Privacy Policy

UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund Stakeholder Engagement –
Notice and Consent

Specific Privacy Statement

This privacy statement explains why we process, how we collect, handle and ensure protection of personal data collected in the context of the UK PACT: Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions programme. This programme is commissioned by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

As this activity involves the processing of personal data, it is subject to data protection rules as established by European Union: the EU Directive 2002/58/EC and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) of the European Parliament, in each case as transposed into domestic legislation of each Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA) and in each case as amended, replaced or superseded from time to time, including any data protection laws substantially amending, replacing or superseding the GDPR following any exit by the United Kingdom from the European Union.

The provision of your consent would form the legal basis that would be used to process your personal data. You can provide your consent for the use of your personal data in this programme by checking the appropriate consent box in the forms sent to you.

What is the Purpose of this programme and processing operations?

UK PACT is part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and supports the UK government’s development objectives of alleviating poverty, through the acceleration of climate mitigation, in line with the COP 21 Paris Agreement. The programme is focused on building the capacity of countries to accelerate the implementation of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and aims to support partner countries to accelerate their clean growth transitions.   

The purpose of the processing is the management of engagement activities and sharing any key findings of the programme through reports or stakeholder events, and specifically to:

  • Prepare event participants lists: your name and job title will be included on the event participants list to be digitally shared among other event participants, upon your specific consent in the optional opt-in box in the registration form
  • Publish photographs/pictures, live online streaming and/or audio and video recording of speakers and participants, including their names and/or function on any support, including , off and on-line, (e.g. on the internet, intranet) in the context of the UK PACT event, only upon your specific consent by ticking the optional opt-in box in the registration form.
  • Invite you to webinars concerning UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund

ICF Consulting Services Ltd is managing the Green Recovery Challenge Fund under the UK PACT programme, which will fund innovative technical assistance solutions in areas of global demand. These will be run as a series of funding rounds on specific themes.

ICF Consulting Services Ltd will be leading a series of engagement activities with key stakeholders. Feedback will be used to scope out demand and shape the requirements of the funding rounds.

ICF Consulting Services will be engaging with the market to share details of the UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund and how to apply.

What personal data do we collect and through which technical means?

The personal data collected and further processed are: title, first name, last name, function, organisation, job title, professional e-mail address, phone number and company website.

Please note that any UK PACT events may be partly web streamed. During UK PACT events it is possible that you will be recorded/photographed, only upon your specific consent by ticking the optional opt-in box in the registration form.  This material might be used for communication activities, both online and offline, related to the UK PACT programme.

Above data are collected via GoToWebinar as a sub-processor through registering for a webinar.

What will happen to your personal data?

The processing of personal data is under the responsibility of BEIS acting as data controller.

The following entities process your personal data on behalf of the data controller:

  • ICF Consulting Services Ltd as data processor, and
  • its third-party authorised sub-processors:
    • GoToWebinar, used to organise and support activities on behalf of ICF Consulting Services Ltd.

The data controller, data processor or their approved sub-processors will only use your data in the context of this programme, for the purposes outlined in this privacy statement. During the duration of the programme, the data will be held by:

  • BEIS PACT team located in the European Economic Area (EEA). For greater detail, you may also find UK PACT privacy policy on UK PACT website: Privacy Policy
  • ICF Consulting Services Ltd located in the EEA. For greater detail, you may also find ICF Consulting Services Ltd privacy statement on ICF’s website: Privacy Statement, and
  • its approved third-party authorised sub-processor: GoToWebinar on their servers located in the EEA. This tool is going to host the market engagement webinars.

When you agree to take part in activities under this programme and when processing your data for the purposes described in this privacy statement, we may need to transfer your personal data to our third party authorised sub-processors who may use data centers located around the world. 

When submitting your data, you consent that your personal data may be transferred outside the country where you are located and you are consenting to have this data stored, transferred and processed according to this privacy statement.

The Data Controller, Data Processor, and their approved sub-processors will not:

  • rent or sell your personal data;
  • disclose your data to any party other than mentioned in this privacy statement.

Upon your explicit consent, the participants name and job title list will be distributed electronically to all the participants, as well as the above mentioned pieces of personal data (except phone number, email address and company website).

How do we safeguard your personal data?

The Data Controller, Data Processor and their third-party authorised sub-processors will strive to implement commercially reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help  protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of your personal data and prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorised access, unauthorised interception, or alteration of your information. Your choice to disclose personal data in an email submission or online form is voluntary. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any such personal data or fully ensure that your private communications and other personal data will not be inadvertently disclosed.

How long do we keep your data?

Your data will be kept for a maximum period of twelve months after the PACT programme ends on 21/04/2022, subject to extension of the contract between ICF Consulting Ltd. and BEIS. Data will be automatically deleted at the end of this period.

How can you verify, modify or delete your information or exercise data subject rights?

By using the below contact information, you may exercise your:

  • Right to extensive information
  • Right to access data
  • Right of rectification or correction.
  • Right to erasure/be forgotten.
  • Right to withdraw / opt out
  • Right to object
  • Right to restriction
  • Right to data portability
  • Rights in relation to automated decision making
  • Right to make a complaint
  • Right to breach notification

International Transfers

As your personal data is stored on BEIS and ICF Consulting’s IT infrastructure and shared with our data processors, it may be transferred and stored securely outside the European Economic Area. Where that is the case it will be subject to equivalent legal protection supplemented by standard contractual clauses.

Contact information

In case you wish to verify which pieces of personal data are stored, have them modified, corrected, or deleted, or if you have questions regarding the information processed in the context of this project, or on your rights, feel free to contact the support team of the data processor at grchallengefund@ukpact.co.uk.  

Recourse

If you have any questions or concerns about how your personal data is being processed, please contact: grchallengefund@ukpact.co.uk.

If you remain unsatisfied, you may wish to contact relevant Data Protection Authorities:

  • European Union – European Commission Client: European Commission’s Data Protection Supervisor at edps.europa.eu
  • United Kingdom – Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at http://ico.org.uk/