Last Revised: June 2024

 

RUN Studios, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

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This privacy notice (the “Notice”) describes how we collect and use personal information about you during and after your working relationship with us, in accordance with (1) the UK General Data Protection Regulation (the "UK GDPR") and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (the "UK DPA") and (2) the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Irish Data Protection Act 2018, together, “Data Protection Legislation” and applies to all Company contractors in the UK and Ireland.

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The Company is a "controller". This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. We are required under Data Protection Legislation to notify you  of the information contained in this Notice.

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This Notice does not form part of any contract to provide services. We may update this Notice at any time but if we do so, we will provide you with an updated copy of this notice as soon as reasonably practical.

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It is important that you read and retain this Notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information and what your rights are under the Data Protection Legislation.

 

1. DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

 

We will comply with Data Protection Legislation. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:

 

1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.

2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.

3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.

4. Accurate and kept up to date.

5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.

6. Kept securely.

 

2. THE KIND OF INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

 

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the person's identity has been removed (anonymous data).

 

There are certain types of more sensitive personal data which require a higher level of protection, such as information about a person's health or sexual orientation. Information about criminal convictions also warrants this higher level of protection.

 

We will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

 

• Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and personal email addresses.

• Date of birth.

• National Insurance number.

• Bank account details, payroll records and tax status information.

• Your hourly or daily fee rate as applicable.

• Start date and end date of your engagement with the Company.

• Location of workplace.

• Copy of driving license if required.

• Recruitment information (including copies of right to work documentation, references and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process).

• Records of your engagement with the Company (including work history, working hours, and services provided).

• Compensation history.

• Information about your use of our information and communications systems.

• Results of HMRC employment status check, details of your interest in and connection with the intermediary through which your services are supplied.

 

3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED?

 

We collect personal information about contractors through the application and recruitment process, either directly from candidates or sometimes from an employment agency or background check provider. We may sometimes collect additional information from third parties including former employers, credit reference agencies or other background check agencies.

We will collect additional personal information in the course of job-related activities throughout the period of you working for us.

 

4. HOW WE WILL USE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

 

We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances:

1. Where we need to perform the contract we have entered into with you.

2. Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

3. Where it is necessary for legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests

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We may also use your personal information in the following situations, which are likely to be rare:

1.Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else's interests).

2. Where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.

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Situations in which we will use your personal information

We need all the categories of information in the list above primarily to allow us to perform our contract with you and to enable us to comply with legal obligations. In some cases we may use your  personal information to pursue legitimate interests, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. Those legitimate interests are listed below.

 

• Making a decision about your engagement.

• Determining the terms on which you work for us.

• Determining whether your engagement is deemed employment for tax purposes.

• Checking you are legally entitled to work in the UK and Ireland, as applicable.

• Paying you and, if you are a deemed employee for tax purposes, deducting tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs).

• Administering the contract we have entered into with you.

• Business management and planning, including accounting and auditing.

• Complying with health and safety obligations.

• To prevent fraud.

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Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.

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If you fail to provide personal information

If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have entered into with you (such as paying you), or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (such as to ensure the health and safety of our workers).

 

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

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Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

 

5. INFORMATION ABOUT CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS

 

We envisage that we will hold information about criminal convictions.

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We will only collect information about criminal convictions if it is appropriate given the nature of the role and where we are legally able to do so. Where appropriate, we will collect information relating to criminal convictions and offences, including information relating to criminal allegations and proceedings (“Criminal Convictions Data”) as part of the recruitment process, either directly from you or indirectly (for example from a third party or publicly available source), or we may be notified of such information directly by you in the course of you working for us.

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We can process Criminal Convictions Data only if we have a legal ground for processing and one of the specific processing conditions relating to Criminal Convictions Data applies. In the circumstances, our legal ground for processing Criminal Convictions Data is our legitimate interest (Article 6 (1)(f), UK GDPR) to satisfy background checks required by the Company’s clients, to provide your services to said clients, and to verify that you are suitable for engagement or continued engagement.  The specific processing condition is that you have given your explicit consent to the processing (Schedule 1, Part 3, Section 29 of the UK DPA and Section 55 (1)(b)(i), Irish Data Protection Act 2018).

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This means that we are allowed to use your Criminal Convictions Data in this way to carry out our obligations as you have given your consent to us doing so. This Notice is our appropriate policy and we have safeguards in place which we are required by law to maintain when processing such data.

 

6. AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING

 

Automated decision-making takes place when an electronic system uses personal information to make a decision without human intervention. We are allowed to use automated decision-making in the following circumstances:

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1. Where we have notified you of the decision and given you one month to request a reconsideration.

2. Where it is necessary to perform the contract with you and appropriate measures are in place to safeguard your rights.

3. In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent and where appropriate measures are in place to safeguard your rights.

