Employee Privacy Policy
Employee Privacy Policy
CB Heating Ltd (T/A EDF Heat Pumps) Privacy Notices
CB Heating Ltd (T/A EDF Heat Pumps) (“EDF Heat Pumps”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy and values the trust you place in us when you share your personal data with us. To find out more about what personal data we collect, how we collect it and what we use it for, click on the relevant link below. These links take you to our Privacy Notices, which also provide details on which we are the “controller” of your data and who to contact if you have any questions as to how we handle your information:
- If you are a customer who has procured, or is seeking to procure, products and/or services from us, please click here.
- If you are a third party, such as a visitor to our sites or a contractor working at or with us (including agency-supplied workers, managed service workers and embedded contractors), please click here.
- If you are an employee of ours, the below policy applies to you.
We may share, or require you to share, information about you with other members of our group of companies such as EDF Energy Customers Limited and EDF Energy Limited. This is so that we can provide the best service to you, for example to resolve any dispute or queries you have in relation to the processing by us of your personal data.
Employee Privacy Policy – what we collect; how we collect and why we collect data about you
We collect certain types of information from, or about, you throughout our interaction with you, from third-party service providers or from publicly available sources. This information may include items such as your name, address, contact details, curriculum vitae, appraisal and other management information, information about your employment and information regarding your fitness for work. We use this information to recruit, comply with our obligations under your employment contract; provide you with a safe working environment; manage your employment and comply with other legal and regulatory obligations. This notice may change from time to time but if we change anything important (for example, the information we collect, how we use it or why) we will highlight those changes to you.
If you would like to make a complaint regarding our use of your personal data, please contact the Data Protection Officer on dpo@edfenergy.com or by letter to EDF Energy, Nova North, 11 Bressenden Place, Victoria, London, SW1E 5BY.
This policy was last updated on 02/06/2026
Summary
We are committed to keeping your personal information safe and we have technical and organisational measures in place to prevent unauthorised access or use of your information. We also require that our suppliers protect such information from unauthorised access use and disclosure. We use the information we collect from you for the activities we have listed in the table below.
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Information collected during the recruitment process: |
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Information obtained as a result of a criminal records check |
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Information we need to contact you, pay you and provide benefits to you: |
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Information about your role, workplace performance, conduct, training, progression, feedback you have given and received and information held on HR systems |
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Information about your fitness for work: |
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Information we collect in relation to our work-related systems: |
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Information contained within work products such as documents, presentations etc, and within internal directories |
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Information we collect in our travel, facilities and expenses systems |
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Information that we collect from you in order to comply with all relevant laws, regulations, industry codes and regulatory obligations: |
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Information we use to monitor behaviour and track data transfer activities: |
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Information provided to us in relation to business related driving |
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Information you have provided to us in order to access your personal devices (BYOD) |
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Information that we collect from you and/or from our records, during any testing for a pandemic virus with which you take part |
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Information we share and who we share it with
There are certain circumstances where we may share your personal data with other employees and third parties. Some examples of when your personal information may be shared with third party organisations are as follows:
- we may share information about you with other members of our group of companies so that we can provide the best service across our group;
- we may also share your information with certain suppliers and service providers (and their staff) such as payroll administrators, IT service providers, pension administrators, benefits providers, occupational health service providers, recruitment and other consultants, managed service workers and agency supplied workers that we engage from time to time and they may process your personal data for us. They are always required to meet our standards on processing information and on security. The information we provide them, including your information, will only be provided in connection with the performance of their function;
- if we’re discussing selling or transferring part or all of our business, information about relevant employees may be transferred to prospective purchasers under suitable terms as to confidentiality. Or, if sold, to buyers;
- if we’re required to do so by law, or under any regulatory code or practice we follow, or if we are asked to do so by any public or regulatory authority – for example the Police, HMRC, or to defend any legal claims; and/or
- your personal data may be shared if it is made anonymous and aggregated, as in such circumstances the information will cease to be personal data.
Circumstances where we will ask for your consent
We do not need your consent if we use personal data, even sensitive personal data (also known as “special categories of personal data”), in accordance with our written practice and guidance to carry out our legal obligations or exercise specific rights in the field of employment law. In limited circumstances, we may approach you for your written consent to allow us to process certain particularly sensitive data. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the information that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent. It is not a condition of your contract with us that you agree to any request for consent from us.
Where and for how long your information will be held
We process personal information (which can be via third parties) within and outside the European Economic Area. We will make sure that the appropriate safeguards are in place prior to the transfer of personal information and in the majority of cases, we will have contractual protections in place which include standard data protection clauses.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the United Kingdom, we enable a similar degree of protection is afforded to it as it would benefit from in the United Kingdom by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
(a) We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
(b) Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the United Kingdom data protection authorities which give personal data the same protection in other jurisdictions as it has in the United Kingdom.
