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Website Privacy & Cookies

Our privacy policy is governed by the principle of only collecting and using personal details when they help us provide a better service or an improved experience of our website.

Our privacy policy

This privacy policy explains what information we collect from people who use our website, how we track our visitors and what we do with the details you provide. The information we collect via the website may include:

  1. Any personal details you knowingly provide us with through forms or email, such as your name, address or telephone number.
  2. Your preferences and use of email updates, recorded by emails we send you (if you select to receive email updates)
  3. Your IP Address: this is a string of numbers unique to your computer that is recorded by our web server when you request any page or component on the website. This information is used to measure your usage of the website. We cannot read, see or use your IP address.

Cookies

When you visit a website, it will send small files to your computer called ‘cookies’. These cannot be used to identify you personally, but can make the website work more efficiently for you by improving the time required to access pages and reducing the number of times you need to enter information. Cookies also enable us to understand how people are using the website, like how long they stayed on a page, which articles they read or if information could be found, so that we can improve the online experience we provide. Most browsers can be programmed to reject cookies, or to warn you before you download them, however this may hamper your experience of the websites you visit. There are essential cookies used on this site. Information on how to manage cookies may be found in your browser’s help button, or in more detail on websites like About Cookies.

How we use cookies

We use Google Analytics to collect data and measure traffic to our site. This shows us how our visitors are using our site and helps us to spot any issues that may be occurring. It also enables us to implement our online advertising, which enables our ads to be shown on other websites like Google. Although we use cookies, such as the Google Analytics cookie and a DoubleClick cookie for our AdWords campaigns to serve you advertising, we do not use cookies to gather information which could be used to target advertisements to you on other websites, or to remember your preferences after you leave our website. We also do not track your medical searches or history. To view Google Analytics’ available opt-outs for the web click here.

Below you can see which cookies we use, and why we have them.

Cookie: Google Analytics

Name: _ga, _gid, _gcl_au, _gat_UA-XXXXXXXX-X

Category: Performance

These are set and used by Google Analytics to track user activity. They collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to help us improve the site and identify which information is most important to our visitors. The information provided by these cookies includes the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the site from, the pages they visited and more. We use the information afterwards to compile reports to improve a website visitors experience. Additional information about these cookies is available on Google’s privacy page.

What we do with your information

Any personal information we collect from this website is used only in accordance with the General data Protection Regulations and other applicable laws. We may need to pass the information we collect to other companies for administrative purposes. We may use third parties to carry out certain activities, such as processing and sorting job applications, monitoring how customers use the website and issuing emails for us. These third parties will not be allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes.

Your rights

You have the right to request a copy of any information that we currently hold about you. In order to receive such information, please send your contact details including address to the following address:

Privacy
Practice Plus Group Quality and Governance Team
Building 1330,
Arlington Business Park,
Theale,
Reading
RG7 4SA

Other websites

This privacy policy only covers Practice Plus Group websites. Any other websites, which may be linked to from our website are subject to their own privacy policy, which may differ from ours.

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