Effective date: July 31, 2018
Larchwood Court Ltd (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://www.larchwoodcourt.co.uk (“Website”) and the (“Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, storage and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and your choices regarding that data.
By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
The following privacy policy has been produced in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation, which is became effective from 25th May 2018.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018, we are required to explain to our residents why we collect information about you, how we intend to use that information, and whether we will share this information with anyone else. This statement applies to all our residents and also prospective residents.
Information Collection and Use
We collect information that is applicable to your stay with us including the care we provide.
Types of Data Collected
Please note that there may be occasions where we need to collect information other than what is included in the above list.
How we obtain your information
The information we collect about you is obtained from a variety of sources:
Sharing your information
We will only share your personal information with relevant third parties as necessary to contribute towards your overall care, and to comply with the law. These third parties include, however may not be limited to:
Usage Data
We collect information about how our Website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This allows us to analyse trends and movement across the Website
This includes your Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, time spent version and pages you visit on our Website. IP addresses are not linked to any personal identifiable information.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.
Cookies are small files which hold data which may include a unique anonymous identifier. They are stored on your device and used to:
You can choose to instruct your browser to refuse all cookies, or indicate when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept cookies on our Website you may not be able to access certain portions of our Service.
For more information about Cookies and managing them visit the All About Cookies website.
How We Use Your Data
Larchwood Court Ltd uses the collected data for various purposes:
Transfer of Data
Larchwood Court Ltd will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
If we need to transfer your information we use secure software to do so.
Legal Requirements
Larchwood Court Ltd may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Security
When users submit sensitive information via the Larchwood Court website it is protected. Our website is protected with an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate as well as other appropriate precautions to keep your data secure.
While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We never ask for sensitive information such as credit card numbers on our website.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Website Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Storing & Deleting your Information
We only retain your information for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose we collected it, or to comply with legal requirements.
When clients pass away or leave our service their information is kept in secure archives for 7 years. After this time your information is securely deleted/destroyed.
We do not generally keep personal information on computers with access to the internet.
Links to Other Sites
The Larchwood Court website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”, “Child”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
Upon the Privacy Policy being updated we will change the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Questions?
If you have any questions about our use of your data, please contact us: