Starstream Data provide a wide variety of services to a wide range of organisations, in doing so we process data, a lot of data, some of which may contain personal information about the employees and customers of the organisations we provide services to.
Our lawful basis for processing such information, other than when there is a legal obligation, is legitimate interest. Our interest in processing personal information is in the delivery of services.
When collecting or processing personal information Starstream Data play many roles. Sometimes we are the data controller, deciding the purpose of the processing; sometimes the data processor, processing on the instruction of a data controller; and in some cases, we are purely the receivers of personal information, we receive or have access to personal information, but do not process it.
Starstream Data have created this policy to explain to any interested parties how and why we:
any of your personal information in which we may need to process in delivery of our services.
Starstream Data is committed to protecting any personal information we may process. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information we may process via some of the following services Starstream Data provides:
It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us by phone, SMS, email, via our website, in letters or other correspondence and in person.
In order to provide you with the full range of Starstream Data services, we sometimes need to process information about you, this policy explains the following:
Starstream Data are committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the General Data Protection Regulations (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy policy as the “Data Protection Law”). All services provided by Starstream Data potentially hold an element of security risk, if you have any concerns that any service accounts Starstream Data provide have been compromised, please contact our Service Desk to report this as soon as possible.
We will not use any of your personal data for automated decision making or profiling.
When your business participates in, accesses or sign up to any Starstream Data services, activities or online content we may receive personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, gender or IP address, as well as information provided for the provision and use of Starstream Data provided services. Note that Starstream Data need to hold basic personal information such as name, email and telephone numbers within our CRM system for support-based services).
Starstream Data may use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
Where Starstream Data proposes using your personal information for any other uses other than in the delivery of services provided by Starstream Data we will ensure that you are notified.
Starstream Data may contact you:
Starstream Data will never share your personal information without your approval, except where disclosure is required or permitted by law, if it is inherent in the function of the service being delivered or as described below.
If you post, submit or send content which may reasonably be deemed to be offensive, inappropriate or objectionable anywhere on or to Starstream Data systems or websites or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on any Starstream Data service, Starstream Data may remove and if applicable, report such content.
When there is a requirement for Starstream Data to share data with a 3rd party in delivery of a service, and this sharing has been approved by the Data controller as a requirement of the Service to be provided, Starstream Data will take appropriate steps to ensure the integrity of the 3rd party’s security.
We will hold your information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or for as long as it is set out in any relevant contract you / your organisation hold with Starstream Data.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. Any requests to delete data that Starstream Data may process on behalf of your organisation or that may contain personal information about you should be made to compliance@starstreamdata.com
In general, the information covered above provides a good understanding of the potential personal information Starstream Data may hold about you.
If under the Data Protection Law you wish to request a copy of the personal information about you, that Starstream Data may hold about you, or if you wish to have any inaccuracies corrected you can contact us at compliance@starstreamdata.com.
Please note, we will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved identification. We will use reasonable efforts consistent with our legal duty to supply, correct, modify or delete personal information about you on files that do not relate to or negatively impact a direct service in delivery and for which consent has previously been determined. The two forms of approved identification can include:
Your rights in connection with personal information
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
Please contact the Compliance Department at compliance@starstreamdata.com for any requests.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is an appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact compliance@starstreamdata.com. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
Personal data may be transferred to or stored outside of the UK or European Economic Area (EEA) for the purposes of transfers to service providers who may be located outside of the UK or EEA. Before any transfer takes place, we’ll take steps to make sure your personal information will be adequately protected, as required by the UK Data Protection Act, with safeguards such as standard contractual clauses being in place.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Starstream Data. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you do not agree to these changes or how Starstream Data process data containing personal information on behalf of your organisation, please liaise with the data protection officer of your organisation. If material changes are made to the Privacy Policy, for instance affecting how we would like to use your personal information, we will provide a prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification for Privacy Policy changes).
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details below.
Starstream Data
Email address: iris@starstreamdata.com
Postal address: Starstream Data, The Axis Building, Kingsway North, Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE11 0NQ
Telephone number: 0191 543 8863
To report any form of abuse activity (spam, phishing, adware etc.) with respect to any of our services, please contact us by email: abuse.report@starstreamdata.com.
If you are unhappy with anything we have done with your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office.
To make a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office use the link below or call their hotline on Tel No.: 0303 123 1113. https://ico.org.uk/concerns/