Who we are
Our company name is Critical Care International ltd, registered in England & Wales. Our website address is: https://critcareint.com.
For website users:
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
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 visit our login page, 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.
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.
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.
For patients:
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Sensitive Personal Data
CCI clinicians may need to make digital records of patient data, identifying information and medical helath records, and we may need to store or process this data.
With respect to the UK’s Common Law Duty of Confidentiality, CCI’s use of Personal Data is for the purposes of Direct Care and Administration, therefore a patient’s consent to such data sharing/Processing can be implied where the following conditions are met:
1. The Personal Confidential Data is being accessed to provide or support an individual’s Direct Care, and shared for the same purpose;
2. Information is readily available to patients to explain how their information will be used;
3. There is no reason to believe the patient has objected;
4. CCI is satisfied that the Processor of the Personal Data understands it has been given in confidence; and,
5. CCI maintain Privacy Notices up to date and include the nature of data sharing actively communicated to patients.
CCI clinicians actively communicate to patients that in order to provide the healthcare services, we store and process their personal data – and sometimes share this data with other healthcare providers. It may also be necessary, where the latest technology allows us to do so, to use their information and health data to facilitate digital consultations and diagnoses and we will always do this with a patient’s security in mind.
Primarily this sensitive data is being processed for the purposes of the patient’s healthcare and therefore – to the extent a further legal basis is necessary – the processing required is justified under (i) Article 6(1)(e) (public functions) of the UK’s GDPR legislation; and (ii) in relation to special category personal data, Article 9(2)(h) (healthcare) of the GDPR and para 2, Schedule 1 of the DPA 2018.