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    Privacy Policy

    Introduction

    Healthcare Today delivers essential news, features, interviews, and expert insights tailored for medical professionals and business owners.

    Healthcare Today is bound by the European Union General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and takes the privacy of your information very seriously. Under this privacy notice, Healthcare Today is the data controller.

    This Privacy Notice sets out your rights and applies to Healthcare Today’s use of any personal data collected and processed by Healthcare Today or provided by you in relation to your use of Healthcare Today’s services.

    Healthcare Today may amend this Privacy Notice at any time for any reason. Terms used in this privacy notice such as; personal data, data subject, inter alia, are as defined in Data Protection Legislation.

    Legitimate Interests

    Healthcare Today may collect and process your personal data on the basis of a legitimate interest. Healthcare Today will rely on its legitimate interests (see below) to process personal data, only when the processing is necessary with the purposes of those legitimate interests and are not overridden by the data subject’s rights, freedoms and interests.

    Healthcare Today has a legitimate interest in:

    • Fulfilling its contractual, commercial and legal obligations when providing its professional services to its clients.
    • Employing and managing its employees and members.
    • Developing its communications and professional relationships.

    What Data Healthcare Today Collect, Process and Why

    Healthcare Today collects and processes personal data for a variety of different reasons. Please refer to the sections set out below that apply to you.

    1. i) Clients

    Healthcare Today Limited collects data from its users in order to fulfil its contractual, commercial and legal obligations of its contracted services. To do this, Healthcare Today collects personal data such as, your name, contact details, position, address and company details. The majority of the personal data Healthcare Today collect would have been supplied to Healthcare Today by you, however some data may come from external sources, such as company searches.

    Healthcare Today processes your personal data for the purposes of providing its professional services to you and to communicate its services in the interests of developing its professional relationships. Healthcare Today has a ‘legitimate interest’ in processing your data for the purposes set out above.

    Healthcare Today will only share your data within its organisation.

    Healthcare Today will retain your data for as long as it has a legitimate purpose to do so and to defend itself against any legal claims. Typically, Healthcare Today will retain client documentation/case files for 6 years. Once Healthcare Today has no legal or commercial reasons to retain personal data, it will be securely deleted or destroyed.

    As a user, the failure to provide your requested personal data may result in Healthcare Today not being able to or provide its services properly or at all.

    Healthcare Today deploy a number of both organisational and technical measures that ensures that your data is securely stored at all times so that it cannot be lost, accidentally destroyed, misused, disclosed, or accessed by any unauthorised persons. For more information please contact [email protected].

    1. ii) Website Subscription/Contact Form

    Healthcare Today may collect personal data if you subscribe to our website or contact us with a query. Healthcare Today may collect, your name, contact details and any personal data relating to your enquiry with us.

    Healthcare Today will process your personal data to confirm your subscription and/or respond to your query. Your personal data will be shared within Healthcare Today’s organisations and third parties who provide support such as for information technology, for the purpose of processing your data. Healthcare Today has a ‘legitimate interest’ in processing your data for the purposes set out above.

    Healthcare Today will retain your personal data for commercial and legal purposes and for as long as it takes to respond to your query. Once Healthcare Today has no legal or commercial reasons to retain your personal data, it will be securely deleted or destroyed

    Healthcare Today deploy a number of both organisational and technical measures that ensures that your data is securely stored at all times so that it cannot be lost, accidentally destroyed, misused, disclosed, or accessed by any unauthorised persons. For more information please contact [email protected].

    Your Rights

    Healthcare Today are committed to ensuring that you are able to exercise your rights in relation to your personal data. Full details are set out under Data Protection Legislation, these include for example:

    • The right to request access to your personal data.
    • The right to request erasure of data.
    • The right to request rectification of inaccurate/out of date data.
    • The right to object to and/or restrict processing.
    • The right to data portability.

    For more information about your rights please visit https://ico.org.uk.

    Further Information

    If you require any further information on how Healthcare Today collect, use or process your personal data, please contact [email protected].

    Healthcare Today invite you to review the GDPR provisions set out at https://gdpr-info.eu for further information (Healthcare Today is not responsible for the content contained in external websites).