Healthy Communities Partnership takes your privacy seriously. We have adopted this Privacy Policy in recognition of your right to keep your personal information private. The policy describes our privacy practices in relation to your use of our website and our treatment of all data and information that we collect or hold.

What is Healthy Communities Partnership?
We are a small consultancy practice providing services to support the health and wellbeing sector in the UK.

The information we collect
Healthy Communities Partnership will only collect personal information from you where it has a legitimate reason to do so and/or you give your explicit consent. When you contact us, we will collect information about you so that we can contact you about any work we are doing or considering doing. This includes, name, email, and any additional information provided on our website form.

How we use your information
We will use the personal information we collect for the purpose disclosed at the time of its collection, or as set out in this policy. We will not use your personal information for any other purpose without first seeking your consent unless we are required to do so by law.  Generally, we will only use your personal information as follows:
       To provide and operate the Services of the consultancy
       To comply with any applicable laws and regulations
Your personal information will be held only for as long as it is required or as long as the law requires.

Confidentiality
Your personal information will be kept strictly confidential. We will not share it with any third-party organisation or individuals other than the people contracted to work with you by Healthy Communities Partnership. Your personal information will not be sold, given away or shared with anyone else, unless we are required to do so by law.

Access to your information
You can request access to the personal information that Healthy Communities Partnership holds about you by contacting us as set out below.  We will provide you with access to your personal information unless we are legally advised to refuse your request. We will provide the information as quickly as possible, but it may take up to fifteen working days.   
If you would like to ask us to change personal information that is out of date or inaccurate, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to correct the information. If you wish to have your personal information deleted, please let us know and we will delete it wherever practicable.

Withdrawing consent
If you wish to withdraw your consent for Healthy Communities Partnership to use your personal information, you can do so at any time using the contact details listed below.

Security
Healthy Communities Partnership will take all reasonable steps to ensure that personal information held is secure by storing it in a secure server or secure files. Security measures are in place to protect your personal information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, and damage. Email is not a secure method of transmitting information. Accordingly, Healthy Communities Partnership cannot accept responsibility for the security of information you send or receive from us by email.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
Healthy Communities Partnership may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time and we will publish the amended version on our website healthycommunitiespartnership.co.uk.

Links to other websites
Healthy Communities Partnership may at times include hypertext links to other websites. Their inclusion does not signify that Healthy Communities Partnership endorses or has any responsibility for the content of the linked websites; and we are not responsible for the privacy policies operated by the owners of those sites.

Our website
Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform which provides us with the online platform that allows us to tell you about our services. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data for our use on secure servers behind a firewall.

How we collect and store the information
We collect data you supply us (for example on our contact form) and through the use of strictly necessary cookies on the website. All personal information is securely stored. When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address, and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

To run the website effectively and to ensure that our site is safe to use, we receive, collect, and store any information you enter on our website or provide us with in any other way. In addition, we may collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, e-mail address, computer, and connection information. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, communications), comments, feedback, recommendations, and personal profile if relevant.

Contacting us
If you would like any further information or if you have any queries, problems or complaints relating to Healthy Communities Partnership’s Privacy Policy or data handling practices, please contact info@healthycommnitiespartnership.co.uk


November 2022