Privacy Notice
MediaMedica has issued this Privacy notice to describe how we handle the personal information that we hold for third parties with whom MediaMedica has entered into a relationship with. We respect the privacy rights of individuals and are committed to handling personal information responsibility and in accordance with applicable laws. This privacy notice explains who we are, how we collect, share and use personal information about you and how you can exercise your privacy rights. It applies to all individuals who access our website at www.dietwhisperer.com or engage our services.
1. Introduction
We are MediaMedica Ltd, a company registered in England under number 12588057. Our office is Izabella house, 24-26 Regent Place, Birmingham, B1 3NJ. The following information represents our practices regarding your personal data and how we will process it. The policy applies to all individuals or companies who access our website and / or engage our services. We encourage you to read this Privacy Notice in full, to ensure that you are fully informed. To summarise:
- We will always use your data in accordance with applicable law
- We will never sell your data
- We will always respect your wishes about how you would like to be contacted
2. Definitions
- The privacy and cookie policies are referred to as the “Policy”
- MediaMedica Ltd is referred to as “MediaMedica” “Company”, “we”, “us” and “our”
- The MediaMedica website at the following address: www.dietwhisperer.com is referred to as “Website”, “site”
- The term services(s) refers to our products
- A visitor to the site, a user of the services, or a subscriber is referred to as “you”, “yourself” and “your”
- Personal data refers to all the data that we collect about you
3. What does MediaMedica do?
- The privacy and cookie policies are referred to as the “Policy”
- MediaMedica Ltd is referred to as “MediaMedica” “Company”, “we”, “us” and “our”
- The MediaMedica website at the following address: www.dietwhisperer.com is referred to as “Website”, “site”
- The term services(s) refers to our products
- A visitor to the site, a user of the services, or a subscriber is referred to as “you”, “yourself” and “your”
- Personal data refers to all the data that we collect about you MediaMedica provides medical information. This is the form of books, videos, blogs and on social media. MediaMedica also offers goods for sale.
4. The legal bases for our processing of personal
Information is: We collect and process personal information where necessary to perform our services with you. Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information will depend on our relationship with you and the specific context in which we collect it. We will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you (for example, when providing our Services), or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to process personal information about you or may need to process personal information in order to exercise, establish or defend legal claims. If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as the possible consequences, if any, if you do not provide your personal information)
5. When do we collect your personal data?
- When you create an account with us
- When you register on our website to subscribe to our services
- When you engage with us on social media
- When you download our app
- When you contact us by any means with requests about our products, our services, queries, etc
- When you give us feedback, comments or complaints on the service that we provide
- For the purpose of general business relationships with MediaMedica and for contractual purposes
- For direct marketing in connection with our business activities, products and services
- To manage our daily business activities
6. What sort of personal data do we collect?
- Name-including any previous names, title, date of birth, gender
- Personal Title Contact Data:
- Postal addresses, email address, your social media names, telephone numbers, including mobile numbers
- Financial and Transaction data:
- Bank account, credit card, debit card details
- Payment details
- Transaction data
- Purchase(s) of our services
- Marketing data:
- Preferences in receiving marketing information from us
- Your communication preferences
- Other information relevant to client surveys or similar research
- Any other information that you voluntarily choose to provide to us If we ask you to provide any other personal information not described above, the personal information that you are asked to provide and the reasons why you are asked to provide it will be made clear to you at the point that you are asked to provide your personal information. If you fail to provide personal data, where we need to collect personal data under the terms of the contract we have with you, we may not be able to perform the contract that we have or are trying to enter with you (for example to provide you with the services). In this case, we may have to cancel the service that you have with us.
- Information that we collect automatically: we may collect certain personal information from your device when you visit our website, which may include:
- IP address, device type, unique device identification number, browser-type, geographic location (e.g. country or city level location) and other technical information.
- How your device has interacted with our website, including the pages accessed and links clicked.
