Privacy Policy
Association of Mental Health Providers is a not-for-profit organisation registered in England and Wales as Voluntary Sector Mental Health Providers Forum and is a company limited by guarantee no. 5536120. Registered charity no. 1120222. Our Registered office is 3rd Floor, Watson House, 54 Baker Street, London, W1U 7EX.
Unless the circumstances of use indicate otherwise a reference in these terms of use to "we", "us", "our" or “The Association” is a reference to the Association of Mental Health Providers and a reference to "you" is to you, the user of our website.
We have developed this privacy policy as we understand that the privacy and security of your personal information is an important issue to you and we are committed to protecting your privacy as a visitor to our website.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy then please do not use our website.
We process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (the DPA).
We collect personal information from you when you communicate with us using any media or in person. We may also collect personal data which relates to you from third parties. We ensure that prior to processing your personal data for any of the above purposes a condition pertaining to the DPA applies, permitting such processing.
If no statutory condition applies to the form of processing we undertake, we can only undertake such processing with your consent. You may withdraw your consent to our processing your personal data for some of the above purposes by writing to the address set out below.
We may continue to process your personal data after you have ceased to be registered with us or after you have provided information to us or we have sent you any information you have requested. Sensitive Personal Information Certain personal information is categorised by the DPA as "sensitive personal data".
Data protection
As a membership charity we rely on a variety of methods to keep our members engaged and informed about our work. We may use data collected to keep you up to date about our projects, the wider mental health sector, and any other information that would be relevant to you.
We respect our stakeholders and members’ communication preferences. If you would like to update your communication preferences, you can do so at any time by emailing comms@amhp.org.uk.
All information you provide is stored in accordance with the Data Protection Act. We do not pass personal information on to third parties for commercial use.
How we use personal data
Association of Mental Health Providers processes your personal data for the following purposes:
- to keep you informed and obtain your views of our activities; to achieve the charitable objectives of The Association
- to provide you with information about services available to you through The Association, and third parties connected with us either as directed communications or newsletters;
- to process and respond to requests, enquiries and complaints received from you; to provide services requested by you and any related communications;
- for audit purposes;
- and statutory and regulatory compliance.
Cookies
We may store information about you using cookies (files which are sent by us to your computer or other access device) which we can access when you visit our site in future. We do this to see how you use our site, so we can keep improving it.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.
Website security
Our website includes links to other websites which you may find useful. We are not responsible for the content of other sites or the privacy policies and practices which they work from. Our site is protected by HTTPS, meaning that any personal information that you transfer to us via our website is encrypted and is stored as securely as possible.
Contact us
If you have any queries relating to this Privacy Policy, please contact us either by email at comms@amhp.org.uk or by writing to us at Association of Mental Health Providers, 3rd Floor, Watson House, 54 Baker Street, W1U 7EX.