This privacy notice will help you to understand what personal data Black & Veatch (“BV”) collects about you, how BV uses this personal data, and what rights you have regarding your personal data.
It is important that you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice that is provided to you on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing your personal data, so that you are aware of how and why we are using it.
This notice applies to individual persons who are internal and external to BV. This notice does not form part of any contract. This notice can be updated at any time.
Personal data is any information that can be used to identify a living individual, either on its own, or in combination with other pieces of data. Examples of personal data includes your name, address, email address, phone numbers .... Data Processing includes the collection, use, and storage of data.
This notice is to inform BV professionals, vendors, and visitors who attend our offices/premises on an ad-hoc basis or as part of a more long-term agreement.
The data controller and data processor is BV. Data from Contact Tracing may be provided to local or regional governmental health departments for their official use in tracing potential exposures in the case of viral pandemics.
The Data Protection Officer for BV can be contacted using the contact details below:
BV Data Protection Office
Attn: James Waters
11401 Lamar Ave.
Overland Park, KS. 66211
Email: DPO@bv.com
Phone: +1 913-458-6041
- What data does BV collect and why:
- Contact Tracing application: Following the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), BV is controlling access to its offices/premises to safeguard the health and wellbeing of its professionals and other visitors. This involves individuals using and providing basic health information so to correlate the tracing of potential contact with persons that have tested positive for the virus.
- Other: BV may from time to time collect personal data that is necessary and incidental to the use of BV’s offices/premises.
- The lawful basis for processing your data: BV processes your personal data for the purposes of the legitimate interest pursued by BV. By utilizing the Contact Tracing application and providing your personal data you consent to BV processes your personal data for the purposes stated above.
- Your rights: You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- you have the right to request access to your data
- you have the right to correct your data if it is incorrect
- you have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of your data
- you have the right to object to your data being processed
If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact the Data Protection Office above.
- Failure to provide your personal data: If you do not provide all the requested personal data then BV may prevent access to its offices/premises.
- Data Transfers: Data may be provided to local or regional governmental health departments for their official use in tracing potential exposures in the case of viral pandemics
- How long we keep your personal data: Personal data collected via the Contact Tracing application will be retained for 6 months past the last day of visit, or such longer period as may be reasonable given the developing nature of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
- The use of automated decision making: Your personal data is not used in any automated decision making (making a decision solely by automated means without any human involvement) or profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain conditions about an individual).
- Change of purpose: We will only process your personal data for the purpose for which we collected it.
- 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 changes.
- How to lodge a complaint: If you have a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data then please contact the Data Protection Officer listed above. A complaint can also be lodged with your local/regional Data Protection Authority.
04 June 2020
