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.
‘Licensed professional engineering institution’ – 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.
‘RegPlus’ – a secure online portal that is used and accessed only by authorised Engineering Council staff and authorised Licensed Professional Engineering Institution 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
The person responsible for data protection matters at the Engineering Council can be contacted by:
Personal data is any information that can be used to identify an individual.
The personal data that the Engineering Council collects and processes about you is:
Personal data supplied by you | Personal data supplied by someone else |
N/A | Forename(s) and surname |
Date of birth | |
Gender | |
Address | |
Email address | |
Institution membership number |
Please note that the above data is submitted to us via RegPlus, by the licensed professional engineering Institution that you have chosen to apply for professional registration(s) through.
The personal data we collect will be used for the following purposes:
Our basis for processing your personal data is Legitimate Interest for the purposes of facilitating your registration(s) and all associated processes as outlined in 2.3.
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.
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.
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 |
The licenced professional engineering Institution(s) you are registered through. |
To facilitate your professional registration(s). 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. |
Other licenced professional Engineer Institutions (for a full list please refer to the Engineering Council website) | To facilitate the transfer of registration from one licensed professional engineering institution to another. 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. |
Third Party IT support companies. | In relation to the maintenance and development of the National Register. |
The Engineering Council will continue to hold the record of your registration whether current or lapsed indefinitely. However, files containing your data received from the Licensed Professional Engineering Institution(s) you are registered through in relation to the processing activities described in 2.3 will retained for a period of 5 years plus the current year. After such time these files will be securely disposed of.
At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:
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.
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.
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;
Supervisory authority contact details | Data protection representative contact details |
Information Commissioner's Office | Data Protection Representative |
Wycliffe House |
Engineering Council |
Water Lane |
10 Lower Thames Street |
Wilmslow |
London |
Cheshire |
|
SK9 5AF |
EC3R 6EN |
0303 123 1113 |
020 3206 0500 |
All data held or processed by the Engineering Council is held in a secure server managed by the Engineering Council.
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.
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