Privacy Policy

Radius respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you interact with us and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Radius collects and processes your personal data when you interact with us, this may include visiting our website, attending any course, training, webinars or programmes (Course) purchased by you or your employer, or use any of our platforms (Services) or contacting us to make an enquiry.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

1. Important information and who we are

Radius Business Limited, a company incorporated registered in England and Wales with company number 07670867 at 910 The Crescent Colchester Business Park, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom, CO4 9YQ, is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as Radius, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

Data privacy manager:
Email address:suzi@radius-networks.org

Third-party links

When you use our Services or attend our Courses you may find links included to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

Special Categories of Personal Data 

Special Categories of Personal Data may include details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data. We may also learn of information about criminal convictions and offences. 

It is important to note that as part of your use of our Services, for example during the participation in any Course you may provide information that indirectly may provide indication of, or suggestion, about your personal date. For example, if Mr A is nominated as a leader of the Indian network for his employer, this may indicate his own ethnicity. Further when participating with Radius during our Courses or whilst using other Services, it might be that Special Categories of Personal Data are discussed or provided.

Where your Course or use of our Services are purchased by your employer, your employer will be aware of the Course or use of our Services that you have been signed up for, however; unless we have your express consent to do so, we do not provide any other details to your employer in respect of Special Categories of Personal Data.

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

5. Purposes for which we will use your personal data

General use of personal data: 

Use of personal date when accessing our Courses or using our Services:

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time  by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see cookie policy.

6. Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy as follows:

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

7. International transfers

8. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

9. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data; see your legal rights below for further information.

In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

10. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact the data privacy manager whose details can be seen above.

Once you have contacted us please note the following:

11. General 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office, 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.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you or your employer, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.