Privacy Policy

Privacy and cookies policy

  1. Introduction

1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website (www.rotamaster.co.uk) visitors and service users.

1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

1.3 By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

1.4 In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to IQUS Ltd T/A RotaMaster. For more information about us, see Section 16.

  1. How we use your personal data

2.1 In this Section 2 we have set out:

(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;

(b) in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;

(c) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and

(d) the legal bases of the processing.

2.2 We may process data about your use of our website and services (“usage data”). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The lawful basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.

2.3 We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (“enquiry data”). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The lawful basis for this processing is taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate interests, namely our interest in the proper administration of our website and business.

2.4 We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (“notification data”). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The lawful basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.

2.5 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (“correspondence data”). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The lawful basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.

2.6 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The lawful basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.

2.7 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The lawful basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.

2.8 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 2, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

2.9 Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.

  1. Automated decision-making

3.1 We will not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making.

  1. Providing your personal data to others

4.1 We may disclose to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy. Our Group Companies include:

  • M3 Inc (Japan)
  • M3 Medical Holdings Ltd
    • QQFS (Sweden)
    • M-Panels Research Services Pvt Ltd T/A M360 Research (India)
    • IQUS Ltd T/A RotaMaster (UK)
    • OneHealth Communications (UK)
    • Data4NHS (UK)
    • Ekas Marketing Research Services (Australia)
    • iDoctus (Spain and Mexico)
  • Vidal Group Holdings Ltd including subsidiaries in France, Germany and Spain
  • M3 USA
  • M3 (EU) Ltd which includes trading styles:
    • net.uk (UK)
    • medeConnect (UK)
    • M3 Global Research (UK)

4.2 We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

4.3 We will not disclose your enquiry data to third party suppliers of goods and services for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you relevant goods and/or services.

4.4 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

  1. Retaining and deleting personal data

5.1 This Section 5 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

5.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

5.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:

(a) Enquiry data and correspondence data will be retained for a minimum period of 12 months following the date of the last correspondence, and for a maximum period of 2 years following the date of the last correspondence.

5.4 In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:

(a) the period of retention of personal data will be determined based on the category of data and our data retention policy.

5.5 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 5, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

  1. Security of personal data

6.1 We will take appropriate technical and organisational precautions to secure your personal data and to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.

6.2 We will store all your personal data on secure servers, personal computers and mobile devices, and in secure manual record-keeping systems.

6.3 The following personal data will be stored by us in encrypted form (when stored electronically): your name and contact information.

6.4 Data relating to your enquiries that is sent from your web browser to our web server, or from our web server to your web browser, will be protected using encryption technology.

6.5 You acknowledge that the transmission of unencrypted (or inadequately encrypted) data over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

  1. Amendments

7.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

7.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

  1. Your rights

8.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to

the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose.

8.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

8.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

8.4 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.

8.5 You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

8.6 You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

8.6 You have a right to data portability for information you have supplied to us. This allows you to request that we transfer the information from one organisation to another where we are processing information based on your consent or under, or in talks about entering into a contract and the processing is automated.

8.7 Reasonable access to your personal data will be provided at no cost to you upon your request. RotaMaster will provide the information to you within the legal time frame. If for some reason access is denied, we will provide an explanation as to why access has been denied.

8.7 To exercise your rights, you can write the Data Protection Officer at DPO@rotamaster.co.uk.

 

  1. Third party websites

9.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.

9.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties. We recommend you view the privacy policy for other websites you visit.

  1. Personal data of children

10.1 Our website and services are targeted at persons over the age of 18.

10.2 If we have reason to believe that we hold personal data of a person under that age in our databases, we will delete that personal data.

  1. Acting as a data processor

11.1 In respect of the rostering products and services promoted on this website, we do not act as a data controller; instead, we act as a data processor.

11.2 Insofar as we act as a data processor rather than a data controller, this policy shall not apply. Our legal obligations as a data processor are instead set out in the contract between us and the relevant data controller.

  1. About cookies

12.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

12.2 Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

12.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

  1. Cookies that we use

13.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, cookies used for this purpose are:
PHPSESSID – Cookie purpose description: Preserves user session state across page requests.

Analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services (cookies used for this purpose are detailed in clause 15.2 below).

  1. Cookies used by our service providers

14.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

14.2 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. The relevant cookies are:

_ga – Cookie purpose description: Google Analytics – Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

_gat – Cookie purpose description: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

_gid – Cookie purpose description: Google Analytics – Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Collect – Cookie purpose description: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

  1. Managing cookies

15.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

15.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

15.3 If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website.

  1. Our details

16.1 This website is owned and operated by IQUS Ltd T/A RotaMaster.

16.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 04070870 and our registered office is at 20A Appleton Court, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF27AR.

16.3 Our principal place of business is at 20A Appleton Court, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF27AR.

16.4 You can contact us:

(a) by post, to the postal address given above;

(b) using our website contact form;

(c) by telephone, on the contact number published on our website from time to time; or

(d) by email, using the email address published on our website from time to time.

  1. Data protection registration

17.1 We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

17.2 Our data protection registration number is Z7505123.

  1. Data protection officer

18.1 Our data protection officer’s contact details are: DPO@rotamaster.co.uk.

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