Privacy policy
In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Ampersand Medical Communications Ltd. For more information about us, see below. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors. This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of such persons; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you visit our website.
This document was created using a template from Docular (https://seqlegal.com/free-legal-documents/privacy-policy).
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We may process data enabling us to get in touch with you ("contact data"). The contact data may include your name and email address as provided by you. We may also process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or that we send to you ("communication data"). The communication data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. We may process contact data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email, the legal basis for this processing being our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business.
We may process data about your use of our website ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is Google Analytics, see below. We may process usage data for the purposes of researching and analysing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analysing other interactions with our business. The legal basis for this processing is consent OR our legitimate interests, namely monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business generally.
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We may process your personal data for the purposes of security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activity. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others.
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Retaining and deleting personal data
We will not disclose your personal data to others without you express permission other than where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another.
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Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. Contact and communication data will be retained for a minimum period of 12 months following the date of the most recent contact between you and us, and for a maximum period of 12 months following that date. Usage data will be retained for 60 months following the date of collection.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of the above, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
Your principal rights under data protection law are: (a) the right to access - you can ask for copies of your personal data; (b) the right to rectification - you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data; (c) the right to erasure - you can ask us to erase your personal data; (d) the right to restrict processing - you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data; (e) the right to object to processing - you can object to the processing of your personal data; (f) the right to data portability - you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you; (g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority - you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and (h) the right to withdraw consent - to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.
These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, using the contact details set out below.
About cookies and cookies we use
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. 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. Cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
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We use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services and to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally. We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google's use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
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: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome); https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox); https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera); https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer); https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites and if you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website.
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website and you should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy. We may notify you of significant changes to this policy by email.
Our details
This website is owned and operated by Ampersand Medical Communications Ltd. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 10581276, and our registered office and regular place of business is at Woodlands, Eaves Lane, Woodplumpton, PR4 0BH.
You can contact us by post, to the postal address given above, using our website contact form, or by telephone on the contact number published on our website.