Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy at Peverel court care
This is Peverel Court Care’s Privacy Notice.
At Peverel Court Care, we are committed to processing personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR mandates that we handle personal data transparently and with a clear lawful basis. As a part of our commitment to transparency, we provide information on why we collect and process data on our website, ensuring individuals understand how their information will be used. When necessary, we seek informed consent, particularly in cases where we collect and process sensitive data. This transparency not only builds trust with our website visitors but also empowers them to exercise their data rights, such as the right to access, correct, or delete their information. We align our data processing practices with GDPR’s principles to ensure the lawful and ethical handling of personal data on the Peverel Court Care website.
Introduction
As part of the services we offer, we are required to process personal data about our staff, our service users and, in some instances, the friends or relatives of our service users and staff. “Processing” can mean collecting, recording, organising, storing, sharing or destroying data.
We are committed to providing transparent information on why we need your personal data and what we do with it. This information is set out in this privacy notice. It will also explain your rights when it comes to your data.
Service Users
What data do we have?
So that we can provide a safe and professional service, we need to keep certain records about you. We may record the following types of data about you:
Your basic details and contact information e.g. your name, address, date of birth and next of kin;
Your financial details e.g. details of how you pay us for your care or your funding arrangements.
Images of you on admission, medical conditions, during activities
We also record the following data that is classified as “special category”:
Health and social care data about you, which might include both your physical and mental health data.
We may also record data about your race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation or religion.
Why do we have this data?
We require this data so that we can provide high-quality care and support. By law, we need to have a lawful basis for processing your personal data.
We process your data because:
We are required to do so in our performance of a public task;
We are required to do so in order to fulfil a contract that we have with you;
We have a legal obligation to do so – generally under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 or Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Activities images are used to communicate with relatives and for marketing and/or social media purposes.
We process your special category data because
It is necessary due to social security and social protection law (generally this would be in safeguarding instances);
It is necessary for us to provide and manage social care services;
We are required to provide data to our regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), as part of our public interest obligations.
We may also process your data with your consent. If we need to ask for your permission, we will offer you a clear choice and ask that you confirm to us that you consent. We will also explain clearly to you what we need the data for and how you can withdraw your consent.
Where do we process your data?
So that we can provide you with high quality care and support we need specific data. This is collected from or shared with:
You or your legal representative(s);
Third parties.
We do this face to face, via phone, via email, via our website, via post, via application forms, via apps.
Third parties are organisations we have a legal reason to share your data with. These include:
Other parts of the health and care system such as local hospitals, the GP, the pharmacy, social workers, clinical commissioning groups, and other health and care professionals;
The Local Authority;
Organisations we have a legal obligation to share information with i.e. for safeguarding, the CQC;
The police or other law enforcement agencies if we have to by law or court order.
Staff
What data do we have?
So that we can provide a safe and professional service, we need to keep certain records about you. We may record the following types of data about you:
Your basic details and contact information e.g. your name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and next of kin;
Your financial details e.g. details so that we can pay you, insurance, pension and tax details;
Your training records;
Images of you during resident activities
We also record the following data that is classified as “special category”:
Health and social care data about you, which might include both your physical and mental health data – we will only collect this if it is necessary for us to know as your employer, e.g. fit notes or in order to claim statutory maternity pay;
We may also record data about your race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation or religion;
Criminal Record Data.
Why do we have this data?
We require this data so that we can contact you, pay you and make sure you receive the training and support you need to perform your job. By law, we need to have a lawful basis for processing your personal data.
We process your data because:
We have a legal obligation under UK employment laws;
We are required to do so in our performance of a public task;
We have a legitimate interest in processing your data – for example, we provide data about your training to Skills for Care’s National Minimum Data Set, this allows Skills for Care to produce reports about workforce planning.
Activities images are used to communicate with relatives and for marketing and/or social media purposes.
We process your special category data because
It is necessary due to social security and social protection law – we are required to perform Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks on our staff;
It is necessary for us to process requests for sick pay or maternity pay;
We are required to provide data to our regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), as part of our public interest obligations.
We may also process your data with your consent. If we need to ask for your permission, we will offer you a clear choice and ask that you confirm to us that you consent. We will also explain clearly to you what we need the data for and how you can withdraw your consent.
Where do we process your data?
As your employer we need specific data. This is collected from or shared with:
You or your legal representative(s);
Third parties.
We do this face to face, via phone, via email, via our website, via post, via application forms, via apps.
Third parties are organisations we have a legal reason to share your data with. These include:
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC);
Our pension scheme (NEST)
Our external payroll provider;
Organisations we have a legal obligation to share information with i.e. for safeguarding, the CQC;
The police or other law enforcement agencies if we have to by law or court order.
Friends/Relatives
What data do we have?