- Information gathered by the use of cookies and similar technologies business activities
7. How and why do we use your personal data?
- We use your contact details to carry out the necessary checks in order to establish a contract for our services to you. These include necessary background checks, which we cannot perform without using your personal information.
- We use and process your personal data as part of our business acceptance process to fulfil any legal or regulatory requirement to which we may be subject
- We use your contact details to communicate with you regarding delivery of our services to you
- We obtain and use your financial details to allow us to manage payments, fees and charges
- We use your financial details to ensure that your account and billing is fully accurate and up to date
- We use your contact details, to send you occasional updates and marketing messages directly from us, not third parties, where you have given your consent in a freely, specific, informed and unambiguous way, based on your legitimate interest in marketing our services to you, and subject to your right to opt out at any time
- We use your data to better understand the visitors who come to our website, where they come from and what content of the website is of interest to them, we use this information for internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our website to our visitors. See our cookie policy for more information
- We use your contact details to ask you to leave a review for the purposes of improving our service to you
- We use your contact details to resolve queries
- We use your contact details to resolve any complaints. We take any complaints very seriously and consider it important to resolve matters fully and properly, for which we need your contact details
- We use your contact details to allow us to notify you of changes to our privacy policy
8. How we protect your personal data
- We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.
- We limit access to your personal data to those who have a business to know
9. How long will we keep your personal data?
- We will store your personal information for as long as we have an existing relationship with you and otherwise as required by applicable law. Generally, this means your personal data will be retained until the end of your relationship with us and as long as we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so.
- We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose that we collected it.
- We retain your personal data for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements
- When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it, or if this is not possible, we will securely store your personal information and isolate if from any further processing until deletion is possible
11. Where your personal data may be processed
Your personal information is processed in the UK. Our website servers are located in the UK. MediaMedica operates in the UK. When we collect your personal information, we do so in accordance with applicable law
12. What are your rights over your personal data?
- You have the right to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information. You may do this at any time, by sending an email to support@dietwhisperer.com
- You can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information. You can exercise these rights by contacting us by email at support@dietwhisperer.com
- You have the right to lodge a complaint with us by sending an email to support@dietwhisperer.com
- We respond to all requests received from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
- If you believe that your complaint is unresolved, you have the right to lodge a complaint by sending an email to the Information Commissioner’s Office, website: www.ico.org.uk
13. How can you stop the use of your personal data for direct marketing?
- We never share your personal details with third parties for the purposes of direct marketing
- You may opt out of our direct marketing by clicking the unsubscribe button in any email communication that we may send to you
- You may opt out of our direct marketing by changing your preferences in your account, by logging into www.dietwhisperer.com, go to ‘my account’ and change your preferences
- In our apps, you can manage your preferences and opt out from one or all of the different push notifications by selecting or deselecting the relevant options in the “settings’ section 14. Third Party Sites and Services
- This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for the privacy of any of any third parties operating any site or website (including and without limitation, any app) that is available through this site or to which this Site contains a link. The availability of, or inclusion of a link to any such site or property on the site does not imply endorsement of it by us or our affiliates.
14. Contacting the Regulator
You may lodge a complaint by sending an email to the Information Commissioner’s Office, website: www. ico.org.uk/concerns or calling them on 0303 123 1113
15. Any questions?
- We hope that this Privacy Notice has been helpful, in setting out the way that we handle your personal data and your rights to control it. If you have any questions, please contact our data protection officer, who will be pleased to help you.
- If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please email us at support@dietwhisperer.com
16. Updates to this Privacy Policy
We will post any modifications or changes to the Policy on our Site. We reserve the right to modify the Policy at any time, so we encourage you to review it frequently. The “Last Updated” legend below indicates when this Policy was last changed. If we make any material change(s) to the Policy, we will post a notice on our Site prior to such changes(s) taking effect. In the event that such a change could materially affect your privacy, you will be notified without delay by appropriate means.
17. Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at the following address: support@dietwhisperer.com or by post to MediaMedica Ltd, Izabella House, 24-26 Regent Place, Birmingham, B1 3NJ, United Kingdom
Updated December 2021