Privacy Policy

Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Limited (“PHD”), trading as Numark are a company registered in England and Wales under Company Number: 00129370, with Registered Offices at: Rivington Road, Whitehouse Industrial Estate, Preston Brook, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 3DJ.

ICO Registration Number: Z599980X

PHD are part of the PHOENIX Medical Supplies UK Group (PHOENIX), which includes the following trading names and entities, PHOENIX Hospital Solutions, Rowlands Pharmacy, Hey Pharmacist, PSUK, Numark, Nupharm and NuCare.

Our Data Protection Team can help you with any general enquires relating to data protection and can be contacted at dataprotection@phoenixmedical.co.uk

Your Data Matters

This privacy notice tells you what to expect when PHOENIX collects and processes your personal information. We take the protection of your data seriously and are committed to being transparent with you about the data we collect and how it is used and shared. We are committed to ensuring that we meet all our obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation as amended from time to time.

Contents

1. Your personal data and what we use it for
2. Lawful basis for processing your data
3. Your rights
4. Retaining your data
5. Security
6. Links to other websites

1. Your personal data and what we use it for

We process your personal data, which may include your name, job title, contact details, location details such as postcode, your preferences and interests plus information relating to our customer surveys and offers for the purposes of:- 

  • Internal record keeping;
  • Providing you with our products and services;
  • Improving our products and services;
  • We may share the information with our associate group companies for the purpose of managing the terms of your membership;
  • We may share the information with our other third party business partners which may include the NHS Business Services Authority and other relevant NHS Local Authorities in enabling us to manage any schemes and services which we administer on your behalf. This includes pharmaceutical manufacturers, suppliers, pharmaceutical commissioning authorities and our third party IT providers;
  • We may share the information with our other third party business partners for the provision of on-line services such as webinars;
  • For the purpose of training our staff and to improve our quality of service;
  • For the safety and security of our employees and visitors, we may use CCTV on our premises;
  • We may periodically send details about new products, special offers or services in order to fulfil our obligations under our membership agreement with you;
  • Market research.

2. Lawful basis for processing your data

We process your data in order to provide the goods and services set out in our contractual agreement with you and for our legitimate business needs and purposes.

3. Your rights

Data protection laws provide you with a number of rights as set out below, not all of these rights are absolute and some only apply in certain circumstances.

Right of Access
You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. This right always applies, however, there are some exemptions, which means you may not always receive all the information we process about you.  If this is the case, an explanation will be provided to you.

Right to rectification
You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. This right always applies.

Right to erasure 
In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that your data be deleted; however, there are some exemptions that mean this may not be possible, for example where our legal obligations prevent this.  

Right to restriction of processing
In certain circumstances, you may request a restriction of the processing of your data; however, there are some exemptions that mean this may not be possible, for example where our legal obligations prevent this.

Right of data portability
This only applies to information you have given us. You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us from one organisation to another, or give it to you. The right only applies if we are processing information based on your consent.

Right to object
In certain circumstances, you may object to the processing of your data; however, there are some exemptions that mean this may not be possible, for example where our legal obligations prevent this.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (although we would encourage you to contact us in the first instance).  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at; Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe house, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF   https://ico.org.uk/

4. Retaining your data

We hold your information for a period of 6 years from the date of supply of goods to you in accordance with the Limitation Act 1980 or as long as is reasonably necessary in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018. 

5. Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. We may need to transfer your information outside the United Kingdom to other service providers and business partners. We will only transfer your personal information in this way where there is an adequate level of protection that is the same as the level of protection required under UK Data Protection legislation.

6. Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily.  However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website.  Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.