SCPI is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with SCPI’s terms of use and any other documents referred to in them or this policy) sets out the basis on which SCPI will use any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting http://www.scpiuk.org.uk/(our “Site”) you accept and consent to the practices described in this policy.
Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
- UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
- EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
- EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in formson our Site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our Site, subscribe to SCPI’s service or when you report a problem with our Site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number.
- Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our Site we may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our Site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call SCPI.
- Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
- Information you give to one of our Members. SCPI is not responsible in any way for this.
If you become a member of SCPI, the details you provide when joining or when editing your profile will be stored online in a database associated with this website. You have the right to request a copy of these details at any time or have them removed.
COOKIES
Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This assists us in offering you a good experience when you browse our Site and allows us to improve our Site.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
SCPI uses information held about you in the following ways:
- Information you give to us. We will use this information:
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and SCPI and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
- to provide you with information about services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer / device.
- Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
- to administer our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to improve our Site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to allow you to participate in any available interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- as part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure;
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our Site about services that may interest you or them.
- Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.
The personal information you provide may include your name, e-mail address and telephone number as well as other information about yourself.
When you give us information about another person, you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them and to consent to the processing of their personal data.
We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information.
We will not share your information with any external organisations other than for the above purposes.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
SCPI may share your personal information with selected third parties including:
- Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our Site.
- We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our terms of use of our Site or terms and conditions of supply of services and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of SCPI’s Members. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination inside or outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. SCPI 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.
YOUR RIGHTS
You may exercise your right to have your personal data removed from our records at any time by contacting us at info@scpiuk.org.uk or by the methods explained at the end of this notice.
You have a right to ask for a copy of your information and to correct any inaccuracies.
Links to other websites
Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of this when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
Our Site may contain links to and from the websites of any of our Members. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please refer to those websites’ privacy policies before you submit any personal data to them. SCPI does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Data Breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
Data Controller
The data controller of this website is:
SCPI (Surrey Counselling and Psychotherapy Initiative)
Whose registered office is:
The Owl Practice, St Mary’s Chambers, 59 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3UA
Telephone:
Email: info@scpiuk.org.uk
Changes to our privacy policy
This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.
Last updated 25th January 2018
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@scpiuk.org.uk
Cookies Notice
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
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