of our engagement. ‘Sensitive personal information’ includes information about racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.
Any sensitive personal information collected as part of our lawful processing obligations will be protected using best practice information security controls.
How we use your personal information
We will use your personal information solely for the purpose for which it was provided and share it with Equinox IS partners, staff and consultants on a ‘need to know’ basis. We will not use your data for other purposes without your explicit consent.
We use cloud based applications and providers for information storage. Data is by preference stored in the EU, but may be transferred for hosting/storage to the United States. We will only send data outside of the EU where an organization employs data protection rules that are recognised as being equivalent. We only use suppliers who implement the same level of security controls (or stronger) as we do ourselves.
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To communicate with you regarding your query or application. We may contact you by post, email, telephone or text message. You may opt out/unsubscribe from such communications at any time by emailing hello@equinox.is;
- To process any job application you may make to us (including any sensitive personal information you provide);
- To provide or administer services;
- To update client records;
- To confirm identity, ascertain credit worthiness and trace whereabouts where necessary;
- To manage and monitor the skills and placement of individuals (Associated/business supplier contractors) on specific project deployments, resource management, enable client feedback and improve the overall quality of our service delivery, including through client satisfaction surveys and project management;
- To comply with legal and regulatory requirements including verifying the identity of new clients/associates (and in certain circumstances existing clients/associates) to comply with anti-money laundering regulations, ‘right to work’ and other legislative requirements applicable to Equinox IS;
- To comply with law enforcement.
As described in this policy, personal information will be retained by us and will not be sold, transferred or otherwise disclosed to any third party, other than for the purpose of lawful processing. Personal information may be anonymised / pseudonymised for the purpose of research to inform our marketing and development strategies or where such disclosure is required by law or court order.
If your personal information changes or you no longer wish to receive a particular communication from us please let us know and we will correct, update or remove your details. This can be done by emailing hello@equinox.is.
Security
In providing services to you, we may process personal data as a controller or on your behalf as a data processor. Where we act as processor on your behalf we will only process personal data for the purposes outlined above or otherwise in accordance with your instructions, and only keep it for as long as it is needed for that purpose.
We use up-to-date data storage and security controls to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification or unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and any third parties we engage to process your personal information are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information.
Disclosing personal information to third parties
We may disclose your personal information to our agents or service providers, where there is a lawful basis, for any of the purposes set out in this policy.
We will not sell your information to a third party.
Cookies
The following cookies are in use on our website:
- Essential cookies – for improving the user’s experience and navigation of the website
- Google analytics – for monitoring traffic to our website. Knowing how many people have visited and from where can help us build a better site
- Google Tag Manager – for capturing whether a visitor has come through to the website via an advertisement on a social media platform
- Facebook – for demographics and other basic information about those who access Equinox IS from Facebook
- LinkedIn – for campaign reporting, tracking conversions and monitoring traffic to the website
We do not currently use any other cookies or other means of tracking your visits to our website. You can turn off cookies in your web browser’s settings.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you. For further information, please visit ico.org.uk.
If at any time you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject in relation to information we hold about you as an individual please contact us by email to hello@equinox.is or by mail to the address above.
Complaints or queries
Equinox IS tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage you to bring it to our attention if you think that our collection or use of your information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.
This privacy notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of Equinox IS’ collection and use of personal information. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed. Any requests for this should be sent to the address below.
If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information please do so by email to hello@equinox.is. If you are not satisfied with the response we give you then you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk), which is the statutory body which oversees data protection law in the UK.
Agreement to terms of Privacy Notice
By using this website and/or providing your personal information to us, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by us set out in this privacy notice.
If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our website or otherwise notify you to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
Contact us
If you have any comments, questions, or concerns about how or why we use your data, how long we keep it, or what rights you have over it, please get in touch.
If you have any queries concerning our use of the above, please email hello@equinox.is.