Page last updated: April 2022
We collect Personal Data through business interactions including, for example, website visitors, visits to Ultra locations, job applications, exhibitions and corporate events, public and charity events, and everyday transactional business activity. The following list shows the type of information that we may record for business purposes:
- Name, company and job title
- Contact information including e-mail address
- Demographic information
- Your preferences and interests from a business perspective
- Information relating to your market sector or business domain
- Information associated with surveys, business opportunities or employment (please refer to the Recruitment section)
- Images via CCTV (closed-circuit television) located in and around each Ultra location
We may use your Personal Data to:
- Communicate with you using commonplace technology (e-mail, telephone, tele-conferencing for example)
- Engage in business transactions with you to process orders for Ultra products and services
- Contact you about current and potential business and employment opportunities
- Send newsletters, bulletins and circulars
- Invite you to business events hosted by us or by other parties
- Improve our products and services and for other market research and surveys
- Send promotional materials or other information we think you will find interesting
- Undertake any other business activity associated with our interactions with you
Use of overt CCTV is integral to us improving security control at all our locations and the quality of life for all people who work at our sites, visit our sites, or live near to our sites in an open and transparent manner and where we have legitimate reason to do so.
It is not our intention to electronically collect Personal Data from children and we do not promote or market our services to children without legitimate reason (engagement with schools and colleges for example). If you are a parent or legal guardian and you are concerned that your child has given us Personal Data, please contact our Group Data Protection Officer (please refer to the Further information section).
We respect your privacy and will not share any Personal Data collected from you via whatever means except when required by law, including (without limitation) compliance with applicable data protection and privacy laws or judicial proceedings, court orders or any other legal processes, without fair and legitimate reason to do so. Any Personal Data you share with us will be treated with care and only used for the purposes set out in this global Data Privacy notice. Ultra will not sell any of your Personal Data.
We are committed to ensuring that your Personal Data is secure. In order to prevent unapproved access or disclosure we have put in place technical and organisational measures to safeguard and secure the Personal Data we collect.
We generally retain your Personal Data for as long as needed to manage our relationship with you. We carry out periodic reviews of the Personal Data we hold to ensure it is up to date and accurate.
Your rights in connection with providing Personal Data, and where permitted by applicable data protection and privacy law, are:
- Access - You may request access to a copy of your Personal Data and further information about how we deal with your Personal Data.
- Accuracy - You may request that we correct, delete or restrict the use of any inaccurate Personal Data we hold.
- Erasure - You may request that we erase Personal Data we are holding where it is no longer being used for the purpose it was originally submitted for.
Subject to where you live, you may have other rights and choices in accordance with prevailing data protection and privacy law. Requests should be submitted to our Group Data Protection Officer (please refer to the Further information section).
It is our policy to use cookies for anonymous analysis (tracking the timing and dates of visits, pages viewed for example). To learn more about how we manage and use cookies and to control your cookie choices please review our Cookie notice.
As a convenience to visitors, our website may contain links to other websites. Ultra is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites and it is recommended that users read the privacy policy statements posted via each website visited.
If you have any questions or concerns about this global Data Privacy notice or wish to exercise your rights our Personal Data Protection Officer can be contacted via:
E-mail: [email protected]
Post: Nina Jahnke, Personal Data Protection Officer, Ultra Electronics Forensic Technology Inc., 800 Hymus Blvd. 4th Floor, St-Laurent, Quebec, H4S 0B5, Canada
You can also submit a request using our Contact us page.
You have the right at any time to raise concerns with your local data protection supervisory authority directly. We encourage you to contact us in the first instance as we aim to promptly, efficiently and satisfactorily resolve any questions or concerns you have in relation to your Personal Data.
We reserve the right to review the information contained in this global Data Privacy notice, please refer to this page frequently to view any changes or updates.
As part of any recruitment process Ultra collects and uses Personal Data relating to job applicants. This global Data Privacy notice applies to all prospective applicants and candidates during the recruitment and selection process for a role within Ultra. The application may be for a permanent, temporary or fixed term contract of employment as well as applications from candidates applying for an Apprenticeship or Graduate placement or to provide services via a Limited Company supplier agreement or through an Employment Agency or Umbrella Company.
In addition to the notice below and regardless of location, all applicants and candidates should read the privacy notices and statements displayed when applying using our HR Information System and any other Application Tracking systems in operation.
Page last updated: April 2022
1.1 What are cookies?
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
1.2 Persistent and session cookies
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
2.1 Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Cookie | Purpose |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. |
2.2 Analytical/Performance Cookies
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Cookie | Purpose |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gat |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
| _gid |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
2.3 Google AdWords Remarketing
Google Ads Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Google. We use Google Ads Remarketing to display relevant advertisements to website visitors based on the pages of www.ultra-forensictechnology.com that have been viewed, improving our website experience.
