Capella was established in 2020 to assist organisations by developing spatial plans to accommodate a safe return to work for their employees. Taking into account the current protocols, Capella delivers considered solutions and a full suite of complementary templates and check lists to help employers get their staff safely back to work.
In addition, Capella has developed an innovative solution to support organisations in meeting their safety, health and welfare at work obligations for staff who are working from home.
Personal Data. “Personal Data” is information that, directly or indirectly, identifies you or another individual and which may include: name, title, company name, job function, postal address, telephone number, email address, 3D scan of home working environment, ergonomics assessment which may include a photo of you seated at your desk, browser and device information (including IP Address), and information collected through cookies and other similar technologies. If you submit any Personal Data relating to other people to us or to our service providers, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
Special categories of Personal Data (sensitive data). While Capella does not, in general, collect or process many types of special categories of personal data, it may be necessary to collect this information as part of conducting an organisation’s ergonomic assessment of its employees working at home environment.
Other Information. “Other Information” is any information that does not and cannot be used to reveal your identity or that of another individual, such as information which has been fully and permanently anonymised. We use this information for other purposes as described below.
Capella collect Personal Data and Other Information in a number of ways:
Information from other sources:
Purpose of collection: In order to enhance our ability to provide services to you, we obtain information about you from other sources, such as your employer (our customer), our partners, suppliers, as well as from other third parties.
Purpose of collection: We may collect information from you offline, such as, during phone calls with our Capella team or when you contact us.
Purpose of collection: Capella collects information such as your contact details, location, workspace arrangements and other information as necessary in order to ergonomically assess your (or your employees’) work location – this may include a photo of you seated at your desk.
Purpose of collection: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and the name and version of the site you are using. Your IP Address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you access the website, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that you visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services, such as Google Analytics. Capella may use IP Addresses to calculate usage levels of the web site, to administer the site and to diagnose problems with servers.
Purpose of collection: “Cookies” include commonly used pieces of information in the form of small files that are placed on an individual’s device to enable the individual to more easily communicate and interact with the website. When you visit a website, it can send one or more cookies to your device. These cookies enable us to store information about your device which helps us, amongst other things, to provide you with a good experience when you browse and enhance the level of services and functions provided. Please review our Cookies Policy (which can be found on our website) for more information.
Purpose of collection: We will process certain personal information about our employees, that we collect during the job interview process, at the start of employment and in the course of employment. We process this personal data to the extent permitted or required under applicable law, for purposes connected with employment, such as human resources, payroll management and administration.
Our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Data described above will depend on the Personal Data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. We will collect and use your Personal Data where the processing is in our legitimate business interests, such as for direct marketing and sales of our services to prospective Business-to-Business customers.
Our legal basis for processing Personal Data in certain circumstances will be in the instances where we need the Personal Data to perform a contract with you or in order to enter into a contract with you. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Data and Special Categories of Personal Data. If we ask you to provide Personal Data to comply with a legal requirement or to enter into a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your Personal Data is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your Personal Data).
In terms of your data being processed for marketing purposes, your additional consent in advance of this processing would be required.
We may pass your personal data on to third-party service providers contracted to Capella in the course of dealing with you. Any third parties that we may share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only for the specific purpose for which the data was gathered. When they no longer need your data to fulfil this service, they will dispose of the details in line with Capella’s disposal procedures.
Capella may transfer your personal data to our partners. Where we do so, Capella ensures the privacy and integrity of your Personal Data by putting appropriate organisational and technical measures in place to safeguard your information. If you would like more information about the safeguards that are in place in connection with these transfers of Personal Data, please contact us using the contact details in Section 1.9.
We may release Personal Data as we believe necessary and appropriate to law enforcement, tax, fraud prevention, credit risk agencies and other companies and organisations for the reasons given under Section 1.4 above.
We use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Data under applicable law, then we would use or disclose it in the same way that we use and disclose Personal Data. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Data (such as combining your name with the name of your organisation). If that combination permits you to be identified, we will treat the combined information as Personal Data for as long as it is combined.
We have implemented appropriate organisational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Data within our organisation, including security controls to prevent unauthorised access to our systems. While we take reasonable steps to secure your
Personal Data from loss, misuse, interference and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure, you should be aware no security procedures or protocols are ever guaranteed to be 100 percent secure from intrusion or hacking, and there is therefore always some risk assumed by sharing Personal Data online. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the Contact Us section below.
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 can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply, you have a 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 not to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.
Right to complain and judicial review: in the event that Capella refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. You have the right to complain as outlined in Section 1.9 below.
If you would like to access, correct, amend, remove, object or limit the use or disclosure of any Personal Data about you that has been collected and stored by Capella, or have it transferred to another organisation, please notify us at criona@capella-ws.com so that we may consider and respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
You can opt-out of receiving marketing messages from Capella or our business partners by unsubscribing through the unsubscribe or opt-out link in an email or by sending an email to criona@capella-ws.com. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages.
For your protection, we only implement requests with respect to the Personal Data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will action your request within one month.
Please note that we need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such access, change or deletion.
How long Capella will retain your Personal Data
Generally, we will not keep your personal data for longer than is needed for the purpose the data was originally collected, including to pursue our legitimate business interests, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce applicable agreements. Capella maintains a data retention schedule, the details of which (relating to your personal data), can be provided upon request from criona@capella-ws.com.
Some websites, social media and applications permit you to link to other websites on the Internet through direct links or through applications such as “share” or “like” buttons, and other websites likewise may contain links to our sites. The information practices or content of such other websites is governed by the privacy statements of those websites and not by this Privacy Notice. We encourage you to review the privacy policies found on such other websites, services and applications to understand how your information is collected and used by them.
Similarly, please note that we are not responsible for the collection, use and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organisations, such as Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, RIM, Twitter or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including any Personal Data you disclose to other organisations through or in connection with the Apps or the Social Media Pages.
Our carefully selected partners and service providers may process personal information about you on our behalf as described below:
Digital Marketing Service Providers.
We periodically appoint digital marketing agents to conduct marketing activity on our behalf, such activity may result in the compliant processing of personal information. Our appointed data processors include:
(i)Prospect Global Ltd (trading as Sopro) Reg. UK Co. 09648733. You can contact Sopro and view their privacy policy here: http://sopro.io. Sopro are registered with the ICO Reg: ZA346877 their Data Protection Officer can be emailed at: dpo@sopro.io.
Capella does not knowingly or specifically collect information about minors under the age of 18 and believes that children of any age should get their parents’ or legal guardians’ consent before providing any Personal Data. If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected such information, please notify us at criona@capella-ws.com so that we can delete the information from our servers.
Sensitive (i.e. Special Categories of Personal Data) Information
We ask that you not send us or disclose any sensitive Personal Data (e.g. RSI numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through the website, applications or via other means.
Capella may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. The “date amended” appears at the bottom of this privacy notice and this date indicates when the Privacy Notice was last revised.
Your privacy is important to us. If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding the way we collect and handle your information, please contact:
Email: criona@capella-ws.com Phone: +353 86 853 6408
Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include bank account information or other sensitive (special categories of personal data) information in your emails to us.
Your right to make a complaint
Capella will take any privacy complaint seriously and any complaint will be assessed by an appropriate person with the aim of resolving any issue in a timely and efficient manner. We request that you cooperate with us during this process and provide us with any relevant information that we may need.
You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. Their contact details are as follows:
Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square South Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland
+353 578 684 800 +353 761 104 800
www.dataprotection.ie
Privacy Notice – v3: 19 July 2021
