Partnerships in Care is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use
and any other documents referred to on it sets out the basis on which any personal
data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please
read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your
personal data and how we will treat it. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act
1998 (the Act), the data controller is:
Partnerships in Care
2 Imperial Place
Maxwell Road
Borehamwood
Hertfordshire
WD6 1JN
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information
provided when you complete our on- line accounts form and enquiry form.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although
you do not have to respond to them.
Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of
your orders.
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data,
location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for
our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP
address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report
aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users'
browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same
reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie
file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information
that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site
and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site
according to your individual interests.
To speed up your searches.
To recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which
allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting
you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted
your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies
when you log on to our site.
STORING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated
securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Unfortunately, the transmission
of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our
best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data
transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received
your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to
prevent unauthorised access.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for
you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or
which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such
purposes.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you
and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose
to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to
provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to
you and we or they may contact you about these by post, telephone, or email. If
you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail
or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the
subject of a previous sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit
selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic
means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data
in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes,
please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data
the enquiry form.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose
your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If Partnerships in
Care or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which
case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred
assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply
with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights,
property, or safety of
Partnerships in Care, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection
and credit risk reduction.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your
data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third
party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing
by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also
exercise the right at any time by contacting us at:
Partnerships in Care
2 Imperial Place
Maxwell Road
Borehamwood
Hertfordshire
WD6 1JN
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner
networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites,
please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not
accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies
before you submit any personal data to these websites.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of
access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject
to a fee of �10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information
we hold about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this
page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and
should be addressed to:
Partnerships in Care
2 Imperial Place
Maxwell Road
Borehamwood
Hertfordshire
WD6 1JN |
