LKS Care Consultancy is committed to safeguarding the privacy of your information. By "your information" we mean any information about you, which you or third parties provide to us.

The Privacy Principles, set out below, explain how your information will be treated by us.

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Privacy Principles

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We will:

• only collect and use your information where we have lawful grounds and legitimate business reasons to do so.

• be transparent in our dealings with you, and will tell you about how we will collect and use your information.

• If we have collected your information for a specific reason we will not use it for anything else unless you have been informed and where relevant your permission obtained.

• not ask for more information than we need for the purposes for which we are collecting it.

• update our records when you inform us that your details have changed.

• continue to review and assess the quality of our information.

• implement and adhere to information retention policies relating to your information and will ensure that your information is securely disposed of at the end of the appropriate retention period.

• observe the rights granted to you under applicable privacy and data protection laws and will ensure that queries relating to privacy issues are promptly and transparently dealt with.

• train our staff on their privacy and Data Protection Act obligations.

• ensure that we have appropriate physical and technological security measures to protect your information regardless of where it is held.

• not transfer any personal information to other countries.

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Information about our use of cookies

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How we use cookies on our website and what information we collect.

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Web analytics

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Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses cookies to help our Website analyse how visitors use it. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on activity for our operators to support the provision of other services related to Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data it holds.

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More technical information about Google Analytics cookie usage can be found on the cookie section of Google's website, along with a copy of Google's privacy policy.

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Functional cookies

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The LKS Care Consultancy website also places cookies on your device to make navigating the website easier. These cookies are used to allow the website to remember choices you made and provides an enhanced journey. For instance, these cookies can be used to allow you to return to a previous page.

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Social media cookies

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Third-party social media sites can place cookies through the LKS Care Consultancy website when you interact with them (i.e. sharing via Twitter, Google+, Facebook and LinkedIn). You agree to place these cookies on your device when you click on the social media buttons to activate them. Social media sites have their own privacy and cookie policies, which LKS Care Consultancy does not control. Please check the social media websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

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Third-party websites

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Because we want your experience of our website to be as informative and useful as possible, we may provide links to websites operated by third parties ("Third-Party websites"). Please be aware that we do not control such Third-Party websites and that such Third-Party websites may send their own cookies to users, or otherwise collect data or solicit personal information. We assume no responsibility for the information gathering practices of Third-Party websites that you are able to access through our website, and we encourage you to review each Third-Party website's privacy policy before disclosing any personally identifiable information.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please see AboutCookies.org. for more information about cookies.

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Security

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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 online.

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Other websites

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Our website may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this privacy policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.

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Your Consent

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Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on our website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times. Please see www.ico.gov.uk for more information about your privacy rights.