PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council details requirements for practice for midwives and nurses (including record keeping and confidentiality) in the Code. Walking With You operates in accordance with the NMC Code. Angie Bowles holds current registration as both a nurse and a midwife.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
When visiting www.walkingwithyou.org.uk, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyse trends, administer the site, track users movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Links to third party Websites. We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own. GDPR. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is EU wide and far more extensive than its predecessor the Data Protection Act, along with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), seek to protect and enhance the rights of EU data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU and its storage within the EEA. For the purposes of providing midwifery and support services, Angie Bowles and Walking With You require detailed medical information. We will only collect what is relevant and necessary for your treatment. During consultations, by phone or in person, we will make notes which may include details concerning your medication, treatment and other issues affecting your health. This data is always held securely, is not shared with anyone not involved in your treatment, although for data storage purposes it may be handled by pre-vetted staff who have all signed an integrity and confidentiality agreement. To be able to process your personal data it is a condition of any treatment that you give your explicit consent to allow us to document and process your personal medical data.
Contact details provided by you such as telephone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses may be used to remind you of future appointments and provide reports or other information concerning your treatment. As part of our obligations as primary healthcare practitioners there may be circumstances related to your treatment, on-going care or medical diagnosis that will require the sharing of your medical records with other healthcare practitioners e.g. GPs, consultants and other midwives. Where this is required we will always inform you first unless we are under a legal obligation to comply. Angie Bowles and Walking With You will use the contact details provided by you to respond to your enquiries, including making telephone contact and emailing information to you based on your enquiry.
In making initial contact with the practice you consent to us making contact with you until you opt out (which you can do at any time). We do not broker your data.
Some basic personal data may be collected about you from forms and surveys you complete, from records of our correspondence and phone calls and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to, personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Angie Bowles and Walking With You website uses cookies, which is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. WordPress.org uses cookies to help us to identify and track visitors and their website access preferences. Our website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website. Angie Bowles and Walking With You will only collect the information needed so that we can provide you with the services you require, the business does not sell or broker your data. The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.
If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of Walking With You, you may contact us at angie@walkingwithyou.org.uk
Angie Bowles August 2019
COOKIES
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL SITE VISITORS)
- PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ADDITIONAL FOR LOGGED IN CUSTOMERS)
- wp-auth: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
- wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
- wordpress_test_cookie Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly.
- wp-settings-[UID]: WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
- wp-settings-[UID]:WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.