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.

Definitions

  • ‘Licensed professional engineering institution’ (PEI) – A Licensed PEI 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.
  • ‘RegPlus’ – a secure online portal that is used and accessed only by authorised Engineering Council staff and authorised Licensed PEI staff to allow the transfer of data, in order to facilitate registration with the Engineering Council.
  • ‘RegCheck’ - an online registration verifications tool available on the EngC website

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:

  • Forename(s) and surname
  • Date of birth
  • Gender
  • Address
  • Email address
  • Telephone number

What we use your personal data for?

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

  • To create a record of your professional registration(s) on the National Register which includes automatically assigning a unique registration number
  • To generate a certificate which confirms your registration(s) with the Engineering Council
  • To maintain the data in your record to ensure that it is accurate and up to date via regular data reconciliations between the Licensed PEI that you are registered through and the Engineering Council
  • 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
  • To provide registration status information (e.g. active as in currently registered or inactive if the registration has lapsed) via confirmation with the Registration team, or via the RegCheck online tool, to any person or organisation (engineering organisation, regulatory authority, recipients of services, e.g. employer, client) having a legitimate need for seeking verification

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 as outlined above.

Special or sensitive data

The Engineering Council does not collect or 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:

Organisation Purpose

Licensed professional engineering institutions (PEIs)

 

To facilitate the transfer of registration to a licensed professional engineering institution if required.

This includes the ability to view in read only format data related to your professional registration(s). This data does not include your address or email address.

 

EngineeringUK

 

If you chose to pay your annual Engineering Council Registration fee by cheque it will be passed on to EngineeringUK.

 

Third Party IT support companies

In relation to the maintenance and development the National Register.

Retention

The Engineering Council will continue to hold the record of your 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 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 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

The details for each of these contacts are

Supervisory Authority contact details

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

casework@ico.org.uk 

0303 123 1113

Data Protection Representative contact details

Data Protection Representative

Engineering Council

10 Lower Thames Street

London

EC3R 6EN

dpo@engc.org.uk 

020 3206 0500

Data Security

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

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