Introduction

This policy covers the services provided by the Care Council for Wales’s (Care Council) website. This privacy policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by the Care Council. For these purposes, the Care Council is the data controller in respect of any personal data we collect. The Care Council is registered with the Information Commissioner.

This policy does not cover any external websites which may be reached from links within this site. You should always be aware that when you are moving to another site you should read the privacy statement of any site which collects personal information.

Legislation

When you supply any personal information to the Care Council we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. Your personal details will not be used for any other purpose than to respond to your enquiry or to contact you in the future. At anytime you can request for your name to be removed.

Any information will be stored in compliance with the Data Protection Act and will be treated as proprietary and confidential. We have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access.

The Care Council’s Data Protection Policy is formally reviewed every three years or as and when appropriate.

This privacy policy should be construed in accordance with the law in England and Wales (as applied in Wales).

Purpose

What information do we collect?

If you are a user with general public and anonymous access, the Care Council for Wales’s website does not capture or store personal information about you but simply logs your IP address, which is automatically recognised by our web server. This is known as a ‘log file’ which we use to compile site usage statistics. The site does not use cookies to collect user information.

The system will record your email address, and other information if volunteered by you to us, for example, on the Contact us form, newsletter/email alert subscriptions and in the online forums. Any such information will be stored in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and will be treated as proprietary and confidential. It may be used to respond to your query or to notify you about updates to this website.

Enquiries sent via e-mail

You should note that e-mail enquiries and enquiries sent via the website are transmitted by insecure means and stored off-line. You recognise that the use of the internet and the website is entirely at your own risk. The Care Council accepts no responsibility or liability for the security of personal information transmitted via the internet.

Disclosure

Your personal details will not normally be disclosed to third parties. In some circumstances however we may need to disclose your personal details to a third party so that they can provide a service you have requested, or fulfill a request for information. Any information about you that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and used only to provide the services or information you have requested.

You have a right to request a copy of your personal details at any time to check the accuracy of the information held. If you wish to do this, please write to the contact listed below

Amendments to the privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. By reviewing this page it ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with a third party or another department.

Procedures

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy or about the website, you can contact us by any of the ways listed below

E-mail:

info@ccwales.org.uk

Letter:

Communications team
Care Council for Wales
South Gate House
Wood Street
Cardiff
CF10 1EW

Telephone:

029 2022 6257

Fax:

029 2938 4764

Minicom:

029 2978 0680

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