Our Privacy Policy is shown below and reflects the requirements of the GDPR (May 2018), which regulates the processing of personal data relating to you and your various rights in respect of your personal data. We would like to reassure you that any personal data you provide will be treated in complete confidence.

 

The information below is to provide you with an explanation of what personal data we hold, how we use it and your rights regarding the personal data we collect about you. Please read it carefully:

1. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

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Contact details - which include: name, email & other electronic addresses, organisation and telephone numbers.

Notes will be taken during consultation sessions and may include ‘sensitive personal data’.

 

Sensitive personal data

The Data Protection Act (GDPR 2018) gives special protection to sensitive personal data which will include information relating to health or sex life, race or ethnic origin, political beliefs or membership, philosophical or religious beliefs, trade union membership and information about the commission of offences and related proceedings. You should only provide this if you agree to us holding this information.

This data is used only by MHWA and is not shared with any third parties. We outline why we need this data and how it is used below.

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Employees & Associates
MHWA may collect information on Employees such as your name, contact details, address, date of birth and details of previous employment. If you provide details of a referee it is your responsibility to make sure that the person is aware that you have forwarded his/her details for these purposes.


2. HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU WILL BE USED

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The information we collect allows us to:

• Contact you

• Keep in touch regarding day to day matters

• Make payments to you

• Administer our websites

• Provide Customer Services

• Engage in discussions during consultation sessions

 

3. LAWFUL BASIS FOR DATA PROCESSING

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Contact details – Lawful Basis = Consent: you the individual has given clear consent for us to process the personal data for a specific purpose.

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Consultation Notes - Lawful Basis = Consent: you the individual has given clear consent for us to process the personal data for a specific purpose.

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Employee bank details – Lawful Basis = Contract: the processing is necessary for the contract we have with you.

Consultation Notes – Lawful Basis = Consent: you the individual has given clear consent for us to process the personal data for a specific purpose.

 

                                                                     

4. HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU WILL BE SHARED

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We will not share your personal data with any third parties. We may however disclose your personal data when we believe this is required by law, to enforce or comply our terms and conditions or to protect the rights of MHWA.

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5. RETENTION PERIODS

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Your personal data will normally be held for a period of no longer than 5 years after you have concluded your relationship with MHWA and will be destroyed/deleted at this time unless agreed otherwise.


6. YOUR RIGHTS

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You have the right to access the personal data that is held about you by MHWA and can request at any time that the information be added to, modified, restricted/suppressed or deleted. You also have the right to ask MHWA to stop communicating with you. You can do this verbally or in writing to marywatts@mhwa.co.uk

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7. SECURITY

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Your personal data will be securely stored to avoid accidental loss and unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure and we have implemented reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to secure your personal data.
 

8. CONTACTS

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You can contact MHWA using the following email address marywatts@mhwa.co.uk to discuss any matters relating to our privacy policy and to enforce your rights regarding your data.

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9. OTHER INFORMATION

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Links to other websites

Our websites may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.

 

Cookies

We use cookies to collect information about how you use our website, to maintain, provide and improve services and provide site users with a better experience. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit

Our website contains a cookie consent banner that appears upon your first visit to the site. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our website.  Information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org.

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.  Our cookies will have the following file name – svSession, hs, incap_ses_${Proxy-ID}_${Site-ID}, incap_visid_${Proxy-ID}_${Site-ID}, nlbi_{ID}, XSRF-TOKEN, smSession

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Changes to our privacy policy
We will ensure that an up to date version of our privacy policy is available to access on this page.  We will review on a regular basis and update when necessary. We suggest you regularly review the information to ensure that you are clear on what information we collect and how we use it.

 

Data Controllers & Processors

MHWA Company Directors.