Privacy Policy
Quality Plus (“we,” “our,” “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose personal data when you visit our website [https://www.qualityplus.org.uk/](https://www.qualityplus.org.uk/) (the “Site”) and interact with our services.
- Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following data about you:
– Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, etc. collected via contact forms.
– Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this Site.
– Usage Data: Information about how you use our Site, products, and services.
– Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
- How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
– Provide, operate, and maintain our Site.
– Improve, personalize, and expand our Site.
– Understand and analyze how you use our Site.
– Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Site, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
– Process your requests, inquiries, or other forms submitted via our contact forms.
– Ensure the security and integrity of our Site (e.g., using Google reCAPTCHA).
- Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
- Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information except:
– When we have your permission.
– When it is required by law.
– To trusted third parties who assist us in operating our Site, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
- Social Media Platforms
Our Site includes social media features, such as links to X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Site and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
- Google reCAPTCHA
We use Google reCAPTCHA to protect our website from spam and abuse. The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
- Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
- 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 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.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our contact details provided below.
- Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
– By email: admin@qualityplus.org.uk
– By visiting this page on our website: https://www.qualityplus.org.uk/contact/
– By phone number: 0800 7720507
- Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.