Plan Group (“Plan”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting personal data. This privacy policy describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights. It applies to personal data provided to us, both by Customers themselves, by our Business Partners or which is collected by us when we conduct our business including through our products, services, content, websites, online portals and user applications (the “Sites”). We may use personal data provided to us for any of the purposes described in this privacy policy or as otherwise stated at the point of collection.
We deliver market-leading voice and data connectivity across a converged mobile, VoIP and broadband platform together with software solutions to business customers in the UK (“Customers”) together with instant access to tools and real-time data insights that allow businesses to manage their people and productivity and minimise their costs.
In this privacy policy:
Our registered office is No.5 Victoria Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2LR. We are registered in the Isle of Man with company number 010273V and registered with (i) the Isle of Man Information Commissioner’s Office (IOMICO), registration number N003321 and (ii) the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (UKICO), registration number ZA082663. Although the IOMICO is our primary regulator, we endeavour to comply with the UKICO as far as possible.
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person.
The information we collect and how we collect it can vary depending on the products and services that you use and subscribe to, how you have used the products and services, and how you have interacted with Plan even if you are not a customer, or what we have obtained from a third party with permission to share it with us.
Plan collects and processes personal data under four primary heads:
When collecting and using personal data, our intention is to be transparent about why and how we process personal data. To find out more about our specific processing activities, please go to the relevant sections of this statement.
If you are a director, partner, owner or authorised signatory of one of our Customers or a sole trader then, Plan may collect and process the following data about you:
We collect your personal information directly from you when you, for example:
We may also collect information about you from other sources, including but not limited to:
We will use our personal information for the following purposes:
1. To enter into a contract and provide the services:
Processing your order and providing you with your products and services
Billing and customer care
Service messages
2. To improve our service
Improving and innovating our products and services
Managing our networks and understanding network usage
3. Marketing and tailoring our service to you
Marketing
4. Research and analytics
We use a variety of data analytics methods. These data analytics are mathematically driven analysis techniques on large and varied data sets to uncover hidden patterns and hitherto unrevealed trends.
We use our analytics to, for example:
5. Credit checks, fraud prevention and security
We will sometimes need to profile you, for credit, fraud and security purposes.
Credit checks and ID
Where our customer is a body corporate, partnership, charity or other entity that is not an individual (a “Business Customer”), then we process the personal data collected in accordance with the instructions of that Business Customer.
Our Business Customers may use the Sites and Services to better understand how their own users (for example their employees) (“Customer End Users”) engage with and use our products and services (including our networks). The Personal Information that we may process regarding Customer End Users is referred to as “Customer End User Data.”
Our Business Customers choose the type of Customer End User Data processed through their use of our Sites. The collection of Customer End User Data is governed by our Business Customers’ own privacy policies and notices, and if you are provided with access to our services by one of our Business Customers then you should review that Business Customer’s privacy policy to learn more about that Business Customer’s data handling practices.
As an individual you have the right to access, delete and amend the data collected about you. As we act as the data processor of your data on behalf of the relevant Business Customer, you need to contact the Business Customer directly if you would like to access, amend or delete your data.
What we collect
If you are an employee, consultant, agent or director of one of our Business Customers or a sole trader then Plan may collect and process the following data about you:
We collect information indirectly from you when you use the Services, including but not limited to when you:
We will use your personal information for the following purposes:
1. To provide the services: Providing our Customer with products and servicesWe use a variety of data analytics methods. These data analytics are mathematically driven analysis techniques on large and varied data sets to uncover hidden patterns and hitherto unrevealed trends.
We use our analytics to, for example:
Typically, our Partners are body corporates, limited liability companies or partnerships or other entity that is not an individual. However, some are sole traders and we may in the course of interacting with our Partners, collect personal data relating to individual employees, agents, directors, shareholders of such partner or an individual who is a sole trader.
