Engineering Council

Personal Data
What is personal data?
Personal data is any information that can be used to identify an individual.

What personal data do we collect?
The personal data that the Engineering Council collects and processes about you with respect to the Standards Review Consultation is:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Who you are representing when answering the questions in the consultation
• If you are representing a professional engineering institution, which institution you are representing
  Your registration status
• Whether we may we contact you at a later date to discuss further the issues covered in this consultation using the email address you provided
• Your employment situation
• If you are employed: your occupational area; how many employees your company has; your main area of responsibility; which countries you have worked during the past 12 months.

What we use your personal data for
We will use your personal data to:

• ­Analyse your responses to the questions in the Standards Review consultation so that we can understand and respond to the views of our stakeholders;
• Aggregate your responses to the questions in the consultation with the responses of other respondents;
  ­ Present the aggregated data;
• Contact you to discuss further the issues covered in this consultation, if required, but only if you email us to indicate that you are willing for this to happen.

What is the basis for processing your data?
Our basis for processing your personal data is legitimate interest. The Engineering Council is the regulatory body for the engineering profession and publishes the Standard that describes how professional registration can be achieved through the demonstration of competence and commitment and what processes are in place to facilitate this. The Standard is subject to periodic review and inviting stakeholders to contribute is an essential part of the review.

Special or sensitive data
The Engineering Council does not collect or process special categories of personal data or sensitive data such as race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, etc.

Data Security and Sharing
All data held by the Engineering Council is held securely. Your personal data will be passed to dotmailer Ltd for processing on behalf of the Engineering Council.

Retention
The Engineering Council will store your personal data until it has completed the Standards Review or until 31 March 2020, whichever is earlier.

Subject Access Request
A Subject Access Request form and copy of the procedure can be requested by writing to the Engineering Council’s Data Protection Representative at the address given below.