digitalpractice.vet Privacy Policy
Our website provides services and information about services to veterinary practices.
The Website may contain links and adverts for third party providers; if you click through such a link, you will be subject to the Privacy Policy of the website you are navigated towards, and will no longer be subject to ours.
Digital Practice Ltd is a “data controller” which means we must tell you certain information when asking for your personal information. Our website contains several pages where you can provide us with information, for example if you register using our online form. Our registered address is Wey Court West, Union Road, Farnham, England, GU9 7PT.
If you have any queries about the Website, this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal information, please contact us. Our Data Protection Officer is David Harris who can be contacted at the above address or email at data@vethelpdirect.com.
This Privacy Policy relates to your use of the Website and tells you:
We last updated this Privacy Statement on 18/10/2022.
We may collect the following information about you:
We collect personal information from you if you contact us via our contact forms, an email link or participate in an online chat with us.
If you sign up for our newsletter, we will collect your email address and name which we will use to send you our newsletter and any other information that we think will be of interest to you. We will also monitor in aggregate how many people have opened the email newsletters, and what links they clicked through. This is so we can improve the content and delivery of the newsletters.
If you fill in one of our surveys, you may be asked for personal information that we will use to help us tailor our services to the needs and demands of owners.
If you follow a link from our website to log in via Facebook/Google/Twitter or Instagram then that website will provide us with personal information but you will be asked what information you want us to receive and will have the chance to edit the information that you provide to us.
You may choose to provide us with personal information if you post to our blog, the forum, or other user generated content areas.
We will mostly collect information relating to your organisation, including practice name, contact details, PMS used, etc, but if you are a sole trader we may process personal information relating to you to provide the dashboard and our services.
When you use the Website, we may collect certain information automatically such as:
If you want to know more about how we use cookies, please see our cookie statement.
The law only allows us to use your personal information in certain limited circumstances. We will most commonly process your personal information:
Any personal information that you give to us may be used in the following ways:
If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have entered into with you (such as providing you with our services), or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (such as to ensure that we keep the necessary insurance records).
We may share your information with carefully selected third parties including:
The following organisations are used by us:
For a full list of all our data processors, please see the list here.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
We have appointed EU Rep as our Representative under Article 27 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). All GDPR queries from EU Data Subjects or Data Protection authorities should be addressed to privacy@eurep.ie. BizLegal Limited trading as EU Rep have their registered office at 27 Cork Road, Middleton Co. Cork, Ireland. Company number 635921. You may also contact us directly at data@vethelpdirect.com.
The Website may contain links to websites owned by other organisations. If you follow a link to another website, these websites they will have their own privacy policy. We suggest that you check the policies of any other websites before giving them your personal information as we cannot accept responsibility for any other website.
The security of your personal information is important to us.
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard personal information. We use encryption technology where appropriate to enhance privacy and help prevent information security breaches. We use industry-standard measures and processes for detecting and responding to inappropriate attempts to breach our systems.
We may transfer of personal information from the UK to a country outside of the EEA. If we do, we will ensure that we enter into a data transfer agreement which gives you enforceable rights and legal remedies and provides adequate levels of protection for any personal information that is transferred outside of the EEA.
All third parties who provide services to the Website are required to sign contract requiring them to have appropriate technical, administrative and physical procedures in place to ensure that your information is protected against loss or misuse.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or on secure servers operated by a third party. Information on our third-party providers can be found above.
We may from time to time be required to modify information that you give us. In particular, we actively moderate the comment boxes and forum. Any comments made which are defamatory or otherwise illegal, or which at our complete discretion are deemed to be in breach of the code of conduct will be removed, in part or in full.
We only hold your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which we collected your information.
We have a company retention policy which lays down timescales for the retention of information. The document retention policy can be found here.
We have set these timescales in accordance with any applicable legislation and where none exists then we will keep your information for the duration of your services contract and then for a period of 7 years after which time it will be deleted.
If you chose to send us information via email, we cannot guarantee the security of this information until it is delivered to us.
You have the right to access information that we hold about you. If you wish to receive a copy of the information that we hold, please contact us or write to us at the address above.
You can ask us at any time to change, amend or delete the information that we hold about you or ask us not to contact you with any further marketing information. You can also ask us to restrict the information that we process about you.
You can use the check boxes on the forms we use to collect your information, or you can also request that we change, amend, delete your information or restrict our processing by emailing us at data@vethelpdirect.com or writing to us at the address at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.
You have the right to request that your personal data is transferred by us to another organisation (this is called “data portability”). Please contact us at data@vethelpdirect.com with the details of what you would like us to do and we will try our best to comply with your request. If may not be technically feasible, but we will work with you to try and find a solution.
If you make a request to us under this Privacy Statement and you are unhappy with the response, you can ask for the request to be reviewed under our internal complaints procedure. Our internal complaints procedure allows your request to be reviewed by David Harris, our Data Protection Officer, who will do their best to try and resolve the issue.
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site, or use of our services. This Policy is governed by English law.
If you have been through the internal complaints procedure and are still not happy with the result, then you have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. They can be contacted as follows:
Website: www.ico.org.uk
Telephone: (+44) 03031231113
Address: Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
UK
We review our Privacy Statement on a frequent basis to check that it accurately reflects how we deal with your information and may amend it if necessary. You should check this page regularly to see the most up to date information.
We welcome questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Statement which can be sent to data@vethelpdirect.com.