The Security Industry Authority reserves the right to gather information relating to site usage. Any information gathered is primarily for internal use to allow us to refine and improve our customer service.

Where disclosure of information to a third party is likely we will, where possible, endeavour to ensure that this is clearly indicated.

This does not affect your statutory rights.

Data Protection

The Security Industry Authority is a data controller under the Data Protection Act. We will process personal information you have supplied to us in accordance with that Act and only for the purpose for which it is collected. We process personal information for the purposes of:

• licensing the private security industry
• to maintain a public register of licence holders
• to inform you about the SIA and its activities
• to answer public enquiries, and
• to undertake other statutory functions as assigned by Parliament

We may receive information about you from others or we may give information to them. If we do, it will only be as the law permits:

• to prevent or detect crime
• to protect public funds
• to check the accuracy of information you supply, or
• where we are required to by court order or legislation.

As a data subject, you have the right to ask for a copy of information we hold about you and to ask for any inaccuracies to be corrected. Your personal information will be retained in accordance with our data retention policy (download size: 116kb) unless you request otherwise.

Cookies

Some areas of this site use session cookies. Session cookies are encrypted (128 bit) and only last for the time of the browser being active.

What happens when I link to another site?

www.the-sia.org.uk contains links to other websites, both those of government departments and of other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site which collects personal information. We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.