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Independent Psychiatry respects your privacy and seeks to protect your personal data. The following information describes how we gather and use data.

Independent Psychiatry collects and uses your information to administer, support, improve and obtain feedback on our services and to detect and prevent faults, breaches of our network security, the law or our contract terms. We will also use all this information to assess what Pierce Black Group products and services may be of interest to individuals and to personalise our service and marketing.

If you are registered to use a service we may contact you to obtain feedback on that service and any improvements we could make to it.

Independent Psychiatry may contact you about those of its other services to which you do not subscribe but which may interest you. We may for example invite you to join a free trial of a service. Sometimes we may invite you to client entertainment and similar events. Such contact may be by post, fax, email, instant message and (in certain limited circumstances) by telephone from time to time. You have a right to ask us at any time not to contact you by way of direct marketing. You can do this by contacting us at info@independentpsychiatry.com with the words "personal details" in the subject line. Then you will no longer receive invitations for events or free trials or newsletters.

Calls to Independent Psychiatry by telephone may be recorded for quality control, regulatory and monitoring purposes.

Independent Psychiatry collects and updates information about users of its services, suppliers, account and other individuals it deals with in its day-to-day business. It may obtain this information via direct contact with you, from third parties such as your employer or another one of our suppliers and automatically via your use of our services.

Information you/others give us: This information includes your contact details, registration , support problems, details around participation in events, or surveys and certain relevant details of your interests and preferences. Information may also be obtained on you as a result of authentication or identity checks, including as required by law.

Independent Psychiatry also gathers information about your use of our services, such as generic types of data accessed, times and volume of use of the services and Traffic Data. Traffic Data includes logs, details of networks, data and systems accessed, details of the sender and recipients of messages sent over our services, times and location of log on or access, duration of sessions, clickstream and similar usage or system data. Traffic Data may sometimes be traceable to/related to not just companies but named individuals. Before you register with Independent Psychiatry, however, you can browse Independent Psychiatry web sites anonymously.

Storage methods and duration Independent Psychiatry may store your information in its databases for reference. The information may be retained and used by Independent Psychiatry for a reasonable period, reflecting our need to answer queries or resolve problems, provide improved and new services and any data retention requirements of the law. This means we may retain information after an individual ceases to use Independent Psychiatry services or after the individual has ceased interacting with us. Except where the law, authorities or regulatory bodies require us to retain it for longer, we retain Traffic Data for a reasonable period after the Traffic Data was generated, including in some circumstances (such as with firewall logs or fault data) after any bill has been paid.

Independent Psychiatry does not sell or rent your personal data to others outside Independent Psychiatry.

If we sell a business division to another company and your personal data is used by that business then your data may be transferred to the buyer along with the business for them to use in the same way.

Advertising on our web sites Where advertising is served on to our web sites there may be cookies used to collect technical information and generic usage information but third party advertisers will not be able to relate this to you as an individual without your consent.

Users agree to comply with these rules and the Code of Conduct in order to maintain the quality of the user experience. We will take complaints about other users conduct and privacy seriously and you can raise such complaints at any time via the Contact Us page.

Questions More details about the way we use data in a particular Independent Psychiatry service may be found in a notice or statement which is provided to you as part of that service. If you have any questions about Pierce Black privacy/data protection policy or the use of data in a particular service, you should contact: info@independentpsychiatry.com