Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.machmed.co.uk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We collect personal information from you so that we can offer our services as effectively as possible. We may hold information for the following purposes:

Where information is submitted by you as part of an enquiry about our services, we may collect the following information:

First / last name
Title
Email address
Phone number
Company name
Company address

How do we use the information we collect

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to in the following circumstances:

Where we have a legitimate interest to respond to your enquiry
Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter / have entered into with you
Where we need to comply with any legal or statutory obligations
Where we have your consent to send you marketing information

How long do we store your information for

Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we will only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose that it was collected for. At the end of that period, your data will either be completely deleted or anonymised in a non-identifiable way for statistical analysis.

Where you contact us with an enquiry but do not engage our services, we will keep your data for 18 months since the first contact
Where you contact us in relation to a job application we will keep your data for 18 months after the last contact with you
Where you contact us about a partnership opportunity we will keep your data for 3 years if there has been no activity
Where you subscribe to our newsletter or blog alerts we will keep your data for as long as you are a subscriber

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Third party links

This Privacy Policy only applies to this website, machmed.co.uk. This website may include links to third party websites, plugins and applications. We do not control these third party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements and how they use your data. Example of third party produces include Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google fonts or Adobe fonts.

Internet browsers typically accept cookies by default, but it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies.

Analytics

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.