Privacy policy

This Privacy Promise describes how we collect and use personal information about you in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Our company registration number is 10848959 and our registered office address is Trident Court, 1 Oakcroft Road, Chessington, KT91BD.

Our promise to you:

We will comply with data protection law when it comes to the processing of your data. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:

  • Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  • Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  • Accurate and kept up to date.
  • Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  • Kept securely.

Our Privacy Champion is

Shamsah Lalji

Telephone: 02086109778

Email: shamsah@comfortcareathome.co.uk

What information we collect about you and why Enquiries about provision of care services

If you are enquiring about the services which we offer and you complete the enquiry form, we record the following information about you and/or the individual who may be requiring our services:

– Name and surname;

– Contact details such as email address and telephone number

– Any requirements of the potential recipient of the services including any medical and/or health conditions; or any other information you relate to us in your message

We collect the above data so that we can respond to your request for information.

Enquiries about Care Jobs Using Contact Us function

If you complete a CONTACT US form, we collect the following information:

– Your name and surname;

– Email address / Telephone number;

– Type of Enquiry.

We will use the above information, in order to respond to your query.

If you contact us by email and telephone, we will only collect and process the personal data which you provide to us and it shall only be used for the purposes for which you provide your personal data to us.  For example, if you contact us with an enquiry about the provision of care, we may take your details to forward them to the Registered Care Manager. We will not retain your data or use your data for any other purpose than responding to your query.

Marketing

When visiting our website you will have the option to subscribe to receive our newsletter. We will only send you our newsletter if you have subscribed to receive it. You will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. If you wish to unsubscribe, simply choose the Unsubscribe option or contact us and let us know that you no longer wish to be on our mailing list.

We will only use your personal data for marketing purposes for as long as you consent to receiving such communications from us and until you unsubscribe.

Your information is safe with us and we will not share your personal data for marketing purposes with any third party other than as specified in this policy.

How long we keep your data

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

For all data submitted to us via our website, we will keep your details for a period of 6 months from the date of submission. Upon expiry of that period, your data will be automatically anonymised.

Where Your Data is stored

Your data will be stored on our secure servers currently located in London UK.

We do not transfer your data outside of the European Economic Area and use UK or European data centres.

Your Rights

Because the data we hold about you is your data, you have the following rights in respect of the personal data we hold about you:

Right to Access – this means that you can ask us for a copy of all personal data we hold about you. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Correction Right – if you believe that any of the information we hold about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to correct such information by providing us with the correct up to date information. In addition, you can ask us to delete the incorrect or out of date information and we will be happy to do so unless we are prevented from doing so by law or regulation.

Right to be Forgotten – this enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. Please note that where we are obliged to keep your personal data because of a regulatory or legal requirement, we will not be able to delete the data and must continue to retain it.

Right to Restrict Processing – in some limited circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your data.

Right of Objection to Processing – you have the right to object to us using your data for direct marketing purposes and to profiling.

Right of Data Portability – you have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you in a commonly used and machine readable format. We can provide your data either to you or to such other third party as you specify in your request.

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact (preferably in writing) our Privacy Champion using the contact details above.

Right to Complain

If you have any concerns about our handling of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) by visiting https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephoning the ICO helpline on 0303 123 1113.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them please contact the Privacy Champion.

Changes to this privacy policy

We keep our Promise under regular review. This Privacy Promise was last updated in April 2022. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact our Privacy Champion.