PRIVACY NOTICE

Introduction

At Essential Pharma, we take our responsibilities with regard to data privacy very seriously and are committed to transparent, lawful, fair and proportionate processing of your Personal Information. This Privacy Notice outlines how we collect, hold, use and share your Personal Information when you visit www.iopidine.co.uk “Website” and voluntarily submit Personal Information to using the contact form.

Key Terms

This privacy notice is issued on behalf of Essential Pharma Limited, 8A Crabtree Road, Egham, Surrey, TW20 8RN, United Kingdom, company number 07514667, which is part of the Essential Pharma group of companies. When we use the terms "Essential Pharma", "we", "us” or “our" in this Privacy Notice, we are referring to the company that is responsible for processing your Personal Information. In this capacity we are a data "Controller", which means we are responsible for determining how we hold and use Personal Information about you.

Personal Information is information that can be used to identify you or another living person, for example your name, birth date, e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number.

Who does this notice apply to?

This notice applies to people who visit our Website, known as "Users".

Status of this notice

This notice does not form part of any contract to provide services that you may have with us, and we may update it at any time. We will take reasonable measures to communicate any changes to this privacy notice to you, and will post any updated privacy notices on this page.

How do we collect your Personal Information?

We only collect and process your Personal Information in accordance with applicable laws.

We receive Personal Information directly from you when you access our Website and when you voluntarily complete and submit the form in the Contact Us section.

What types of Personal Information do we collect and process, and what do we use it for?

We process the contact details you provide directly to us such as your name and your email address or telephone number when you consent to us doing so via our Website. Your consent allows us to communicate with you and respond to your query appropriately.

Each time you visit our Website we may also automatically collect information and personal data about your computer for system administration including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type. We do this to help us identify returning visitors, enable visitors to move more easily around our Website, and to assist in building up an anonymous profile based on visitor’s browsing patterns across the sites. Please see our Cookie Policy for further information.

If you fail to provide Personal Information

You do not have to provide your personal data to us. However, if you fail to provide certain information when requested, we will not be able to contact you to respond to your query.

Who sees your Personal Information?

We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your Personal Information to third parties for marketing purposes.

We may share your Personal Information within the Essential Pharma group to allow administrators, and other selected staff to perform their respective functions and respond to your initial query or any subsequent queries appropriately.

Your Personal Information may also be transferred to third parties who act for or on our behalf, for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data were originally collected (stated above) or may otherwise be lawfully processed.
These third parties include:

pharmacovigilance and medical queries handling services;
our professional advisers, such as our accounting and legal advisers, where they require that information to provide advice to us (or to provide information to public bodies who administer tax and social security, or any other regulatory authority, on our behalf);
providers of consulting services in the field of web-design and software;
data security, website hosting, cloud hosting, storage solutions, software as a service (SaaS) and other IT services;

We don’t routinely transfer your Personal Information overseas and where we do need to transfer your data outside of the UK, Switzerland or the EEA, we will ensure that the appropriate safeguards are in place. Please contact us (see the last section of this notice) if you would like more details on transfer mechanisms.

How do we protect your Personal Information?

We take the security of your data seriously. We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your Personal Information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, destruction or deletion. More information about these measures can be obtained by contacting us (see the last section of this notice).

Those processing your Personal Information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

How long do we store your Personal Information?

We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary. Therefore, the duration will vary between different types of information. When we consider our approach we assess any ongoing need for the information, as well as our legal obligations for example in relation to [tax, health and safety, employment rights and potential or actual disputes or investigations].

What are your Rights?

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your Personal Information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify Personal Information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your Personal Information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the Personal Information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You also have the right to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Information. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If withdrawal of your consent means that we are not able to provide certain products or services to you, we will advise you that this is the case.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about your Personal Information or our Privacy Notice, or to exercise your rights, please contact our Data Protection Lead by emailing compliance@essentialpharmagroup.com or write to us at 8A Crabtree Road, Egham, Surrey, TW20 8RN, UK.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority for data protection. For the UK and countries within the EU, you can find the name and contact details of the relevant body by visiting https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.

We take our obligations seriously, therefore if you have any questions or concerns, we would encourage you to raise them with us first, so that we can try to resolve them.

This notice was last reviewed and updated in July 2024.