Privacy Policy

Avoidable Deaths Network Privacy Policy Notice

Who We Are

Avoidable Deaths Network (‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’ or ‘ADN’) gather and process your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and in compliance with the relevant Data Protection Regulation and law. This notice provides you with the necessary information regarding your rights and obligations, and explains how, why and when we collect and process your personal data.

Avoidable Deaths Network’s office is at Avoidable Deaths Network, Brookfield, 266 London Road, Leicester LE2 1RQ. The designated Data Protection Officer/Appointed Person for the organisation is Dr. Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett, and can be contacted at: contact@avoidable-deaths.net

Information That We Collect

The Avoidable Deaths Network processes your personal information to meet our legal, statutory and contractual obligations and to provide you with our products and services. We will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and do not process your information in any other way than already specified in this notice.

The personal data that we collect may include but is not limited to:

  • Name
  • Personal email
  • Country of residence

We collect information in the following ways:

  • Face-to-face
  • Online forms

How We Use Your Personal Data (Legal Basis for Processing)

The Avoidable Deaths Network takes your privacy very seriously and will never disclose, share or sell your data without your consent, unless required to do so by law. We only retain your data for as long as is necessary and for the purposes specified in this notice. Where you have consented to us providing you with network updates, you are free to withdraw such consent at any time.  The purposes and reasons for processing your personal data are detailed below:

  • Keeping you up-to-date with stories, news and events in relation to avoidable deaths and the Avoidable Deaths Network

Your Rights

You have the right to access any personal information that Avoidable Deaths Network processes about you and to request information about:

  • What personal data we hold about you
  • The purposes of the processing
  • The categories of personal data concerned
  • The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
  • How long we intend to store your personal data for

If you believe that we hold any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information and we will strive to update/correct it as quickly as possible, unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, at which point you will be notified.

You also have the right to request erasure of your personal data or to restrict processing in accordance with the data protection law, as well as to object to any communications from us and to be informed about any automated decision-making that we use.

If we receive a request for any of the above rights, we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the relevant request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.

Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information

We do not share or disclose any of your personal information without your consent, other than for the purposes specified in this notice or where there is a legal requirement.

We do not sell or rent your information to third parties.

We do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Other Websites

Our website and online services may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy applies only to the Avoidable Deaths Network. When you visit other websites, please make sure you read their privacy policy.

Safeguarding Measures

The Avoidable Deaths Network takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. We work hard to protect you and your information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and have several layers of security measures in place, including measures such as:

  • SSL
  • Encryptions
  • Practices, restriction
  • IT authentication
  • Ransomware
  • Firewalls
  • Restricted Access

Lodging A Complaint

The Avoidable Deaths Network only processes your personal information in compliance with this privacy notice and in accordance with the relevant data protection laws. If, however you wish to raise a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data or are unsatisfied with how we have handled your information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.