Privacy policy

This website (the "Barchester Healthcare Site") is operated by Barchester Healthcare Limited ("Barchester Healthcare," "we" or "us"). 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 Barchester Healthcare Site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Barchester Healthcare alone unless stated otherwise.

With whom does Barchester Healthcare share your information?
Barchester Healthcare will only disclose your personal information to other companies within our group of companies, business partners, government bodies and law enforcement agencies, successors in title to our business and suppliers we engage to process data on our behalf.
We collect log file information from all our visitors to the Barchester Healthcare 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 Barchester Healthcare 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).

Access right
You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you by writing to The Website Administrator, Barchester Healthcare Limited, Suite 201, The Chambers, Chelsea Harbour, London, SW10 0XF. Once we have received your request we will respond within 40 days. There is an administrative charge of £10 for this service.
We do everything we can to keep the information we have about you accurate and up to date. If however, you find errors or inaccuracies in your data, we will erase, complete or amend that information upon request.

What happens when you link to another site?
The Barchester Healthcare Site contains links to other websites which are outside of our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, 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 Barchester Healthcare Site and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.