Due to the nature of our work we are splitting this privacy notice into two sections.

Section 1 is about your personal data (contact details, etc.) which you exchange with us in the course of setting up a business relationship with TLC Translation Ltd.

Section 2 concerns personal data which may be present in the documents you provide to us for translation.

Section 1: Your personal data

TLC Translation Ltd acts as a data controller and as such, has contractual reasons for obtaining and keeping personal data you provide to us as a representative of your company. We only collect basic personal data about you which does not include any special types of information or location-based information. This does, however, include name, company or personal email address, company or personal address, and one or two phone numbers (landline and/or mobile).

What information do we collect?

TLC Translation Ltd only collects your data directly from you. We do not engage third parties to provide us with your personal data.

How do we use, store and process your data?

All the personal data we process is processed by our staff in the UK however for the purposes of IT hosting and maintenance this information is located on servers within the European Union.

TLC Translation Ltd staff use your data to contact you regarding projects.

If you are an individual and using a personal bank account to pay for commissioned work, your payment is processed by our third-party payment software. We do not store your bank details on our system.

No third parties have access to your personal data unless the law allows them to do so.

Why do we need your data?

There purposes for which we process your personal data are to establish contracts between us, to fulfil our legitimate interests in providing clients with a translation service and obtaining high-quality translations from service suppliers, in our vital interests and to perform our legal obligations. We also need to know this basic personal data in order to provide you with on-going organisational updates and information in line with our overall contract with you. We will not collect any personal data from you that we do not need.

How long do we keep your data for?

If you no longer wish to work with us, you can request that we deactivate your profile and we will stop contacting you.

We cannot delete your record completely with immediate effect as we are required under UK tax law to keep your basic personal data (name, address, contact details) for six (6) years after which time it will be destroyed.

The limitations of our Project Management System means that your name will need to remain in our database as it is associated with projects in the system; we can, however, delete all other information on your profile.

Data Protection Officer

For any data protection queries, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk

Your rights in relation to personal data

1. You have the right to be informed about how we use your data and who has access to it. If you have any questions about your data which are not addressed in this privacy notice, please contact our Data Protection Officer: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk
2. Under the GDPR you have the right of access, which means you can request for us to show you the data we have on you and tell you who has access to it. This is called a subject access request.
3. You have the right to rectification, which means that, if at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted.
4. You have the right to erasure, which means you can ask for us to remove you from our records. In order to fulfil our legal obligations, we need to keep your data for 6 years, after which time all your data will be securely destroyed. Our legal obligations override the right to erasure in this context.
5. You have the right to restrict processing, which means that you can request that we don’t do anything with your data except store it.
6. You have the right to data portability, which means you can ask us to transfer your data to another data controller or send it to you in a structured, machine-readable format.
7. Right to object – as our grounds for collecting your data is based on legitimate interests, you may object to us processing some of the data that we ask for as part of your application process. This may, however, affect your application.
8. Rights related to automated decision making, including profiling – we do not use any automated decision making or profiling services when allocating project work.

For more information on your rights under GDPR and when they apply, please see:

http://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

To exercise these rights please contact our Data Protection Officer: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk.

If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted.

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the DPO to have the matter investigated.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office http://ico.org.uk/

Section 2: Personal data contained within documents for translation

As the primary data controller it is your obligation to ensure that you have consent from the data subject or otherwise lawful grounds for sending us content containing personal data for translation.

This is especially true for content containing special categories of personal data.

TLC Translation Ltd acts as both a data processor and a joint controller of personal data present in files for language related work. This is because in order to fulfil our contracts with you, we need to engage sub-processors, and therefore have responsibility over how your data reaches them.

By ‘language-related work’ we mean: translation, transcription, voiceover, subtitling, language training, interpreting, and any other language-related service commissioned by our clients.

What we do with personal data in content you provide for language-related work

We do not extract personal data in content for language-related work for processing outside the context of the project.

For the purposes of IT hosting and maintenance the files are stored on servers within the European Union.

All relevant TLC Translation Ltd staff have access to content for language-related projects.

Content for language-related projects is shared using secure means with approved and compliant third-party language service suppliers as part of pre-contractual enquiries and then as part of the contract fulfilment.

Third Country Data Transfers

For fulfilment of some contracts, we will need to transfer the data to language service suppliers outside of the EU and EU’s list of Adequate Countries. This is because most Chinese translators, for example, are based in China. If we need to send a document outside the EU/EEA in order to fulfil your contract (in accordance with article 49b of the GDPR regulations), we will inform you. It is up to you to make sure the data subject is also aware of this and gain their explicit consent or redact the personal data within the content.