 

If we make an automated decision on the basis of any particularly sensitive personal information, we must have either your explicit written consent or it must be justified in the public interest, and we must also put in place appropriate measures to safeguard your rights.

 

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making, unless we have a lawful basis for doing so and we have notified you.

 

7. DATA SHARING

 

We share your personal data with third parties. The types of third parties we share your personal data with are:

 

• Designated Agents

• Payroll providers

• IT service providers

• Company clients

• Entities within our group

• Companies that perform background checks.

• Company service companies such as accountants, financial providers, and banks.

 

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

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We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share your personal data with:

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• Our and their external auditors, in which case the third party will be bound by confidentiality obligations;

• Our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers) in which case the third party will be bound by confidentiality obligations;

• Law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

 

If you would like further information about who we share your data with and why, please contact privacy@runstudios.com with your queries.

 

Whenever we transfer your personal information outside the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure that it is transferred in compliance with the Data Protection Legislation. If we do, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information.

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Why might you share my personal information with third parties?

We will share your personal information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to administer the working relationship with you or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so. This may include sharing your personal information, including your date of birth and part of your national insurance number with service providers who facilitate your ability to provide services, such as by providing you with ID badges and access to our clients’ networks, and sharing your personal information, including Criminal Convictions Data, with customers of our clients to whom you will be directly or indirectly providing services.

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How secure is my information with third-party service providers and other entities in our group?

All third parties are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

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When might you share my personal information with other entities in the group?

We will share your personal information with other entities in our group as part of our regular reporting activities on company performance, in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise, for system maintenance support and hosting of data.

 

What about other third parties?

We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible sale or restructuring of the business. In this situation we will, so far as possible, share anonymized data with the other parties before the transaction completes. Once the transaction is completed, we will share your personal data with the other parties if and to the extent required under the terms of the transaction.

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We may also need to share your personal information with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law. This may include making returns to HMRC, disclosures to stock exchange regulators and disclosures to shareholders such as directors' remuneration reporting requirements.

 

Transferring information outside the UK and the EEA

We will transfer the personal information we collect about you to the United States in order to perform our contract with you.

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• Outside of the UK

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There are adequacy regulations in respect of the United States. This means that the country to which we transfer your data is deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information.

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However, to ensure that your personal information does receive an adequate level of protection we have put in place appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects UK law on data protection. These measures may include entering into either the applicable version of the UK International Data Transfer Agreement approved by the ICO or the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission along with the UK International Data Transfer Addendum approved by the ICO. If deemed required under applicable legislation, additional measures will be taken. This may concern technical, organizational and/or contractual measures.

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• Outside the EEA

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Where the United States organization to which we are sending the data is self-certified and on the Data Privacy Framework List, the organization is deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information. Where the organization is not on the Data Privacy Framework List, we will use additional safeguards to ensure the security of the transfer in compliance with Chapter V of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679.

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Whenever we transfer your data outside of the EEA, to ensure that your personal information does receive an adequate level of protection we have put in place appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the Data Protection Legislation. We typically rely on an adequacy decision of the European Commission, Standard Contractual Clauses or a derogation as set out in Article 49 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, namely your consent, or, in the exercise or establishment or defense of a legal claim.

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If you require further information about these protective measures, you can request it from privacy@runstudios.com.

 

8. DATA SECURITY

 

We have put in place measures to protect the security of your information. Details of these measures are available upon request.

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Third parties will only process your personal information on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure. We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Details of these measures may be obtained from privacy@runstudios.com.

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We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

9. DATA RETENTION

 

How long will you use my information for?

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

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In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you. Once you are no longer a contractor of the company we will retain and securely destroy your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

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As a general principle, the following types of data are retained for the duration of the contractual agreement between you and the Company:

• Contract and Tax

• Employment

• Talent Management

• Technical

• Special Category

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However, certain data may be retained for a longer, but reasonable, period on termination of the contractual agreement taking into account the applicable statute of limitation period or to comply with mandatory applicable law. The table below sets out more specifically the employment data that is required to be retained by us, which may extend beyond the duration of your contract of employment with us.

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Retention periods may be extended if we are required to preserve information about you in connection with litigation, investigations and proceedings, or if a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.

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10. RIGHTS OF ACCESS, CORRECTION, ERASURE, AND RESTRICTION

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Your duty to inform us of changes

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your working relationship with us.

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Your rights in connection with personal information

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

• Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

• Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

• Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

• Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

• Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.

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If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact Human Resources in writing.

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No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

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What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

 

11. RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT

 

In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact HR@runstudios.com. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.

 

12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

 

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.

 

13. CONTACT US

 

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact Human Resources/Legal by email at privacy@runstudios.com or by post to Attn: Privacy Officer, 501 Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98109, United States.

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