Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy has been established to give a clear explanation of our data processing practices to safeguard personal information held on this website. If you have any questions or concerns relating to this policy please contact us via the website contact form or email us.
Links to other sites
Our website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that Summit Medical and Scientific are not responsible for privacy practices on these other websites. This policy applies solely to information collected by this website.
Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect information we collect from you. You can visit our site without telling us who you are or giving us any personally identifiable information.
Summit Medical and Scientific does not capture and/or store any personal information about individuals who access this website, except where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details. This is limited to contacting us via the contact page, signing up for our newsletter, or sending us an email via the email address provided on our website.
Any personal data provided to Summit Medical and Scientific will be used exclusively for providing you with the information you have requested. We do not pass any of your personal data to outside organisations and/or individuals, except with your express consent or if necessary to provide the information or service requested. For example, Summit Medical and Scientific is the UK distributor for our sales partners. If you make an enquiry and you are based in the USA, we shall refer you to the sales partner for that region.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It ensures that citizens have control over what personal information is collected, how it is used, and how it can be edited or removed.
We have ensured that our website is GDPR compliant, as the only personal data we collect can only be provided by our website users with their clear, unquestionable and explicit consent. The first way is via the contact form, where there is a disclaimer where we explain that completing this contact form means you are giving positive and express consent to be contacted by us in response to your enquiry. This information will not be used for marketing purposes, or shared with another company, unless you provide consent.
The second way that we collect personal data from our website is via our newsletter sign-up forms. These link from our website to subscribe our website users to our MailChimp newsletter list, where we will contact you via our general newsletter. Users can input their name and email address, and will then be sent a confirmation email asking users to “double opt-in” and re-confirm that they wish to subscribe. If you change your mind, simply do not confirm and you will not be subscribed.
By subscribing to our newsletter, we will only use your information to send you updates about our company and our products via the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time, either by selecting ‘Unsubscribe’ at the bottom of our newsletters, or by contacting us at info@summitmedsci.co.uk.
If you wish to have your personal information removed at any time, please contact us at info@summitmedsci.co.uk and we will happily assist you.
Cookies
Take a look at our Cookie Policy page for more information on how we use cookies.
Summit Medical and Scientific, like any website, monitors:
– The Internet Domain and IP address form which you access the site. These IP addresses are not linked to any personal data so all visitors to our site remain anonymous.
– Which type of Browser and operating system used to access the site.
– The date and time of your visit.
– The pages you visit.
– If you click on a link to our website from another website, the address of that site and any website you visit directly after the Summit Medical and Scientific website.
This privacy policy only covers the Summit Medical and Scientific website. Links within this site to external websites are not covered by this policy.
Last reviewed November 2023.