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How this website handles information about visitors and about people who get in touch.
Who we are
This website, essexsurgeon.co.uk, is owned and operated by Mr Antony (Abraham) Pittathankal, Consultant General, Breast and Endocrine Surgeon. Mr Pittathankal is responsible for the personal information described in this policy. In this policy, “we” and “us” mean Mr Pittathankal.
For questions about this policy or about your personal information, email antonyap@hotmail.com. Please do not send personal medical information by email.
Website development and content management
The website was developed by Innovations and More Ltd. Website content and information are entered and maintained by Innovations and More Ltd in accordance with instructions and information provided by Mr Antony (Abraham) Pittathankal, the website owner and operator. The website has no forms, accounts or analytics tools, so it does not itself send visitors’ personal information to the developer.
Summary
- This website has no forms that collect patient information, no user accounts and no online booking, and it does not ask you for personal information.
- Some personal information, such as your IP address, is still processed when you visit, as explained below.
- We do not use analytics, advertising or tracking tools.
- The website’s own code does not set cookies. If you press OK on the privacy notice, your browser saves a note that you have seen it.
- We do not sell personal information or use it for advertising.
Information collected when you visit
Hosting
The website is hosted by Hostinger. As with any website, the hosting servers receive technical information sent by your browser, including your IP address, the page requested, the date and time and details of your browser and device, so that they can deliver pages to you and protect the service. What Hostinger records and for how long is determined by Hostinger. See Hostinger’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab).
Fonts
The website’s fonts, Fraunces and Work Sans, are provided by Google Fonts. When a page loads, your browser requests the fonts from Google’s servers, which receive your IP address, the address of the page that requested the fonts and standard browser information. Google handles that information under its own terms. See Google’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab).
Privacy notice
If you press OK on the privacy notice, your browser saves a local storage entry so that the notice is not shown again. It contains no personal information. See our Cookie Policy.
Analytics
We do not use analytics or tracking tools on this website.
If you contact us
If you email us, we receive your email address, your name if you include it and the contents of your message. We use this information only to reply to you and deal with your enquiry. Emails to antonyap@hotmail.com are held in a Hotmail email account provided by Microsoft.
Appointments are arranged with the hospitals. Calls to the telephone numbers on this website are handled by Nuffield Health Brentwood Hospital, Spire Hartswood Hospital or Spire London East Hospital under their own privacy notices. Online booking opens Spire Healthcare’s own appointment website, which handles the information you enter as described in Spire Healthcare’s privacy notice (opens in a new tab). This website does not receive the information you give when booking.
Our lawful bases
We process the limited technical information described above because it is needed to deliver the website to you and keep it secure. If you email us, we use your message to respond to you. We will update this section if our use of personal information changes.
Who receives information
- Hostinger, which hosts the website.
- Google, which provides the website’s fonts.
- Microsoft, which provides the email account that receives messages sent to antonyap@hotmail.com.
- Spire Healthcare, the hospitals and the review websites, only if you choose to contact them or visit their websites.
Links to other websites, such as Spire Healthcare, Doctify, I Want Great Care and Top Doctors, take you to services with their own privacy policies.
International transfers
Hostinger’s servers, Google and Microsoft may process information outside the United Kingdom. The safeguards that apply are determined by those providers and are described in their own privacy notices. We have not independently verified server locations, so we do not state them here.
How long information is kept
- Emails: kept only for as long as needed to deal with your enquiry and any follow-up, and then deleted unless there is a legal reason to keep them.
- Hosting and font requests: handled by Hostinger and Google under their own retention policies.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask for a copy of your personal information, and to ask for it to be corrected or deleted. You can also ask us to restrict how we use it, and object to our use of it. To make a request, email antonyap@hotmail.com. We will respond within one month. Information held only by our hosting provider or by Google may need to be requested from them directly.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). See how to make a complaint to the ICO (opens in a new tab).
Privacy settings
The Privacy Settings panel shows what this website uses and when. You can open it at any time from the footer of any page or with the button below.
Cookies
Our Cookie Policy explains the cookies and similar technologies on this website and how to control them.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page when the way we use personal information changes, and show the date of the latest update at the top of the page.