These terms and conditions apply between you, the User of this Website (including any sub-domains, unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions) and Allmed Medical Care Holdings Ltd, the owner of this Website. Please read these terms and conditions carefully, as they affect your legal rights. Your agreement to comply with and be bound by these terms and conditions is deemed to occur upon your first use of the website. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, you should stop using the Website immediately.
In these terms and conditions, User or Users means any third party that accesses the website and is not either (i) employed by Allmed Medical Care Holdings Ltd and acting in the course of their employment or (ii) engaged as a consultant or otherwise providing services to Allmed Medical Care Holdings Ltd and accessing the Website in connection with the provision of such services.
You must be at least 18 years of age to use this Website. By using this Website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age.
You can contact Allmed Medical Care Holdings Ltd by email on info@allmedgroup.com.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use, destroy and share your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and ‘How to contact us’ or appropriate supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:
Allmed Group, we, us, our | Allmed Medical Care Holdings Limited and our group companies |
Personal information | Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual |
Special category personal information | Personal information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership
Genetic and biometric data Data concerning health, sex life or sexual orientation |
We may collect and use the following personal information about you:
This personal information is required to provide products and/or services to you. If you do not provide personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing products and/or services to you.
We collect most of this personal information directly from you—in person, by telephone, messaging or email and/or via our website. However, we may also collect information:
– sanctions screening providers;
– credit reference agencies;
– customer due diligence providers;
– door entry systems and reception logs;
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, eg:
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
The table below explains what we use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:
What we use your personal information for | Our reasons |
To provide products and/or services to you | For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
To prevent and detect fraud against you or Allmed Group | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to minimise fraud that could be damaging for us and for you |
Conducting checks to identify our customers and verify their identity
Screening for financial and other sanctions or embargoes Other processing necessary to comply with professional, legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, eg under health and safety regulation or rules issued by any applicable regulator |
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, enquiries or investigations by regulatory bodies | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
|
Ensuring business policies are adhered to, eg policies covering security and internet use | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you |
Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training and quality control | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you |
Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, eg in relation to our financial performance, customer base, product range or other efficiency measures | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you |
Preventing unauthorised access and modifications to systems | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for us and for you
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Updating customer records | For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, eg making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products |
Statutory returns | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Ensuring safe working practices, staff administration and assessments | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, eg to make sure we are following our own internal procedures and working efficiently so we can deliver the best service to you |
Marketing our products and services to:
—existing and former customers; —third parties who have previously expressed an interest in our products or services; —third parties with whom we have had no previous dealings. |
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to promote our business to existing and former customers |
Credit reference checks via external credit reference agencies | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to ensure our customers are likely to be able to pay for our products and services |
External audits and quality checks, eg for ISO or Investors in People accreditation and the audit of our accounts | For our legitimate interests or a those of a third party, ie to maintain our accreditations so we can demonstrate we operate at the highest standards
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
The above table does not apply to special category personal information, which we will only process with your explicit consent.
We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our products and/or services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal information’). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations outside the Allmed Group for marketing purposes.
You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further products and/or services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
We may routinely share personal information with:
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also ensure that our contracts with service providers limits their use of your personal information to provide services to us and to you. We may also share personal information with external auditors, eg in relation to ISO or BSI accreditation and the audit of our accounts.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of, or investors in, some or all of our business, and their or our respective funders and advisors, or during a restructuring. Usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
Information may be held at our offices and those of our group companies, third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above (see above: ‘Who we share your personal information with’).
Some of these third parties may be based outside the European Economic Area. For more information, including on how we safeguard your personal information when this occurs, see below: ‘Transferring your personal information out of the EEA’.
We will keep your personal information while you or the organisation at which you work have an account with us or we are providing products and/or services to you or such organisation. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information. Further details can be provided on request. See ‘How to contact us’below.
To deliver products or services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA), eg:
These transfers are subject to special rules under European and UK data protection law.
Non-EEA countries do not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA. We will, however, ensure the transfer complies with data protection law and all personal information will be secure. Our standard practice is to use standard data protection contract clauses that have been approved by the European Commission.
If you would like further information please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
You have the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge:
Access | The right to be provided with a copy of your personal information (the right of access) |
Rectification | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal information |
To be forgotten | The right to require us to delete your personal information—in certain situations |
Restriction of processing | The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal information—in certain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data |
Data portability | The right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations |
To object | The right to object:
—at any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing (including profiling); —in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, eg processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests. |
Not to be subject to automated individual decision-making | The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you |
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us or see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulationalso gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at: https://ico.org.uk/concernsor telephone: 0303 123 1113.
This privacy notice was last updated on 30 May 2018.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time—when we do we will inform you via our website or other means of contact such as email where the changes are material.
Please contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
Our contact details are shown below:
Our contact details |
GDPR Compliance
Allmed Group Building 7, gdprcompliance@allmedgroup.com 00 44 20 3585 2551 |
August 2018
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website. We use cookies and other online tracking devices such as, eg action tags, local shared objects (‘flash cookies’), single-pixel gifs, Google Analytics on this website to:
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain your personal data. Although we may obtain information about your computer, or other electronic device, such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally. In certain circumstances we may collect personal information about you—but only where you voluntarily provide it (eg by completing an online form) or where you purchase goods or services from us.
In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website. The exception is where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested.
There is a notice on our home page which describes how we use cookies and which also provides a link to our website privacy policy. If you use this website after this notification has been displayed to you, we will assume that you consent to our use of cookies for the purposes described in this website cookie policy and our website privacy policy.
We work with third party suppliers who may also set cookies on our website, for example (eg Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Adobe Flashplayer which we use to display video content). These third party suppliers are responsible for the cookies they set on our site. If you want further information please go to the website for the relevant third party. You will find additional information in the table below.
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
Name of cookie | Purpose for the cookie |
Strictly necessary cookies | These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. |
Analytical/performance cookies | They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. |
Functionality cookies | These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences. |