Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY


PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY POLICY BEFORE USE OUR WEBSITE


Last updated 15 March 2024

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DeGesh Consults

This company is a subsidiary of DeGesh Group (UK) Ltd (denoted by “we”, “us”, or “our”), is a company registered in England with company number 13756838 with registered offices at 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, England, United Kingdom.


ONLINE TEST PLATFORM is provided by DeGesh Consults. Hence, DeGesh Consults acts as a “controller” in respect of certain personal data shared through the Platform. This means that DeGesh Consults is responsible for deciding how to hold and use this personal data and references below to “we”, “us” or “our” are to DeGesh Consults.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

This notice (together with our end-user licence agreement as set out at TERMS OF USE and any additional information relating to the ONLINE TEST PLATFORM  are the scope of this policy.

This notice sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. ‘Processing’ for the purposes of this notice covers a very broad range of activities, including using, transferring, storing and even deleting data.

Please read the following terms carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the avoidance of doubt:

  • By registering with, or using, the Site, or supplying data or information through the Site, or otherwise accessing or using the Service  you acknowledge that you are aware of the collection, use and transfer of the relevant data and your personal data under the terms of this privacy notice (and the Terms of Use).

  • You may use the Service in order to, amongst other things.

  • If you register for the Service online then you may not be able to access all aspects of the Service (via the Site) unless or until you contact us in order to confirm your identity. Please note that use of the site is subject to a separate privacy notice (and terms of use) which is accessible at that site.

PERSONAL DATA WE MAY COLLECT IN RELATION TO YOU

We may collect, and process, the following types of personal data about you:

  • You may give us information about yourself (“Submitted Information”) by a number of different routes, including:

    • information you provide to us or that we may collect, including when you use our Online Platform and subscribe to the Service or Site. The information that you give us or that we collect may include your name,  e-mail address and phone number;

    • information you provide when using the Service (through the Site);

    • if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;

    • information provided when submitting or updating a request for support or contacting our support teams;

    • information provided in response to any surveys or requests for information which we may send to you from time to time or which you complete on our website;

    • information collected as a result of any monitoring which may take place. We may monitor (which may include recording) certain interactions between us in order to comply with any legal obligations, to detect fraud or criminal activity as well as for training purposes; and/or

  • Information we collect about you, each time you visit the Site.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We may use personal data we collect about you in the following ways:

  • Submitted Information: We will use information which you submit as part of using our Online Test Platform, to deliver the Service,  to provide technical support, to contact you (including, without limitation, via SMS) so as to notify you regarding any important updates relating to the Site, the Service, to answer queries you might raise regarding the Site, and for our own internal administrative purposes.

  • To help us to keep your information secure.

  • Test responses: We will use this information for the purposes outlined in the relevant survey or request for information (referred to generally as ‘surveys’).

  • Device Information: We will use this information to help ensure the correct version and data for your Device.

  • Content Information: responses to the Online tests.

  • Log Information: this is stored for security and audit purposes and to ensure that we are able to support your use of Online Test Platform.

  • For security and safety purposes: we monitor activity in order to help protect our users from security threats and to detect if users are trying to misuse any element of the Site  or Service and/or to use them in an unauthorised manner. We may also use your contact information in order to alert you to any relevant security issues or safety concerns of which we are aware.

  • To statistically analyse user behaviour and activity: We will monitor user interest and behaviour to help us to understand general usage of the  Platform.

We may associate any category of information with any other category of information and will treat the combined information as personal data in accordance with this privacy notice for as long as it is combined.

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

BASIS ON WHICH WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may rely on a range of legal grounds in accordance with the applicable privacy laws in order to ensure that our use your personal data is lawful, including:

  • where it is necessary for the performance of our contract with you i.e. to provide you with the Service 

  • where it is in our legitimate interests to do so (provided this is not overridden by considerations regarding your rights and interests), such as:

    • managing the Service, updating your records, contacting you about the Service (where appropriate);

    • performing and/or testing the performance of, our products, services and internal processes;

    • following guidance and recommended best practice of government and regulatory bodies;

    • managing and auditing our business operations;

    • monitoring and to keeping records of our communications with you;

    • for scientific research purposes;

    • undertaking market research and analysis and developing statistics; and/or

    • for direct marketing communication purposes and to help us to offer relevant products and services;

  • to comply with our legal obligations; and/or

  • with your consent. For the avoidance of doubt, we rely on consent for the following uses:

  • Certain direct marketing communications,

  • by choosing to provide us with responses to survey requests, then you are expressly consenting to our processing that data for the purposes outlined in this privacy notice (or as otherwise notified to you at the point of submission or otherwise).

You are free to withdraw your consent at any time (please see the section below on Your Rights for further detail).

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Disclosure of your personal data to third parties may arise in a number of scenarios, for example:

  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation or request.

  • To a contractor appointed by us to deliver elements of the Service on our behalf (and under our control). Any access we might grant to a contractor will be limited to such information as is required for them to deliver the relevant service (and will be subject to a contract which includes appropriate obligations of confidence and compliance with applicable law).

  • In order to:

    • enforce or apply the Terms of Use and other agreements or to investigate potential breaches of the same; and/or

    • protect the rights, property or safety of DeGesh Consults, our customers, or others (acting at all times in accordance with our obligations under the relevant data protection legislation).

  • In connection with a potential sale or transfer of part or all of our business. In such circumstances we may share information with prospective purchasers (for example as part of a controlled due diligence exercise).

