Privacy Policy

Brock Street Pharmacy is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our Terms and Conditions and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 (the "Act"), the data controller is Brock Street Pharmacy, 5-11 Brock Street, Lancaster, LA1 1UR, United Kingdom.

Your consent

By using our Website www.brockstreetpharmacy.co.uk and by using the services provided by Brock Street Pharmacy, you understand and agree that personal information you provide will be held on a database created and operated by us, our group of companies and/or other selected third parties.

What information do we collect and why?

When you register with us, you will be asked for some essential information including your title, first name, surname, business name, postal address, email address, telephone and, if applicable, payment information. You may also be requested to give your details for other reasons. These details are collected either in person, by telephone or online, to help us:

• Register your details as a new customer or update your details if they change
• Make appointments / visits
• Arrange treatments / vaccines
• Process the fees due for any appointments / services / treatment / vaccines
• Contact you about your appointment/ treatment / services / vaccines, your account or credit status where required;
• Deliver a safe and secure service by helping to prevent and detect fraud. We may need to disclose information to assist legal or debt recovery processes;
• Speed up your form filling processes if you've registered online (where applicable);
• Understand your needs and listen to your feedback via market research and surveys;
• Enhance your experience by delivering a more personally tailored service;
• Respond to any issues or queries via the customer service advisor teams; and/or
• Notify you about changes to our service. We will also automatically collect data such as dates and times of your visits to the website.

How we protect your information

We endeavour to protect your information by:

• Encrypting your personal information if you enter any personal information online. A secure server encrypts all of the information you input before it is sent to us. This protects your confidential data, particularly your credit card details from unauthorised use;
• Keeping your information up-to-date and accurate. Please note that, to do this, we require you to tell us if any of your details such as your name or address change; and
• Having in place strict security procedures for the storage and disclosure of your information to prevent unauthorised access.

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 your data transmitted to and/or through the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Protecting your security

To ensure that your credit, debit or charge card is not being used without your consent, we will validate name, address and other personal information supplied by you against appropriate third-party databases. By accepting these terms and conditions you consent to these checks being made. In performing these checks, personal information provided by you may be disclosed to a registered Credit Reference Agency which may keep a record of that information. You can rest assured that this is done only to confirm your identity, that a credit check is not performed, and that your credit rating will be unaffected. All information provided by you will be treated securely and strictly in accordance with the Act.

Statement on the use and disclosure of Personal Data

We may send you, by SMS, email or post, details on offers, products, reminders and services which may be of interest to you. We may also telephone you to discuss treatment details or for market or service research.

We may monitor or record telephone calls to ensure our quality standards are maintained and for fraud prevention purposes.

We may use, for the purpose of promotional, marketing and publicity purposes in any media worldwide, any comments or feedback (excluding personal data) which you post publicly or provide to the surgeries, without notice or without any fee being paid.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
• If Brock Street Pharmacy, or substantially all of its assets, are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets; or
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or agreements or contracts between us or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Brock Street Pharmacy, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk reduction and our internal investigations including customer complaints and claims.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise your right not to receive marketing information at any time by clicking the link on the bottom of each email or contacting our customer service team on +44 (0)1765 645893.

The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to them.

Cookies

In order that we can monitor and improve the Website, we may gather certain information about you when you use it, including details of your domain name and IP (Internet Provider) address, operating system and browser. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages and advertisements on the Website and to make the Website more user friendly. We use cookies so that we can give you a better experience when you return to the Website. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You do not have to accept cookies and you should read the information that came with your browser software to see how you can set up your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This will give you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it or not. We may also use cookies to provide you with customised information from the Website.

Access Rights

You have a right to access the personal data about you that is held by us. To obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please write to us at the following address: Brock Street Pharmacy, 5-11 Brock Street, Lancaster, LA1 1UR, United Kingdom enclosing your postal details and a cheque for £10 payable to Brock Street Pharmacy to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

If you have any queries about data protection, please contact us on +44 (0)1524 32310