Welcome to the North West London Obstetric Anaesthesia Education Project!

We respect your right to privacy.

This Privacy Policy applies to your use of nwlobsanaesthesia.com (the “Site”). It tells you (the the registered user of the Site) what to expect when we collect personally identifiable information about you, and what your rights are concerning the collection of your information. It is provided in accordance with our obligations under the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless it is in response to you using our Site. The security of your personally identifiable information is extremely important to us.

This Privacy Policy is regularly reviewed to make sure that we continue to serve your privacy interests and we reserve the right to update it as we deem necessary.

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. It should be read alongside our Terms of Use and the Cookies Policy. Unless otherwise defined, terms used have the same meaning as in the Terms of Use.

If you have any questions, comments, or complaints about this Privacy Policy please contact us at the details set out below.

1. About Us

In this Privacy Policy, references to “we” or “us” are to North West London Obstetric Anaesthesia Education Project Team (the ‘Team’).

2. What information we collect

2.1. Registering with the Site

When you register on the North West London Obstetric Anaesthesia Education Project website, when you create and update your Learner profile, we collect the following information:

• Name
• Email address
• Data relating to your use of our Site
• Information provided by you when you correspond with us (including via surveys)
• Other information you choose to provide about your interests, educational background, occupation and work experience, learning goals, and other general learning preferences

2.2. Learning journey

When you are access the online content, we and third parties may collect and store the following additional information:

• Any email communications with the Team to seek user support or to send queries related to the Site
• Responses you voluntarily provide to the Team, third parties in questionnaires, surveys, or user research that you participate in related to the online content

2.3. Accessing the Site

When you access the Site, we may use cookies to track, collect, and aggregate information about your use of the Site, including pages you have visited, the specific URLs that brought you to our Site, and links embedded on the Site that you have accessed. This information may include IP addresses, and any information collected by cookies. This may also include information such as the time and length of visits to certain pages on our website and page interaction information. For more information on our use of cookies, please refer to our Cookies Policy.

3. How we use your information

3.1. In providing our online content to you, we and third parties we work with will collect, store, and use your personal information for the following purposes:

3.1.1. To manage your user account;

3.1.2. To provide technical support to you;

3.1.3. To send you email notifications and updates about the online content

3.1.4. Where you are invited by a third party organisation such as your employer/trainer to enrol on our Site, to allow that entity to enrol you to our online course, and to monitor and track your progress on the Site;

3.1.5. If you are accessing the online content for academic credit, professional certification and/or other formal recognition of learning, to allow the organisation to monitor and track your progress, to award you with the relevant recognition as applicable, and to make direct contact with you regarding your progress and completion of the online content;

3.1.6. To contact you occasionally in order to invite you to share your opinions of and experiences with the Team, and to publish customer reviews and ratings of our course materials on our Site or on other media channels;

3.1.7. To use your information in an aggregated format to identify trends on our Site and trends in our user database. We may use this information in an aggregated and anonymous format and may share this information with third parties;

3.1.8. To share general user data with our Team for research related to online education (as more fully set out below);

3.1.9. We use cookies to collect information relating to your use of the Site to enable, maintain and improve the functioning of the Site and the quality of our products and services. For more information, please see our Cookies Policy.

4. Whom we may share your information with

Any entity to which we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and other legal requirements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, our users, or others.

5. How the Team may use your information

5.1. The Team may conduct research on their online educational programme. Accordingly, your activities on the Site may be used for this purpose. Any data we use for this purpose will be anonymised.

5.2. Our online content may also embed links which take you to a third party website. If you are asked to submit personal information on any third party websites, the collection of that information will not be covered by this Privacy Policy and you must familiarise yourself with the terms and conditions and privacy policy of the third party website before submitting your information. At no time will you be required to submit any information on third party websites as a condition for continuing to access online content on the Site, and your decision not to provide information on third party websites will never affect your progress on the Site.

6. Storage and Security of Information

6.1. All information is stored on our secure servers. When you register, we will ask you to choose a password which enables you to access the Site. You are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share this password with anyone.

6.2. In addition, we (or third parties acting on our behalf) may also store or process information that we collect about you in countries outside the United Kingdom or outside the European Economic Area, which may have different standards of data protection than in the UK. We have put in place technical and organisational security measures to prevent the loss or unauthorised access of your personal information. However, whilst we have used our best efforts to ensure the security of your data, it is your responsibility to make an informed decision to avail yourself of our services and products or if your concerns about the handling of data require you to refrain from using our Site.

7. Data Retention

When you are no longer a registered user of the Site, we will either delete or anonymise any data related to you. If this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. Your Rights

8.1. You have the following data protection rights:

8.1.1. You may email us at info@nwlobsanaesthesia.com in order to access, correct, or update your personal information on our systems. We will answer every email as promptly as possible.

8.1.2. You can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “Contact details” heading below.

8.1.3. If we have collected and process your personal information on the basis of your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

8.1.4. If you have any privacy-related questions or unresolved problems, you may contact us using the information provided below.

8.1.5. You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

9. Children

We take seriously our legal obligation to protect the privacy of children. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from persons under 16 years of age, and no part of the Site is directed to persons under 16 years of age. If you are under 16 years of age, then please do not use or access the Site at any time or in any manner. We will take appropriate steps to delete any personal information of persons less than 16 years of age.

10. Cookies

The Site uses cookies. Cookies are small files stored on your computer’s hard drive which are used to collect your personal information. You may choose to refuse cookies but, if you do so, some of the functionality of the Site or online content may no longer be available to you.

For more information about cookies, including further details as to what they are and how to refuse them, please see our Cookies Policy.

11. Contact details

E-mail: info@nwlobsanaesthesia.com

12. Updating this Privacy Policy

We may update or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, to comply with law, in accordance with best practice in our industry. Any updates or amendments will be posted on the Site. By continuing to access the Site, access the online content, and/or provide content in connection with the online content, you will be deemed to have accepted the Privacy Policy as amended at the time of your access and use.

This page was last updated on 19.01.2023.