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Privacy Policy

Welcome to the National Register for Independent Carers (NRIC). NRIC provides a consistent registration route for self-employed care workers, with access to additional support around employment status, care arrangements and regulatory boundaries to help establish greater professionalism, trust and transparency with independent care. Joining NRIC makes it easier for people and organisations to confirm current registration status and provides access to exclusive training, practical resources and other member benefits.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website at https://www.nricregister.co.uk and interact with us.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

NRIC is the data controller responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us”, or “our” in this privacy policy).

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

  • Email Address: [email protected]

  • Postal Address: NRIC Register, Tauntfield House, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3ND

2. The Data We Collect About You

Currently, our website serves as a frontend brochure and enquiry platform. We only collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us when you fill out forms, submit enquiries, or express interest in joining the register. This may include:

  • Identity Data: First name, last name, and professional title.

  • Contact Data: Email address, telephone number, and postal address.

  • Enquiry Data: Any information or context you choose to include within the free-text fields of our contact or registration interest forms.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

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

  • To respond to your enquiries: To provide you with information regarding NRIC registration, membership benefits, training, or support.

  • To process expressions of interest: To evaluate your interest in joining the register and to guide you through the next steps of the registration pathway.

  • Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests to interact with potential members, improve our services, and establish professionalism and trust within the independent care sector.

4. Data Sharing and Transfers

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. We will only share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, managing form submissions, or conducting our business (such as secure cloud hosting and email service providers), subject to strict confidentiality agreements.

If we transfer your data outside the UK or EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place.

5. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees and third-party partners who have a business need to know.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. If you submit an enquiry but do not proceed to register with NRIC, we will delete your data after an appropriate period unless required by law to retain it.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under UK data protection laws, you have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

  • Access your personal data.

  • Correction of incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you.

  • Erasure of your personal data (the “right to be forgotten”).

  • Object to processing or request the restriction of processing of your personal data.

  • Request the transfer of your personal data to you or a third party.

  • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Insert Contact Email]. You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

8. Cookies

Note: This website currently uses essential cookies required for basic website functionality. A separate, comprehensive Cookies Policy will be introduced in due course to outline any further tracking or analytical cookies as our digital services expand.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. Any updates we make in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes.