This information has been produced to help you understand everything you need to know about the way Horne Engineering collects, uses, and shares personal data, what your legal rights are and how to exercise them. We hope you’ll take some time to read this page; we’ve tried to keep it all as simple as possible and to avoid jargon, and we’ll make our best efforts to keep you informed if there are any changes to the way we process your personal data in the future.
Horne Engineering takes its responsibility for protecting your data very seriously and we do advise you get to know our practices. If there’s anything here you don’t understand, or if you want to ask any questions, please feel free to contact us.
The details of our Privacy Policy are provided below; click on the + to expand each section. You can update your personal preferences in the Contact us section at the end.
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Who is the Data Controller?
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We are: Horne Engineering Ltd.
Registered Address: Lancefield Works, Rankine Street, Johnstone, Renfrewshire, PA5 8BD
Registration Number: SC016062
In this document Horne Engineering Ltd may be referred to as “we”, “us”, or “our”.
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Why Horne Engineering collects personal data
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Contractual Need and Legal Obligation
Horne Engineering uses personal data firstly to fulfil any contractual obligations that exist between us and yourself.
Where we request personal data be provided to enter into, or meet the terms of any such contract, you will be required to provide the relevant personal data or we will not be able to deliver the goods or services you want. In such cases the lawful basis of us processing the personal data is that it is necessary for the performance of a contract.
We are required by law to process personal data for purposes relating to our legal obligations, these include:
- To provide for our financial commitments, or to relevant financial authorities.
- To comply with regulatory requirements and any self-regulatory schemes.
- To carry out required business operations and due diligence.
- To cooperate with relevant authorities for reporting criminal activity, or to detect and prevent fraud.
- To investigate any insurance claims, claims of unfair dismissal, claims of any kind of harassment or of discrimination, or any other claim whereby the organisation may have to defend itself.
Consent
We may process personal data for the following reasons where we have sought your consent to do so:
- To send marketing material that promotes our products and services
Legitimate Interests
Horne Engineering may process Personal Data for any of the following purposes, which are considered to be within our legitimate business interests:
- To provide goods and services where it has been requested,
- To inform customers of goods and services we provide or offers that may interest them,
- To send notification on subjects to individuals who have asked to be kept informed,
- To facilitate the completion of research initiatives,
- To recognise when people re-engage with our organisation,
- To allow us to support and maintain our products in active service,
- To improve our website so content is delivered more efficiently,
- To enhance the security measures in place that protect data we are responsible for,
- To protect the our assets
- To provide for and manage members of staff within our organisation
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What Kinds of Personal Data does Horne Engineering Process?
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We collect personal data for various purposes; with that in mind we have created a list of the types of personal data that we may collect, either directly from yourself or from other sources, in order to achieve those purposes.
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Contact Type
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Data Collected / Legal Basis for data collection
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Employee
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Name, telephone, address, DOB, email address, CV details, education history, work experience, national insurance number, social security number, health insurance ID, tax information, work visa documents, next of kin details, gender, bank details / Contractual Necessity, Legitimate interest
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Customer / Client
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Email, name, telephone, address, bank details / Contractual Necessity, Legitimate interest
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Applicant / Temp. / Intern
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CV / Legitimate Interest
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Supplier
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Email, name, telephone, address, bank details / Contractual Necessity, Legitimate interest
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Sub-Contractor
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Email, name, telephone, address, bank details / Contractual Necessity, Legitimate interest
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Industry contacts
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Email, name, telephone, address / Legitimate interest
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Professional Contacts
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Email, name, telephone, address / Legitimate interest
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Sales Agents
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Email, name, telephone address, bank details, job title, professional qualifications, work experience, CV details / Contractual Necessity, Legitimate interest
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Emergency Contacts (staff)
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Name, address, telephone number, email address, relationship / Contractual Necessity, Legitimate interest
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Special Category Personal Data
Personal data that is considered sensitive in nature are given special consideration in when they may be processed.
We may process the following types of special category personal data, under the included lawful basis.
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Relating to: |
Lawful basis: |
| Data concerning health information |
Employees |
Employment and social law |
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Where does Horne Engineering Obtain Personal Data from?
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We will collect personal data directly from you in various ways. This could include when you complete an online form, or if you provide the data directly to one of our representatives.
Where it is necessary for us to achieve our business objectives, we may collect personal data from publicly accessible sources such as:
Linkedin, public directories, Professional websites,
We may also gather personal data by any of the following methods:
- By systems that gather data automatically from your computer equipment when visiting our online platforms.
