Privacy Policy | Millennium Support

We ask that you read this privacy promise carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and other organisations in the event you have a complaint.

Introduction

In order that we can provide outstanding support to people with a learning disability, we Millennium Care Services Limited collect and use certain personal information about you.

Personal information means any information about you from which you can be identified, but it does not include information where your identity has been removed (anonymous data).

As the ‘controller’ of personal information, we are responsible for how that data is managed. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies in the United Kingdom and across the European Union, sets out our obligations to you and your rights in respect of how we manage your personal information.

As the ‘controller’ of your personal information, we will ensure that the personal information we hold about you is:

Processed in a fair, lawful and transparent way
Collected for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes
Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes of processing
Kept accurate and up to date. Data which is found to be inaccurate will be rectified or erased without delay
Not kept for longer than is necessary for its given purpose
Processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of personal data including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage by using appropriate technical or organisation measures
Is compliant with the relevant GDPR regulations for the transferring of personal data

If you have any questions about this privacy promise or would like further explanation as to how your personal information is managed, then please contact us.

Please note when we refer to:

A ‘public body’ we mean any organisation in the United Kingdom which delivers, commissions or reviews a public service and includes (but is not limited to) the Ombudsman, local authorities, councils, unitary authorities, clinical commissioning groups, health and social care trusts, the National Health Service as well as their arm’s length bodies and regulators.

A ‘social or health care professional‘ we mean any person who provides direct services, acts as consultant or is involved in the commission of your healthcare or social care services, including (but not limited to) your general practitioner (GP), dental staff, pharmacists, nurses and health visitors, clinical psychologists, dieticians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, hospital staff, social workers and other care and support related professionals.

The personal information we collect and use:

Here we outline how we collect and use personal information in relation to people who we support and or enquire about our support services.

Information collected by us:

When you enquire about our care and support services through our website, phone, email, post, face to face or social media, and whilst providing support services to you, we collect the following personal information when you provide it to us:

Your name, home address, date of birth and contact details (including your telephone number, email address) and emergency contacts (i.e. name, relationship and home and telephone numbers)
Your allergies and any medical, physical or mental conditions and your support needs
Your likes, dislikes and lifestyle preferences (including your religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature, racial or ethnic origin, politics, genetics, health, sex life, marital status and sexuality trade union membership or biometrics (so far as they relate to providing you with suitable care)
Credit, direct debit details or other payment information (if you pay for some or all our support services using one of these methods)
Your feedback and contributions to questionnaires and surveys about the service we offer
Audio recordings of phone calls to and from our office teams
Your complaints, compliments or concerns about the service we provide
Any accidents and incidents or near misses you may have been involved in whist on our premises or whilst our employees are delivering a regulated service to you – this may include details of injuries and treatment you may have received.

Website – Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to you.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Information collected from other sources:

We work closely with third parties such as social and healthcare professionals and public bodies. We therefore also obtain personal information about you from other sources such as:

Your allergies and any medical, physical or mental conditions, test results and your care and support needs, from any appropriate external social or health care professionals (including your GP)
Your name, home address, date of birth, contact details, needs assessments and financial assessments from any appropriate external social or health care professionals (including any relevant public body regardless of whether you are publicly funded)
Your likes, dislikes and lifestyle preferences (including your religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature, racial or ethnic origin, politics, genetics, health, sex life, marital status and sexuality trade union membership or biometrics (so far as they relate to providing you with suitable care)) from your family, friends and any other person you have nominated as your representative
Your legal representative (for example Lasting Power of Attorney), if applicable

How we use your personal information

We use your personal information to:

Prepare, review and update a suitable care plan, describing the nature and level of care and support services which you have requested we supply to you
To communicate with you, your representatives and any appropriate external social or health care professionals about your individual needs and personalise the service delivered to you
Make reasonable adjustments, when required, to meet your individual needs and to ensure we have suitable facilities to ensure your safety
Invoice you for the care and support services in accordance with our terms and conditions
Carry out quality assurance procedures, review our service and improve our customer experience (please note that feedback can also be provided anonymously)
Send information about our services which we believe you may be interested in. You may unsubscribe from this at any time
Notify you about changes to our services which are relevant to you
Monitor how effective our services are and to make sure that the services we provide meet your needs
Improve your experience of our website and to ensure that the content is presented in the most effective way.

