Argenbright Security Europe Limited (“ASEL”) is a private security company that supports a number of UK retailers, wholesalers, critical national infrastructure, transport and distribution companies.
ASEL is authorised by its customers to perform security and loss prevention duties across their estates.
ASEL gathers information on ‘Subjects of Interest’ (“SOI”) and associated risks from its Customers, Security Officers, and key Partners — such as the National Infrastructure Crime Reduction Partnership. This information is stored, where necessary, across a number of software platforms, including ASEL’s own systems.
In order to prevent crime, ASEL shares relevant intelligence with its Customers, Security Officers, and the Police, where it is necessary and lawful to do so. In particular, ASEL collects information from these sources about individuals who:
The information collected contains Personal Data which may include data relating to suspected offences. The information collected may also contain CCTV footage of members of the public in some circumstances.
With the exception of WASP systems and Rapid Cameras, footage is recorded onto an NVR or SD card on site. When the system is armed, any resulting activations are passed through to Immix (a security alarm and video monitoring platform used to review and respond to incidents). ASEL stores this information and shares certain elements of it with other Security Officers, Customers, and the Police when it is justified, proportionate, necessary, and fair and lawful to do so.
Controller – Argenbright Security Europe Limited is the organisation which determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
Processor – A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
Recipient – A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body, to which the personal data is disclosed, whether a third party or not.
Third Party – A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data.
Personal Data – Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Data Subject”) An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Special Category Personal Data – Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data Subject”) which falls into one of the following categories. Racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health, data concerning a person’s sex life, data concerning a person’s sexual orientation.
Data Subject – Any identifiable natural person, who’s personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing.
ASEL – Argenbright Security Europe Limited
Customer – ASEL Client
Partners – Organisations with which we may share your data.
SOI – Subjects of Interest are individuals who are suspected of or have committed crime against our customer or security officers.
If you wish to contact us in relation to this privacy notice or if you wish to exercise any of your rights (described below) then please address your correspondence to.
Argenbright Security Europe Limited
Charles Babbage House, Kingsway Business Park, Rochdale, OL16 4NW
Alternatively, you can email us at dpo@asel.co.uk
We have also appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO), if you do send correspondence by post, please mark the envelope to the ‘Data Protection Officer’.
The Data Protection Officer can be contacted by emailing dpo@asel.co.uk.
ASEL is contracted by its customers to protect life, protect property and premises, prevent crime including violence, threats of violence, trespass and criminal damage and prevent loss and waste.
We do this by detecting crime or suspicious behaviour, preventing crime and apprehending individuals who commit crime against our customers or security officers.
Some examples of how ASEL is able to achieve this are set out below:
ASEL provides Temporary Security Services (TSS) to protect life and property, deter and detect criminal activity, and reduce the risk of loss, damage, and antisocial behaviour on vulnerable or high-risk sites. This service supports clients who require short- to medium-term security coverage, particularly during periods of construction, transition, or increased threat.
TSS achieves this by deploying wire-free and hardwired CCTV systems that provide rapid surveillance coverage. These systems are positioned to monitor key areas of a site, acting as both a deterrent and an active monitoring tool.
All activations are reviewed in real time by our fully accredited, 24-hour NSI Gold Category II Control Room. Footage is recorded locally on site onto an NVR or SD card (excluding WASP systems and Rapid Cameras). When the system is armed, alerts or activations are transmitted to Immix – a secure platform used to manage incident response and escalation.
ASEL’s Control Room is able to assess incidents as they occur, trigger appropriate responses (such as contacting keyholders or emergency services), and record relevant data for evidential and investigatory use.
Specifically, the data may be processed to achieve the following:
Where justified, necessary, proportionate, and lawful, ASEL may share relevant footage or incident data with the Police, customers, or authorised third parties.
By deploying Temporary Security Solutions, ASEL aims to reduce criminal and antisocial behaviour, safeguard sites under its protection, and provide an effective, flexible solution to short-term security risks.
In order to achieve our purpose, we may collect the following data:
We may also process criminal offence data, which is data of a more sensitive nature, the following data types may apply:
UK GDPR affords you with a number of rights, your rights are summarised below. ASEL are committed to supporting you with these rights where required and so you may contact our designated Data Protection Officer dpo@asel.co.uk or any employee at any time to exercise these rights.
The right to request access – You have the right to obtain from ASEL free information about your personal data and a copy of the personal data we store (commonly known as a “Subject Access Request”), furthermore you have the right to obtain information as to whether your personal data is transferred to any third countries or international organisations. Where this is the case, you have the right to be informed about any safeguards relating to this transfer.
Right to rectification – You have the right to obtain from ASEL without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Basically, if we hold incorrect data about you, you have the right to have that data corrected.
Right to erasure (right to be forgotten) – UK GDPR grants you the right to have your data deleted when there is no good reason for us to continue to process it. ASEL have an obligation to erase your data without undue delay where one of the statutory grounds applies, as long as the processing is not necessary. ASEL relies on Legitimate Interests as its lawful basis and therefore the processing of your data is necessary to achieve our purpose. For this reason, the right to erasure does not apply in every instance.
Right of Restriction of Processing
You have the right to obtain from ASEL a restriction of processing where a statutory reason applies. This enables you to ask us to suspend processing your data, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Right to data portability
You have the right to receive personal data we process concerning you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You have the right to request the transfer of your data to another party.
Right to Object
You have the right to object to us processing your personal data, on grounds relating to your situation at any time. This does not mean that we will stop processing your data, but we will review your objection in each case.
Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.
Right to withdraw consent
ASEL does not use consent as the legal basis for processing, we use legitimate interests for this purpose, therefore you do not have the right to withdraw consent.
Right to complain to the supervisory authority
The contact details for the ICO are contained in this privacy notice.
You will not usually pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of your other rights. We may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances. If you wish to exercise your rights, then please contact us at dpo@asel.co.uk.
ASEL uses the lawful basis “legitimate interests” for processing your data as the processing is necessary to protect the business interests of our customers and there is no less intrusive method to achieve those business interests. Our legitimate Interest is not outweighed by the rights and freedoms of the affected data subjects as our processing is for the substantial public interest, the benefit of ASEL, its customers and consumers.
Where we process Special Category or Criminal Offence Data, such as CCTV recordings of criminal offences, we do so on the basis that it is necessary for the substantial public interest, in accordance with Article 9 (2) (g) and article 10 of the UK GDPR. We have assessed this interest against the appropriate provisions within the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) and considered that our processing is necessary for the provision of detecting an unlawful act, in accordance with paragraph 10, schedule 1 of Part 2 of the DPA 2018.
Most of your personal data will be retained for no longer than 30 days, with the exception of when the footage is required as part of a criminal investigation, before it is permanently and securely disposed of. The secure disposal of your data is an automatic process removing the risk of human error. All personal data is held in UK based secure servers.
As the Data Controller ASEL have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure your Personal Data always remains secure.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you believe we are infringing UK data protection laws or you are concerned about the way in which we are handling your personal data, in the case of the UK this is the ICO.
You can contact the ICO by following this link https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ or by telephone on 03031231113.
This notice was last updated on 13/07/2026. We may change this notice by updating this page to reflect changes in the law or our privacy practices at any time.
