Website Privacy Policy

The policy: This privacy policy is for this Website; respiratorymatters.com and served by Respiratory Matters Limited and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).

This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhered to. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this Website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer/device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

Data Protection

We, and this Website, complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which came into effect May 2018.

• Both parties acknowledge that, for the purposes of Data Protection Act 1988, Respiratory Matters is the Data Controller in respect of your personal data and shall act in accordance with the provisions of the Act.

• We require you to give us contact information; Name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and employment details.

• We will take security measures to protect your personal information in storage and will only pass this information to external parties to enable delivery of your learning materials and to those who provide full or part sponsorship for your training, with information in relation to your application, attendance and whether there was a successful or unsuccessful outcome of training.

• We may use this information to keep you up to date with other courses at Respiratory Matters. Please inform us if you do not wish us to do so.

• In accordance with the Data Protection Act (1988) if at any time you no longer wish to receive information from Respiratory Matters either by post or e mail, or you would like to be removed from Respiratory Matters database (this cannot apply to current students), please contact the Data Controller, Respiratory Matters, 90 Huddersfield Road, Meltham, West Yorkshire HD9 4AG or e mail info@respiratorymatters.com.

Use of Cookies

This Website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the Website.

What are cookies? Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the Website. This allows the Website, through its server to provide the user with a tailored experience within this Website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this Website on to their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this Website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.

Website Visitor Tracking

This Website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the Website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

Other Cookies

The cookie notice (bottom right of your screen) sets a cookie, when you click that you accept cookies so that the notice is no longer displayed.

Downloads and Media Files

Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this Website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar applications.
We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party Websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar applications.

Contact and Communication With Us

Users contacting us through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use.

Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you new course information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’ above.

External Website Links and Third Parties

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this Website. (External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other Websites).

Shortened URLs; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Policy and Usage

We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

There may be instances where our Website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page.