British Junior Cardiologists Association (BJCA)

Who we are?

The BJCA exists to facilitate and support training of all UK cardiology trainees.

We are made up of trainee members throughout the UK, and communication with over 1400 members is coordinated by local deanery representatives and a central council. We have official representation on the councils of all the subspeciality professional bodies and we represent your views on the national Cardiology Speciality Advisory Committee (SAC) and other groups that organise our training.

BJCA.TV is maintained and managed by British Junior Cardiologists Association this privacy notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about our members and people who contact us, on this https://bjca.tv/ website.

We may update this policy to reflect changes in how we use your information. You may wish to check this policy each time you provide https://bjca.tv/ with your information. Where appropriate, we will provide you with notice of any significant changes to how we use your information. 

Our website address is: https://new.bjca.tv

Who Do We Share Your Data With

We do not share your data with anybody without your permission. Your data is managed by:

British Junior Cardiologists Association https://bjca.tv/ 

Tangled Web our web developer https://tangledweb.net/

Contact forms

We have a contact form on the site. If you choose to message us, the contact form is emailed to our ticketing system. Furthermore, the message you send is stored in this ticketing system for 24 months at which point it is purged from our servers. No further correspondence is stored beyond your original message.

  • Personal Data collected: Name, email address, phone number, and any information to provide in the comment box and subject line.
  • Place of processing: United Kingdom

Membership Details

We use a membership plugin on our site for when a member signs up to our site, this stores your information in the secure database on our site. The data is accessible to our team at BJCA and our Website developer.

  • Personal Data collected: First Name, surname, email address, address.
  • Place of processing: United Kingdom

Woocommerce

Woocommerce is used on this site, please do read the Automattic Privacy Policy if you wish to understand what data they retain. This plugin is used to process the delivery and ordering of our products. It retains order information.

  • Personal Data collected: Email Address, First Name, Last Name, Postal Address.
  • Place of processing: United Kingdom.

Third Party Payment Gateway

We use Stripe as our third party payment gateway, please do read what data they collect and how they store their date on their Privacy policy at https://stripe.com/gb/privacy.

Social Media

Twitter

https://bjca.tv/ currently has a Twitter profile https://twitter.com/thebjca, which British Junior Cardiologists Association have access to.  Any data Twitter collects is stored on a remote secure server, it is a public profile so anyone can view the posts, however only we can see the data Twitter has collected. Twitter is a social media network website. 

Here is a  link to Twitter’s Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

Mailchimp

We use MailChimp for our marketing, you can unsubscribe if you have subscribed by logging into their site. There is also an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every mailing we have sent out from their site.

https://bjca.tv/ using Mailchimp, [WHO] have access to. Mailchimp stores all its data in a secure cloud server, it’s a private account with no other individuals being able to access the data. Mailchimp is an email customer relationship management (CRM) system. 

Here is a link to Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy, https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Cookie Types

  • Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
  • Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and email in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
  • Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services.

Personal Control of Cookies (Browser Specific)

Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you can remove or reject cookies in your browser’s settings. Please be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site. You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. In addition, you may opt-out of some third-party cookies through the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-Out Tool or http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. For more information about cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

For more information on how to control cookies, check your browser or device’s settings for how you can control or reject cookies, or visit the following links:

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Vimeo

Please note that we track the videos users watch on our site, including time watched and location within the video. This helps us identify what further training required and what has been completed by users. 

Here is a link to Vimeo’s Privacy Policy, https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.

  • Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
  • Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
  • Place of processing: United States

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en). If you’d like to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. 

Your contact information

Website BackUp’s

GoDaddy and Tangled Web

We host our site with GoDaddy who do a weekly backup which is kept for 30 days until replaced with a new back up. Please do read the GoDaddy Pricy policy for further information on their data retention.

Our second set of backups are taken every 6 hours and retained for 2 weeks by our Web Agency Tangled Web Ltd all the backups are encrypted and stored on UK servers.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you (we can remove any data we store about you): by email at [EMAIL] or write to us at

BJCA Headquarters,
9 Fitzroy Square,
London
W1T 5HW.

What can you do if you are unhappy with how your personal data is processed?

You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for data protection. In the UK this is:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

0303 123 1113 (local rate)

https://ico.org.uk/

Changes to this Policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

British Junior Cardiologists Association (BJCA)