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PRIVACY AND COOKIES STATEMENT

1 practicenursing.co.uk is committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the security of any personal information received from you. We strictly adhere to the requirements of the data protection legislation in the UK. The purpose of this statement is to explain to you what personal information we collect and how we may use it.

2 When you register we ask you for your username, email address and password. Once registered you can optionally provide further information such as occupation, location, phone number and specific reasons to contact you.

3 We use your personal information :-

  • to provide user specific features e.g. posting on forum
  • to notify you of changes to the website
  • to update you about new products/services
  • to improve our products/services
  • to conduct research
  • for payment and billing purposes
We will only contact you with your consent. We do from time to time include information in our emails from other organisations that we think you may be interested in - this helps us provide the free resources on the site. We do not give your details to others.

4 We do not sell, rent or exchange your personal information with any third party for commercial reasons, beyond the essential requirement for credit/debit card validation during purchase.

5 We follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access in accordance with the UK data protection legislation. We do not collect sensitive information about you except when you specifically knowingly provide it. In order to maintain the accuracy of our database, you can check, update or remove your personal details by visiting  here or contacting us at our  contact page

We use a technology called "cookies" as part of a normal business procedure to track patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. A cookie is an element of data that our Website sends to your browser which is then stored on your system. You can set your browser to prevent this happening. Any information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you change your browser settings. More information about what 'cookies' are, the cookies used by practicenursing.co.uk, how to switch cookies off in your browser, how to specifically disable third party advertising cookies and some useful links for further reading on the subject can be found here.

6 In order to process credit/debit card transactions, the bank or card processing agency may require to verify your personal details for authorisation outside the EEA (European Economic Area). Your information will not be transferred outside the EEA for any other purpose.

7 We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to·not having this information used by these companies, click here.

8 If you have any questions about privacy please  contact us

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