EUR ING Registration Privacy Notice

Who we are

The Engineering Council is the UK regulatory body for the engineering profession. The Engineering Council is a registered charity, number 286142, whose registered office is 10 Lower Thames Street, London, EC3R 6EN.The Engineering Council is the UK National Member of ENGINEERS EUROPE. The Engineering Council is therefore responsible for receiving applications for European Engineer (EUR ING) registration and for submitting them to the European Monitoring Committee (EMC).

Definitions

• "Licensed Professional Engineering Institution (PEI)" – A professional engineering institution that has satisfied the Engineering Council’s requirements to allow them to assess and submit candidates for inclusion on the national Register of professional engineers and technicians
• "National Register" – A secure database that is used and accessed only by authorised Engineering Council staff in order to facilitate the registration of individuals.

Contact details

The person responsible for data protection matters at the Engineering Council can be contacted by:

• Email: dpo@engc.org.uk
• Post: To the above address
• Telephone: 020 3206 0500

What is personal data?

Personal data is any information that can be used to identify an individual.

What personal data do we collect?

The personal data that the Engineering Council collects and processes about you is:

Personal data type supplied by you:

N/A

Personal data supplied by someone else:

• Forename(s) and surname
• Date of birth
• Email address
• Nationality (this is not stored in the National Register)
• Telephone number (this is not stored in the National Register)
• Fax number (this is not stored in the National Register)
• Correspondence address
• Email address
• Academic qualifications
• CV/employment history
• CPD history
  

Please note that the above-named data is submitted to the Engineering Council directly by you via ENGINEERS EUROPE’s online application system.

What we use your personal data for?

The personal data we collect will be used for the following purposes:

• To submit your application to the European Monitoring Committee (EMC) for assessment
• To create a record of your application/registration on the National Register
• To invite you to renew your EUR ING registration prior to your renewal date
• To submit your renewal application to the European Monitoring Committee (EMC_ for assessment
• To update your EUR ING record in the instance of renewal applications
• To provide EUR ING registration status information (eg active as in currently registered or inactive if the registration has lapsed) to any person or organisation (engineering organisation, regulatory authority, recipients of services, eg employer, client) having a legitimate need for seeking verification
• For statistical generation, reporting and analysis of the data held on the national Register. All reports are anonymised so that they do not contain any personal data

What is the basis for processing your data?

Our basis for processing your personal data is Legitimate Interest for the purposes of facilitating your registration(s) and all associated processes.

Special or sensitive data

The EUR ING application form includes the collection of information relating to your nationality, this is not stored on the Engineering Council National Register and your application is only submitted to ENGINEERS EUROPE. The Engineering Council does not process special categories of personal data or sensitive data in relation to registrants such as race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, etc.

Consent

There is no requirement for your consent to process your personal data as specified in this Notice unless it is outside the basis of Legitimate Interest.

Sharing your data

The Engineering Council may pass your personal data to the following third parties, without first obtaining your consent, for the following purpose(s) as part of our processing activities:

Retention

The Engineering Council will continue to hold the record of your EUR ING registration whether current or lapsed indefinitely.

Your rights as a data subject

At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:

• Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you
• Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete
• Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you may ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records
• Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you may have the right to restrict the processing
• Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation
• Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing
• Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right to object to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling

If we receive a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, we will forward them on, as appropriate, to any third party involved (as stated in section 4 above) in the processing of your personal data.

Subject Access Request

A Subject Access Request form and copy of the procedure can be requested by emailing dpo@engc.org.uk.

Subject access requests may be forwarded on, where appropriate, to any third party involved (as stated above, where applicable) in the processing of your personal data.

Complaints

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by the Engineering Council (or third parties as described in 4 above), you have the right to lodge a complaint:

• Directly with the Engineering Council’s data protection representative, and/or
• The Information Commissioner’s Office

Data Security

All data held or processed by the Engineering Council is held in a secure server managed by the Engineering Council.

Changes to our privacy notices

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will notify you if there is a substantial change in the way we process your data. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data.