We are committed to treating your details responsibly.
As a member of Lincolnshire Care Association (CareinLincs), we need to store your business contact details, including team member names, business or preferred/notified email addresses and business telephone/mobile number details. We use information to keep Members and Non-Members updated with details that CareinLincs feels is relevant and of value to the wider Lincolnshire social care community.
We take privacy very seriously and promise to always manage your data securely and responsibly.
Your privacy is extremely important to us. This policy explains what information we have, how we use it and how you can check and update any of your personal information. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “we” means CareinLincs.
Why do we collect your business information?
We collect information to help manage each of our Members and Non-Members accounts:
To deliver benefits and services relevant to each Provider (whether we provide them or not)
To improve our benefits and services and develop new ones
And to manage our network and help us run and grow the Association
We also collect information, so we can tell our Members and Non-Members about our benefits and services, including those offered by our Commercial Partners i.e. products and services.
Where do we get your information?
We collect information mainly when you sign up with us, contact us and when you use our benefits and services. For example, when you:
We also collect Non-Member information from other sources, including business directories and other publicly available sources.
How we use your information
We use and analyse your information to keep in touch with you and to supply and improve our benefits and services. We will also use your information to tell you about benefits and services that we think may interest you.
In particular, this means using your information to:
Or to:
How we share your information
In connection with the purposes described above, we may share CareinLincs data names with others.
This might mean sharing Member company names with:
We might also share your information:
Why we keep hold of your information
There are certain reasons we keep hold of your information.
We keep information while you're a candidate or after you've left us, how long we keep it depends very much on the type of information and purpose.
Your rights
You have a number of legal rights in relation to the information that we hold about you, including:
How to check and update your information
In order for us to release the information we hold for yourself on our database, we will require your request in writing with your signature present. Please send this request to:
Lincolnshire Care Association, Greetwell Place, 2 Lime Kiln Way, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 4US
An administration fee of £10.00 will be charged. We will process your request within one month. This maybe extended by a further 2 months where requests are complex or numerous.
Benefit mailing communications
If you don't want us to send you relevant offers or marketing or promotional information, you can opt out anytime by emailing careinlincs@linca.org.uk
You can also opt out of receiving our communications by calling us on 01522 581073.
Use of cookies on our website
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
Two types of cookies may be used on this website:
How we use Cookies on our Site and what Information we collect
Session Cookies
Persistent Cookies
Third Party Cookies
Third parties serve cookies via this site.
These are used for the following purposes:
Disabling/Enabling Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled.
What can I do to manage cookies stored on my computer?
There are a number of ways to manage cookies. If you use different computers in different locations, you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
Some modern browsers have a feature that will analyse website privacy policies and allow a user to control their privacy needs. These are known as "P3P" features (Privacy Preferences Platform). Find further information on P3P.
You can easily remove any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. For example, if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer:
Please contact us using the details found on the site should you wish to clarify any points.
If you do not agree with the information provided then we would ask you not to use the site or the information provided within it.