Privacy Policy

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OCSO Group Ltd (Company number 15575233) (we, us or our), understands that protecting your personal data is important. This Privacy Notice sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal data provided to us, or otherwise collected by us when providing our fractional sustainability leadership and consulting services (Services) or when otherwise interacting with you. 

It is important that you read this Privacy Notice together with any other detailed privacy notices we may provide when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you understand our privacy practices in relation to your data.

The information we collect

Personal information: is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

We may collect, use, store and disclose different kinds of personal data about you which we have listed below: 

• Identity Data including first name, middle name, last name, title, job title, and public images of you (e.g. from social media profiles such as LinkedIn). 
• Contact Data including billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data including bank account.
• Transaction Data including details about payments to you from us and from you to us and other details of products and services you have purchased from us or we have purchased from you.
• Technical and Usage Data including internet protocol (IP) address, your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour, information about your access and use of our website, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with our website, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
• Profile Data including information you have shared with our social media platforms, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses. 
• Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
• Professional data including where you are a worker of ours or applying for a role with us, your professional history such as your previous positions and professional experience. 
• Special Categories of Personal Data is a special category of personal data that includes 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 do not actively request special categories of data about you, nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences. If at any time we need to collect special categories of data about you, we will only collect it and use it as required or authorised by law. 

How we collect personal information

We collect personal data in a variety of ways, including:

• Directly: We collect personal information which you directly provide to us, including e.g. through the ‘contact us’ form on our website or when you request our assistance via email, or over the telephone.
• Indirectly: We may collect personal information which you indirectly provide to us while interacting with us, such as e.g. when you use our website, in emails, over the telephone and in your online enquiries.
• From publicly available sources: We collect personal data from publicly available resources such as Companies House and professional networking sites such as LinkedIn.

Purposes and legal bases for processing

We collect and process personal data about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable laws. We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please reach out to us if you need further details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

• Purpose:  To assess whether to take you on as a new client, including to perform anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, sanction screening, fraud and other background checks on you 
• Type of data: Identity Data, Contact Data
• Legal basis for processing: