The Kent, Sussex and Surrey Deanery's role is to ensure the supply of well-trained medical professionals to the NHS, through our training and continuing professional development programmes. Please visit www.kssdeanery.org/home/about-us for more information.
KSS Deanery is a part of NHS South East Coast
The KSS Deanery is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using KSS Deanery services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through the kssdeanery.org websites.
In order to provide you with the full range of KSS Deanery services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
This privacy policy explains the following:
As set out above, KSS Deanery is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").
Our websites contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information which you submit or which are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any kssdeanery.org website, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, or message boards, or by registering and using an account, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different webpages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable KSS Deanery and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular webpages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these webpages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
The KSS Deanery also uses cookies (see paragraph 13 below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
We may also use your IP address to determine whether you are accessing the services from the UK or not, in order to provide you with a better service.
KSS Deanery will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
Where KSS Deanery proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.
The KSS Deanery may contact you:
Local pages will give you detailed information about how KSS Deanery will contact you in relation to specific services.
The KSS Deanery won't contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within KSS Deanery. However, sometimes KSS Deanery uses third parties to process your information. KSS Deanery will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and KSS Deanery will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to kssdeanery.org, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on kssdeanery.org, KSS Deanery may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where KSS Deanery reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), KSS Deanery may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to KSS Deanery's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with KSS Deanery. Data is further held in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act, more information about which can be found on the Data Protection Act page.
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information KSS Deanery holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the Data Protection Officer, who may be contacted via the Data Protection Act page.
www.kssdeanery.org is published in the UK by KSS Deanery. This policy applies equally to visitors accessing the website from outside the UK.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any kssdeanery.org website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the kssdeanery.org features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to kssdeanery.org, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.
The KSS Deanery may also use independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to KSS Deanery sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. The KSS Deanery use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. KSS Deanery strictly require that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes (see paragraph 6 above). Certain other areas of kssdeanery.org may use cookies for a specific reason - for example, to help an online application work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.
Last Updated: 16th April 2009
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact our Data Protection team.
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