Privacy

 

Privacy Statement

Data Controller

Any personal information that you provide to Addiction Professionals through our website, membership applications, accreditation applications, events, training, correspondence or other services is controlled by Addiction Professionals.

Your Personal Information

You may be asked to provide personal information about yourself (for example your name, address, telephone number, email address, employer, professional qualifications or professional registration details) in order to access services provided by Addiction Professionals.

These services may include membership, accreditation, certification, events, conferences, webinars, newsletters, publications, training, information, advice and other professional development activities.

You may also provide personal information when contacting us by email, telephone, post or through online forms and platforms.

Whenever you provide personal information, Addiction Professionals will process that information in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information provided by you or collected by Addiction Professionals for the following purposes:

• To identify you and administer your membership, accreditation or certification;
• To assess applications for membership, accreditation or certification;
• To administer membership records and provide membership services and benefits;
• To maintain professional registers and accreditation records;
• To communicate with you regarding your membership, accreditation, events, services or other activities;
• To provide information about services, events, educational opportunities, consultations, employment opportunities and other activities offered by Addiction Professionals or by selected partner organisations where we believe these may be relevant to our members, stakeholders or the wider addictions workforce;
• To conduct surveys, research and service evaluation activities;
• To undertake statistical analysis and service improvement activities;
• To investigate complaints, appeals or disciplinary matters;
• To detect, investigate and prevent unlawful, fraudulent or harmful activity;
• To enforce our policies, procedures and membership terms;
• To comply with legal, regulatory and governance obligations.

Lawful Basis for Processing

Addiction Professionals processes personal information under one or more of the following lawful bases:

• Contract (including Membership Terms and Accreditation Terms);
• Legitimate Interests;
• Legal Obligation;
• Consent, where required.

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time.

Practitioner Directory and Membership Verification

A core purpose of Practitioner Membership and Advanced Practitioner Membership is to provide public assurance regarding professional membership and accreditation status.

Addiction Professionals therefore maintains a public Directory of Practitioners and may respond to legitimate enquiries seeking confirmation of an individual's membership and accreditation status.

By applying for or renewing Practitioner Membership or Advanced Practitioner Membership, members acknowledge and agree that Addiction Professionals may:

• Include their details in the public Directory of Practitioners;
• Confirm whether they hold current membership of Addiction Professionals;
• Confirm any accreditation, certification or professional recognition awarded by Addiction Professionals;
• Provide confirmation of membership status to employers, commissioners, regulators, service providers, members of the public and other legitimate enquirers.

The public directory will normally include:

• Name;
• Membership number;
• Region of practice;
• Membership status;
• Accreditation or certification status.

The publication of this information forms part of the membership service provided by Addiction Professionals and supports public confidence, professional accountability and verification of professional status.

Members may choose to provide additional information for publication, such as contact details, website links, services offered, qualifications or professional profile information. Any additional information will only be published with the member's agreement.

Sharing Information

We may share personal information with approved service providers, accreditation partners, event partners, payment providers or regulatory bodies where necessary to provide services or comply with legal obligations.

Where we promote services, events or opportunities provided by partner organisations, we do not share your personal information with those organisations unless you choose to engage directly with them or have otherwise consented to such sharing.

We do not sell personal information to third parties.

Retention of Information

Personal information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and maintain appropriate records. Further information about retention periods is available on request

Your Rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to:

• Request access to your personal information;
• Request correction of inaccurate information;
• Request deletion of information in certain circumstances;
• Request restriction of processing;
• Object to certain processing activities;
• Request transfer of your personal information where applicable;
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

Requests should be made to admin@addictionprofessionals.org.uk.

Data Protection Complaints

If you have concerns about how Addiction Professionals has collected, stored, shared or otherwise processed your personal information, please contact us: admin@addictionprofessionals.org.uk.

We will investigate your concerns and respond in accordance with our Complaints Policy.

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). You may contact the ICO at https://www.ico.org.uk or 0303 123 1113.

 

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.