Privacy statement
Data controller
Any personal information that you provide on this website is controlled by AP.
Your personal information
Sometimes you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name, address and email address, email) in order to receive or use services on our websites or from our organisation. Such services include events, newsletters, publications, information and advice.
By entering your details in the fields requested and pressing 'Submit', or by sending this information via application forms in the post, by fax, by email or via other web based platforms you are consenting to the processing of your information by AP and its agents in accordance with this Data Policy. You may also provide personal information to us when you contact us by email, telephone or letter. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you have requested. AP will, at all times, act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to AP we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that information. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it. This Data Policy explains how we will use your personal information.
We will use personal information provided by you or gathered by AP for the following purposes:
• to help us identify you and the membership you hold with us, both for our own purposes and for approved providers and with regards to Practitioner Membership/ Advanced Practitioner Membership, members of the public who ask to verify membership;
• in the case of Practitioner Membership/ Advanced Practitioner Membership, to make decisions regarding the appropriateness of accepting applicants as members;
• if you are a member, to administer your membership record, inform you of campaigns, promotions and offers, provide services and fulfil our obligations to you as an AP member (including billing);
• to communicate with you generally;
• to provide you with information about services or opportunities offered by AP, or its carefully selected partners
• research, survey completion and profiling;
• statistical analysis and behavioural analysis;
• to improve the services provided by AP;
• to detect, investigate and prevent activity we think may be potentially illegal, unlawful or harmful, including:
- fraud prevention and detection (including credit scoring and credit checking where we have sought your consent);
- to enforce our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions;
- to comply with our legal obligations.
PREF - * Expires after eight months
VSC - * expires at the end of your session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE - *expires after eight months
remote_sid - * expires at the end of your session
If you are a member, we also collect and process your data in accordance with the notices provided to you when you join and in the course of your membership; however, this Policy also applies to your data.
We use links to vimeo on our website, and they may collect data from you. For more information https://vimeo.com/privacy
To make this site simpler to use, we place small files on your computer, known as cookies, almost all websites do this. Cookies have many uses and most are not damaging to your privacy, all of the cookies used on this website fall into that category. We do not permit cookies that collect or transfer your detailed personal data to other websites for advertising or other purposes.
Cookies are used on this site purely to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using the site, so it can be made easier to use and ensure there is enough capacity and fast enough
We use Google Analytics to determine how many people use this site. Google Analytics stores information about the pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and how you utilise the website. We do not collect or store any directly identifiable personal information (e.g. your name or address) which could be used to identify who you are. To find out more about how Google uses the information it stores in cookies please review their documentation.
The following cookies are used by Google Analytics:
- _ga is used to distinguish users (anonymously) and expires after 2 years
- _gid is used to distinguish users (anonymously) and expires after 24 hours
- _gat is used to manage usage of the analytics functions and expires after 1 minute
- _gac contains anonymous usage information and expires after 90 days
The following cookie may be used to provide other normal website functions:
- asp.net_sessionid contains session related information for the user and expires when the browser is closed
If you do not wish to accept any cookies on to your machine you can disable them by adjusting the settings on your browser. However, this is likely to adversely affect the functionality of the websites you visit. For further information visit: www.allaboutcookies.org.