As part of our work providing high-quality care and support, it might be necessary that we hold the following information on you:
Your basic details and contact information e.g. your name, address, telephone number and email address
Images of you during resident activities
Why do we have this data?
By law, we need to have a lawful basis for processing your personal data.
We process your data because we have a legitimate business interest in holding next of kin and lasting power of attorney information about the individuals who use our service and keeping emergency contact details for our staff. We also store this data when you contact us to be on our enquiry/waiting list.
We may also process your data with your consent. If we need to ask for your permission, we will offer you a clear choice and ask that you confirm to us that you consent. We will also explain clearly to you what we need the data for and how you can withdraw your consent.
Where do we process your data?
So that we can provide high quality care and support we need specific data. This is collected from or shared with:
You or your legal representative(s);
Third parties;
Activities images are used to communicate with relatives and for marketing and/or social media purposes.
We do this face to face, via phone, via email, via our website, via post, via application forms, via apps.
Third parties are organisations we have a legal reason to share your data with. These may include:
Other parts of the health and care system such as local hospitals, the GP, the pharmacy, social workers, clinical commissioning groups, and other health and care professionals;
The Local Authority;
The police or other law enforcement agencies if we have to by law or court order.
Our Website
Your rights
The data that we keep about you is your data and we ensure that we keep it confidential and that it is used appropriately. You have the following rights when it comes to your data
You have the right to request a copy of all of the data we keep about you.
You have the right to ask us to correct any data we have which you believe to be inaccurate. You can also request that we restrict all processing of your data while we consider your rectification request;
You have the right to request that we erase any of your personal data that is no longer necessary for the purpose we originally collected it for. We retain our data in line with the Information Governance Alliance’s guidelines (https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/looking-after-information/data-security-and-information-governance/codes-of-practice-for-handling-information-in-health-and-care/records-management-code-of-practice-for-health-and-social-care-2016)
You may also request that we restrict processing if we no longer require your personal data for the purpose we originally collected it for, but you do not wish for it to be erased.
You can ask for your data to be erased if we have asked for your consent to process your data. You can withdraw consent at any time – please contact us to do so.
If we are processing your data as part of our legitimate interests as an organisation or in order to complete a task in the public interest, you have the right to object to that processing. We will restrict all processing of this data while we look into your objection.
You may need to provide adequate information for our staff to be able to identify you, for example, a passport or driver’s licence. This is to make sure that data is not shared with the wrong person inappropriately. We will always respond to your request as soon as possible and at the latest within one month.
If you would like to complain about how we have dealt with your request, please contact:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
This website (the “Peverel Court Care website”) is operated by Peverel Court Care. We regard your privacy as important and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. This Privacy Policy sets out our data processing practices and your options regarding the ways in which your personal information is used. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact us.
Information collected
You are welcome to access our site without disclosing your personal data. We collect personal information from visitors to this website through the use of online forms and every time you email us your details.
We will only use any personal information you send us for the purposes of dealing with your enquiries and requests. We collect additional information automatically about your visit to our web site to improve our online service.
Who is collecting your information?
When you are on the Peverel Court Care site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Peverel Court Care alone unless stated otherwise.
With whom does Peverel Court Care share your information?
Peverel Court Care will only disclose your personal information to other companies within our group of companies, business partners, government bodies and law enforcement agencies, and suppliers we engage to process data on our behalf.
We collect log file information from all our visitors to the Peverel Court Care site. Log files automatically record website usage and information such as the time, date, IP address, HTTP status and bytes sent and received. We use this information to improve our online service and to make changes to the layout of the Peverel Court Care site and to the information on it, based on the way visitors move around it. We only use log files to record visitors’ use of the site on an anonymous basis (so that individuals are not identified).
What happens when you link to another site?
The Peverel Court Care site gives addresses of other websites which are outside of our control and are not covered by this privacy policy. If you access these suggested sites, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.
Internet-based transfers
Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing the Peverel Court Care site and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way. Please note that your internet service provider is required by law to retain the details of all visitors to this site for a period of 12 months.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which is placed on your hard drive when you visit our websites (directly or via our applications). We use information from cookies for purposes which may include:
– Identifying returning users, registrants and subscribers
– Enabling you to move more easily around our sites and applications
– Tracking your use of our sites to better develop our sites and applications in accordance with your requirements
– Building up an anonymous profile based on your browsing patterns across our sites, applications and third party websites, which enables us to make advertisements and content available to you that is more relevant to your interests
You can delete cookies from your hard drive at any time. Bear in mind, though, that if you delete them, any settings such as your stored username and password will have to be reset when you next log in.
You will be able to use our websites and applications even if your browser is not set to accept cookies.
By visiting our website, you consent to the use of cookies as explained above.
