Apple Tree Care Home (‘our’, ‘us’ or ‘we’) are committed to ensuring the protection of your privacy and it’s important for you to know and understand how we will use and protect any information you give us through the use of our website, our social media, emails and eNewsletters. Our privacy policy aims to follow the current Privacy and Electronics Communications Regulation (PECR), or ePrivacy Directive, and the General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR).

Effective from 22nd May 2018, and through subsequent updates, your information will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to alter this Policy without notice and therefore suggest that you check back from time to time to ensure you are up to date and happy with any changes made.

We may collect the following information:

• name
• contact information including email, telephone number and social media contacts, including but not confined to, Twitter and Facebook plus user’s IP address
• demographic information such as address, post code
• other information relevant to customers’ requirements, queries and comments

Why do we collect this information and what do we do with it?
We gather client information to better understand your needs and provide the best service possible, more specifically for:

• our internal records
• improvement of our services
• periodical sending out of promotional emails regarding new or altered services or other information which we feel will be of use or interest using the contact details provided
• the tailoring of this website according to requirements and visitors’ interests

Controlling your personal information
We will not lease, sell or distribute your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.

Safe and secure
This website has an SSL Certificate this shows trusted, secure and encrypted information exchange between browsers and webservers, websites and networks.

Any information shared with us digitally may be kept for up to 90 days, after which it will be deleted unless, you were/are/become a client, an employee or professional associate/supplier, whereby we will retain your information unless you ask us to remove it from our database.We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure and to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Links to External Websites
Our website contains links to other third party websites, which we feel may be of interest or use to you. Please be aware, however, that once you have left our website we do not have any control over these third party websites and cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites as they are not governed by this privacy statement. Please take care and ensure you check the privacy policy or statement applicable to the website you’re visiting.