Privacy Policy

Compass Occupational Health are part of Compass Skills Training Limited with its registered office at Compass House, Cowling Business Park, Canalside, Chorley PR6 0QL. Our registered company number is 10615460. 

Our Data Protection Officer is Deborah Williams who can be contacted by email at dwilliams@compass-ms.co..uk

Personal data means any information relating to an identifiable individual who can be directly or indirectlt identified, in particular by reference to an identifier. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulations (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).

Sensitive data is personal data of an individual, the data subject relating to any of the following: 

• Racial or ethnic origin
• Political opinions 
• Religous or philosophical beleifs
• Trade union membership
• Data concerning health
• Data concerning sex life or sexual orientation
• Genetic data
• Biometric data where processed to uniquely identify the data subject. 

Compass carry out a range of services where we need to ask for your personal or sensitive data. 

Your data will not be processed outside of the UK. 

Right of access. The GDPR gives you the right to access copies of the personal data held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the GDPR. The first copy of the personal data held about you will be provided free of charge but any subsequent copy will be subject to a reasonable fee based on the administrative costs of providing copies of the personal data to you.

Right to request an electronic copy of your personal data. Where you provide personal data you have the right to be provided with a structured, commonly used and machine-readable copy and have the right, in certain circumstances, to ensure that we transmit that personal data to a recipient of your choice without hindrance (the right to data portability).

Right to correct. You have the right to ensure that we correct the records of any personal data held about you which are inaccurate. You also have the right to ensure that we complete any incomplete personal data held about you.

Right to erasure.  You have the right to ensure that we erase your personal data (the right to be forgotten).

Right to restriction.  In certain circumstances, such as where you have contested the accuracy of personal data, you have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data. That means that we will hold your personal data on file but that we cannot process that personal data. We will inform you if for any reason the restriction on processing your personal data is lifted.

Where any rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing has taken place we shall communicate any rectification to you or erasure or restriction of processing to each recipient to whom the personal data has been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. We shall, if you request, inform you about those recipients.

Exercising your rights. If you wish to exercise any of your rights, or if at any point you believe the personal data we process is incorrect, you can request to see this personal data.  If you would like a copy of the personal data about you that we process, or if you wish to have that personal data transferred to another company or organisation, please contact us at info@compass-ms.co.uk 

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Deborah Williams. 

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at https://ico.org.uk/