Homecare Medical Supplies fully respect right to privacy in relation to all interactions with the Homecare Medical Website and endeavour to guarantee to be transparent in our dealings as to what information Homecare Medical will collect and how that information will be utilized.
Homecare
Medical only collect and use individual user details where there is a
legitimate business reason, and are legally entitled to do so.
As per
Article 25 of Medical device Regulation 2017/745 must be able to identify
within the supply chain:
- Anyone
who has supplied us a device
- Anyone
we have supplied a device
For a
period of at least 10 years after the last device covered by the EU declaration
of conformity has been placed on the market
Homecare Medical only collect and use individual user details where there is a legitimate business reason, and are legally entitled to do so.
Information in relation to personal data collected by Irish entities is available on the website of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner - www.dataprotection.ie
How do we collect information from you?
Visitors to our websites
When someone visits www.hcm.ie we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
Client & Customer Information
Contact information, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and VAT registration numbers are held securely by Homecare Medical Supplies to efficiently and continuously operate business and transactions between itself and its clients and customers.
IP Addresses
Homecare Medical Supplies collect IP addresses from visitors to the Homecare Medical Website. This allows for identification of location of users, to block disruptive use and to establish the number of visits from different countries. Homecare Medical analyse this data for trend and statistics reasons, such as which parts of the Website users are visiting and how long they spend there.
Cookies
Homecare Medical collate information on all our Website traffic, that is represented in aggregate format through cookies. This is achieved using third parties such as Google Analytics to collect user information, including the use of cookies (flash and non-flash) and web beacons. They help us to improve our Website and to deliver many of the functions that make your browser experience more user friendly. A list of cookies used and the purposes for which they are used, are available in the tables below:
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Cookie
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Purpose
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Expires
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ASP.NET_SessionId
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This is
the standard ASP.NET cookie containing the user's session ID.
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On exit
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Current
Theme
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Current
CSS stylesheet name.
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1 day
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CMSPreferredCulture
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The user
preferred culture and UI culture.
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1 year
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FormState
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Checks if
the form state needs to be restored.
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10
minutes
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fi_cookies_policy_shown
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Used to
determine if the user has accepted this Website's Privacy Policy.
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1 year
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jsessionID
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Keeps
session ID, required for using any web application.
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End of
session
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Username
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Optional,
allows browser to remember user name
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30 days
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Password
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Optional
, allows browser to remember password
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30 days
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SubscriberID
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Optional
, allows browser to remember password
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30 days
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Release_notes
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Prevents
release notes from re-displaying once they have been viewed
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1 Year
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Please be
aware that there are cookies which are found in other companies' internet tools
which are used to enhance the website. Homecare Medical use ‘social buttons’ on
the Website, which allow sharing or bookmarking the web pages
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Provider
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Name
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Purpose
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More info
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Google
Analytics
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_unam
__utma
_utmb
_utmz
_utmc
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These
cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Website.
We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Website.
The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the
number of visitors to the Website, where visitors have come to the Website
from and the pages they visited. Expiry depends on the cookie in question.
Counts number of unique users that share content and how many page views are
generated from the resulting share, aggregated and anonymous form, including
the number of visitors to the Website, where visitors have come to the site
from and the pages they visited.
Tracks how many times (if any) you have visited the Website before.
_utmb and _utmc are connected, and track how long you stay on the Website.
Tracks identifies where you've come from e.g. from a search engine or from
another Website.
Session based.
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Google Privacy policy
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By using the Website users are agreeing to the use of cookies as described
above.
Most web
browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To
find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set
and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
To opt out
of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Homecare have an obligation to abide by all Irish
legislation and relevant legislation of the European Community. The relevant
acts, which apply in Irish law to Information Systems Security, include but are
not limited to:
- GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation (25th May 2018)
- Article 25 of Medical device Regulation 2017/745
- The Data Protection Act (1988/2002)
- European Communities Data Protection
Regulations, (2001)
- European Communities (Data Protection and
Privacy in Telecommunications) Regulations (2002)
- Data Protection EU Directive 95/46/EC
- Criminal Damages Act (1991)
- Child Trafficking and Pornography Act (1998)
- Intellectual Property Miscellaneous Provisions
Act (1998)
- Copyright and Related Rights Act (2000)
- Health and Safety Act (1989)
- Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act (1997)
- Electronic Commerce Act (2000)
- Ecommerce Directive (2000/31/EC)
- Regulations entitled European Communities
(Directive 2000/31/EC) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 68 of 2003)
The requirement for compliance devolves to all users, who
may be held personally responsible for any breach of the legislation. The most relevant legislation is available
from Quality Control or the associated website.
This policy and its supporting policies, are available to
all Homecare Medical Supplies via the Shared drive on the Homecare Medical
network. Hard copies of the policy and its supporting policies, standards and
guidelines will be available on request from the IT Department
The IT Department may make periodic policy announcements by
email concerning this and other policies
Homecare Medical line managers will ensure that all existing
and new staff, contractors, subcontractors, agency staff and third party
commercial service providers who report to them are made aware of and have
access to the policy and its supporting policies, standards and guidelines
Individuals requiring clarification on any aspect of the
policy and its supporting policies, standards and guidelines and/or advice on
general I.T. security matters may email their queries to anyone in the IT
Department.
Any breach of security of an Information System could lead to loss of
security of personal information. This would be an infringement of the Data
Protection Act 1987 and could lead to civil or criminal proceedings. It is
vital, therefore, that users of Homecare Information Systems must comply, not
only with this policy, but also with Homecare's Data Protection Guidelines.
Further information is available from www.dataprotection.ie
This policy will be reviewed and updated annually or more frequently if
necessary to ensure any changes to Homecare Medical’s organization structure
and business practices are properly reflected in the policy.
Queries
If you have any queries or would like to make a Data Subject
Access Request or have any other queries please send an email to the following
address
dataprotection@homecaremedical.ie
