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PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated 9 days ago|Data Controller: Emerge Social Care Advisory & Consulting

Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how Emerge Social Care collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal data when you use our website, consultancy services, and digital tools. We are committed to ensuring your data is protected and never sold to any third parties.

Personal Data We Collect

A. Information you provide

  • Full name
  • Job title and organization
  • Address
  • Phone number & email
  • Payment / billing details

B. Device & technical data

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Location data

C. Automatically collected data

  • Website usage and page views (via Google Analytics 4 — Measurement ID: G-HFXW20R27M)
  • Session recordings and click heatmaps (via Microsoft Clarity — Project ID: w7mwfn1g9o)
  • Browser type, operating system, and approximate location (country/region level only)
  • Referring URLs and traffic source data

Why We Process Your Data

We process your data for:

  • Client onboarding and identity verification
  • Enabling consultancy services, training, and transactions
  • Service Delivery: To operate our website, process requests, and provide customer support.
  • Marketing: To send you updates or promotions, with your consent.
  • Improvement: To analyze usage data (via Google Analytics) to enhance our website.
  • Security: To protect our platform from fraud.

Legitimate interests. Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

Legal obligation. Where we need to use your personal data to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Performance of a contract. Where we need to process your personal data to perform a contract with you.

Sharing Your Data

We may share your personal data with the following third parties:

  • Google LLC (USA) — for Google Analytics 4 (website analytics) and Google Ads (advertising). Google processes data in accordance with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. See: policies.google.com/privacy
  • Microsoft Corporation (USA) — for Microsoft Clarity (session recordings/heatmaps) and Bing Webmaster Tools (search monitoring). See: privacy.microsoft.com
  • Hostinger International Ltd — our web hosting provider, storing website files and server logs.
  • Our professional advisors including lawyers and accountants who are bound by confidentiality.
  • HM Revenue and Customs, regulators, law enforcement, or other public authorities where we are under a legal obligation to do so.

Emerge Social Care never sells your personal data to any third parties.

Your Rights

You have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

Access.

Request access to and/or a copy of the personal data we process about you.

Correction.

Request correction of any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you.

Deletion.

Request us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also can ask us to delete your personal data at any time.

Objection.

Object to us processing your personal data where we are relying on legitimate interests.

Restriction.

Request that we restrict or suspend our processing of your personal data.

Withdraw consent.

Withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us at info@emergesocialcare.co.uk.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. You can request data deletion at any time.

Security

All information you provide to us is stored securely. We use strict procedures and security features to protect your personal data from loss, unauthorized use or alteration.

We limit access to your personal data to only those who have a genuine business need to access it.

We have put in place procedures to detect and respond to personal data breaches and notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.

We use:

Data encryptionSecure cloud storageFirewalls

Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies including Google Analytics 4 (G-HFXW20R27M) for traffic analysis and Microsoft Clarity (w7mwfn1g9o) for session recordings and heatmaps. All analytics data is anonymised. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time via our cookie consent banner. For full details, see our Cookie Policy.

Contact Details

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or our data protection practices, please contact us:

  • Emerge Social Care
  • info@emergesocialcare.co.uk