Who we are
Last updated: 08/01/2023
Here at The10 Best Companies, we care about being transparent in how we use the personal data we receive. Please read our privacy notice below to understand what we do, and how we do it.
Who are The10 Best Companies?
We are The10 Best Companies, the workplace accreditation people. We want to help make the world a better workplace. We truly believe that people who are fully engaged at work feel happier and more secure, which makes them more productive.
True employee engagement is a journey, not a destination.
The10 Best Companies provides the standard for workplace accreditation. Accreditation tells your clients, partners, investors and employees that your organisation understands the importance of workplace engagement and genuinely values its people.
The below information outlines the processing we undertake.
The personal data we receive, directly from an organisation that we are providing a service to, an individual completing a survey or an enquiry from. Personal data will be used for the purposes outlined below.
We collect information through various ways. Below outlines, how we collect the information we hold:
Each Survey
is allocated to a specific individual. The10 Best Companies needs to know who you are and where you sit in the organisation structure, so we can create meaningful insightful reports for your organisation.
We will ask you a range of questions about your employer, your manager, the management team and in some cases information about you. This ensures we accurately measure your organisations overall engagement and generate a customised assessment for your workplace. It is important that you answer honestly, so that your employer receives a true reflection of their employee engagement stance. This means they get the information they need to improve.
Browsing our website
We will ask for your consent to receive cookie information when it is not a required cookie, this is for recording the web page you requested and to record information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address. This helps us ensure the integrity of the survey, understand identify the countries we are covering and how people are using The10 Best Companies website for us to be able to make future improvements.
Requesting further information
Where you request further information on our services, you may be asked to provide your email address. In providing your email address, you are allowing consent for us to contact you in relation to your enquiry and to receive information on related services we provide. You may withdraw this consent opt-out of these communications at any time.
Businesses that use our Services
The services we supply to your employer requires them to provide certain personal data to us about you, for us to provide the services.
The10 Best Companies Accounts
Your employer will nominate personnel within the organisation or an external consultant to manage the process, review and access the reports, and provide additional information to allow The10 Best Companies to provide the purchased services. Those individuals provided with The10 Best Companies accounts may include your organisation project manager(s), managers and/or your employers 3rd party consultants.
Feedback Surveys
We may contact individuals from time to time for feedback on the services we are providing. These can include project managers, marketing representatives and individuals using our services/applications or that have attended a The10 Best Companies event. This feedback may be requested within the application or we may at times use a 3rd party survey platform.
Your Data, Your Rights
You have a right to be informed of personal data processed by The10Best Companies, a right to request rectification/correction, erasure and to object to the processing. You also have the right to request access to your personal data. We can only adhere to a request if we hold personal data about you and are able to identify you.
What information do we collect?
Where an employer or individual representing an entity has accepted our Terms of Service Agreement to receive the purchased service.
For all survey types, we require the first name, last name, and position within the company of all those taking part. This is to ensure data accuracy, quality control and fair processing.
All details provided to us by your employer will remain hidden, as we do not need to request this information again from you. Information that we need you to complete will be displayed for you to fill in.
Anonymity
Anonymity is the biggest concern individuals have when they complete our survey. For voices to be heard and actions to be taken, we require you to answer your survey truthfully. Incorrectly responding to a survey, you are rendering the survey as useless and therefore the result meaningless. Please be assured your individual responses are never accessible by anyone associated with you or at your workplace. Please be assured we will always keep your survey responses confidential.
Survey comment box
At the end of the survey, you will be provided the opportunity to give direct feedback. to your employer. The10 Best Companies will review samples of responses and conduct comment analysis this is to ensure the integrity of our accredititations. We will not specifically identify you with the feedback, however, do take care not to identify yourself by describing something personal, which would only apply to you. when providing feedback with these comment boxes, these individual responses will be provided to your employer as anonymous feedback.
Our website and cookies
We collect usage data, such as information collected by cookies (with your consent) about the10 Best Companies pages viewed, links clicked, and other actions taken when accessing our website or services; activities, interactions, and other computer and connection information (such as IP address) relating to use of our website and services. This information is used to evaluate how users use our websites, and to compile statistical reports on activity for us. We will use this information to improve our websites, by making them more user-friendly, more valuable, and easier to use.