Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance Statement
Thank you for visiting the Complementary Medical Association’s web site and for reviewing our Privacy Policy
All data that The CMA has collated about our Members and about subscribers to our e-Newsletter and finally our course attendees has been gathered in a compliant manner – and has been since 1993. The CMA respects your information and we are dedicated to protecting it. The CMA is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Complementary Medical Association customer privacy notice
This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.
Contact details
Post
Easthampstead Works, The Town Square, BRACKNELL, Berkshire, RG12 1BH, GB
Telephone
0800 841 1066
What information we collect, use, and why
We collect or use the following information to provide and improve products and services for clients:
- Names and contact details
- Addresses
- Gender
- Pronoun preferences
- Occupation
- Date of birth
- Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
- Transaction data (including details about payments to and from you and details of products and services you have purchased)
- Usage data (including information about how you interact with and use our website, products and services)
- Information relating to compliments or complaints
- Records of meetings and decisions
- Account access information
- Website user information
We collect or use the following personal information for the operation of client or customer accounts:
- Names and contact details
- Addresses
- Purchase or service history
- Account information, including registration details
- Information used for security purposes
- Marketing preferences
- Technical data, including information about browser and operating systems
We collect or use the following personal information for information updates or marketing purposes:
- Names and contact details
- Addresses
- Profile information
- Marketing preferences
- Purchase or account history
- Website and app user journey information
- IP addresses
We collect or use the following personal information for research or archiving purposes:
- Names and contact details
- Addresses
- Purchase or client account history
- Website and app user journey information
- IP addresses
We collect or use the following personal information to comply with legal requirements:
- Name
- Contact information
- Identification documents
- Client account information
- Any other personal information required to comply with legal obligations
We collect or use the following personal information to protect client welfare:
- Names and contact information
- Client account information
We collect or use the following personal information for recruitment purposes:
- Contact details (eg name, address, telephone number or personal email address)
- Date of birth
- Employment history (eg job application, employment references or secondary employment)
- Education history (eg qualifications)
We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:
- Names and contact details
- Address
- Payment details
- Account information
- Purchase or service history
- Customer or client accounts and records
- Financial transaction information
- Correspondence
Lawful bases and data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
- Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.
- 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. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.
If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide and improve products and services for clients are:
- Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
- We are a professional Membership Association so we have to collect data for legitimate interest as it benefits both our Member and the efficient running of our Association. The type of data we collect includes professional qualifications, education, proof of professional indemnity insurance.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of client or customer accounts are:
- Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
- We need the information we collect in order to fulfil the provision of Membership Benefits.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for information updates or marketing purposes are:
- Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
- We occasionally offer courses, training, webinars, special offers and events to our Members, so we need to contact them about this. We also have a weekly newsletter that they can sign up for if they so choose.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for research or archiving purposes:
- Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
- The Member will have consented to receive our information and they understand that we hold this information securely on our servers so that we can assist them with Membership matters, queries, Membership history and the day to day running of our Association.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to comply with legal requirements:
- Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
- We only need to hold the most basic levels of personal information, such as name and address so that we can fulfil our duties to our Members.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to protect client welfare are:
- Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
- We collect basic information so that we can provide our Membership services to the benefit of our Members. In this instance, these data can assist our Member’s welfare if there is a complaint raised against them.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for recruitment purposes are:
- Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
- From time to time we contact our Members if we are recruiting for our Team and we like to offer job opportunities to our Members before putting these out to the wider public.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:
- Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
- In the rare instance that we receive a complaint, we need data to contact our Member and also potentially look at their Membership history with us.
Where we get personal information from
- Directly from you
How long we keep information
We retain your information for the duration of your Membership with The Complementary Medical Association.
If you have contacted us with a view to finding out about CMA Membership but have not proceeded with Membership we will keep your data for seven years if you have opted in to receive our newsletter or other contact from us.
Who we share information with
Others we share personal information with
- Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with – such as the police.
- Professional consultants – such as our web developers. Note they do not use your data at all but will, from time to time, need to access our databases so that they can check correct functioning of our website. Similarly, if there is a functional problem with your account that is site-based, we may ask them to look at your account data, so that we can get everything working for you.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO – as The CMA is fully registered with them.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Last updated
5 September 2024