Privacy Policy

Independent Physiological Diagnostics Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, with company number, 11950087 (we, us or our), understands that protecting your personal data is important. This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal data provided to us, or otherwise collected by us when providing our website and sleep and neurological diagnostic services and equipment (Services) or when otherwise interacting with you.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other detailed privacy notices we may provide when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you understand our privacy practices in relation to your data.

The information we collect
Personal data: is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

We may collect, use, store and disclose different kinds of personal data about you which we have listed below:

Identity Data including first name, middle name, last name, date of birth and gender and images of you.
Contact Data including billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data including [bank account and payment card details (through our third party payment processor, [QuickBooks, WorldPay and Pay Pal]).
Technical and Usage Data including internet protocol (IP) address, your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour, information about your access and use of our website, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with our website, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
Transaction Data including details of Services you have purchased from us.
Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
Professional data including where you are a worker of ours or applying for a role with us, your professional history such as your previous positions and professional experience.
Special Categories of Personal Data is a special category of personal data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. In providing our Services, we may collect and process special categories of personal data about your health, including information about your symptoms, information relating to your sleep patterns; your weight and height; the medication you take; data we collect from your use of our machines; and your medical history. We will always let you know when we need to process special categories of personal data, unless otherwise required by law.

How we collect personal data
We collect personal data in a variety of ways, including:

Directly: We collect personal data which you directly provide to us, including when you sign up to our Services, through the ‘contact us’ form on our website or when you request our assistance via email, or over the telephone.
Indirectly: We may collect personal data which you indirectly provide to us while interacting with us, such as when you use our website, in emails, over the telephone, in your online enquiries and when you use equipment we can monitor.
From third parties: We collect personal data from third parties, such as your referring consultant, your parent or guardian (if applicable), and your next of kin in the event of an emergency. We only do this where we are permitted, authorised or required to by applicable law, or where you expressly authorise collection from such third party. [We may also collect details of your use of our website from our analytics and cookie providers and marketing providers. See the “Cookies” section below for more detail on the use of cookies.]

Purposes and legal bases for processing
We collect and process personal data about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable laws. We
have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal
bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. Note that we may
process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your
data. Please reach out to us if you need further details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your
personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Our disclosures of personal data to third parties

We may disclose personal data to:

the parties listed on any consent form you sign, including your referring consultant and next of kin;
any health professional that you ask us to disclose your personal data to;
our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers such as Microsoft;
professional advisors, bankers, auditors, our insurers and insurance brokers;
payment systems operators such as QuickBooks, WorldPay and Pay Pal.
our existing or potential agents or business partners;
anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;
courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required or authorised by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights; [and]
third parties to collect and process data, such as [Google Analytics (To find out how Google uses data when you use third party websites or applications, please see www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ or any other URL Google may use from time to time), Facebook Pixel or other relevant analytics businesses]; and any other third parties as required or permitted by law, such as where we receive a summons.

[Google Analytics: We have enabled Google Analytics Advertising Features including Remarketing Features, Advertising
Reporting Features, Demographics and Interest Reports, Store Visits, Google Display Network Impression reporting etc. We
and third-party vendors use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and
third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) or other third-party identifiers together.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features including using a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on found
here. To opt-out of personalised ad delivery on the Google content network, please visit Google’s Ads Preferences Manager
here or if you wish to opt-out permanently even when all cookies are deleted from your browser you can install their plugin
here. To opt out of interest-based ads on mobile devices, please follow these instructions for your mobile device: On
android open the Google Settings app on your device and select “ads” to control the settings. On iOS devices with iOS 6 and
above use Apple’s advertising identifier. To learn more about limiting ad tracking using this identifier, visit the settings
menu on your device.]

Overseas transfers
Where we disclose personal data to the third parties listed above, these third parties may store, transfer or access personal data outside of the United Kingdom. The level of data protection in countries outside of the United Kingdom may be less comprehensive than what is offered in the United Kingdom. Where we transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom, we will perform those transfers using appropriate safeguards in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws and we will protect the transferred personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This includes:

only transferring your personal data to countries that have been deemed by applicable data protection laws to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data; or
including standard contractual clauses in our agreements with third parties that are overseas.

Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Your rights and controlling your personal data

Your choice: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to provide our Services to you and your use of our Services.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal data about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal data about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal data to us.

Access, correction, processing and portability: You may request details of the personal data that we hold about you and how we process it (commonly known as a “data subject request”). You may also have a right in accordance with applicable data protection law to have your personal data rectified or deleted, to restrict our processing of that information, to object to decisions being made based on automated processing where the decision will produce a legal effect or a similarly significant effect on you, to stop unauthorised transfers of your personal data to a third party and, in some circumstances, to have personal data relating to you transferred to you or another organisation.

Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.

Withdraw consent: Where we are relying on consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Storage and security
We are committed to ensuring that the personal data we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures, to safeguard and secure personal data and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

Cookies
We may use cookies on our website from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, they do recognise you when you return to our online website and allow third parties, such as Google and Facebook, to cause our advertisements to appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our online Services. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our online Services, use a shopping cart or make use of online payment services.
Analytical/performance cookies. These are cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our online Services and to see how visitors move around our online Services when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our online Services work, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our online Services. These cookies enable us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting and advertising cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]
Social media cookies. These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our websites or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social media site. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other party’s websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal data which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

We collect this information when our mobile application is open (whether on-screen or not). If you do not want us to use your location for the purposes above, you should turn off the location services in your account settings in the mobile application or in your mobile phone settings. If you do not provide location information to us, we may not be able to provide our Services to you.

Amendments
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you if we make a significant change to this Privacy Policy, by contacting you through the contact details you have provided to us and by publishing an updated version on our website. For any questions or notices, please contact at:

Independent Physiological Diagnostics Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, with company number, 11950087.
Email: enquiries@ipdiagnostics.co.uk
Last update: 19 November 2023
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