Google Ads Remarketing cookies collect data about your activities when you visit our website by placing a cookie on your machine. This cookie does not identify you or give us access to your computer as no personal data (also known as Personally Identifiable Information or PII) is stored in Google Ads Remarketing. The cookie allows us to show you relevant advertisements based on your browsing of our website.
Details of how you can opt-out of accepting these cookies:
- To opt-out via the Ultra website: Click Cookie preferences (in the footer or via a link in section 3, below)
- To opt-out of Google AdWords Remarketing: Google Support
- To opt-out of all third party cookie advertising: Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page
- To control the use of device identifiers: Via your device settings
3.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies
The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
- Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- Internet Explorer – https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Edge – https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
- Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Safari – https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
- Opera – http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
You can manage the cookies used on our website at anytime by visiting our cookie portal.
3.2 Negative impact of blocking cookies
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
4.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
4.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
4.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through a message on our website.
5.1 This website is owned and operated by Ultra Electronics Holdings PLC.
5.2 Our principal place of business is at 35 Portman Square, Marylebone, London W1H 6LR.
5.3 You can contact us:
- by post, using the postal address given above;
- using our website contact form;
- by telephone, on +44 (0) 208 813 4321; or
- by email, using [email protected]
6.1 Our Group Data Protection Officer can be contacted via e-mail [email protected]. Individuals have the right at any time to raise concerns with a data protection supervisory authority directly. We encourage you to contact us in the first instance as we aim to promptly, efficiently and satisfactorily resolve any questions or concerns you have in relation to your personal data.
Page last updated: June 2022
This statement is issued pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes Ultra’s Modern Slavery Statement for the period commencing 1 April 2021 and ending 31 March 2022 in accordance with the UK Government single reporting deadline mandatory requirement.
Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, labour exploitation and human trafficking collectively referred to as ‘modern slavery’ in this statement. These have in common the deprivation of a person's liberty by another to exploit them for personal or commercial gain. Ultra and our subsidiaries (Ultra) have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery in any form.
Ultra is committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to support prevention of modern slavery occurring in our business or in any of our supply chains.
Ultra Electronics Holdings plc is the group parent company. Our Head Office is in the UK, and we have other global offices and facilities predominantly in the USA, Australia, and Canada.
Ultra provides application-engineered solutions in the key elements of mission critical and intelligent systems. Through innovative problem solving, using sustainable capabilities, and evolving technologies, Ultra delivers outstanding solutions to our customers’ most complex challenges in defence, security, critical detection, and control environments.
Ultra is organised into five Strategic Business Units (SBU):
- Maritime delivers mission systems and application engineering solutions operated by naval fleets across the US, UK, and allied navies worldwide. Developing advanced specialist systems to deliver warfighting edge in the modern maritime and underwater battlespace, solutions provide critical operational advantages to ‘five-eyes’ defence customers (UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) across surface, sub-surface, and unmanned platforms. The Maritime SBU comprises four Operational Business Units (OBU): Sonar Systems; Sonobuoy Systems; Naval Systems; and Sensors and Signature Management and Power.
- Intelligence and Communications delivers mission critical, multi-domain communications, command and control, cyber security, and electronic warfare solutions to defence customers (UK, USA, Canada) to inform decision making in the most challenging environments. The Intelligence and Communications SBU comprises four OBU: Communications; Specialist Radio Frequency; Command, Control, and Intelligence; and Cyber.
- Precision Control Systems designs and supplies market-leading safety and mission critical solutions to the military and commercial aerospace markets.
- Forensic Technology is a world-leader in ballistic identification and forensic analysis solutions that help law enforcement agencies around the world to prevent and solve crime.
- Energy focusses on the supply of nuclear safety sensors and systems as well as selected industrial applications, predominantly in the UK, North America, and China.
Each SBU operates autonomously and holds responsibility for management of their respective supply chains. Policy and guidance are provided centrally from Head Office, Global ONE Ultra Procurement, and the UK Procurement Council with oversight from the Ultra Chief Risk Officer (CRO).
Ultra is committed to ensuring transparency in our business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chains. To this end, the topic is discussed during Global ONE Ultra Procurement forums and UK Procurement Council meetings.
Global ONE Ultra Procurement and the UK Procurement Council in partnership with the CRO have determined that, in general, Ultra has a low dependency on goods and services from suppliers that present a high modern slavery risk. The goods and services procured by Ultra businesses are predominantly Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) products, high-end technology, or consultancy/professional services from North America, the UK, Australia, or other lower risk territories.
The following steps taken by Global ONE Ultra Procurement and the UK Procurement Council support prevention of modern slavery in Ultra's supply chains:
- Determining and maintaining acceptable procedures for supplier pre-qualification.
- Ongoing assessment of modern slavery risks based on high country risks and high sector risks.
- Maintaining a central Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking policy.
- Providing mechanisms for discussing and recording if occurrences of modern slavery are identified and determining actions to prevent future occurrences.
- Developing and introducing training in identifying modern slavery across the supply chain for relevant employees and contingent workers.
