About Us

The website at www.firstassistants.co.uk ("the Website") is operated by First Assistants Ltd, a private Ltd company which is registered in England under number 5059248 with registered address at 95 High Street, Great Missenden, Bucks HP16 0AL ("we" or "us").

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the way in which we use your personal information or if any of your personal information changes, please write to us at the above address or email us at info@firstassistants.co.uk.

Your privacy is very important to you and us. We depend on the trust of our clients and suppliers. We shall therefore only use your name and other information relating to you that we collect on the Website in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. We will only use your personal information in a way that is fair to you. We will only collect information where it is necessary for us to do so and we will only collect information if it is relevant to our dealings with you.

We will only keep your information for as long as we are either required to by law, or as is relevant for the purposes for which it was collected.

Data that we collect

We may ask you to supply us with various information about yourself during your use of the Website or when you order a service from us. We use that information to process your orders and to give you a service that suits your preferences.

We may collect the following information when you send an e-mail to us or contact us with an enquiry through the Website: your name, occupation, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number, how you heard about us and the particular details of your enquiry. We use this information to respond to your enquiry, to send you information about us or the Website or if we have any queries.

If you are employed by a potential client of ours, we may collect data about you and your organisation that you submit to us when you register with us on behalf of the client. This includes your own name, position, employer, employer address, employer telephone and fax numbers, your e-mail address. We need this information to process a client's registration, which we require before the client makes a booking for an engagement. For a particular booking, we collect information relating to that individual booking or proposed engagement that you give to us. In response to your booking request, we give you information relating to the surgical assistant, and you are responsible for using that information in accordance with data protection legislation as data controller.

If you are a surgical assistant looking to obtain work in an engagement with a client through us, then we require you to submit certain information about yourself when registering. This includes your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, qualifications, occupation, current and previous employers, speciality and experience, references, your health position and medical history, your insurance details and authorisations. We may also obtain or verify some or all of this information from third parties. We use this information to decide whether to recommend you to a potential client and we send this information to potential clients when they want to select a surgical assistant for a particular engagement or they want to use it in relation to an actual engagement, for example if they need to contact you.

You must only submit to us or the Website information which is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to date and inform us of changes.

Other uses of your personal information

We may also use the contact details which you give to us to send you by e-mail or post our newsletters, publications and other information about us, the Website, our services or anything else in which you show an interest. If you would prefer not to receive this information, please send us an appropriate e-mail explaining this to info@firstassistants.co.uk.

Third Parties and Links

We may pass your details to our agents and subcontractors to help us with any of our uses of your data set out in our Privacy Policy.

We may exchange information with third parties for the purposes of fraud protection.

We may transfer our databases containing your personal information if we sell our business or part of it.

Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we shall NOT sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless this is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or unless we are required to do so by law.

The Website may contain advertising of third parties and links to other sites or frames of other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third parties or other sites, nor for any third party to whom we transfer your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Security

[We have in place appropriate technical and security measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to or accidental loss of or destruction or damage to your information.

We store your personal details on a secure server. We use firewalls on our servers. Whilst we are unable to guarantee 100% security, this makes it hard for a hacker to obtain your details. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of your data.]

Cookies

[The Website does not use cookies. Cookies are files which identify your computer to our server as a unique user and they are stored by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive.]

Changes

Any material changes to the way in which we use your data will be described in future versions of this Privacy Policy. Each time you enter the Website or submit more information to us, you agree that the Privacy Policy current at that time shall apply to all information which we hold about you.

Consent

By submitting data to us and using the Website, you consent to our use of your data in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy (as amended).