Privacy Notice

  1. ABOUT US

We are Avon Local Medical Committee Limited (‘the LMC’) whose registered office is situated at 12a High Street, Staple Hill, Bristol BS16 5HP and registered under company number 06576488. We are a professional organisation representing individual GPs and GP practices within Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.

We are responsible for collecting, handling, and storing your information when you use this site or our services.

Your privacy is important to us. By providing information such as your name and e-mail address, you agree to us contacting you about the information you request therefore providing us with your consent for us to contact you.

We understand how important it is to keep your information safe and secure and we take this very seriously. We have taken steps to make sure your information is secure, and we review this regularly.

Please read this privacy notice (‘Privacy Notice’) carefully, as it contains important information about how we use the information we collect on your behalf.

2. WHY WE ARE PROVIDING THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We are required to provide you with this Privacy Notice by Law. It explains how we use the information we collect, store, and hold about you. If you are unclear about how we process or use your information, require access to your information, wish to change your information, make a complaint or you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or any other issue regarding your information, then please contact Rebecca Kemp, our General Manager at:

Address: 12a High Street, Staple Hill, Bristol, BS16 5HP
Email: info@almc.co.uk
Phone: 0117 9702755

Data Protection Law states that as an organisation we must:

  1. Let you know why we collect information about you.
  2. Let you know how we use any information we hold on you.
  3. Inform you in respect of what we do with it
  4. Tell you about who we share it with or pass it on to and why; and
  5. Let you know how long we can keep it for.

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

The information we collect from you will include:

  1. Practice contact details (such as your name and email addresses of those working in the Practice, including work address and work contact details).
  2. General identification and contact information: your name; email; IP address; telephone details

4. WHO WE MAY PROVIDE YOUR INFORMATION TO, AND WHY

We may pass your information on to the following people or organisations because these organisations may require your information to assist them in the provision of our services to you. It, therefore, may be important for them to be able to access your information to ensure they may properly deliver their services to you:

  1. Training providers.
  2. The Disclosure and Barring Service.
  3. Occupational Health providers.
  4. Advisory services.
  5. Any other person that is involved in providing services offered by the LMC to its clients.

5. OTHER PEOPLE WHO WE PROVIDE YOUR INFORMATION TO

  1. Commissioners.
  2. NHS England.
  3. For the purposes of complying with the law e.g., Policy, Solicitors, Insurance Companies.
  4. Anyone you have given your consent to, to view or receive your information, or part of your information. Please note, if you give another person or organisation consent to access your information, we will need to contact you to verify your consent before we release that information. It is important that you are clear and understand how much and what aspects of your information you give consent to be disclosed.

6. ANONYMISED INFORMATION

Sometimes we may provide information about you in an anonymised form. If we do so, then none of the information we provide to any other party will identify you as an individual and cannot be traced back to you.

7. YOUR RIGHTS

The law states that we need a lawful basis to collect and use your information. We will only use the information that you provide in accordance with the retained EU law version of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“UK GDPR”), the Data Protection Act 2018 and any other relevant legislation, regulation, code of practice or guidance.

The lawful basis for collecting and using your information will depend on the information you have provided and the context in which is collected.

We will use your information where:

  1. You have consented to its use. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  2. We require the information to perform a contract with you.
  3. The processing is in our legitimate interests (where we have a business or commercial reason to use your information) and this is not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights or freedoms.
  4. We have a legal obligation to process the information.

The Law gives you certain rights to your information that we hold, as set out below:

  1. Subject Access Requests: You have the right to see what information we hold about you and to request a copy of this information. If you would like a copy of the information, we hold about you please email our General Manager. We will provide this information free of charge however, we may in some limited and exceptional circumstances have to make an administrative charge for any extra copies if the information requested is excessive, complex or repetitive. We have one month to reply to you and give you the information that you require. We would ask, therefore, that any requests you make are in writing and it is made clear to us what and how much information you require.
  2. Correction: We want to make sure that your information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct any information you think is inaccurate. It is very important that you make sure you tell us if your contact details including your mobile phone number has changed.
  3. Removal: You have the right to ask for your information to be removed however, if we require this information to assist us in providing you with appropriate services, then removal may not be possible.
  4. Objection: We cannot share your information with anyone else for a purpose that is not directly related to the provision of our services. We would ask you for your consent to do this however, you have the right to request that your information is not shared by the LMC in this way. Please note the Anonymised Information section in this Privacy Notice.
  5. Transfer: You have the right to request that your information is transferred, in an electronic form (or other form), to another organisation, but we will require your clear consent to be able to do this.

8. INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTIES

Sometimes we record information about third parties mentioned by you to us in order to provide our services. We are under an obligation to make sure we also protect that third party’s rights as an individual and to ensure that references to them which may breach their rights to confidentiality, are removed before we send any information to any other party including you.

9. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We use your information in the following ways:

  1. When we need to speak to or contact other service providers in order to provide our services to you.
  2. When we are required by Law to hand over your information to any other organisation, such as the police, by court order, solicitors, or immigration enforcement.

We will never pass on your information to anyone else who does not need it, or has no right to it, unless you give us clear consent to do so.

10. HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION

We carefully consider any information that we store about you, and we will not keep your information for longer than is necessary for the purposes as set out in this Privacy Notice.

11. IF ENGLISH IS NOT YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE

If English is not your first language, you can request a translation of this Privacy Notice. From our General Manager detailed above.

12. COMPLAINTS

If you have a concern about the way we handle your information or have a complaint about what we are doing, or how we have used or handled your information, then please contact our General Manager. However, you have a right to raise any concern or complaint with Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk/ .

13. OUR WEBSITE

The only website this Privacy Notice applies to is the LMC’s website. If you use a link to any other website from the LMC’s website, then you will need to read their respective privacy notice. We take no responsibility (legal or otherwise) for the content of other websites.

14. COOKIES

The LMC’s website uses cookies. For more information on which cookies, we use and how we use them, please see our Cookies Policy.

15. SECURITY

We take the security of your information very seriously and we do everything we can to ensure that your information is always protected and secure. We regularly update our processes and systems, and we also ensure that our staff are properly trained. We also carry out assessments and audits of the information that we hold about you and make sure that if we provide any other services, we carry out proper assessments and security reviews.

16. CONTACTING YOU

Because we are obliged to protect any information, we hold about you and we take this very seriously, it is imperative that you let us know immediately if you change any of your contact details.

We may contact you using your mobile phone or email address if we need to notify you about matters relating to the provision of our services, therefore you must ensure that we have your up-to-date details. This is to ensure we are sure we are contacting you and not another person.

17. WHERE TO FIND OUR PRIVACY NOTICE

You may find a copy of this Privacy Notice in the LMC’s reception, on our website, or a copy may be provided on request.

18. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE

We regularly review and update our Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice was last updated in October 2023.