Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 25th, 2023
This privacy policy describes my policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the site and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
I use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Interpretation and definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this privacy policy:
Account means a unique account created for you to access my service or parts of my service.
Company (referred to as either “the company”, “I”, “me” or “my” in this Agreement) refers to Sean Elder Therapies, 75 Main Street, Leuchars, Fife, KY16 0HF.
Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Country refers to the United Kingdom
Data controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
Device means any device that can access the service such as a computer, a phone or a digital tablet
Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
For the purposes for GDPR, personal data means any information relating to you such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
Service refers to the website.
Service provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of the company, to perform services related to the service or to assist the company in analyzing how the service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered data processors.
Usage data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Website refers to Sean Elder, accessible from https://www.seanelder.co.uk.
You means the individual accessing or using the service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), you can be referred to as the data subject or as the user as you are the individual using the Service.
Collecting and using your personal data
Types of data collected
Personal data
Whilst using my service, I may ask you to provide me with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Email address, first name and last name
Usage data
Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.
Usage data may include information such as your device’s internet protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of my service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the service by or through a mobile device, I may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
I may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit my service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking technologies and cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, my hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge my cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
When you submit information to this website via webform, I collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. I share this information with Squarespace.
Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.
Use of your personal data
The company may use personal data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain the service, including to monitor the usage of my service.
To contact you: To contact you by email regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which I offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.
To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests.
I may share your personal information in the following situations:
With service providers: I may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyse the use of my service, for payment processing, to contact you.
With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside (on my blog for example).
With your consent: I may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
Retention of your personal data
The company will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. I will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with my legal obligations (for example, if I am required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce my legal agreements and policies.
The company will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of my service, or I am legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of your personal data
Your information, including personal data, is processed via my customer relationship management system Clinicsense. Please find the details in their privacy policy here.
Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
The company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of your personal data
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the company may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The company may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
Protect against legal liability
Security of your personal data
The security of your personal data is important to me, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While I strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, I cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power my site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
I share this information with Squarespace, my website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of my service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google privacy & terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Payments
Payments are either made face-to-face at the appointment or through Cliniquesense my online booking platform. Please find the details in their privacy policy here.
GDPR privacy
Legal basis for processing personal data under GDPR
I may process personal data under the following conditions:
Consent: You have given your consent for processing personal data for one or more specific purposes.
Performance of a contract: Provision of personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Legal obligations: Processing personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the company is subject.
Vital interests: Processing personal data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.
Public interests: Processing personal data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the company.
Legitimate interests: Processing personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the company.
In any case, the company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your rights under the GDPR
The company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of your personal data and to guarantee you can exercise your rights.
You have the right under this privacy policy, and by law, to:
Request access to your personal data. The right to access, update or delete the information I have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your personal data, please contact me. This also enables you to receive a copy of the personal data I hold about you.
Request correction of the personal data that I hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information I hold about you corrected.
Object to processing of your personal data. This right exists where I am relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for my processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to my processing of your personal data on this ground. You also have the right to object where I am processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Request erasure of your personal data. You have the right to ask me to delete or remove personal data when there is no good reason for me to continue processing it.
Request the transfer of your personal data. I will provide to you, or to a third-party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for me to use or where I used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw your consent.
You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, I may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of the service.
Exercising of your GDPR data protection rights
You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting me. Please note that I may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, I will try my best to respond to you as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about my collection and use of your personal data.
Links to other websites
My service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by me. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. I strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this privacy policy
I may update our privacy policy from time to time.
You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact me by email: hello@seanelder.co.uk