Privacy Policy
- Introduction
The Office of Health Economics (“OHE”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
OHE’s privacy policy sets out the way in which OHE processes personal data collected from customers using the website to purchase OHE publications, sign up to receive the OHE e-newsletter or register to use the OHE Knowledge Centre. Any personal data collected by OHE is processed in accordance with data protection legislation. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is the Office of Health Economics a division of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Society of 12 Whitehall,London,SW1A 2DY.
OHE’s nominated representative is the Business Manager at the OHE. - Collection and use of personal information
To enable you to purchase OHE publications, sign up to receive the OHE e-newsletter or register to use the OHE Knowledge Centre, we ask you to provide us with information. This includes any or all of the following: your name, position, home address, business address, email address, telephone or fax number. This information will be processed by OHE and used in the following ways- To process orders placed with the OHE for its publications;
- To send you information about marketing, advertising and promotions and to notify you of events, workshops and training sessions which we believe may be of interest to you. If you would prefer not to receive this information please email OHE at ohegeneral@ohe.org
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- The OHE may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- To process orders placed with the OHE for its publications;
- Sharing the data we collect
Processing personal data for the above purposes may entail sharing the information with employees, contractors, agents and professional advisers of OHE. The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. OHE will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of OHE our customers, or others we may disclose your personal information to third parties. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Other than in the circumstances set out above OHE does not sell personal information or share personal information with third parties unrelated to it.
We will release personal information where we are required by law to do so. - Cookies
Cookies are small files transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide us with details of how our website is used.
Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default, but it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies. If you set your browser to reject the OHE’s cookie, then you will still be able to use the website. Our cookie only captures the personal information you provide to us in order to process your registration. - Storage of personal data
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers, files or paper files (e.g. files of faxed orders).
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Athough we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. - Changes to OHE’s privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to the Business Manager at the OHE, 12 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY OR fax +44 (0) 20 7747 1419 OR ohegeneral@ohe.org. - Your consent
By using the OHE website you consent to the collection and use of this personal information in the ways described above. OHE reserves the right to amend its privacy policy from time to time and if it does so will post any changes on this page. Please feel free to revisit this page whenever you like.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.