Address
Unit F, Prospect Business Centre, Dundee, DD2 1TY
Work Hours
Monday to Friday: 08:30 - 17:00
Sat-Sun Closed.
Address
Unit F, Prospect Business Centre, Dundee, DD2 1TY
Work Hours
Monday to Friday: 08:30 - 17:00
Sat-Sun Closed.
We are a UK organisation helping clients save energy every day.
We are independent and impartial, so the retrofit measureas are based on maths and fact.
IRT Surveys will treat any personal data you provide us carefully and securely.
IRT Surveys does not make cold calls (we do not sell insulation or solar panels etc). If you are receiving cold calls from an organisation, the Information Commissioner’s Office has some useful advice and, if you haven’t already, it may be worth considering registering with the Telephone Preference Service.
To contact our data protection officer please:
Write to: IRT Surveys Ltd, Unit F, Prospect House, Gemini Crescent, Dundee, DD2 1TY
Email: Dataprotection@irtsurveys.co.uk
When IRT Surveys collect information about you, we will tell you at least:
Some of this may be provided to you through this privacy policy, which will be updated from time to time. We will always provide details of how to access our privacy policy.
We might collect:
of this information may, in some cases, be considered as not being personal data, eg information purely about your property, such as property type or energy saving measures.
We will ask for your contact details so that we can:
We will ask for information about you and your property so that we can:
We will ask for financial information so that we can:
We will normally only collect information directly from you. If we have received your information from a third party, we will explain to you where we obtained your personal information from. The organisation sharing your information with us will get your permission to do so before sharing. This is likely to be from organisations such as Trading Standards or Citizen’s Advice, in order to help you save energy, or access funding you may be entitled to.
If you telephone us (IRT Surveys) your call may be recorded for training and monitoring.
We will ask you to provide information for instance, when you contact us by telephone, if you make use of one of our tools if you submit a ‘contact us form’, attend an event, or complete a survey. If you ‘like’ or ‘follow’ any of our social media accounts (such as Facebook and Twitter) we will collect information about this (including any posts you ‘like’ or share). We will use this information to provide you with more personalised advertising and to understand how people are using the information we publish on social media. You can change your settings within your social media accounts to set how organisations can target advertising to you through them.
We sometimes use other companies and organisations (third parties) to process personal information for us. For example, we use third parties to:
Some of your information may be shared:
Where we make use of third parties to process personal information, we will ensure that they have adequate security measures in place and that they comply with this privacy policy.
We share information, for analysis and reporting purposes, with government departments and bodies (including the devolved nations) that provide funding to IRT Surveys or have an interest in our activities.
We will also share information about you when we are required to so by law or if we have your permission to do so.
IRT Surveys will only send you direct marketing information if you have agreed to receive this information when you provided your contact details, or when you have specifically asked us to send you direct marketing.
We may occasionally present a promotion that is sponsored by a third party company or organisation. To qualify for entry, we may ask you to provide personal information – if we intend to share that information with the sponsors, we will make this clear and provide you with the opportunity to prevent this.
You have the right to stop us using information about you for direct marketing purposes. You can do this at any time even if you previously consented to receive direct marketing. If you wish to change your marketing settings, either select the link included in emails or contact us directly to let us know. We will change your setting as soon as we are able and at least within 28 days.
IRT Surveys has implemented the following Google Analytics advertising features:
If you have agreed that we can send you direct marketing using email, we may make use of social media to target advertising to you. This will take the form of adverts about IRT Surveys services that appear in your newsfeed etc. This is done by ‘hashing’ your email address. This is a process that converts your email address to a line of numbers, which is then matched against the social media provider’s records. Any hashed addresses that do not match their records will be destroyed. No personal data is shared. You can adjust your setting within your social media:
Facebook ad settings information >
Twitter: how Twitter ads work >
IRT Surveys will keep your information for:
Financial records
Where you have a financial transaction with IRT Surveys, we will keep those records for the length of the transaction and an additional seven years
Contact information
We will retain your information for seven years from the last active contact with IRT Surveys, unless we have a reason to keep for longer.
Property information
We will keep information about your property indefinitely so that we can provide funders (eg the UK Government) with historic information about the UK’s housing stock. This will be anonymised.
(Please note this list will be added to regularly)
Where IRT Surveys is being funded to deliver a project, we will comply with all document retention requirements specified by the funder. This may require us to save all supporting documents in relation to expenditure, personal data, or procurement for a period in excess of seven years.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change the rights you have with regards to the personal data we hold and use about you. Your new rights are described in the guidance below. If you have any questions or concerns about how we use your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer*. You can also find useful information on the Information Commissioner’s Office’s website.
