Thyroid UK takes your privacy seriously and is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read about our privacy policy below. This policy may change so please check this page periodically.
What is personal information?
Personal information is information about you that can be uniquely identified with you, such as your full name, address, email address, phone number etc.
What information do we collect?
Thyroid UK collects the following information:
- Information volunteered by you on contact forms, surveys etc. (when you contact us we ask for information such as your name, address, telephone number and email address, which is stored on a database.
- Which pages on our website are accessed and when, but we do not track who is accessing them.
How do we use this information?
Thyroid UK uses this information for the following purposes:
- to fulfil your requests for information, products and services
- for administration purposes
- to send you communications that may be of interest to you
- to send you communications about Thyroid UK that may help us in our campaign to change the way thyroid disease is diagnosed and treated.
- to improve our services
- to help us understand more about how our site is used
- to conduct research
- to further our charitable aims
Will we disclose your information to outside parties?
We promise that Thyroid UK does not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people except to provide products or services that you have requested such as orders for tests, books, CDs and DVDs etc.
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you in order to do their jobs.
What are my choices regarding collection, use and distribution of my information?
Thyroid UK gives you a choice on all of our relevant forms as to whether or not you are interested in receiving communications from us.
What if I want to update, correct or delete my personally identifiable information?
It is very important to Thyroid UK that your personal information is correct. If your details change or you believe that any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date or wish your details to be deleted from our systems, please use our contact form or write to us at 32, Darcy Road, St Osyth, Clacton on Sea, Essex CO16 8QF.
What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of my information?
Unfortunately, communications such as emails, email links and email forms cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, Thyroid UK cannot guarantee security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Do we use cookies?
No we don’t use cookies to track our visitors.
Your consent
By providing us with your personal data including data about your health, you consent to the collection and use of any information you provide in accordance with the above purposes and this privacy statement.
If you have any questions or suggestions please contact us.
This statement does not cover external websites that we link to from this site.
Our Privacy Policy was last updated January 2009. |
