UKMSSNA – PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the United Kingdom Multiple Sclerosis Specialist Nurse Association’s privacy notice. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or sign up as a member of our association and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how the United Kingdom Multiple Sclerosis Specialist Nurse Association (“UKMSSNA” or “we”) collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website or becoming a member of our association. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Controller
The UKMSSNA is the controller and responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.
Contact details
You can contact us by any of the methods below:
Email address: admin@ukmssna.org.uk
Telephone: 07834223474
Postal Address: UKMSSNA, 1 Barrens Brae, Woking, GU22 7JP
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
Your duty to inform us of changes
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, marital status, title and gender.
- Contact Data includes postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
- Membership Data includes details about your membership if you are a member including payments from you.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and membership.
- Communications Data includes your communication preferences.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to provide the services you have requested (for example, to process a membership request).
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you request to be a member, request marketing to be sent to you, ask a query or give us some feedback.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from third parties, for example we may receive Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google when you visit our website and we may receive Contact, Financial and Membership Data from providers of payment services.
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform our obligations to you if you are a member of our association.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
| To register you as a member | (a) Identity
(b) Contact |
Performance of our duties to you |
| To process your membership, including managing payments, collecting and recovering money owed to us and sending newsletters and updates on information that we feel may be useful to you | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction
|
(a) Performance of our duties to you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
| To manage our relationship with you which will include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy and responding to any queries
|
(a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Membership (d) Usage (e) Communications |
(a) Performance of our duties to you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how members use our services) |
| To administer and protect our association and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance and support) | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our association, provision of administration and IT services)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to Linked In, Facebook, Twitter. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your permission (Consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g. to complete online forms to contact us to enable you to request services).
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by setting preferences when you first time visit our website or by clicking the letter “C” in the left corner of the page if you want to implement changes to your previous preferences. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.
What are our cookies used for?
Our cookies are used for the following functions:
Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when applying
for a role, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be
provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have
been on the internet.
Statistical/analytical cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move
around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that
users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality/Performance cookies. These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of a website but
are not essential to its use. However, without these cookies, certain functions (like videos) may become unavailable.
Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have
followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Our use of cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
| Cookie preference | CookieControl | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on mploystaff.com. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. |
| Language selection | googtrans | This cookie is used to remember any selection a user has made about language on mploystaff.com, using the language selector, so that the site will be shown in their chosen language when returning to the site. |
| Universal Analytics (Google) | _ga _gali _gat _gid |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. |
| Wordfence | wfwaf-authcookie-(hash) | This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. This is only set for users that are able to log into WordPress. This cookie allows the Wordfence firewall to detect logged in users and allow them increased access. It also allows Wordfence to detect non-logged in users and restrict their access to secure areas. The cookie also lets the firewall know what level of access a visitor has to help the firewall make smart decisions about who to allow and who to block. |
Third party cookies
| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC __Secure-3PSID __Secure-1PSID __Secure-3PAPISID __Secure-1PAPISID |
These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests. | |
| SAPISID | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | |
| APISID | Set by DoubleClick. This cookie is set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitors interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device | |
| OGPC | This cookie enables the functionality of Google Maps. | |
| SSID | Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Google Map. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users. | |
| 1P_JAR, CONSENT, NID | Set by Google. This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. | |
| SID | Google uses this cookie for security. It contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. This cookie allows google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. | |
| HSID | Google uses this cookie for security. It contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. This cookie allows google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. | |
| SIDCC | Google Analytics uses this security cookie to protect a user’s data from unauthorised access. | |
| DV, UULE | Used to collect information about how visitors use our site which we use to compile reports to help us make improvements. | |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is set by Google reCAPTCHA, which protects our site against spam enquiries on contact forms. |
Third party access to the cookies
The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.
How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your device settings or your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. To check your browser settings and make changes you will need to navigate to the preference section of your browser or you can visit the following links to the more common browsers:
If you do make changes to your settings, please be aware that this may affect the availability of our website or you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to contact us
If you wish to contact us about our cookie policy please send an email to our data protection manager at admin@ukmssna.org.uk.
Changes to this policy
This cookie policy was published on and last updated on 23rd September 2021.
We may change the wording of this policy from time to time, when we do we will alert about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Cookie Policy. Any changes will be effective immediately upon publishing the updated policy on our website. You are encouraged to periodically check this policy for updates
Change of purpose
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.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers and bankers who provide consultancy, banking and legal services.
- HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our association or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other organisations or merge with them. If a change happens to our association, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
7. DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. DATA RETENTION
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
We shall keep basic information about our members (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Membership Data) for six years after they cease being members.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These are as follows:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Please contact us using the details above to exercise any of these rights.