ISA is an international marine & cargo survey company incorporating risk management services and salvage broker sales
The W K Webster Group (“the Company”) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of Personal Data collected and processed in the course of conducting our business. This may include data collected via our website, or any other applicable media, communications and/or from third parties.
The Company collect and process your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in compliance with current data protection and privacy legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (EU GDPR) the Data Protection Act 2018(DPA) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR) as well as any other similar legislation which might be applicable elsewhere in the world.
Any terminology used throughout this document (such as for example Personal Data, Data Controller or Data Processor) shall be given the meaning as defined in the GDPR and/or the Data Protection Act 2018.
The W K Webster Group of Companies is comprised of:
| In the United Kingdom: | W K Webster & Co. Ltd and WKW Services Ltd which houses the following trading divisions: ITAL, ISA, Pandi and Seawise |
| In Singapore: | W K Webster (International) Pte Ltd and WKWI Services (Pte) Ltd which houses ITAL, ISA, Pandi and Seawise |
| In the United States: | W K Webster (Overseas) Ltd |
| In Europe: | ISA (Benelxu) BV domiciled in The Netherlands |
Our primary contact details are:
W K Webster Group
Webster House
207 Longlands Road
Sidcup, Kent
DA15 7JH
UK
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8300 7744
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use your Personal Data, please contact our Data Protection Officer via DPO@wkwebster.com or alternatively get in touch with your usual contact person.
We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws. Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues you raise.
We handle personal information as a result of providing our claims handling and related services to our clients. The Company is generally a processor of the personal information that we process in the course of providing our claims handling services to clients; we only process such personal information on behalf of and under the instruction of our clients, or where otherwise required by UK data protection law. Our respective clients are the data controllers of the claims data that we process on their behalf; how we handle this personal information is subject to our client service agreements and the privacy policies of our respective clients – not this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy also does not cover any third-party websites or services.
Any requests made to the Company in relation to processing of data where we are not the Data Controller will be promptly relayed to the party that control the data.
When you are a direct customer or any other interested party of the Company, the Company will be the Data Controller and this privacy policy will thus be applicable.
The Company is registered with the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) as a Data Controller under registration number ZA195765. The Company’s registration details and expiry date can be viewed on their website (https://ico.org.uk).
When the Company is the Data Controller, we will inform you when we require your consent to process your personal data and request it from you accordingly.
To the extent the Company is not the Data Controller, as outlined above, the responsibility lies with the Data Controller to obtain the necessary consent from you, allowing the Company to process your data in accordance with the applicable agreement.
You may be required to provide personal data in order for us to carry out our work and provide our services. We currently collect and process the following information:
i) Personal identifiers and contact details such as your name, email address, phone numbers, job title and location so that we may identify you as a Client or provide you access to our password controlled platforms;
ii) Banking information that is necessary for processing payments and fraud prevention and for accounting record purposes;
iii) Previous correspondence is recorded to keep track of claims;
iv) Details pertaining to your claim or any other reason for which you have contacted us, including details of your insurance policy and insurer ;
v) Physical access data relating to details of your visit to our premises to protect the security of and manage access to our premises.
The Company will regularly review the nature of the information being collected and held to ensure there is a sound legal or business reason for requiring the information to be retained.
Personal information relating to our Clients may be collected primarily for the purposes of:
i) Settling claims; and
ii) Business analysis/planning.
Throughout the professional relationship and for as long as is necessary thereafter the Company may need to process information connected with a claim. Processing includes the collection, storage, retrieval, alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
The Company may also make personal data available to other parties when necessary for the purposes of claim assessment and/or where legally obliged to do so. These parties may include our group companies, service providers/agents or other insurance or distribution parties with a legitimate interest in the claims assessment process. The Company will not otherwise share personal information with third parties and will never sell your data.
The Company may also use your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from the Company. The Company may also contact you via surveys to carry out research with the intention to improve its services.
The Company will take all appropriate reasonable technical, legal and organisational measures to ensure your personal information is kept secure, in full compliance with applicable privacy and data security laws.
We do this by using a range of technical and organisational measures including measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuse or loss or unauthorised access to your personal information, please let us know immediately.
While we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of all data which is transmitted to us via the Internet or similar connection.
The Company will not be held liable for loss or security breach of personal information that has been brought about by your own actions, including but not limited to your failure to keep your password secure.
The Company will never ask you for any information such as a password assigned to a client/claimant in relation to a claim that is tracked through a Company online facility.
The Company operate a global business and as a consequence of which, it is possible that your data may be transferred, stored or processed on systems or in offices located outside the EU. When this is necessary, we undertake to ensure that your data remain subject to equivalent levels of data protection and security which applies within the EU.
The Company website may, from time to time contain links to third party websites of interest. The Company are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which may be provided by you whilst visiting such sites and your information would be governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy on any website you visit.
The inclusion of a link to a third party website does not imply endorsement of the linked site by the Company.
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit our website and which allow us to recognise your device and store some information about how you use our website, for instance, which pages are visited most often. We only use these cookies to monitor traffic to our website so that we can improve the functionality of our website but we do not collect any information that identifies you.
You do not have to accept the use of cookies but you may not be able to enjoy full functionality of our website to the extent that you decide to reject the use of cookies.
Under the GDPR, you have various rights in relation to your Personal Information, as set out below.
• Your right of access – you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information;
• Your rights to rectification – you have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete;
• Your right to restriction of processing –you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;
• Your right to object to processing - you have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
• Your right to data portability – you have the right to ask that we transfer your personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
• Your right to erasure – you have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances;
Please note that these rights are subject to certain limitations set forth in applicable law.
Should you wish to exercise these rights, please proceed in the first instance to contact your usual contact person, which will normally ensure the speediest handling of your request.
You may also contact our Data Protection Officer directly, either through advising your usual contact person that you wish to be in touch with our DPO and/or send your request directly to our Data Protection Officer at WK Webster & Co Ltd, Webster House, 207 Longlands Road, Sidcup, Kent DA15 7JH or e-mail DPO@wkwebster.com.
We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws. Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues you raise.
Under ordinary circumstances, we will respond to your request for access to data (“Subject Access Request”) free of charge. However depending on the nature of your request, under certain circumstances, your request may incur an administrative charge. To the extent that your request will incur a charge, we will advise you of same before proceeding to handle your request.
If you consider that the Company has not complied with the applicable data protection legislation, you are also entitled to take legal action and/or make a complaint to the UK Information Commissioners office. Their contact details together with further guidance can be accessed at https://ico.org.uk.
This policy is reviewed on a regular basis and the Company reserve the right to make changes at any time to accommodate changing business, legal and compliance requirements. The most recent version of the policy is available at all times on our website and your continued use of our website and other services will constitute an acceptance of the revised policy.