PRIVACY POLICY for www.cancerlancashire.org.uk and www.cancercumbria.co.uk
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This Privacy Policy provides an explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you.
We do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this Policy regularly.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 our data controller is Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Information We Collect
In operating our website we may collect and process the following data about you:
i. Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, other communication data.
ii. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website, such as when you registered for information or events.
iii. Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.
Personal information we collect Is limited to that which is required for registering on the web site or a particular event. The extent of any information collected will be limited to that which is needed for the purposes of registration either on the web site or registration for a particular event.
Use of Your Information
The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:
i. To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our services.
ii. To meet our commitments to you.
iii. To notify you about any changes to our website, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service.
We will never release your personal information to any third parties except as required by law.
Please be advised that we do not reveal information about individuals but we may, on occasion, release aggregated statistical information about our visitors to a third party but this will be for the purposes of overall web site or service improvement. Personalised information is not released to anyone unless we are required by law or any legal statutory organisation.
Storing Your Personal Data
We will not transfer data that we collect from you to any location outside of the European Economic Area.
Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers.
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. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
Disclosing Your Information
Where applicable, we may disclose your personal information to an appropriately authorised member of the Lancashire & South Cumbria Cancer Network. However, this will be limited to those individuals who have a legitimate need to see or use such information.
Third Party Links
You might 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.
Access To Information
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access the information that we hold about you.
Contacting Us
We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this Privacy Policy. Please do not hesitate to contact us