Privacy Policy

Last updated: 15th March 2025

general

Our Contact Details

Marsha Armstrong

Unit 7, Earlsway Trade Park, Earlsway, Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, NE11 0QG

Marsha@OriginTech.co.uk

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

  • Company name, address, email addresses, telephone numbers;

  • Personal data such as your name, email address, telephone numbers;

  • Website user statistics, e.g. google analytics.

How we get personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • You have approached us with an enquiry about our products or services;

  • You have engaged with us on a previous project;

  • You have asked us to consider you for employment at Origin.

We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:

  • Your CV may be sent to us by a trusted recruitment agency if you have approached them for work;

  • Your CV may be sent to us online when you apply for a job posting.

We use the information that you have given us to manage employment contracts, manage our projects, inform you of upcoming opportunities and manage our contractual obligations with you.

We may share this information with other partner organisations if we are working with you on projects.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

  1. Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting Marsha Armstrong at Marsha@OriginTech.co.uk

  2. We have a contractual obligation.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored.

We keep some personally identifiable information such as your name and email address for the duration of your contract with us, and for up to six years after the contract has ended. If we have been sent your C.V. and we have not selected you for employment, your details will be destroyed once the selection process has ended. We will dispose of your information by deleting any electronic record and shredding any paper records.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right 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 erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

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 the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.


Please contact us at Unit 7, Earlsway Business Park, Gateshead, NE11 0QG, or email Marsha Armstrong at marsha@origintech.co.uk if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at Unit 7, Earlsway Trade Park, Earlsway, Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, NE11 0QG, or email Marsha Armstrong at marsha@origintech.co.uk 

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane 

Wilmslow 

Cheshire 

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk