Privacy Policy – Private Practice Hub

Privacy Policy

This is the privacy notice of Private Practice Hub Limited, a limited liability company, registered in England and Wales. In this document, “we”, “our”, or “us” refer to Private Practice Hub Limited.

Private Practice Hub Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with registered number 7793322 whose registered office is 4th Floor, Silverstream House, 45 Fitzroy Street, W1T 6EB  

If you wish to contact us about privacy, please send us a message at info@privatepracticehub.co.uk.

Introduction

1. This is a notice to inform you of our policy about all information that we record about you. It sets out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (“personal information”) and information that could not. In the context of the law and this notice, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information.

2. We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all visitors to our website are entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.

3. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, and hope that you reciprocate.

4. Our policy complies with UK law accordingly implemented, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

5. The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at www.knowyourprivacyrights.org

6. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

Personal information we may process

We aim to process data, whether personal data or not, only to the extent necessary for us to provide our services and for other agreed purposes.

Often we may aggregate information in a general way and use it to provide class information. If we use it for this purpose, you as an individual will not be personally identifiable.

We provide a business to business service. If your business is a member, we may process personal information about you as the owner of the business, which may include your identity and contact information and information about your professional qualifications and membership. Usually your personal data will have been provided to us by you.

If you supply our business with goods or services, including subcontracted services that we supply to our clients, then we may process your personal information. Personal information may include your name and contact information and that of employees and subcontractors. We do so only to the extent necessary to contract with you.

The bases on which we process information about you

The law requires us to determine under which of six defined bases we process different categories of your personal information, and to notify you of the basis for each category.

If a basis on which we process your personal information is no longer relevant then we shall immediately stop processing your data.

If the basis changes then if required by law we shall notify you of the change and of any new basis under which we have determined that we can continue to process your information.

1. Information we process because we have a contractual obligation with you

When a contract is formed between you and us, we may process your personal information in order to carry out our obligations under that contract or to fulfil a condition before we enter into a contract.

Additionally, we may aggregate this information in a general way and use it to provide class information, for example to monitor our performance with respect to a particular service we provide. If we use it for this purpose, you as an individual will not be personally identifiable.

We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the contract.

2. Information we process with your consent

Only when you have given us explicit permission to do so, do we process your personal information under the basis of consent.

For example, you might have agreed that we may track your actions on our website or send you information about services or products you would find useful.

We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by telling us. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our services further.

3. Information we process for the purposes of legitimate interests

We may process information on the basis there is a legitimate interest, either to you or to us, of doing so.

Where we process your information on this basis, we do after having given careful consideration to:

  • whether the same objective could be achieved through other means
  • whether processing (or not processing) might cause you harm
  • whether you would expect us to process your data, and whether you would, in the round, consider it reasonable to do so

For example, we may process your data on this basis for the purposes of:

  • record-keeping for the proper and necessary administration of our business
  • responding to unsolicited communication from you to which we believe you would expect a response
  • protecting and asserting the legal rights of any party
  • insuring against or obtaining professional advice that is required to manage business risk
  • protecting your interests where we believe we have a duty to do so

4. Information we process because we have a legal obligation

We are subject to the law like everyone else. Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation.

For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.

This may include your personal information.

Specific uses of information you provide to us

5. Provision of our services

When your business is operated by you as a sole trader, trading under your personal name, we process the data required to provide our services to you as a business.

If we process personal information, we may do so on the basis of legitimate interests where we consider that you would reasonably expect us to do so in order to provide our service to your business.

If you believe that this basis is not appropriate in respect to our processing of your personal information then we ask you to tell us.

6. Replying to you

When you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by e-mail, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need. We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business.

We keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you to provide a high quality service.

7. Dealing with complaints

When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us.

We use that information to resolve your complaint.

If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.

If the complaint relates to information on our website and we feel it is justified or if we believe the law requires us to do so, we shall remove the content while we investigate. If we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.

We may compile statistics from information relating to complaints to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.

Use of information we collect through automated systems when you visit our website

8. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use. We provide more information about the cookies we use in our cookie policy.

9. Personal identifiers from your browsing activity

Requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on our website are recorded.

We record information such as your reported geographical location and your IP address. We also record reported information about the software you are using to browse our website, such as the type of computer or device and the screen resolution.

We use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the webpages on our website and how we perform in providing content to you.

If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally, even if you are not signed in to our website.

10. Our use of re-marketing

Re-marketing involves placing a cookie on your computer when you browse our website in order to be able to serve to you an advert for our products or services when you visit some other website.

We may use a third party to provide us with re-marketing services from time to time. If so, then if you have consented to our use of cookies, you may see advertisements for our products and services on other websites.

Disclosure and sharing of your information

11. Sharing of your information

11.1 We will not sell your information to any third parties for the purposes of direct marketing.
We use data processors who are third parties who provide elements of services for us. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct.

11.2 Third party advertising on our website

Third parties may advertise on our website. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects information about you when their advertisement is displayed on our website.
They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the performance of their adverts.
We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.

12. Data transfers outside the European Union

Our websites are hosted in the United Kingdom.
We do not transfer personal data outside of the European Union.

Access to your own information

13. Access to your personal information

13.1. At any time you may review or update personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by signing in to your account on our website.

13.2. To obtain a copy of any information that is not provided on our website you may send us a request. Our address is given at the start of this notice.

13.3. After receiving the request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information, and whether we require any fee for providing it to you.

14. Removal of your information

If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website please contact us. Our address is given at the start of this notice.

This may limit the service we can provide to you.

15. Verification of your information

When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personal identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.

Other matters

16. Use of site by children

16.1. We do not sell products or provide services for purchase by children, nor do we market to children.

16.2. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian.

17. Encryption of data sent between us

We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us.

Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.

18. How you can complain

18.1. If you are not happy with our privacy policy or if you have any complaint then you should tell us by email. Our address is given at the start of this notice.

18.2. If a dispute is not settled then we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation or arbitration.

18.3. If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal information, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

19. Retention period for personal data

Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:

19.1. to provide you with the services you have requested;

19.2. to comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities;

19.3. to support a claim or defence in court.

20. Compliance with the law

Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you.

However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.

21. Review of this privacy policy

We may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you use our website. We advise you to print a copy for your records.