Introduction
Dr Adam Smith respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. The website https://www.dradamsmith.co.uk. is owned by AJS Medical Ltd a company owned by Dr Adam Smith and Dr Lindsay Smith. Company Registered in Scotland SC642253. Lifebook Premium with Adam & Lindsay is a trading name of AJS Medical Ltd. This Privacy Policy aims to give you information about how AJS Medical Ltd collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website.
This website does not target and is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Forms
When visitors or users submit a form, we capture the IP Address for spam protection. We also capture the email address and might capture other personal data included in the Form fields, such as Name, Subject and Message.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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.
This site uses cookies; small files of letter and numbers that are automatically placed on your machine – if you agree – to help our site provide a better user experience. Cookies do not typically include identifying personal information but cookies may also be linked to personal information which is stored about you. We use cookies to retain your user preferences, store information from elements of our site and to provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications such as Google Analytics. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. We have no control over third party cookies.
In general, cookies should make your browsing experience better. You may prefer to disable cookies for this site which you can do by disabling cookies in your browser. We suggest following the steps via the ‘Help’ tool of your browser. Please note that if you change your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access some or all of our site. Except for essential cookies, all cookies expire within a reasonable period of time.
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.
Who we share your data with
We may pass your personal data on to third-party service providers partnered with AJS Medical in the course of dealing with you, such as Wellbeing Doctor Ltd or The Lifebook Company, in order to provide our service to you. Any third parties that we may share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only to fulfil the service they provide you on our behalf.
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.
Changes to this policy
We keep this privacy policy under regular review and will place any updates on this web page. This policy was last updated in June 2021.
If you have any queries about our privacy policy, please email contact@dradamsmith.co.uk.