This privacy statement relates to the NHS North East Essex CCG website (www.neessexccg.nhs.uk) only. You can get more information about how the CCG handles your personal data via our website.
1. General:
North East Essex CCG takes great care to safeguard personal data provided by its patients and processes such data fairly and lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018.
We do not capture and store any personal information about individuals who access this web site, except where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details via email or an on-line form.
In these latter cases, the personal information you give us is used exclusively by us for providing you with current and future information about our services.
We do not pass any of your personal information to outside organisations and/or individuals, except with your express consent.
2. Personal Information:
You have a right to know about the personal information that we hold about you. You also have the right to have your data corrected or deleted. Please direct all requests and/or queries about our data protection policy to the PALS team – details as on the PALS pages (link)
3. Use of Cookies:
A cookie is a small piece of information sent from a web-site to your computer where it is stored on your hard drive. Most web-sites send cookies of some description.
Most browsers will allow you to disable cookies; you will still be able to move around the site as normal if you do decide to disable cookies.
Information on our use of cookies on this website can be found in our Cookie Policy.
4. What information do we collect?
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
5. Using your Personal Information:
Personal information submitted to us via this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.
We may use your personal information to:
We do not pass any of your personal information to outside organisations and/or individuals, except with your express consent.
6. Disclosures:
We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.
In addition, we may disclose your personal information:
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
7. Security of your Personal Information:
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL technology (excluding our Comments & Suggestions form & Patient Forum).
Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
8. Contact / Comments & Suggestions Form:
This form sends a non-secure free-text email to us and should therefore not be used for any confidential purpose.
It has a similar security level as sending an unsecured email message from your email application (e.g. Outlook Express). You are under no obligation to use this form. If you do not want to use it, please post your comments and/or suggestions to our General Manager at our postal address.
9. Email List Subscription & Unsubscription Forms:
This facility allows us to store your email address. If you no longer wish us to keep your email address, please use our unsubscribe form. You are under no obligation to use this facility.
10. Policy Amendments:
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
11. Your Rights:
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to:
We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law. You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes by email at any time. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
12. Third Party Websites:
The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
13. Updating Information:
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
14. Contact:
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write us at;
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Aspen House
Stephenson Road
Severalls Business Park
Colchester
CO4 9QR
15. Data Controller:
The data controller responsible in respect of the information collected on this website is Genesis PR.
Our data protection registration number is ZA260483.
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