The Health Innovation Network is committed to protecting your online privacy and any personal information that you give us while you use our website. This privacy statement explains how we use any personal information that you give us when you visit this website or engage with us. It does not cover websites that are linked to and from this site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site to read the privacy statement for that site.

This policy covers:

  • Health Innovation Network e-newsletter
  • Links to other websites
  • Access to your information and correction
  • Data protection and storing data
  • Changes to our privacy policy
  • Security
  • Use of cookies
  • How to contact us

Health Innovation Network News e-newsletter

In order to receive our e-newsletter, we ask you to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name, email address, job title and organisation). You can sign up to receive our newsletter here.

By giving us your details you enable the Health Innovation Network and our associated projects and programmes to email you our e-newsletter and other relevant news and updates. You can unsubscribe from these communications at any time by contacting us or updating your profile via the newsletter provider.

We use a third party provider, Mailchimp, to deliver our e-newsletters. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice.

Links to other websites

The website contains links to many other websites with sources of information of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave the Health Innovation Network website, please note that we do not have any control over these other websites. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such websites, and such websites are not governed by this statement. Please exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. We recommend that you review the website’s privacy policy as a precautionary measure. The Health Innovation Network does not endorse any external sites and is not responsible for their content.

For more information about the use of this website, please read our terms.

Access to your information and correction

You can request a copy of the details we hold about you at any time. Please email us at info@thehealthinnovationnetwork.co.uk to obtain these or to update us on any changes you’d like to make.

Data protection and storing data 

Under the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it.

We do not pass on your details to any third party or other government departments.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances. You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us if you wish to make a request.

Changes to our privacy policy

If our privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. The date the policy has been reviewed is at the bottom of this page. Regularly reviewing the page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances if any, we will share it with other parties.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under our control.

How to contact us 

If you have any questions about this policy, please email us at info@thehealthinnovationnetwork.co.uk or send by post:

The Health Innovation Network, Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN Ltd, Amelia House, Crescent Road, Worthing, West Sussex, England, BN11 1RL

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this page.

This privacy policy was last updated May 2021.

For more information about the use of this website, please read our terms and conditions.