- For example, when someone visits our website, www.horne.co.uk, we use 3rd party service providers to collect details of website traffic and visitor information, including browser type, internet service provider, URLs of referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, search terms, locale and language preferences, your mobile carrier, and system configuration information. The site may use cookies and similar technologies to remember any preferences that the site may allow you to set, or to track your progress through the site to make improvements to the service we offer you. For full detailed information about cookies used on this site, please view our Cookie Policy.
- From third-party organisations, provided for future marketing purposes.
- From third-party organisations, where it is necessary to deliver a product or service that has been requested
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How Long will Horne Engineering Keep your Personal Data?
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We will keep your personal data only for as long as required to achieve the purposes for which it is gathered.
The following criteria determine the period for which we retain personal data:
- Until we are no longer required to do so to comply with regulatory requirements or financial obligations,
- Until we are no longer required to do so by any law we are subject to,
- Until all purposes for which the data was originally gathered have become irrelevant or obsolete,
- Until it is requested that we no longer process the data and that it is erased.
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Who does Horne Engineering Share Personal Data with?
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To achieve the above stated purposes for which we process your personal data, we may have to share information with certain third-party organisations. This may include where we are legally required to do so, or where it is strictly necessary in order to deliver a particular product or service.
We will make all reasonable efforts to ensure any third-party with whom we share personal data is compliant with data protection law.
The kinds of third-parties we may share your information with include:
- Organisations where it is necessary to provide goods and services or to achieve our business purposes.
- Organisations who act on our behalf as marketing or sales agents.
- Organisations who host, manage and/or maintain our company website, email and IT systems and security.
Other 3rd Parties
Horne Engineering Ltd will, in certain circumstances, disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Horne Engineering Ltd;
- protect and defend the rights or property of Horne Engineering Ltd; and,
- act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Horne Engineering Ltd, or the public.
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Where will Horne Engineering Store your Personal Data?
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As a part of our standard business practices, we may transfer your personal data to organisations based in countries that have not been granted an adequacy decision under the General Data Protection Regulation.
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Purpose: |
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Data Storage |
Where personal data is shared with companies based in the USA, we shall make all efforts to ensure those organisations are signed to the EU-US Privacy Framework.
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Your rights, our responsibility
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There are several rights granted to you immediately upon providing us with your personal information; some of these are mentioned above. We’d like you to know that we take your rights seriously and will always conduct ourselves in a way that is considerate of our responsibility to serve your legal rights.
The Right of Access
This grants you the right to confirm whether or not your personal data is being processed, and to be provided with relevant details of what those processing operations are and what personal data of yours is being processed.
If you would like access to the personal data we have about you, we ask that you contact us using the details below.
The Right to Rectification
This one is fairly straight forward; if you notice that the data we have about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you may request we rectify the mistake. We will make every effort to respond to requests of this type immediately.
The Right to Erasure
Otherwise known as the ‘right to be forgotten’, this given you the right to request your personal data be deleted.
This is not an absolute right; if you were to request that we erase your personal data, we would erase as much of that data as we could but may have to retain some information if it is necessary.
Were we have received a request for personal data to be erased, if it is necessary for us to retain some of that information we shall ensure that the remaining data is used only when and where it is absolutely necessary.
The Right to Objection
The right to object is a basic freedom all democracies enjoy. If you wish to object to the way we use, or have used, your personal data you may do so freely.
The Right to Complain
We will always try to maintain the highest standards and encourage the confidence our customers have in us as an organisation. To achieve this, we request that any complaints be first brought to our attention so we can properly investigate matters. If you would like to complain about Horne Engineering to a regulatory body, you may do so by contacting your local data protection supervisory authority.
Your right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner Office (www.ico.org.uk).
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Changes to this Policy
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We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. We also encourage you to periodically review this policy to be informed of how Horne Engineering Ltd is protecting your information.
Version 2, 7 May 2026.
Change log:
Version 2.0, 7 May 2026.
Version 1.3, 13 July 2021.
Version 1.2, 5 April 2019.
Version 1.1, 24 May 2018.
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Data Protection Officer
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Horne Engineering Ltd has engaged a trusted and experienced data protection agency to oversee and assist our compliance with data protection legislation and practices:
Ametros Group Ltd
Broadway House
32-35 Broad Street
Hereford
HR4 9AR
0330 223 2246
dpo@ametrosgroup.com
www.ametrosgroup.com
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Contact us
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We welcome your comments regarding this Privacy Policy or about Horne Engineering Ltd's privacy practices. Please contact us by email at:
dpo@horne.co.uk,
telephone:
+44 (0)1505 321455,
or send a letter to:
FAO: Data Protection Representative
Horne Engineering Ltd
PO Box 7
Rankine Street
Johnstone
Scotland
PA5 8BD
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Update your marketing preferences
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If you wish to change how we process your data or update your marketing communication preferences, then please follow this link.
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