Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy

NHS Work Placements - Privacy Policy

The NHS Work Placements ("NHSWP" or "we") believe it is important to protect your privacy and we are committed to giving you a service that meets your needs in a way that also protects your privacy. This policy explains how we may collect information about you and then use it to meet your needs.
NHSWP recognises The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) applicable from 25 May 2018 and complies with the relevant Data Protection Principles laid out in this legislation.

1. Collecting information

We may collect personal information from a number of sources, including the following:

1. from you when you complete your application form and related questions, in which case this will include your contact details and covers health information, race, religious beliefs, sexuality, and more. This is known as sensitive personal data.
2. from you when you contact us with an enquiry or in response to a communication from us, in which case this may tell us something about how you use our services.

2. Using personal information

NHSWP will use personal information for the following purposes:

1. to identify you when you contact us;
2. to help administer, and contact you about improved administration of, the application process and results generated by the process;
3. to carry out marketing analysis, conduct research, including creating statistical and testing information;
4. to pass your information on to the organisations you have applied for a role with, in the event of you reaching an appropriate stage of the application process.

We may allow other people and organisations to use information we hold about you, if we have been legitimately asked to provide information for legal or regulatory purposes or as part of legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.

3. The internet

Please remember that communications over the internet, such as email and webmail (messages sent through a website), are not secure unless they have been encrypted. All applications completed through this website are encrypted.

4.Your data protection rights

Under GDPR, you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected.  

You also have the right to request us to erase your personal information or to restrict our processing of your personal information or to object to our processing of your personal information.  You can request that your account be deleted at any time by emailing workplacements@skillsdevelopmentnetwork.com

5. Links

This website may contain links to other sites or recommended suppliers. Please remember that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. This privacy policy applies only to information collected on our website.

6. Further information

If you would like any more information or you have any comments about our privacy policy, please either write to us at Data Protection, NHS Work Placements, Unit 3, Holly House Estate, Middlewich Road, Cranage, CW10 9LT. Email to workplacements@skillsdevelopmentnetwork.com

We may amend this policy from time to time, in which case we will publish the amended version on our website, and you can ask us for a copy by writing to the above address or by emailing at workplacements@skillsdevelopmentnetwork.com This policy applies to personal information we hold about individuals. It does not apply to information we hold about companies and other organisations.

7. Review and monitoring

This policy is subject to review every three years and any complaints or queries about this policy should be directed to the NHS Work Placements Data Protection Officer - dpo@skillsdevelopmentnetwork.com 

Privacy and cookies

This policy details how we use Cookies and what you can do if you do not want us to place Cookies onto your computer.

Cookies
We use cookies on this site to track user activity

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket. Please note that all of these Cookies on our websites exist to enable functionality on the website and not for advertising purposes.

We do use Google analytics (they use Cookies) this allows us to see which pages of our website are being looked at and which are not. This allows us to remove unused areas and pages for example.

Some people find the idea of a website storing this type of information on their computer or mobile device intrusive.

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.

 If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.

There is only one type of cookie you will encounter on this website:

Third party cookies:

These are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Google Analytics, have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.

We use Third party cookies, in our website from google anaylytics.

If you have any questions or concerns about the cookies used on this site feel free to drop us a line and we will do our best to help.

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If you do not want these cookies to be tracked you can disable them in your browser.

You may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org