We will keep your information for as long as it is reasonably necessary, but retention periods for the following personal data is set out as follows:
Record Type | Classification | Retention Period |
Employee files (inc Payroll, benefits, health records, criminal check outcomes) | Protect Private | Date of birth + 100 years |
Employee Travel & Expense | Protect Private | 7 years from entry; or |
Unsuccessful Job Applicants | Protect Private | 18 months from last activity |
CCTV | Protect Private | 30 days from recording |
Site Access – Access Gate Control Data | Protect Private | 1 year from site entry |
Site Access – Permanent Access | Protect Private | 1 year from receipt of application |
Site Access – Escorted Access | Protect Private | 1 year after site entry |
Physical Site Visitor Logs | Protect Private | 2 years after site entry |
Electronic Site Visitor Logs | Protect Private | 1 year after site entry |
IT Operational Security Monitoring | OFFICIAL SENSITIVE | Up to 12 months from capture |
Monitoring
We monitor your usage of our IT systems, such as email, internet, printing, chat and forums. This is to protect confidential business information and intellectual property and to monitor for inappropriate behaviour or use of systems. We may also use it as a way of measuring employee engagement and responding to concerns which arise. We also use CCTV and entry and exit gates on sites. Some vehicles have been installed with telematics devices and cameras which monitor driver behaviour.
Your rights and how to exercise them
You may have certain rights in relation to your information including a right to access or to correct the information we hold on you. However, some of these rights will only apply in certain circumstances, such as the right to be forgotten or the right to request that we move your information to another company. They will generally not be available if you remain employed, if we still require the data for the purposes for which we collected it, if we are required by law to keep the information, or if the information is relevant to a legal dispute. If you would like to exercise, or discuss, any of these rights you can do so by contacting your line manager.
- You can remove consent, where you have provided it, at any time, as well as update any of your opt-in marketing preferences
- You can ask us to confirm if we are processing your information
- You can ask for access to your information
- You can ask to correct your information if it’s wrong
- You can ask us to delete your information (the right to be forgotten), but only in certain cases
- You can ask us to restrict how we use your information, but only in certain cases
- You can ask us to help you move your information to other companies, but only in certain cases
- You can object to us processing your information based on legitimate interests, but only in certain cases
- You can object to us processing your information in relation to direct marketing
If you would like to exercise or discuss any of these rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer using the contact information provided at the start of this policy.
Your obligations to safeguard personal data of others
You will have access to the personal data of other individuals during the course of your employment. You must undertake any mandatory data protection training, and ensure that you do not inappropriately obtain, retain, amend, use, delete, transmit or compromise the security of the personal data of others.
You must:
- only seek to access the personal data that you are authorised to access and only use that data for the specified, explicit and legitimate purposes for which it was obtained by us;
- not make any amendments to personal data or share it with others, without being authorised to do so;
- not inappropriately store other people’s personal data outside of our systems;
- take appropriate steps to safeguard the security of personal data. These include, but may not be limited to, ensuring equipment is made secure if unattended for any time; keeping passwords secure and not sharing them; ensuring that paper records are stored securely when not in use; ensuring appropriate security measures are in place before personal data and devices containing personal data or devices that can be used to access personal data are removed from our premises; and
- report any data security concerns or incidents immediately to the dpo@edfenergy.com. Concerns or incidents may include, but may not be limited to, you believing or suspecting that one of the following has taken place (or is likely to take place): there has been any data breach; there has been unauthorised access to or removal from the premises of personal data; personal data is not secure; or you are aware of any other breach of data protection legislation
Failure to comply with your data protection obligations puts at risk the individuals whose personal information is being processed, carries the risk of significant civil and criminal sanctions for you and us; and may, in some circumstances, amount to a criminal offence for which you are personally liable. Because of the importance of data protection obligations, it may lead to disciplinary action under our procedures, up to and including dismissal for gross misconduct.
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Indicative pricing
1. The price above reflects the £7,500 government boiler upgrade scheme and is based on our lowest priced heat pump, cylinder and controls. The figure quoted does not reflect any radiator upgrades that may be required. Your individual quote will be specific to you and your requirements may rise depending on the system required to suit your home.
Boiler upgrade scheme
2. Eligibility checks apply. Visit the UK Government website for details.
A typical customer can save £164 per year versus the current single-rate price cap tariff. This is based on the following;
3. Savings are based on a customer using Ofgem’s typical domestic consumption of 2700 kWh electricity and with heating provided by an ASHP with COP of 3.1 providing equivalent heat to that from a 94% gas boiler using 11,500 kWh of gas.
Save £260 per year
4. The Energy Saving Trust: Figures are based on fuel prices as of July 2025. Find out more about how we made these calculations. The running cost you can expect will depend on the size of your home, any heating system upgrade and any saving will also depend on the fuel type being replaced. You can expect the saving to range between old and new, depending on the age of your current heating system.
Efficiencies
5. Heat Pump investment roadmap, UK Government
The Heat Pump Promise
6. With our Heat Pump Promise if your heat pump doesn’t perform as promised, we’ll give you a refund. Terms & Conditions apply

