The information we collect about you, our security agreement and your rights.
PET is Wonderful (‘us’ or ‘we’) is committed to preserving your privacy. Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect the information obtained from those visiting and using our website – https://petiswonderful.org (the ‘website’).
By using this website you consent to the collection, retention and use of your personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Information about you
We use your personal details to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us. This could be as part of a course application process, registering for an event or through contacting members of the PET is Wonderful team.
Forms
On each of our online forms you use, there will be further details of why we are collecting the information asked for.
The relevant legal basis will be given at the point of collecting personal data as this can be through contract or legitimate interests as well as explicitly gaining consent.
IP addresses
We may collect information where available about your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is data about users’ browsing actions and patterns. It is used to inform improvements to the website, for system administration, and to report aggregate information to third parties.
Storing your preferences
We also store certain preferences you have using the site. When you interact with the website you will be able to set how you want to view some content. This will be through the cookie consent banner for the site. These preferences will be stored for a short time.
Ways we contact you
Depending on the circumstances we may contact you by post, telephone, email or text message. To update these preferences you’ll need to get in touch with the PET is Wonderful team at PiWTeam@ed.ac.uk
Storing your information
The personal data provided by you through the ‘Contact us’ form will be stored within the University of Edinburgh servers and will follow the personal data policy for the University. In most cases, personal data is stored on University of Edinburgh servers within the UK. However, the University does use third-party companies to enhance the quality, service and functionality of certain web services available to visitors.
Updating or removing your information
You can request that the PET is Wonderful team updates or removes information about you on its web pages. This could be because of a name change or because you’ve left the PET imaging field for example. To request an information change or removal you should contact the website owner to request this at PiWTeam@ed.ac.uk
How we use your information
Your personal details can be used to provide you with information, products or services as well as helping us tailor the website to your preferences.
We use your information to:
- enable us to supply you with the goods, services and information you have requested through the PET is Wonderful website
- ensure that content from the website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
- in order to administer, support, improve and develop the University website we do analyse some information we collect during your visit to our website. Please see the Cookies section below for more information
- maintain a contract we have with you, such as a course or event application form or any other service you wish to access (e.g. training materials)
Cookies
We use cookies and other technologies to improve our service, enable the use of third-party services (like YouTube videos) and serve interest-based advertising on third-party websites. We ask for consent to serve advertising through our cookie consent banner.
When you leave our website or click on links that lead to external websites, we are unable to control what cookies are set in any way. You will need to set your cookie preferences for those sites as well.
Automated processing and profiling
We do not use profiling or automated decision-making processes.
Security and storage of your information
We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is never completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal or other data transmitted to our website. Any transmission is at your own risk.
Once we have received your information, we will also use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access.
How long we keep your data depends on the purpose for which the information was supplied. You will be informed of how long the data will be kept during the process of giving your personal details.
Online transactions
Areas of the website that process online transactions make use of – and transfer data to – third party software and service providers. All third-party software and service providers that we use are compliant with the relevant Payment Card Industry standards.
Disclosure of your information
We will not share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent, except where disclosure is:
- necessary to enforce our rights, including under our website Terms and Conditions of use
- required or permitted by law
Your rights and how to make an information request
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information held by us in our records in return for which we charge a small fee of £10.00.
To make an information request, please email PiWTeam@ed.ac.uk
If any information held by us is incorrect, you have the right to ask for this to be corrected and updated. Please help us keep our records updated by informing us of any changes to your email address and other contact details.
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your personal data) if we intend to use your personal data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.
You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on any forms we use to collect your personal data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting PiWTeam@ed.ac.uk
Third party websites
The website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these third party websites.
Changes to our privacy policy
We may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent notice on the website.
Make an enquiry
If you have any queries concerning the information we hold about you or this privacy policy, or any questions on our use of your information then please contact PiWTeam@ed.ac.uk