Summary of Our Privacy and Security Policy
Your privacy is really important to us and we are committed to protecting your personal information to meet the requirements of the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s important that the personal information the Charity obtains is held, used, transferred and otherwise processed in accordance with the legislation. It applies to our websites, our use of emails and text messages for marketing purposes, and any other methods we use for collecting information. It covers what we collect and why, what we do with the information, what we won’t do with the information, and what rights you have.
Processing personal information overview
The law sets out a couple of additional grounds over and above those four listed below, however the Charity is only using the grounds detailed in this document. In the future, if the grounds for processing personal information change, the notice will be updated to reflect this. For more information, please see www.ico.org.uk
- You have consented to us processing your data. You have the right to withdraw consent for any future use of your information for these purposes at any time.
- We believe it’s in the legitimate interest of either you as the data subject, or us as the Charity, to process your data.
- There is a contractual relationship with you or performing our obligations under that contract.
- We are legally obliged to process your data to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
If you wish to find out more about these rights, or obtain a copy of the information we hold about you, please contact us:
By Post: Dorset County Hospital Charity, Williams Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2JY
Or via telephone on 01305 253470 or email: charity@dchft.nhs.uk
We hope that you will not have cause to complain about any aspect of our services. If a problem does arise you are, of course, entitled to complain – if you have any concerns or complaints that cannot be raised with us through the above details, you can also contact the Information Commissioner.