Although ultimate responsibility for the implementation of the Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy lies with the Ultra Board of Directors, this requirement has been delegated to SBU/OBU Managing Directors and Presidents who are responsible for the implementation and control of the policy and monitoring compliance within their respective businesses and for ensuring risk assessment of suppliers is effectively managed.
Managing Directors and Presidents ensure that:
- Their business has in place systems to: identify and assess potential risks of modern slavery in their business and their supply chains; mitigate the risk of modern slavery occurring in their business and supply chains; and monitor potential risk areas in their business and supply chains.
- Terms and conditions of purchase and associated purchasing documentation forbidding the use of modern slavery practices are adopted by their business with the right to terminate a relationship with a supplier if issues of non-compliance are discovered and/or non-compliance is not addressed in a timely manner.
- Ensuring the Ultra global Supplier Code of Conduct is issued to all suppliers, contractors, and business partners at the outset of the business relationship and reinforced frequently thereafter.
- Identified risks are escalated to the CRO and SVP Group Procurement in a timely manner.
Ultra expects all suppliers to conduct business in an ethical, safe, and sustainable way and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Ultra communicates standards and expectations to suppliers in the following ways:
- Ultra global Supplier Code of Conduct
- Commercial contracts, terms and purchasing documentation
- Adding/pre-qualifying suppliers to its vendor base
- Conducting audits or visits to supplier sites
- Engaging with suppliers when conducting business activity
Ultra operates an independent, anonymous, and confidential reporting platform. The “Speak Up” platform is a global channel for any person who works for or with Ultra in any capacity to ask questions and report concerns they believe are a violation of the Ultra Codes of Conduct including those relating to modern slavery and human trafficking.
Business leaders hold responsibility for providing adequate and regular training to employees and contingent workers to ensure understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking occurring in their business and supply chains. This is supported by a comprehensive global compliance training programme with Ultra employees and contingent workers attend training covering topics included in the Ultra Code of Conduct during induction and via regular refresher sessions.
Global ONE Ultra Procurement and the UK Procurement Council provide advice, guidance, and training to teams with direct responsibility for supply chains. Our UK Procurement teams in each business are aware of the Home Office Modern Slavery Awareness and Victim Identification Guidance and the matter is a fixed agenda item at regular UK Procurement Council meetings.
During the reporting year Ultra has launched a global Ultra Supplier Code of Conduct. Suppliers commit to providing regular training to their employees including all minimum standards and requirements mandated by Ultra. In the scope of the code Ultra pledges to collaborate with suppliers providing necessary support to reach compliance with the code. Our Ultra Code of Conduct reinforces businesses are responsible for ensuring that suppliers and other partners operate with integrity and to high ethical standards.
The effectiveness of Ultra’s modern slavery policies is measured by:
- Business compliance with the Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy.
- Rolling refresh of business risk assessments to ensure any changes in the profile of supply chain risks are considered, assessed, and appropriately managed.
- Review of the commercial terms and conditions and purchasing documentation.
- Review of due diligence processes adopted by businesses and training that has taken place in each business.
- Recording and monitoring modern slavery incidents (if any) within Ultra’s supply chains and, where necessary, developing corrective measures.
Global ONE Ultra Procurement and the UK Procurement Council provide oversight and challenge to this measuring and review process.
Progress since the last statement
During the reporting period commencing 1 April 2021 ending 31 March 2022 Ultra addressed the following actions recorded in the previous statement:
- Launched a global Supplier Code of Conduct setting out minimum standards and expectations for suppliers and the broader supply chain. The code states Ultra’s zero-tolerance of inappropriate business conduct, explicitly slavery, human trafficking, and labour exploitation in any form.
- Extended the independent, anonymous, and confidential reporting platform Speak Up to third parties to enable any person to ask questions and report concerns they believe are a violation of Ultra’s Codes of Conduct.
- Overhauled and re-launched the Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy establishing a central global policy.
Goals for the next reporting period
During the next reporting period we plan to:
- Meet our target to sign-up Ultra’s top thirty suppliers by spend to the new global Supplier Code of Conduct by the end of 2022.
- Complete a refresh of business risk assessments to ensure changes in the profile of supply chain risks are considered, assessed, and responsibly managed.
- Launch Code of Conduct refresher training to all employees and contingent workers via the Ultra HR learning management system.
- Continue to screen new suppliers and audit existing suppliers to ensure compliance with prevailing legislation in the countries where Ultra and the supplier/s operate meeting Ultra’s commitment to audit a minimum of thirty key suppliers at least every two years.
- Pledge to collaborate with our suppliers to ensure that like our own employees and contingent workers, theirs are protected and they and their supply chains can compete fairly and have an equal chance of success.
- Continue to review the feasibility of engaging with external parties or implement tools to support the evaluation and compliance of our key supply chain partners.
The board of directors of Ultra Electronics Holdings plc approved this statement at the board meeting held 23 June 2022.