*Data Protection Officer details for IRT Surveys:
Write to: IRT Surveys Ltd, Unit F, Prospect House, Gemini Crescent, Dundee,DD2 1TY
Email: DataProtectionOfficer@irtsurveys.co.uk
If you feel that we have not responded appropriately to any requests to use your rights, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (as detailed above).
For any request relating to your information, we will ask for proof of identity to make sure we are talking to the right person, and to avoid disclosing information that belongs to another person. This may be done through asking questions (such as your address, telephone number, email address and reference number, should you have one) or sometimes we might ask for other evidence.
If you are asking about information relating to another person, a relative for example, we need to be sure you have the authority to act on that person’s behalf. Normally this can be done through evidence of a ‘Power of Attorney’ or similar document.
Accessing information we hold about you
If you think we hold information about you, you can ask us about that information. You do not have to make this request in writing, however we will always ask questions to make sure we know who you are or we might ask for further proof of identity. This additional proof may take the form of recent utility bills, or we may request to see photographic identification such as a current driving licence.
We will let you know if we are using your information and let you have access to it. We may ask you to let us know exactly what information you are looking for if we hold a large amount of information about you.
We will give you the following information:
Right to object to direct marketing
See section regarding direct marketing.
Research
You may have agreed to be part of some research that we are carrying out – for example, into changing behaviour. If you change your mind about being part of any research, please let us know and we will stop using your personal information and remove your details from the research.
Profiling
We may use your information to map the way people use energy in their homes, to get an understanding of how energy efficiency measures can change the amount of energy used in homes, or to get a better picture of the housing stock of the UK.
When we use your information in this way, we will always make sure your information is kept secure. We will use modelling techniques and data minimisation to make sure that you are not able to be identified from any reports produced.
Additionally, only certain types of organisations will be able to access this information. When we do so, we will make sure there is a contract in place restricting the use of the information. We will only release information at level that will ensure no individual can be identified. Organisations will only be able to use the information for specific reasons related to improving the efficiency of buildings and reducing the impact of climate change, including:
If we have agreed to restrict the use of your personal information, we will only use it with your agreement, to defend any legal action, to protect the rights of another person or in the public interest.
We will let you know if we intend to remove any restriction on using your personal information, for example when we have found your personal information to be correct.
If we have shared your information with other organisations, we will let them know about any corrections, deletion, or restriction of use of your personal data.
Restricting the use of your personal information
You have the right to restrict our use of your personal information where:
In some cases, we may have received permission to use your image in our marketing material, on our website and / or through our social media sites when you were a child (either from you or your parents / guardian). Please let us know if you would like to withdraw this permission and we will remove your images as requested. We will additionally contact the providers of our advice service to make sure your image is no longer used by them.
Refusing your request
We may refuse a request to delete your information if the use of your information is:
We will provide you a copy of your personal information in one month of receiving your request for your personal information and having received any proof of identity asked for. In some cases, we may require additional time to provide you with all your information. We will only do this if the request is complicated or if more than one request is submitted. We will always keep in touch to let you know when you will receive the copy of your information, if there will be a delay in providing your information and the reason for any delay.
If you request your information via email (or by any other electronic way) we will normally provide the copy of your personal information electronically where we can. However, we will discuss with you how you would prefer to receive the copy of your information and explain any reasons if we cannot provide your information in the way you would prefer.
Charges and refusing requests for personal information
We will normally not request payment to give you a copy of your personal information. However, we may make a charge if you have already recently requested the same information. In some very rare cases where numerous requests for the same information have been made, we may refuse to provide the information again. Where we can, we will always clearly explain any decision to refuse to provide you with your personal information.
If the information you have requested includes the personal information of another individual, we will (depending upon the circumstances) remove information that identifies that person.
Correcting information
If we hold information about you that is incorrect, you have the right to have this corrected. If we agree that the information is incorrect, we will always correct this information quickly or complete information where appropriate. If we do not agree that the information is incorrect, we will record that you have raised a request to have the information altered and that it is in dispute.
Removing information
You can request that we delete, remove or erase the information we hold about you. We will do this if any of the following is true and if no legal reason to keep your personal information exists:
When we respond to your request for your information, we will give you details about the other rights you have, including:
We regularly review our privacy policy to keep it up to date. Any changes that we make will be posted on our website.
This privacy policy was last updated on 9 April 2021.