We respect your privacy and are determined to protect your personal data. The purpose of this privacy notice is to inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from). We’ll also tell you about your privacy rights and how the data protection law protects you.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you fill in any of our contact forms. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
EC Appointments Ltd is the data controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as ["COMPANY"], "we","us" or "our" in this privacy notice). Our contact details are:
For all data matters contact Elizabeth Chapman at liz@ecappointments.co.uk
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. You can find out more about personal data from the Information Commissioners Office. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data).
If you choose not to provide personal data with us, we may not be able to work with you. In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you. You may give us your identity and contact details by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
for which we will use your personal data
We may use you data to add you to our marketing list. This will use the following kind of data:
Our lawful basis for processing this data is due to you expressing interest in receiving future advice, guides and content by ticking the consent box on one of our website's contact forms.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. If you have requested information from us and given us permission to send you further communications you will receive marketing communications from us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by e-mailing us on liz@ecappointments.co.uk at any time. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of service purchase or other transactions.
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We do not use them for advertising, contacting anyone directly or sharing any information with third parties.
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If we need to use your personal data for another purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Internal Third Parties; external contractors who we use to assist us with certain activities. This includes contractors that would be specifically working on a project you undertake with us or contractors that are assisting us with our own internal marketing.
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We do not transfer your personal date outside of the EEA
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data; the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data; the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means; and the applicable legal requirements.
Unless subject to an exemption under the data protection laws, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our data representative Elizabeth Chapman, liz@ecappointments.co.uk
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one week. Occasionally it may take us longer than a week if your request is particularly complex. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.