Privacy policy

PLUS X HOLDINGS LIMITED – PRIVACY POLICY

INTRODUCTION

Plus X Holdings Limited respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

We administer Innovation Hubs at various locations in the UK for use by a wide community of members including freelancers, start-ups, scale-ups, corporates and education partners (our “Innovation Hubs”), and we provide various services and facilities to our members and their users and other visitors of our Innovation Hubs (our “services and facilities”), including a website for members, members’ users and other visitors at https://plusx.space/ (our “website”), and integrating innovation and business support programmes, start-up accelerators and access to our business growth services.

This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from), and use and receive our services and facilities at our Innovation Hubs, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

Purpose of this privacy policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Plus X Holdings Limited collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, or our services and facilities, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our, or otherwise purchase a service from us.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

Controller

Plus X Holdings Limited is made up of different legal entities, details of which can be found here: Plus X Hayes Ltd, Plus X Brighton Ltd, Central Research Laboratory (Hayes) Ltd. Address for correspondence: 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London. W1W 7LT.

This privacy policy is issued on behalf of the Plus X Holdings Limited’s Group so when we mention “Plus X Holdings Limited”, “we“, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy, we are referring to the relevant company in the Plus X Holdings Limited’s Group responsible for processing your data. Plus X Holdings Limited is the controller and responsible for this website.

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

Contact details

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data privacy manager in the following ways:

Data Privacy Manager

Plus X Holdings Limited

Postal address: 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London. W1W 7LT.

Email address: dataprivacy@plusx.space

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes

We keep our privacy policy under regular review.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity and Contact Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, gender, your address, email address and telephone numbers. It may also include the contents of messages you may send to, or receive from It may also include the company you represent, your job title and work experience (including name of organisation, position held at the company, length of employment). It may also include visitor data including the name, email address and company name of the visitor that has been invited to attend one of the Innovation Hubs.
Financial and Transaction Data includes bank account and payment card details, including details about payments to and from you and other details of services and facilities that you/the relevant member have used.
Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Promotional Data includes visual images/footage of you at one of our Innovation Hubs, or participating in any of our activities and events at one of our Innovation Hubs.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, services and facilities, including attending any of our innovation/accelerator or business support programmes.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing and newsletters from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you or the relevant member, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you or the relevant member (for example, to provide the relevant services and facilities to you or the organisation you represent). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you or the company you represent have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
apply to use our services and facilities;
create an account on our website;
subscribe to our service or publications;
enter a competition, promotion or survey;
subscribe to the newsletters, news, publications and events circulated by us; or give us feedback or contact us.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties including:
Technical Data from analytics providers, advertising networks and search information providers; and
Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you or the organisation you represent.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending any third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out in the table below a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.

Purpose/ActivityType of dataLawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interestTo register you as a new member or a user/representative of a new member, or visitor of our Innovation Hubs (including i-Pad check-in at one of our Innovation Hubs)(a) Identity

(b) Contact

Performance of a contract with you/the member organisation you representTo process and deliver your order for services and facilities from members/users/visitors including:

(a) Manage payments, fees and charges (including, without limitation, payment for events)

(b) Collect and recover money owed to us

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Transaction

(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you/the member/the member organisation you represent

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests

To enable you to use our services and facilities including:

(a) Applying or joining one of our business support programmes

(b) Attending any of our innovation workshops or other events

(d) Engaging our Innovation Team or Programme

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Financial Transaction

(e) If you are a member of the BRITE programme, Plus X may share personal data about you with its partner in this project, the University of Brighton. You can find out more about the University of Brighton’s Privacy Policy here.

(a) Performance of a contract with you/ the member organisation you represent

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests

(c) Necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including, without limitation, our obligations under any applicable health and safety legislation from time to time)

To manage our relationship with you which will include:

(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy

(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you/ the member organisation you represent

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you/ the member organisation you represent

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests

To administer and protect our business and this website(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To deliver relevant website content, advertisements and newsletters to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and Communications

(f) Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interestsTo use data analytics to improve our website, services and facilities, marketing, customer relationships and experiences(a) Technical

(b) Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interestsTo make suggestions and recommendations to you about services that may be of interest to you(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Profile

(f) Marketing and Communications

Necessary for our legitimate interestsTo process your personal data for our own promotional materials in connection with our Innovation Hubs(a) Promotional Data(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests

(b) Consent

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS FROM US

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications and newsletters from us if you have either requested information from us, or you or the company you represent have used our services and facilities and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing or other communications.

Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent if we look to share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.

Opting out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a service purchase from us, service experience or other transactions.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookies Policy below.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above, including:

External Third Parties such as service providers who provide IT and system administration services, payment processors and technology providers. We may also share certain personal data with any programmes sponsors in order to assist and shape the relevant innovation programme; and
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

If we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it, in line with UK Data Protection legislation.

7. DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. DATA RETENTION

How long will you use my personal data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, as follows:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of your personal data we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law.
Object to processing of your personal data. This may apply where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in certain scenarios.
Request transfer of your personal data. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Right to withdraw consent. Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

‍