Privacy Policy
This Privacy Notice is designed to help you understand how and why the York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub processes your personal data. This notice should be read in conjunction with the Council’s Corporate Privacy Notice.
Who are we?
North Yorkshire County Council is a ‘Data Controller’ as defined by Article 4(7) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub is part of the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership [henceforth referred to as the ‘LEP’] and is one of 38 growth hubs set up by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to promote growth and improvement services to businesses. The LEP is not a legal entity in itself, so cannot be classed as the ‘Data Controller’. The accountable body for the LEP is North Yorkshire County Council.
The Council has appointed Veritau Ltd to be its Data Protection Officer. Their contact details are:
Data Protection Officer
Veritau Ltd
County Hall
Racecourse Lane
Northallerton
DL7 8AL
01609 53 2526
What personal information do we collect?
In various places within this website, and via our LEP employees (either on the telephone, face-to-face, or via email) we may ask for the following information, including but not limited to:
- Name and job title
- Contact information, including email address and phone number
- Information such as postcode, preferences and interests
- Information relating to your business (e.g. business name, industry, your customers etc.)
Why do we collect your personal information?
Your data is collected via the website and LEP employees as an essential part of the services we deliver. The reasons for this includes the following:
- To keep you up-to-date on business support opportunities and add you to our mailing list (when you have opted-in to this)
- To track the support that you have accessed (whether via the website, or through our employees) to understand your progress through our service and support preferences
- For evaluation and research purposes to understand the impact of our services
- To understand more about the individuals, and types of businesses, that access our support services
Who do we share this information with?
The data you share with us will never be sold to third parties and will be treated with confidentiality. However, there are some instances in which we would be required to share your data. Sharing is limited to the following reasons:
- We may contract external organisations to follow-up with you for research and evaluation purposes only. In order to do this, we will need to share your contact details and business name (any confidential business information that you tell us will not be passed on). Your data may be used to produce evaluation reports for us, so that we can monitor the success of our services. All of the findings will be anonymised and will not be published or referred to in a way which identifies any individual or business. Once the contractual agreement is completed, the external organisation will have to safely dispose of all of your data (i.e. contact information) following GDPR and they will no longer be able to contact you for any other purposes. It is highly beneficial to us if you take part in these evaluation projects, as it allows us to improve our services. However, you are under no obligation to take part and can choose to opt out.
- As we were set up by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), they may occasionally request data and insights into the types of businesses that we have engaged with, in order to understand how Growth Hubs across the country are performing. The types of data shared could include personal information (i.e. your name and contact details) and organisational information (i.e. business size, number of employees). BEIS requires your data purely for monitoring purposes and will not process it in any other manner.
- To prevent duplication of support services, we may let your relevant local authority know that your business has been working with us. However, we will not share any personal information without your permission.
How long do we keep your information for?
Data held | Retention period |
Personal information | For as long as you remain an ‘active user’. This means that you are regularly in touch with a Growth Hub employee to receive business support, or you are opted-in to our marketing emails. If you opt-out of emails and request your details are removed, this will be done within 1 week to allow employees the capacity to remove all of the information. If you become ‘inactive’ for more than 12 months, we will also remove your personal data. |
Organisational information | The Growth Hub will continue to store this information indefinitely. As long as Growth Hubs are operating, this data is needed to provide insights on our customers and understand trends. However, this will only include publicly available information. Any personal details or confidential information will be removed as stated above. |
What is our lawful basis for processing your information?
Article 6 (1) (e) Public task: this relates to processing that is necessary for us to perform a task in the public interest or for our official functions. In order to deliver our business support services, we must collect data about you and your business and log this onto our CRM system. This allows us to track and monitor your progress and the success of our services.
Article 6 (1) (a) Consent: this relates to when you give clear consent to us to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will always ask for your consent when it concerns marketing information and being added to our mailing list. You will not be sent any regular updates unless you have opted-in to this.
For More information about how the County Council uses your data, including your privacy rights and the complaints process, please see our Corporate Privacy Notice.
Articles
Help is one call away: how the Growth Hub helpdesk can support you
Are you thinking about starting, growing, or scaling your business? Hear about how the Growth Hub helpdesk can help you by providing the latest business support, tailored to your needs.
New support for York and North Yorkshire businesses as leading regional media figure joins the Growth Hub
Mike Pennington, a familiar name in the UK media industry, has recently joined the York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub as a Business Relationship Manager. In 2023, he'll be bringing his expertise to businesses in our region and connecting them with the Made Smarter scheme.
York, North Yorkshire and East Riding employers urged not to miss out on free skills training
Employers across York, North Yorkshire and East Riding are being reminded that it’s their last chance to take advantage of free training and support through the Skills Support for the Workforce Programme before the it ends in March 2023.
Events
15th February 20239:00 am - 5:00 pmFREE
15 Feb - Harrogate Co-Lab: Business Support Drop-In Session
This free drop-in service based in Harrogate can help answer your questions and direct you to relevant business support, resources and programmes.
22nd February 20239:00 am - 4:30 pmFREE
22 Feb - Pitching Perfectly - To win new business
Are you a small to medium sized food or drink business that wants to win more business and need to plan the perfect pitch? This full day workshop will help you understand what buyers are looking for and give you the confidence to pitch to them.
01st March 20234:00 pm - 6:00 pmFREE
1 March - Ian Howard- The Enterprise Growth Roadmap
In this two-hour session, Ian Howard will introduce The Enterprise Growth Roadmap. Regardless of where you are at right now, whether you are just launching your business, trying to make sense of the number of opportunities available to you or looking to attract external investment, the Enterprise Growth Roadmap Planning Workshop will help you create a framework to develop your own growth strategy together with some simple steps to help you implement it.
Resources
Glossary of Climate Change Terms for Businesses
A free digital glossary defining the key climate change terms relevant to businesses, to help you understand and engage with sustainability resources and support.
2022 Seminar Recordings
We have recently hosted a programme of in-person seminars and other events, some of which were professionally recorded and can now be viewed on our website.
Seminar Recording : Access to finance: Funding growth
This workshop will provide guidance on cost based pricing, calculating your costs before deciding an appropriate margin, as well as covering market based pricing asking questions such as: What value do you add? What are you worth? How do you position yourself?