What we collectIf you are an employee, consultant, agent or director of one of our Business Customers or a sole trader then Plan may collect and process the following data about you:
We collect your personal information directly from you when you, for example:
We will use your personal information for the following purposes:
1. To register and administer your account with usProcessing orders and providing you or Customers with products and services
Improving and innovating our products and services
Marketing
We use a variety of data analytics methods. These data analytics are mathematically driven analysis techniques on large and varied data sets to uncover hidden patterns and hitherto unrevealed trends.
We use our analytics to, for example:
We will sometimes need to profile you or your directors, shareholders or other officers, for credit, fraud and security purposes.
Credit checks and IDLegal basis | Type of processing |
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Legitimate interests Our legitimate interests are:
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Performance of a contract The personal information you provide may be processed when it is necessary in order for us to:
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Compliance with legal obligations Where we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with a request from government or law enforcement officials. |
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Consent Where we rely on your consent as the legal basis for processing your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details at the end of this Privacy Statement. If you withdraw your consent, our use of your personal information before you withdraw is still lawful. |
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We take the security of all the data we hold very seriously. We have policies, procedures and training in place covering data protection, systems access, confidentiality and security and regularly review the appropriateness of the measures we have in place to keep the data we hold secure.
Plan’s IT infrastructure is located in secure data centres in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, and personal data will be stored in those data centres. All datacentres contracted by Plan are accredited by the following ISO standards – ISO-IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. As well as ISO 14001 for Environmental Management.
Further we have organisational protections in place including (i) management approval for access to systems; and (ii) tiered access to systems depending on job type.
Please be aware that communications over the Internet, such as e-mails and web-chats, are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may route through a number of countries before being delivered – this is the nature of the Internet. Plan cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
Media Messaging If you are registered with Plan, any Media Messages you send to an email address, including Media Messages from your phone and messages from Plan, may include personal details such as your registered first name and last name, your phone number or email address which will be displayed in the ‘from’ field of the message.
Where applicable, we share personal data with:
Plan will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that any supplier that is provided with or has access to personal data provides assurances that they will protect that personal data with at least the same level of privacy protection as is required by this Policy. Where Plan has knowledge that a supplier is using or sharing personal information in a way that is contrary to this policy, Plan will take reasonable steps to prevent or stop such processing.
Fraud management and law enforcement
We will release information if it’s reasonable for the purpose of protecting us against fraud, defending our rights or property, or to protect the interests of our customers.
We also may need to release your information to comply with our legal obligation to respond to the authorities’ lawful demands. Your personal data shall only be provided when we in good faith believe we are obliged to do so in accordance with the law and pursuant to an evaluation of all legal requirements.
Mergers and acquisitions
If we’re reorganised or sold to another organisation, we will provide your information to that organisation.
Third parties that we work with
Where you’ve purchased Plan products and services using a third party or partner organisation, we often need to exchange information with them as part of managing that relationship and your account – for example, to be able to identify your order and be able to pay them.
If we have a contract with a service provider or contractor to provide us with services or provide a service on our behalf, and they may have access to your personal information, we don’t authorise them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with providing their services.
We collect and combine information in order to monitor your use of products and services, and that of our other customers, as well as to help us to improve the quality of our products and services.
Third-party products that you buy through your Plan account
Where you buy a third-party product or service through your Plan account (such as Office365 from Microsoft), the contract for it is with the party selling that product or service. Plan is only charging the amount directly to your bill as part of its arrangements with the seller (or with a third party authorised by the seller). As part of this, you’re agreeing that Plan may pass certain personal information to such parties to complete your purchase.
The seller’s terms and conditions and privacy and cookies policies will apply to how it uses your personal information – please read them carefully.
We retain information only for as long as we need it. In relation to the following information we are required to retain it for not less than six months and not more than two years after you have been a customer of Plan in order to ensure that this information is available for the purpose of the investigation, detection and prosecution of serious crime:
We do not provide services to children or proactively collect their personal information. If we obtain information about children while addressing a service request or query the information in the relevant part of this notice applies to children as well as adults.
