Terms & Conditions
Your Privacy is Our Priority
The following website has been provided for information pertaining to St Martin Surgery and their services. The below information sets out how St Martin Surgery uses and protects the data collected via our website. When using this site, you are legally bound to the following privacy policy, so please read carefully. Privacy protection is something which St Martin Surgery is fully committed to.
The Information We Collect
Many of our services require you to provide personal information. When contacting us, we may ask for details, such as your name, email address and telephone number. If you choose to register for our newsletter, we will require personal information, including your name and email address (do you actually need more than this? You have used the word “including”.).
What We Do With The Information
All of the information collected from the website is used solely for the purposes outlined in this document. We do not divulge any information to anyone outside of St Martin Surgery without prior consent from the website visitor – unless it is necessary to provide a requested service
How We Make Your Information Secure
St Martin Surgery take every step necessary to ensure that your personal information is secure. We follow strict policies and follow best practice standards of security when collecting personal information. The website uses HTTPS (This is an adaptation of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for secure communication over a computer network) to help protect against your personal information being stolen, destroyed or divulged to third parties. Your personal details are stored at our restricted offices which have no unauthorised access.
What We Collect
Through the use of contact forms, call back requests and newsletter sign-ups, we may collect, but are not limited to, the following information: name and job title, website details, contact information including email address and phone number, demographic information such as location, preferences and interests
What We Do With The Information We Collect
We try our best to understand your needs and provide you with a high level of service. We may use the information collected for the following reasons: Internal record keeping, to improve our products, to send you occasional promotional emails (unless you request otherwise) advising of things which may be of interest to you, such as news, offers and industry related articles, to customise the website according to interests advised by those who use our services
How We Use Cookies
Cookies are files which can be placed onto your computer’s hard drive, with your prior consent. There are numerous benefits to having cookies placed on your hard drive. If you have accepted them, cookies are used to identify when you visit a particular site, as well as analyse web traffic. Cookies facilitate a more personal web experience, allowing web applications to gather information about your preferences, and respond to you as an individual.
Please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org for more information on cookies.
At St Martin Surgery, traffic log cookies are used to identify the pages that are being used. From the data provided by these cookies, we can analyse the traffic to our website and tailor it to our customers’ needs. This information is used only for the purpose of statistical analysis and to improve your user experience. You can choose whether to accept cookies, or not. Many web browsers accept cookies but you can decline them in your browser settings if you wish. However, you may experience problems with our website if you do this.
When visitors to our website accept cookies, we can see which pages they find useful and which they do not. This provides us with information which can help us improve user experience. Please be assured that cookies do not allow us to do anything untoward, such as to gain access to your computer.
Cookies
This website uses the following cookies:
Google Analytics: This cookie allows us to see information on user website activities including, but not limited to page views, source and time spent on website. The information is anonymised and is displayed as numbers, meaning it cannot be tracked back to individuals. This will help to protect your privacy. Using Google Analytics we can see what content is popular on our website, and strive to give you more of the things you enjoy reading and watching.
Google AdWords: We use the Google Advertising platform to promote our services. The cookies from Adwords allow us to provide a better advertising experience
Facebook Advertising: We use Facebook advertising conversion tracking and retargeting pixels, which allows us to collect or receive information from your website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target advertising.
DoubleClick: We use remarketing codes to log when users view specific pages, allowing us to provide targeted advertising in the future.
Email Marketing Issued By Us May Contain Tracking Codes
If you have opted to receive newsletters, then this may include tracking codes which help us understand who, as well as how many people, have opened or clicked on each email. This data helps us to create better emails in the future, and provide you with a better service. This data is stored on the servers of our email partners and is covered under their security measures.
Third Party Links
This website may contain links to other websites. However, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting these sites. Third party links are not governed by our privacy statement.
Links
Hyperlinks on this site may be shortened to hide longer links, for functionality and tracking purposes.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you can opt-out at any time by emailing your request to us, which you can do via the website.
You can request details of personal information we hold about you If you would like a copy of the information held about you, please contact us. If you notice, or know, that any information held about you is incorrect, please contact us by letter or email. Our contact details are on the website. We will correct your information as soon as possible.
How To Opt Out Of Cookies
To opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies, visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page. If you want to opt out of our emails, fill in the contact form on our website. Please note that deciding to opt out of cookies for your browser may prevent webpages from functioning correctly for you. If you wish to disable cookies, please select the below image for your particular browser.
Policy Variations
We reserve the right to alter and change information provided in this document at our discretion. This document should therefore be referred to regularly for updates and variations