  • If we reorganise our business we may need to transfer information about you to another member of our group of companies so that we could continue to provide the Service to you.

We will ensure that we comply with our responsibilities whenever sharing data with a third party.

HOW AND WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We use strict procedures and security features designed to prevent any unauthorised or unlawful access to the personal data which we control.

Personal data which we hold in relation to you will be stored securely at our offices and (where relevant) at the offices of third-party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents. We may also hold your personal data in secure data centres located within the United Kingdom or European Economic Area (EEA).


Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone and that you use a unique password in respect of your Online Test Platform account.

We will retain a record of your personal data in accordance with relevant law and the following criteria:

  • where we have a reasonable business need to do so, for example, in order to manage our relationship with you;

  • where we are providing products and/or services to you and then for as long as someone could bring a claim against us in respect of those products or services; and/or

  • in line with any legal and regulatory requirements or guidance in respect of retention periods.

As noted above, we sometimes use other organisations to process your personal data on our behalf, for example, in relation to analysis of the use of the Service. We may use service providers to help us run the Site or Service and/or Online Test Platform, some of whom may be based outside of the UK or the EEA. However, it is our responsibility to ensure that if we use any such service provider that we ensure that we have the necessary safeguards in place. We may also independently audit these service providers to ensure that they meet our standards.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted to the Site; any transmission that you make is therefore made at your own risk. However, once we have received your data, we will use strict procedures and security features designed to prevent any unauthorised or unlawful access to the same and all information you provide to us will be stored securely.

The Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates (including, websites on which the Services and Online Test Platform are advertised). If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites (and any services that may be accessible through them) will have their own privacy notices, policies and terms of use and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for the same (and how they may be applied) or for any personal data that may be collected through those third party websites or services, such as contact and location data. Please check the relevant third party terms, notices and policies before you provide any personal data to those websites or use their services.


YOUR RIGHTS

You have a number of important legal rights regarding the manner in which personal data relating to you is used. You can find more information about your rights on the Information Commissioner’s Office website – please see https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/.

We have outlined below the key rights which we believe may be relevant to your use of the Site, the Services and/or Online Test Platform.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights then please contact us using the contact information provided below. Please note that you may be asked to provide us with reasonable proof of your identity so that we can be sure that we are discussing or providing your personal data with, or to, you (or if someone is making a request on your behalf, we need to check that they have the authority to do so).

Access to information

You have the right to access certain information we hold about you so that you can be aware of, and verify the lawfulness of, the processing we undertake.

You can exercise your right of access by making what is generally referred to as a ‘subject access request’.

We will review each request which we receive and if we agree that we are obliged to provide personal data to you then we will (subject to certain limited exceptions provided under the relevant law) amongst other things: (i) describe it to you; (ii) tell you why we are holding it; (iii) tell you who it could be disclosed to; and (iv) let you have a copy of it (this may include providing an electronic copy).

Right to have information corrected

If you identify that any personal data that we hold about you is wrong, inaccurate or out of date then you may ask us to correct or update it. Please contact us via the details provided below and we will review each request and respond accordingly.

Right of erasure and the right to stop or limit our processing of your personal data

The right of erasure is also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’. You have the right to ask us to erase data we hold about you. Alternatively, you can ask us to stop or to limit any processing we are undertaking in respect of your personal data. These rights arise if we no longer have a valid reason to do so or if we have held it for too long.

These are not absolute rights but every request we receive will be considered carefully and we will respond accordingly (providing grounds for any decision we make).

Right to withdraw consent

You are free to withdraw any consent which you have given to us in relation to our use of your personal data at any time (for example, in relation to any Health & Fitness Data or in respect of the Medication Assistant or Clinical Research Studies service). Please note that not all uses which we make of your personal data require your consent (for example, if we need to use that information in order to provide a service you have requested then we do not need your consent in order to do so). If you choose to withdraw consent in respect of Health & Fitness Data or Medication Assistant or Clinical Research Studies then you will no longer be able to use that functionality in respect of the Service (including, where relevant, Medication Assistant and/or Clinical Research Studies).

Right to object

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time. This effectively allows you to stop or prevent the processing of your personal data.

An objection may be in relation to all of the personal data we hold (as a controller) about you or only to certain information. It may also only relate to a particular purpose we are processing the data for.

You have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time. Save in relation to direct marketing communications this is not an absolute right but every request we receive will be considered carefully and we will respond accordingly (providing grounds for any decision we make).

Right to complain

If you are unhappy about the way in which we have processed your personal data then you have a right to raise the issue or to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office – as noted above please see https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/ for further details.

Changes to our privacy notice

We will keep this privacy notice and we may update it from time to time (for example, to reflect changes we might make to our services or to reflect changes in the law or best practice). Any changes we may make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page. We encourage you to visit this page periodically so that you are aware of any changes which have been made. In addition changes may be notified to you by e-mail or when you next start the App or log onto the Site. The new terms may be displayed on-screen and you may be required to read and accept them to continue your use of the Service or the Booking Service or Medication Assistant or Clinical Research Studies.

Contact Details

If you have any comments or concerns regarding our privacy notice, or the manner in which we handle your personal data or if you would like to exercise any of the rights outline above then please do feel free to contact us by one of the following means:

  • By email: info@degeshconsults.com

We will consider your comments and respond accordingly. Please note that if you have a ‘support’ query (for example you are having issues in accessing the service) then please refer to our support site - https://degeshconsults.com/HomePage/contact.

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