Privacy notice
This notice explains what personal information the House of Nursing Ethics collects, why, and what your rights are. We have tried to keep it short and plain.
Who we are
The House of Nursing Ethics is provided by King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS (“we”), who decide how and why your personal information is used (the “data controller”). The website was built and is maintained for us by Corvita Digital, who handle information only on our instructions.
You can contact us about anything in this notice at [privacy contact email address]. Our Data Protection Officer can be reached at [DPO email address].
What we collect and why
| Information | Why we use it | Our legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address and a scrambled (hashed) version of your password | To create your account and let you sign in. We cannot read your password. | [e.g. public task / legitimate interests: KCL to confirm] |
| A session cookie | To keep you signed in while you use the site. | Strictly necessary for the service you asked for |
| Feedback you send us | To improve the tool. The feedback form does not ask who you are and we do not link feedback to your account, so please do not include personal details in it. | [e.g. legitimate interests: KCL to confirm] |
| Your IP address | Briefly counted to stop misuse, such as automated searches or spam. It is used for this only and is discarded within minutes. Our hosting servers may also keep it in routine security logs for [retention period]. | Legitimate interests (keeping the site secure) |
| Usage statistics (only if you accept analytics cookies) | Pages and cards viewed, words searched for in Find a scenario, and basic device, browser and approximate location information, collected by Google Analytics so we can see how the tool is used and improve it. We do not use it to identify you or for advertising. | Your consent. You can change your mind at any time using Cookie settings in the footer. |
We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for marketing or to make automated decisions about you.
Who else receives it
- Google (Google Analytics), only if you accept analytics cookies. Google may process this information outside the UK, using [safeguards, e.g. international data transfer agreement / UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework: KCL to confirm].
- Adobe Fonts and Font Awesome, who supply the site’s fonts and icons. They do not set cookies on this site, but like any website they receive your IP address when the files are requested.
- Our hosting provider, [hosting provider name and location], who store the site and its database on our behalf.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it.
How long we keep it
- Account details: for as long as you have access to the tool, then [period].
- Feedback: [period].
- Google Analytics data: [period, as set in the Google Analytics account, e.g. 14 months].
- Your cookie choice is remembered for 6 months. See our cookie policy for details of each cookie.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask us for a copy of your information, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to how we use it, and, where we rely on your consent, to withdraw it at any time. To use any of these rights, contact us using the details above.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, telephone 0303 123 1113). We would appreciate the chance to put things right first.
Changes to this notice
We will update this page if we change how the site uses your information. Last updated: [date].