Who we share your personal information with

We share your medical information with appropriate external social or health care professionals (including your GP and pharmacist) and any individuals you have nominated as your representative as and when required. This data sharing enables us to establish the type of care and support you need. It also allows us to design the right care package to suit your individual circumstances, including if (in future) you decide to receive care from an alternative provider.

We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if requested or required. This includes information required by public bodies to evidence our compliance with the applicable regulatory framework. We are also required to share personal information with external social or health care professionals, including public bodies and local safeguarding groups (in some circumstances) to ensure your safety.

We will share minimal and relevant information within Millennium in order to provide safe and effective services to you.

We will not share, sell or trade your personal information with any other third party without your consent.

To deliver our service to you we rely on third parties to provide specialist support to us. To provide this support they will have access to, or a duty of care over your personal information. These providers are:

IT and Telecoms Support companies – to ensure the safe, secure and resilient operation of our IT infrastructure including computers, servers, phones and mobile devices
Software support companies – to provide specialist support and resolve issues with the software that we run, for example the systems we use to store and manage your customer records
Marketing systems providers – to organise marketing communications and for the delivery and analysis of email communications

Data archiving companies – responsible for the secure storage and destruction of records.
These providers are under a written contract to ensure the same level of privacy and security that we promise to you.

Information provided by you:

The provision of your medical, physical or mental condition is necessary to enable us to create a support plan and to provide you with suitable care and support services. Without this information, we will not be able to assess your care needs or provide any support services to you.

The provision of your name, home address is required so that we can arrange a support worker to attend your home (for Supported Living services) to deliver the support package that has been agreed and to allow for Millennium to invoice the relevant fees.

How long will your personal information will be kept?

We will hold employee personal information kept within your electronic customer file for the length of your contract plus 6 years
We will hold employee personal information kept within your hard copy customer files for 6 years from the date of the last entry
We will hold employee personal information kept within our feedback procedure for 1 year so that we can identify trends and patterns in our service
We will hold financial records and transactions for 7 years in line with our legal requirements
Pension scheme investment policies will be held for 12 years from the ending of any benefit payable under the policy
We will hold personal information, for the people we support for up to 75 years in line with regulations and legal requirements and where applicable

Reasons we can collect and use your personal information

We rely on the following grounds within the GDPR:

Article 6(1)(a) – processing is conducted with your consent to process personal data for specified purposes
Article 6(1)(b) – processing is necessary for the performance of our contracts to provide individuals with care and support services
Article 6(1)(c) – processing is necessary for us to demonstrate compliance with our regulatory framework and the law
Article 6(1)(f) – to process your personal data in pursuit of legitimate interests, which include;
Marketing purposes – the privacy impact on you is expected to be minimal. Marketing will be specific to services we believe are of interest to you using information from enquiries we receive from you, you can unsubscribe at any time
Corporate due diligence and financial modelling, service development and innovation – the privacy impact on you is expected to be minimal. We will process your data internally to ensure our business is stable, trusted and innovating to provide the best possible service to you

GDPR recognises that additional care is required when processing special category (sensitive) data such as your health. We process this under the following grounds within GDPR;

Article 9(2)(h) – processing is necessary for the provision of social care or the management of social care systems and services

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Promise is already designed to address
Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
Require the erasure (i.e. deletion) of personal information concerning you, in certain situations. Please note that if you ask us to delete any of your personal information which we believe is necessary for us to comply with our contractual or legal obligations, we may no longer be able to provide care and support services to you
Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

How to contact us

You can contact us by:

Email to: [email protected]
Post to: GDPR Lead, Millennium Care Services Ltd, Station Lane, Featherstone, Pontefract, West Yorkshire WF7 5BA
Telephone – 01977 602867

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

Contact us using the details above – making clear that you wish to exercise one of your privacy rights
Let us have enough information to identify you (e.g. your name and address)
Let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill)
Let us know the information to which your request relates, including any account or reference numbers, if you have them

Keeping your personal information secure

The confidentiality and security of your information is of paramount importance to us. We have appropriate organisational and technical security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

How to complain:

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The GDPR also gives you a right to lodge a complaint, to the supervisory authority in the UK, which is the Information Commissioners Office who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

Data Protection Lead for Millennium:

Data Protection Lead, Millennium Care Services Ltd, Station Lane, Featherstone, Pontefract, West Yorkshire WF7 5BA Email: [email protected] or telephone 01977 602867