Special Categories of Personal Data

If your files contain special categories of personal data belonging to a third party data subject, it is your obligation to obtain the relevant consent and establish lawful grounds for processing of that data according to articles 6 and 9 of the regulations.

We will make every effort to identify special categories of personal data within documents you provide to us prior to starting the project workflow so appropriate measures can be taken.

We might ask you to redact identifiable information in order for us to minimise risk to the data subject before starting the project workflow, especially if the contract would necessitate sending the document to language service suppliers outside of the EU/EEA.

No documents containing special categories of personal data will be stored in a TM. All documents containing personal data which are processed using a TM, will have segments containing personal data deleted immediately after completion of the translation.

Data Relating to Children

If your files contain data relating to children who cannot consent to the processing of their data, it is your obligation to obtain consent from their parent or guardian prior to commissioning work from us.

We might ask you to redact identifiable information in order for us to minimise risk to the data subject before starting the project workflow, especially if the contract would necessitate sending the document to language service suppliers outside of the EU/EEA.

How long we keep your data

We are required under UK tax law to keep project files 6 years after which time they will be destroyed.

Data Protection Officer

For any data protection queries, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk.

What are your rights

1. You have the right to be informed about how we use your data and who has access to it. If you have any questions about your data which are not addressed in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer at: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk.
2. Under the GDPR you have the right of access, which means you can request for us to show you the files we have and tell you who has access to them. This is called a subject access request.
3. You have the right to rectification, which means that, if at any point you believe the information we process is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted.
4. You have the right to erasure, which means you can ask for us to remove project files from our records. In order to fulfil our legal obligations, we need to keep the files for 6 years, after which time all the files will be securely destroyed. Our legal obligations override the right to erasure in this context.
5. You have the right to restrict processing, which means that you can request that we don’t do anything with the files except store them.
6. You have the right to data portability, which means you can ask us to transfer the files to another data controller.
7. Right to object – our grounds for processing data are based on fulfilment on a contract with you, so objection rights do not apply here.
8. Rights related to automated decision making, do not apply in this context.

For more information on your rights under GDPR and when they apply, please see:

http://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

To exercise these rights please contact our Data Protection Officer: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk.

Use of cookies and other technologies

Depending on the device you are using to browse our site, we install cookies to allow us to measure traffic across our site and ensure we continue to provide an experience that meets your expectations.

Linking to other websites/third-party content

TLC Translation Ltd takes no responsibility for the content of external sites and resources linked to from this website (or the information contained within).

If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted.

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the DPO to have the matter investigated.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office here.

TLC Translation Ltd acts as a data controller for personal data you provide to us of your own accord as a prospective supplier.

What we do with your data?

The data that is within your CV and accompanying email is stored within our email system on the grounds of legitimate interest until we get in touch with you to begin the supplier registration process. Only the parties involved with your application will have access to your data and will use it to get in touch. We do not extract, copy or save the data from the CV or accompanying email unless we plan to begin the supplier registration process, in which case we will send you a separate privacy notice explaining how your data will be processed. No other Third Parties have access to your data unless the law allows them to do so.

What is the source of your data?

We only collect data provided by you. We do not collect data about you from any other sources.

Data Protection Officer

For any data protection queries you can contact our Data Protection Officer at: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk.

Automated Decision Making

We do not use any automated decision-making software for profiling or processing your application.

How long we keep your data

We keep the data contained in the CV and accompanying email for 12 months following receipt of the email and CV on the grounds of legitimate interest. If within 12 months we have not contacted you to begin the supplier registration process, we will securely delete the email and the attachment.

What are your rights?

1. You have the right to be informed about how we use your data and who has access to it. If you have any questions about your data which are not addressed in this privacy notice, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk.
2. Under the GDPR you have the right of access, which means you can request for us to show you the data we have on you and tell you who has access to it.
3. You have the right to rectification, which means that, if at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted.
4. You have the right to erasure, which means you can ask for us to remove you from our records. In order to fulfil our legal obligations in case of any disputes, we need to keep your application for 12 months, after which time all your data will be securely destroyed. Our legal obligations override the right to erasure in this context.
5. You have the right to restrict processing, which means that you can request that we don’t do anything with your data except store it.
6. You have the right to data portability, which means you can ask us to transfer your data to another data controller or send it to you in a structured, machine-readable format.
7. Right to object – as our grounds for collecting your data is based on legitimate interests, you may object to us processing some of the data that we ask for as part of your application process. This may, however, affect your application.
8. Rights related to automated decision making, including profiling – we do not use any automated decision making or profiling services when making decisions about your application. For more information on your rights under GDPR and when they apply, please see: http://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

To exercise these rights please contact our Data Protection Officer at: dpo@tlc-translation.co.uk.

If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the DPO to have the matter investigated. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office http://ico.org.uk/