Privacy notice

How Insight handles your record.

This notice covers Insight, the Regulation 44 tool, and anything you send us by email or the booking link. If you use Insight as a visitor, you are the data controller for what you record in it.

Last updated [DATE]

Who we are

Firsthand Social Care Solutions, registered in England and Wales, company number [COMPANY NUMBER], [REGISTERED ADDRESS]. Contact: [YOUR EMAIL].

What this covers, and who the controller is

Firsthand runs a portal of tools for social care. This notice covers Insight — the workspace for independent Regulation 44 visitors — and anything you send us by email or the booking link. Each visitor is the data controller for what they record in Insight; Firsthand Social Care Solutions is the processor. There are no provider accounts, and no provider can read a visitor’s record.

What is recorded

Your account: your name, your email address, and whether your access is in date. Then, in Insight: homes (name, Ofsted URN, provider, region), visits, reports, and an audit log of every change. Fields for children and staff take initials only and refuse a full name.

Where it is held

In a database in London (AWS eu-west-2).

Lawful basis

[TO BE CONFIRMED WITH COUNSEL — see the strategy document, Risk 2.]

How long it is kept

Submitted reports cannot be edited, and are kept for [RETENTION PERIOD]. To correct one, write to [YOUR EMAIL]. While their access is active, a visitor can download any submitted report as a PDF. [WHAT HAPPENS TO A VISITOR’S REPORTS WHEN THEIR ACCOUNT CLOSES]

Your rights

Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection, under UK GDPR. Write to [YOUR EMAIL]. Erasure of a submitted report is a deliberate act carried out by hand against the database, and is never something the application can do on its own.

Who else handles it

[PROCESSORS — hosting, database, sign-in; owner and counsel to confirm]

What you send us

[WHAT HAPPENS TO WHAT YOU SEND BY EMAIL OR THE BOOKING LINK]

How to complain

You can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.