Privacy Policy
Website privacy notice
How we use your information gathered by healthandcareresearchwales.org
Health and Care Research Wales is funded by Welsh Government.
The Health and Care Research Wales website is managed by the Health and Care Research Wales Support and Delivery Centre.
UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Under GDPR, you have rights as an individual, which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you.
Your interaction with this website
When someone visits healthandcareresearchwales.org we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. This information is only processed in an anonymous way which does not identify anyone individually. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be open about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
Read Google's Privacy Policy and Google's Terms of Service for detailed information.
Search engine
Search queries and results are logged anonymously to help us improve our website and search functionality. No user-specific data is collected by either Health and Care Research Wales or any third party.
Health and Care Research Wales Bulletins
We use a third party provider, Mailchimp, to deliver our weekly bulletins. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our bulletins. For more information, please see Mailchimp’s GDPR statement. Their general Privacy Policy can also be seen here.
Consultations and online survey tools
We collect information using an in-house survey tool. All data collected using this tool meets the UK GDPR guidelines and is only used for the stated purpose it was gathered.
People who contact us via social media
We use a third party provider, AgoraPulse, to manage our social media interactions.
If you send us a private or direct message via social media the message will be stored by AgoraPulse and that social media organisation. Neither AgoraPulse, or Health and Care Research Wales will share the message with any other organisations.
Individual social media organisations have their own privacy policy which can be viewed on their websites.
Links to other websites
This privacy policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
Cookies
Details about cookies on healthandcareresearchwales.org
Changes to this Privacy Policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page.
Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
This privacy policy was last updated on 18 August 2023.
Further information
If you have any further questions about how your data will be used by Health and Care Research Wales, please write to us using the details below:
healthandcareresearch@wales.nhs.uk
Health and Care Research Wales
Castlebridge 5
15-19 Cowbridge Road East
Cardiff
CF11 9AB
Health and Care Research Wales comes under the remit of the Welsh Government’s Data Protection Officer who can be contacted at:
Data Protection Officer
Welsh Government
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
Email: dataprotectionofficer@gov.wales