Privacy
Privacy
PRIVACY POLICY
Protecting your personal information is extremely important to St. Saviour’s Medical Charity. It’s especially important for a charity like ours, as our applicants trust us to look after sensitive information on their finances and their medical history.
The way we collect and share your information is equally important. Our applicants expect us to manage their information privately and securely. If we don’t, they’ll lose their trust in us. This policy tells you how we collect and process your personal information.
Please take a few minutes to read it, and show it to anyone else connected to your application.
When we talk about personal information we mean information about an individual that can identify them, like their name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and financial details. Any reference to “information” or “data” in this policy is a reference to personal information about a living individual.
What information do we hold?
We may collect and process the following personal information about you:
Contact: Who You Are, Where you live, How to contact you.
Personal Details: Age, Gender, Family details, Financial details, Medical history.
Transactional: Bank details.
Contractual: Your application history.
Where do we get our information from?
Information you give us directly (when you fill in your application form or contact us by phone, e-mail etc.). Information we collect about you or receive from other sources. This could be information you provide to us electronically (through our website for example but we do not use cookies). Information we get from your General Practitioner or Consultant.
How do we use your information?
We use personal information that we hold about you: To carry out our responsibilities resulting from any agreements you’ve entered into with us (e.g. regular contributions by Bankers’ Order towards the cost of treatment) and to provide you with any information that you’ve have requested from us. We will not sell your data to third parties for them to market to you.
To comply with any applicable legal or regulatory requirements.
To run our charity in an efficient and proper way. This includes managing our financial position, planning, communications, corporate governance, and audit.
For any other purpose that we’ve agreed with you from time to time.
Data protection laws require us to meet certain conditions before we’re allowed to use your personal information in the way we describe in this privacy policy. We take these responsibilities extremely seriously. To use your personal information, we’ll rely on the following conditions, depending on the activities we’re carrying out:
Providing our service to you: We’ll process your personal information to carry out our responsibilities in processing your application.
Complying with applicable laws: We may process your personal information to comply with any legal obligation we’re subject to.
Legitimate interests: To use your personal data for any other purpose described in this privacy policy, we’ll rely on a condition known as "legitimate interests". It’s in our legitimate interests to collect your personal data as it provides us with the information that we need to process your application more effectively.
Special category (sensitive) data: Where you have consented, we will process any medical & health information you have provided, and any other sensitive information obtained from a third party (e.g. your GP or other medical professional), solely for the purposes of allowing us to process your application.
Please be aware that the personal information you provide to us, and which we collect about you, is required for us to be able to process your application and without it we may not be able to do so.
How long do we keep your information for?
We’ll keep your personal information in accordance with our internal retention policy and GDPR regulations, which is normally for five years. We’ll only keep your personal information after this period if there’s a legitimate and provable business reason to do so.
Should you have any queries regarding personal information we hold about you, or wish to have that data removed from our records please contact us:
By email :
grants@stsavioursmedicalcharity.org.uk
Or telephone:
+44(0)1303 263833
Who do we share your personal information with?
While your application is being processed your personal information will also be held by a nominated Trustee. Upon completion of their visit they will delete all your personal information, which be held solely at the Charity office.
We’ll only disclose your information to persons or entities involved with your treatment, such as your G.P., Consultant or Hospital.
We’ll take all reasonably necessary steps to make sure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Your rights
The right to access the personal data that we hold about you.
The right to make us correct any inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
The right to make us erase any personal data we hold about you. This right will only apply where for example): We no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for You withdraw your consent if we’re using your personal data based on that consent Where you object to the way we use your data, and there is no overriding legitimate interest.
The right to restrict our processing of the personal data we hold about you. This right will only apply where for example: You dispute the accuracy of the personal data we hold.
The right to object to our processing of personal data we hold about you (including for the purposes of sending marketing materials to you).
The right to receive personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to make us transfer this personal data to another organisation.
The right to withdraw your consent, where we’re relying on it to use your personal data.
To know that St. Saviours Medical Charity fully complies with current GDPR regulations.
Contacts and complaints
f you have any questions about this privacy policy or wish to exercise any of your rights please contact the Charity.
If you have any concerns about the way we process your personal data, or are not happy with the way we’ve handled a request by you in relation to your rights, you also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office. Their address: First Contact Team Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5AF
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