Privacy statement
Information about using this site
If you are a user with general public and anonymous access the CQC website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address which is automatically recognised by the web server.
We do not generally use cookies for collecting user information and we will not collect any information about you without your permission, except that required for system administration of our web server. Please be aware that some systems on the CQC website require the use of cookies. If this is the case we will state that we are using cookies.
The CQC will only collect personal information volunteered by you, such as survey information, online forms, email address and your preferred means of communication. The CQC will only use personal information about you for these purposes and will not include it in survey reports or share it with other organisations without your permission.
The CQC are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties, nor will we share or disclose any of your personal information, unless you have given your explicit permission to do so or unless required by law.
Any details you give us will be held in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The CQC will take any necessary steps to ensure that your information is treated securely. We strive to protect your personal information.
This privacy statement covers the CQC site. This does not cover links within this site to other websites.
Signing up to our e-newsletter
We use a third party supplier to provide our e-newsletter service. By subscribing to this service you will be agreeing to them handling your data. The third party supplier handles the data purely to provide this service on our behalf. This supplier observes the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 in how they obtain, handle and process your information and will not make your data available to anyone other than CQC.
