Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY for www.accessyourcare.co.uk is listed below.
Privacy Policy for people using our services is located here: https://www.accessyourcare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Privacy-Notice-Clients.pdf
At Access Your Care Limited we are committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of our visitors when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us. This Privacy Policy contains an explanation of what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit this site. Our Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our terms of website use. We do occasionally update this Policy so please do return and review this Policy from time to time.
How we collect and use your data
We collect and use personal information about you in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
We will comply with data protection law when it comes to the processing of your data. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:
- used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
- collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
- relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
- accurate and kept up to date.
- kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
- kept securely.
What information we collect
Information we collect in running and operating this website we may collect and process certain data and information relating to you and your use of this site. This data and information is detailed below:
- Details of visits to our website and the pages and resources that are accessed, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data that may assist us in understanding how visitors use this website.
- Information that visitors provide to us as a result of filling in forms on our website, such as when a visitor registers for information or makes a purchase.
- Information provided to us when our visitors communicate with us electronically for any reason.
Use of Your Information
The information we collect is used for our own use in developing our website and also occasionally by advertisers on this site. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:
- To provide you with information relating to our website, products or our services that you request from us.
- To provide you with information on other products that we feel may be of interest to you.
- To meet our contractual obligations to you.
- To notify you about any changes to our website, including improvements, and service or product changes that may affect our website.
If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about goods and services similar to those that you have expressed an interest in previously via our website.
Finally, we may use your data, or allow carefully selected third parties to use your data, so that you can be provided with information about unrelated goods and services which we consider are likely to be of interest to you. We or they may contact you about these goods and services by any of the methods that you consented to at the time your information was collected. If you are a new customer, we will only contact you or allow third parties to contact you only when you have provided consent and, only by those means you provided consent for. If you do not want us to use your data for our or third parties use then you will always have the option to object to such use.
Storing Your Personal Data
Information that we collect will be stored within the European Union for the purpose of supplying our goods or services to you. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will always take all reasonable precautions to make sure that your data remains secure and is handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers. Details relating to any transactions entered into on our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk.
How long we keep your data
We will only retain your personal information 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. Any data which the Company decides it does not need to hold for a particular period of time will be destroyed in accordance with its retention of data policy.
Disclosing Your Information
Where applicable, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group. This includes, where applicable, our subsidiaries, our holding company and its other subsidiaries (if any).
Third Party Links
You mind find links to third party websites on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are sometimes used to improve the website experience of a visitor to a website. We may sometimes use cookies on this website to record aggregate statistical information about the visitors to our site and the use that our visitors make of the website. When collected, this information is used by us to improve our website and further enhance the visitor experience and, may be shared with advertisers. Pease note that no personally identifiable information is recorded.
We may also use the cookies to gather information about your general internet use to further assist us in developing our website. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. This cookie file is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive and then stored there and transferred to us where appropriate to help us to improve our website and the service that we provide to you. All computers have the ability to decline cookies. You can easily decline or remove cookies from your computer using the settings within the Internet Options section in your computer control panel. Our advertisers may also use cookies on their website. We have no control over this and you should review the privacy policy of any advertiser that you visit as a result of an advert or link on this website.
If you don’t want to receive cookies you can manage your cookie settings within your browser. You can also delete cookies. Visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org for details of how to manage cookies on a wide variety of browsers. If you do not want us to store analytics cookies on your browser, you can either change your browser settings to stop cookies being stored, or click the button below to remove Analytics Cookies from this site.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We will continue to store the session cookie and a cookie telling us you have opted out of analytics cookies. These cookies are essential to the running of the site.
Your Rights
The data subject must be permitted to exercise their rights in relation to their personal data.
Under the GDPR you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
- Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
- Request access to your data: You can ask us to provide a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Request corrections to be made to your data: If you think that your personal data is incomplete, inaccurate you can ask us to correct it.
- Request erasure of your data: If you consider there is no lawful basis for us to continue processing your data you can ask for that data to be deleted or removed.
- Object to the processing of your data: If our lawful basis for processing your data relates to a legitimate business interest (or third party interest) you can raise an objection to that interest. You can also object to us using your information for direct marketing purposes.
- Request that processing restrictions be put in place: If you believe that your information is being processed without a lawful reason or that the information is incorrect you can request that a freeze/restricting is placed on the processing of the information until your concerns are addressed.
- Request a transfer of your personal data: You can ask us to transfer your personal data to a third party.
- Right to data portabilility: You have a right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you in a commonly used and machine readable format. We can provide your data either to you or to such a third party you specify in your request.
- Automated decision making objection right: automated decision making is when a decision is made entirely by technological means without human intervention. We don’t use or rely on automated decision making.
- Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws;
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact (preferably in writing) at:
Email: info@accessyourcare.co.uk
Post: Access Your Care, Unit 6 Belvedere Court, 10 Beaufighter Road, Weston Super Mare, BS24 8EE
Telephone: 01275 874861
Right to Complain
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The GDPR also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.
To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints please in the first instance contact our Data Representative Sam Murray on 01275 874861. If this does not resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office on 03031231113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, England.
Access to Information
The Data Protection Act 2018 gives all individuals the right to access personal information that is held about them. You can request a copy of any information that we hold about you. Please note that any request for this information may be subject to payment of £10 which covers our administrative costs. Please contact us if you wish to make such a request.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or queries relating to this Privacy Policy then please contact us at:
Email: info@accessyourcare.co.uk
Post: Access Your Care, Unit 6 Belvedere Court, 10 Beaufighter Road, Weston Super Mare, BS24 8EE
Telephone: 01275 874861
Changes to this privacy policy
We keep our Promise under regular review. This Data Protection Promise was last updated on 13th June 2023.