SCPI

Surrey Counselling & Psychotherapy Initiative

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Privacy Policy

SCPI is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with SCPI’s terms of use and any other documents referred to in them or this policy) sets out the basis on which SCPI will use any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting http://www.scpiuk.org.uk/(our "Site") you accept and consent to the practices described in this policy.

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

If you become a member of SCPI, the details you provide when joining or when editing your profile will be stored online in a database associated with this website. You have the right to request a copy of these details at any time or have them removed.

COOKIES

Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This assists us in offering you a good experience when you browse our Site and allows us to improve our Site.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

SCPI uses information held about you in the following ways:

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

The personal information you provide may include your name, e-mail address and telephone number as well as other information about yourself.

When you give us information about another person, you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them and to consent to the processing of their personal data.

We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information.

We will not share your information with any external organisations other than for the above purposes.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

SCPI may share your personal information with selected third parties including:

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination inside or outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. SCPI will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

YOUR RIGHTS

You may exercise your right to have your personal data removed from our records at any time by contacting us at info@scpiuk.org.uk or by the methods explained at the end of this notice.

You have a right to ask for a copy of your information and to correct any inaccuracies.

Links to other websites

Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of this when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Our Site may contain links to and from the websites of any of our Members. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please refer to those websites’ privacy policies before you submit any personal data to them. SCPI does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Data Breaches

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

Data Controller

The data controller of this website is:

SCPI (Surrey Counselling and Psychotherapy Initiative)

Whose registered office is:

The Owl Practice, St Mary's Chambers, 59 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3UA

Telephone:

Email: info@scpiuk.org.uk

Changes to our privacy policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

Last updated 25th January 2018

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@scpiuk.org.uk


Cookies Notice

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Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

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Granting us permission to use cookies

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Turning Cookies Off

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