This Privacy Policy describes the information that we gather on or through our Services and how we use and process such information. For each processing purpose, we will articulate the reason for requiring the data, what data we will process, the legal basis for processing the data and how long we will keep the data.

Where the legal basis of consent is to be used, this will be gathered freely, and we will use clear, plain language that is easy to understand, and you will be able to remove your consent at any point.

What information do we collect about you?

We collect/process information so that we can provide the best possible experience when you utilise our services. This section of the policy will describe the purpose for processing your personal data, the legal basis to do so and how long we will keep your data.

Our Product / Service

The Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited’s site provides a number of services such as news, health-related programmes, literature and voting polls.

If you choose to register with our service, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide the expected service to you, this will include your name, email address, age, sex, telephone number, health information, various habits and other non-mandatory personal data may also be gathered. Data may be gathered through:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.bladderandbowel.org. We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with our site.
  • If you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence and your contact details.
  • Details of your visit to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

We will process data using your consent as the legal basis to process the data.

Personal data will be retained for a period of up to 2 years.

Just Can’t Wait card, JCW

If you choose to register for a Just Can’t Wait Card, you must provide us with some personal data so that we deliver the card to you, this will include your name, email address, telephone number and address. The card is issued through Bladder & Bowel Community.

Personal data will be retained for a period of up to 2 years.

Bladder & Bowel Home Delivery service

The Bladder & Bowel Home Delivery service is a joint partnership between the Bladder & Bowel Community and Bullen Healthcare, one of our service providers – see address details below under Service Providers.

Marketing

Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited carries out select direct marketing in the form of email marketing to our subscribers based on the information that you provide us. We also have trusted partners who would like to offer you products based upon the information we have gathered.

Our trusted partners would like to send you information about products and services which may be of interest to you. You have a right at any time to stop them from contacting you for marketing purposes.

The personal data will include names, addresses, email addresses, age, sex, telephone number, health information and various habits.

We will only distribute the personal data to our partners if you have given us your consent.

Our partners will retain personal data for active customer leads for a period of up to 2 years.

All of the Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited partners are vetted, reputable and trustworthy third parties. The storage of personal information is only done with your consent.

Cookies

Visit our cookie policy page.

Updating These Terms

We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you at least 30 days before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Terms. If you do not want to agree to these or any updated Terms, you can request an account deletion.

Your Rights

Accessing or Rectifying your personal data

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date and you have the right to request a copy and update the personal data that we hold about you. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate. If you would like to invoke this right, please email or write to us at the below address.

Deletion

Based upon the retention periods described above we will remove your personal data from our platforms.

Object, Restrict or Withdraw Consent

You may with to object to or restrict our ability to process your personal data, this can be done either via email or in writing, using the contact details below. Further context may need to be requested to ensure we can carry out the relevant tasks on our platforms to perform the request.

Portability

You may wish to port your personal data to another platform. This can be done either via email or in writing, using the contact details below.

Who we are and how to contact us

We are the data controller responsible for defining and managing how your personal data is processed.

Our company name is Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited

Our company address is Bladder and Bowel Community, Forward House, 17 High Street, Henley-in-Arden, B95 5AA

Our email address is [email protected]

Data Protection Officer:

Adrian Fawcett, Bladder and Bowel Community, Forward House, 17 High Street, Henley-in-Arden, B95 5AA

[email protected]

To Whom We Disclose Information

Except as described in this Policy, we will not intentionally disclose the Personal Data or Client Data that we collect or store on the Service to third parties without the consent of the data subject. We may disclose information to third parties if you consent to us doing so, as well as in the following circumstances:

Unrestricted Information

Any information that you voluntarily choose to include in a Public Area of the Service, such as a public profile page, will be available to any Visitor or User who has access to that content.

Service Providers

We work with third-party service providers who provide email hosting, core corporate applications, web hosting, maintenance, and other services for us. These third parties may have access to, or process Personal Data or Client Data as part of providing those services for us. We limit the information provided to these service providers to that which is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions, and our contracts with them require them to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

Service providers include:

  • Bullen Healthcare Ltd, Glacier Building, Brunswick Business Park, Harrington Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 4BH

Overseas transfers

The information you provide may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) that do not have similar protections in place regarding your data and restrictions on its use as set out in this policy. However, we will take steps to ensure adequate protections are in place to ensure the security of your information. The EEA comprises the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. By submitting your information, you consent to these transfers for the purposes specified above.

We may transfer your personal information to the following which are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) as follows:

Campaign Monitor, 201 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, AU; for the purposes of Email Distribution.

We use a third party to distribute our email, Campaign Monitor is committed to securing our customers’ data to the highest degree. Campaign Monitor provides a service to over 200,000 companies across 180 countries. Our customers include healthcare providers, educational institutes, financial services, and governmental agencies; small and medium-sized businesses who trust us with some of their most sensitive information. They follow an ISO27001 aligned approach and their data centre provider is ISO27001 and SOC2 certified

You can obtain a copy of the safeguards and any other of Campaign Monitor’s data protection documentation by visiting https://www.campaignmonitor.com/trust/security or applying via post to Campaign Monitor, 201 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, AU.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may make non-personally-identifiable information available to third parties for various purposes. This data may be automatically-collected and would be analysed to create an aggregated view of the data, ensure the reported information was anonymous.

Law Enforcement, Legal Process and Compliance

We may disclose Personal Data or other information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws, in response to a facially valid court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies.

Change of Ownership

Information about data subject, may be disclosed and otherwise transferred to an acquirer, successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets and only if the recipient of the personal data commits to a Privacy Policy that has terms substantially consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Our Data Security

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited has many users all over the world. When you provide Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited with personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information. In addition, that information may be used stored and processed outside of the country where you entered the information. Whenever Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited handles personal information, regardless of where this occurs, Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited takes every precaution to ensure that your information is treated securely, for instance by encrypting the information with SSL and by storing the information in a secure environment.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Bladder and Bowel Support Company Limited, and you do so at your own risk.

This privacy policy was last updated 23rd May 2023

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