Our contact details
Elizabeth Harvey and Papia Das
E-mail: info@medcommstech.com
The type of personal information we collect
We currently collect and process your name, email address and place of work.
Other personal identifiers, contact information and/or work-related personal information may also be collected and processed in relation to your projects, such as your photo, job title, postal address, phone number, biography/profile, professional organisation memberships, financial disclosures and/or conflicts of interest.
How we get the personal information and why we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
- To communicate with you about your planned, current or future projects
- To share information or documents with you in relation to your projects
- To complete specific project-related tasks, such as submission of a manuscript to a journal on your behalf or preparation of a meeting booklet that requires your photo
We may also receive personal information indirectly from you, such as your work history from online sources, which may be used (with your consent) for specific project-related tasks, such as preparing your biography for a meeting booklet.
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
- Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting info@medcommstech.com or the MedCommsTech member working on your project
- We have a contractual obligation
- We have a legal obligation
- We need it to perform a public task
- We have a legitimate interest
How we store your personal information
Your information is securely stored. We keep your personal information for the duration of the project and we regularly review whether we still need the information after project completion.
Your data protection 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 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 are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you
Please contact us at info@medcommstech.com if you wish to make a request.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@medcommstech.com
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk