Copyright

This site and its contents are the copyright of Wounds UK 200Ltd. No part of this site, its contents or any images displayed may be replicated in any form without the written permission of Wounds UK.

Disclaimer

Every user explicitly acknowledges that all information and hyperlinks obtained/found on the Wounsd UK website are provided without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, and that the entire risk of acting on information obtained from this system, including the entire costs of all necessary remedies, is with those who choose to act on such information and not with the operators of this system or the suppliers of the information.

Third Party Links

The links on this web site are provided only for the convenience of Wounds UK website visitors. Wounds UK has no interest in, responsibility for, or control over the linked site. Wounds UK makes no promises or warranties of any kind, express or implied, including those of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, as to the content of the linked-site. In no event shall Wounds UK be liable for any damages resulting from use of these links even if Wounds UK has been informed of the possibility of such liability.

Introduction to Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes our current policies and practices with regard to Personal Data collected by us from you. The term "Personal Data" refers to information about you personally. Because of changes in the law and the changing nature of technology, our data practices will change from time to time. If and when our data practices change we will (as soon as practicable) post the changes on our web site to notify you of the changes. We encourage you to check this page frequently.

Use of Personal Data

We will always abide by the Data Protection Act 1998. We will only process your Personal Data in order to provide our services to you. We process your Personal Data only for specific and limited purposes. We ask only for data that is adequate, relevant and not excessive for those purposes. When we ask you for Personal Data, we tell you the purposes for which we will process that data.

These purposes include the following: We may contact you occasionally to inform you of new services we will be providing, or events or information we think will be of interest to you.

We may send you regular updates by e-mail or by post on our seminars or events.

We may use your Personal Data for marketing purposes and market research.

We may use your Personal Data internally to help us improve our services and to help resolve any problems.

Opt-out choice

If now or at any time in the future you decide that you do not wish to receive information from us and want to be removed from our standard mailing list, please e-mail us at furtherinfo@wounds-uk.com.

Cookies

We may use temporary "cookies" that collect the first level domain name of the user (i.e. the words after the @ in your e-mail address) and the date and time you accessed our website.

Cookies by themselves cannot be used to discover the identity of the user. A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not.

We also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on a network or the Internet.

Cookies are additionally used to log you in and out of the Wounds UK system.

Disclosure of your Personal Data

We do not share, sell or distribute your Personal Data with unrelated third parties, except under these limited circumstances:

Personal Data may occasionally be transferred to third parties who act for us for further processing only in accordance with the purposes for which the data was originally collected or for purposes to which you have subsequently consented. For example, sometimes a third party may have access to your Personal Data in order to handle our mailings on our behalf.

We may share or transfer the information in our databases to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice, to protect your vital interests, to protect the security or integrity of our databases or our website, to take precautions against legal liability, or in the event of our sale, merger, re-organisation, dissolution or similar event.

Where appropriate, before disclosing Personal Data to a third party, we require the third party by contract to take adequate precautions to protect that data.

Data Integrity and Security

We strive to maintain the reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of Personal Data in our databases and to protect the privacy and security of our databases. We keep your Personal Data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or document retention requirements.

Our servers and our databases are protected by industry standard security technology, such as industry standard firewalls and password protection.

The employees who have access to Personal Data have been trained to handle such data properly and in accordance with our security protocols and strict standards of confidentiality. Although we cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse, unauthorised disclosure, alteration or destruction of data, we take all reasonable steps to prevent this from happening.

Data Access and Corrections

Upon receipt of your written request and enough information to permit us to identify your Personal Data, we will disclose to you the Personal Data we hold about you. We will also correct, amend or delete any Personal Data that is inaccurate and notify any third party recipients of the necessary changes.

If you wish to access or correct your Personal Data or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or concerns about the way we process your Personal Data, please e-mail us at enquiries@wounds-uk.com. We do not charge for complying with a correction request, however, for all other requests, we may charge a small fee to cover our costs. Requests to delete Personal Data are subject to any applicable legal and ethical reporting or document retention obligations imposed on us.