What This Notice Covers
The data controller is ABP UK (referred to in this notice as “we”, “us” or “our”) for the purposes of applicable European data protection legislation.
We are committed to doing the right thing when it comes to how we collect, use and protect your data. That’s why we’ve developed this privacy notice, which:
By accepting this privacy notice you understand and accept the use of your Personal Data as set out in this privacy notice. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy notice please do not use this website or provide your Personal Data to us.
How Long We Keep Your Data
We will keep your data the minimum length of time required to comply with the purposes set out in this policy and relevant legal obligations. Your Personal Data may be kept for longer if we cannot delete it for technical reasons.
Data We Collect
Here we tell you what Personal Data we may collect from you when you use our website.
When you register to supply or purchase livestock , you may provide us with:
When you contact us or we contact you to take part in research projects, trials, producers groups, benchmarking, surveys or questionnaires we may collect:
When you visit one of our sites
Other sources of Personal Data
When you use a contact us form on one of our websites, contact us via other online services such as social media or by phone and post:
When you browse our Websites we may collect:
How and Why We Use data
To make our online services available to you
Why do we process your Personal Data in this way?
We process your data so that we can provide efficient online services to you
To contact and interact with you
Why do we process your Personal Data in this way?
If we need to contact you by phone, email, post or to respond to social media posts that you have directed at us. We will also contact you if you have completed the contact us form or submitted a job application which we would like to progress
Sharing Data with Service Providers
We work with carefully selected Service Providers that carry out certain functions on our behalf. These include companies that help us with technology services, storing and combining data. We only share Personal Data that enables our Service Providers to provide their services.
Sharing Data with Other Organisations
This section explains how and why we share Personal Data with other organisations.
We may share Personal Data within the ABP Food Group and with these other organisations in the following circumstances:
How We Protect Your Data
We know how important it is to protect and manage your Personal Data. This section sets out some of the measures we have in place.
We use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption, and we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files to keep this data safe. We only authorise access to employees who need it to carry out their job responsibilities.
The Personal Data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by companies operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our service providers. We will put in place appropriate protection to make sure your Personal Data remains adequately protected and is treated in line with this notice.
Cookie Policy
The ABP website (the “Website”) uses cookies to deliver a better and more personalised service to users.
This Cookies Policy explains how they are used on the Website and how to manage their use.
Use of Cookies on the Website
Cookies are used for a number of reasons including:
Managing Cookies
At any time you can stop the cookies stored on your computer by deleting your existing cookies and/or altering your browser’s privacy settings. If you would like more information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Your Rights
We will assist you if you choose to exercise any of your rights over Personal Data as part of relevant European data protection legislation.
To contact us our details can be found on the contact page of this website.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
We may update this notice from time to time so please visit this page frequently for the latest version.
We will endeavour to inform you of any changes in advance by any of our agreed communication channels. We will not make fundamental changes to this privacy notice without your consent.