Privacy
S&L Wilson Ltd is a registered data controller. This privacy notice sets out our privacy policy and protects any information that you give S&L Wilson Ltd when you use this website. We collect and process patients’ personal data for the purposes of healthcare and marketing. Our legal bases for processing personal data for healthcare purposes, including appointment reminders, include public task or legitimate interests.
-When we provide services under the NHS General Services contract (such as a sight test funded by the NHS), our legal basis for processing personal data in respect of that service is public task.
-Otherwise our legal basis is legitimate interests.
Our condition for processing special category data is the provision of health or social care. We process our patients’ personal data for marketing purposes with their consent or to meet a legitimate interest. This means we can tell you about eye care products and services that may be relevant to you. If you do not want us to process your personal data for marketing purposes, please let us know and we will stop.
This policy is effective from May 2018.
The data we may collect and process
The personal data of patients that we may collect and process includes:
-your name, contact details & personal identifiers
-demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
-other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
(If you have an eyecare consultation with us or purchase optical appliances from us we may also collect information from you about your general & ocular health, any relevant signs/symptoms; details of medicines/spectacles/contact lenses prescribed for you; details of examinations & other healthcare checks & treatments we provide; information relevant to your continued care from other people who care for you or know you well, such as other healthcare professionals & relatives)
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or mail.
We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How We Use Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
You have legal rights in respect of the personal data we hold about you. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance on the full range of rights.
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by emailing us at info@howardsopticians.co.uk.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
The right to access- if you ask us for the personal data we hold about you we will provide it within month, free of charge (unless we have already provided it to you, in which case we may have to charge you the administrative cost of providing it again) . If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to: S&L Wilson Ltd, 47 Duke Street, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 2JE.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
For our full privacy policy please contact us instore.