We may need to transfer your information to other Plan Group companies or partners or service providers in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). The EEA consists of countries in the European Union, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway: they are considered to have equivalent laws when it comes to data protection and privacy. This kind of data transfer may happen if our servers (i.e. where we store data) or our suppliers and service providers are based outside the EEA, or if you use our services and products while visiting countries outside this area.
Plan may send your data to its head office in the Isle of Man. The European Commission has recognised the Isle of Man has offering an adequate level of data protection.
If Plan sends your information to a country that is not in the EEA and is not recognised by an adequacy decision, we will make sure that your information is properly protected. We will ensure that there is a proper legal agreement that covers the data transfer.
In addition, if the country is not considered to have laws that are equivalent to EU data protection standards then we will ask the third party to enter into a legal agreement that reflects those standards.
We record calls made to and by us across our business. These recordings are made for a number of purposes including staff training and quality control. Each recording is encrypted and stored on a secure server. Access to the call recordings is tightly controlled in accordance with our internal policies and can only be obtained on the authority of our Data Protection Officer.
Access to personal data
You have a right of access to personal data held by us. You have the right to:
How to exercise your rights
If you are a registered with my.plan and are an Authorised User for the account of a Business Customer, you may verify, update or amend the personal information you have provided to Plan online at any time by clicking on “My details”.
This right may also be exercised by emailing us at dataprotection@plan.com. We will aim to respond to any requests for information promptly, and in any event within the legally required time limits (currently 1 month).
Correction of personal data
To update inaccurate personal data submitted to or held by us, you may email us at dataprotection@plan.com or, where appropriate, contact us via the relevant website registration page or by amending the personal details held on relevant portals or applications with which you registered.
When practically possible, once we are informed that any personal data processed by us is no longer accurate, we will make corrections (where appropriate) based on your updated information.
Withdrawal of consent
Where we process personal data based on consent, individuals have a right to withdraw consent at any time. We do not generally process personal data based on consent (as we usually rely on another legal basis). Nevertheless, to withdraw consent or instruct us to stop processing of your personal data please email us at dataprotection@plan.com or, to stop receiving emails from a Plan marketing list, please click on the unsubscribe link in the relevant email received from us.
Right to data portability
You have the right to be able to take with you the personal data you provided to us in certain circumstances. Plan ensures that you can take your data with you by allowing you to download your monthly bills, at the click of a button. In order to do this, log in to my.plan and go to your billing area.
Other data subject rights
This privacy statement is intended to provide information about what personal data we collect about you and how it is used. As well as rights of access and amendment referred to above, individuals may have other rights in relation to the personal data we hold, such as a right to erasure/deletion, to restrict or object to our processing of personal data and the right to data portability.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please send an email to dataprotection@plan.com.
Marketing
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by contacting us via email at any time. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to service messages.
We will not sell or rent your data to third parties or share your data with third parties for marketing purposes. We may use third party software to send you information for marketing or service purposes.
If you receive an email which claims to come from us but does not use our domain, or if you are suspicious that an email may not be approved by us, then please send a copy of the email to dataprotection@plan.com so we can investigate.
We recognise that transparency is an ongoing responsibility so we will keep this privacy statement under regular review.
This privacy notice was last updated on 13th July 2020 when we changed the layout and sought to set out examples of the information that was contained in the previous version of the notice.
The data controller is Plan Communications (registered in (i) Isle of Man with registration no. 010273V with its registered office No.5 Victoria Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2LR) and (ii) the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), registration number ZA082663.
Our Data Protection Officer is Gregg Knowles. You can contact him at dataprotection@plan.com or to our postal address below.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or how and why we process personal data, please contact us at:
Data Protection Office Plan Communications Limited No.5 Victoria Street Douglas Isle of Man IM1 2LREmail: dataprotection@plan.com
We hope that you won’t ever need to, but if you do want to complain about our use of personal data, please send an email with the details of your complaint to dataprotection@plan.com. We will investigate and respond to any complaints we receive.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Isle of Man Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) (the Isle of Man data protection regulator). For further information on your rights and how to complain to the ICO, please refer to the ICO website.
This privacy policy was last updated on 5th March 2024