The CHPA Data Protection Policy
CHPA needs to gather and use information about individuals in order to provide psychological assessment, therapy, supervision, teaching and training activities.
This information is gathered and retained as required to fulfill our contract with you or because there is a legitimate interest in our needing to collect this information (e.g. so that we can communicate with you directly about the services we are providing to you). Individuals can include clients, referring organisations and agencies, statutory organisations, suppliers, business contacts, employees and other people the company has a relationship with or may need to contact.
This policy describes how personal and sensitive data is collected, handled and stored
(if you contact us or when we contact you) securely and safely in order to meet CHPA's data protection standards.
CHPA treats the information that we collect in accordance and complying with all laws concerning the protection of personal data, including the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR 2018.
As per these laws, CHPA is acting as the data controller; if another party has access to your data we will tell you if they are acting as a data controller or as a data processor, who they are, what they are doing with your data and why we need to provide them with this information.
If your questions are not fully answered by this policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer Mr J Hill: jhill@chpsych.co.uk If you are not still not satisfied with the answers that the Data Protection Officer provides, then you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Our Commitment:
CHPA is committed to the protection of all personal and sensitive data for which it holds responsibility as the Data Controller and the handling of such data in line with data protection principles as specified by the UK Data Protection Act (1998) and updated by the General Data Protection Regulation 2018.
Changes to data protection legislation shall be monitored and implemented in order to remain
compliant with all requirements.
The member of staff responsible for data protection is: Mr J Hill.
