Privacy Policy
Introduction
Forum for Independent Psychotherapists is committed to protecting the privacy of our members and website visitors. We process personal data in accordance with the UK's Data Protection Act 1998. Please read the following in order to learn more about our Privacy Policy and information-gathering and sharing practices.
This Privacy Policy sets out the data processing practices carried out through the use of the Internet and any other electronic communications networks by the FiP. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices, please phone 020 7686 0397 or email us.
Information collected
FiP provides a variety of on-line offerings, including information about FiP services. While you are not required to provide us with personal data in order to browse our website, we do collect personal information from visitors who use our on-line forms, or e-mail us their details.
We ask you for personal data only when it is needed to provide services you have requested or enquired about, or to respond to a request for information. We use this information to improve and customise the content of our pages, to meet your requests for certain products and services, to communicate with you generally and to contact you about services.
Use of cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables a web site to collect information from a browser. This site does not use cookies.
Website usage data
Our website keeps track of usage data such as the source address of a page request (i.e. your IP address and Internet Service Provider's domain name), the date and time of the page request, the referring web page (if any) and other parameters in the URL (e.g. search criteria). We use this data to better understand the use of our website by visitors and to identify user preferences. This information is stored in log files and is used for aggregated and statistical reporting, but is not attributed to you as an individual.
Security
We recognise industry standards and employ security safeguards to protect information from unauthorised access and misuse. We use the most accurate and current information you provide in order to process your request.
User submissions
Any material, information or other communication that you transmit or post to our website (other than your personal information) will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, unless we are advised to the contrary. You are accordingly requested not to post confidential or proprietary information to our website. FiP and its agents will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the communications in all data, images, sound, text and other things embodied therein for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
Information-sharing
We may be required to share the information we learn from you with other parties. We do not sell or rent this information to others but may send personally identifiable information about you to other parties in the following circumstances:
Agents
FiP may share your information with professional advisors, strategic partners, and other individuals and organisations employed by us to perform functions on our behalf. Examples of these functions include the delivery of packages, postal mail, faxes and e-mails, providing marketing assistance in data analysis, fulfilling orders, providing services (including but not limited to careers and employment services) and following up on enquiries (by phone, e-mail, post or fax). These agents may have access to personal information in order to perform their functions, but they may not use it for any other purpose.
Legal compliance
We will release personal information where we are required to do so by law, or by the regulations and other rules to which we are subject (including auditing requirements).
Consent
Other than in the above situations, you will receive notice from us when your personal information may be disclosed to third parties and you will have the opportunity to decide not to share that information.
Other websites
The FiP website contains links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.
Access right
You have a right of access to the personal data held about you, and to request a copy of the information held by us in our records (for which we may charge a small fee). You also have the right to require us to correct any inaccuracies in your information. Please contact us to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Changes to privacy policy
We may review and edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our web pages.
Questions or suggestions
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this policy, or have any concerns about our website practices, or believe that we are not adhering to our privacy policy, please contact us. Should you at any time wish us to remove your personal details from our database please contact us by post, fax or e-mail.