We are committed to preserving your privacy and maintaining the confidentiality of any information that you provide us with. This policy explains how we use and protect that information. Please read this policy carefully as this policy will apply each time you submit information or data to this site and you agree that we may use that data and information in accordance with this policy.
When you register with us and each time you use or access the interactive parts of this Site we will collect information and data from you. This will include:
Your personal details, such as the name and the contact details you give us when you register to use the interactive parts of this site and any updated personal information which you provide us with from time to time;
We will also collect any other personal information which you send us by e-mail or letter from time to time.
In this privacy policy, when we refer to your "personal information and data" we mean all the personal details, information and data that you send or submit to us from time to time including the sensitive professional information referred to later on in this section.
We conduct all research, carry out polls, compile reports, track changing opinions and carry out other activities in relation to healthcare, health planning, nutrition, fitness and clinical conditions and in relation other areas and fields described on this site from time to time ourselves. We do not sell our database of personal information to others for such purposes or for the purposes of carrying out direct marketing. We only publish information or data or make it available to clients who commission research, reports or other information from us in non-personal form. So you should rest assured that the information and data that you submit to us will be put into non-personal form before it is published or made available to anyone else in these circumstances.
In order to achieve our objectives, our staff will need to store, process, reproduce, collate, adapt, use, analyse and modify the personal information and data you submit to us from time to time and to take any other steps in relation to that personal information and data that we need (in all cases whilst that personal information and data and information remains in personally identifiable form) in order to do the following:
To meet the specific requirements of any research, survey, poll or other interactive activity you participate in from this service or any such activity which we carry out in the future using data you have previously submitted to us,
To carry out group profiling (whether or not for the purposes set out in the previous paragraph), for example by analysing the personal information or data you provide us in relation to any professional data and grouping it with the information and data of others with the same profile;
To track opinions;
To meet the specific requirements of any other activity we carry out from time to time;
To retain that personal information and data on our database for use in relation to future activities of the type described in the first paragraph of this section;
To put that personal information and data into non-personal form for us to make available to others or to publish or disseminate in any form;
We will also need to store your personal information and data in a personalised form to do the following (by e-mail to the e-mail address or by mail to the address that you have registered with us from time to time):
If we enter into a joint venture with or sell or merge our business to or with another company, entity or business, we will need to disclose and/or provide any personal information or data that you have provided to us to our new business partners or owners in a form which is personally identifiable. We will only do so on the basis that such new partners or owners agree to treat such personal information and data in accordance with this privacy policy. Such business partners or owners shall be entitled to do everything with your personal information and data that we would be entitled to with it under this privacy policy.
Cookies are small amounts of information which we store on your computer. Unless you have indicated your objection by e-mailing support@pearlmedical.co.uk. Our system will issue cookies to your computer when you log on to this site. Cookies make it easier for you to log on to and use this site during future visits.
We employ security measures to protect your personal information and data from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.
This section of this policy tells you the terms on which you may make use of our Products (the 'Products') and Services (the 'Services') which we may provide to you in accordance with our terms and conditions of supply to Healthcare Practitioners and provision of data by Healthcare Practitioners (our 'Terms and Conditions') on our website www.pearlmedical.co.uk ('our site').
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.
This section of this Policy sets out the acceptable use policy between you and us under which you may have access to our site and make use of, the Services and the Products.
You agree to comply with a fair usage policy of not sending or downloading more than 5Mb of data during any month using mobile data network.
You may not use the Services to download more than 5Mb of data during any month.
You may use our site and the Services only for lawful purposes and you may not use any of the same:
You also agree:
These content standards apply to your details given in the Application Form completed by you on our site and to the Data and the Additional Data provided by you as provide for in our Terms and Conditions and any other material which you deliver to us whether by uploading to our site or e-mail and to your use of the Products and the Service.
You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
Contributions must:
Contributions must not:
We will determine, at our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site or the Services. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the Contract and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
We may revise this privacy policy and acceptable use policy at any time by amending this document on our site. You are expected to check this privacy policy and acceptable use policy on our site from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this privacy policy and acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
If you have any comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your personal information and data please contact the data manager at support@pearlmedical.co.uk
Last updated: 19th June 2006