Aims
My Living Will (MLW) aims to help individuals and professionals understand and take decisions about care towards the end of life. The motivation of those involved in the website's development is to help everyone to have choice and control over their lives. The cost of development has been funded from charitable donations. The website is run on a not-for-profit basis, generating only sufficient income to cover its costs. Privacy will be strictly protected. No information will be sold.
Privacy
Through the "Website", My Living Well aims to help individuals and professionals understand and take decisions about care towards the end of life, offering guidance to individuals on the preparation of an Advance Decision to refuse treatment and an Advance Statement of preferences and wishes. The motivation of those involved is to help everyone to have choice and control over their lives.
We take your privacy very seriously and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This policy explains how we collect and use the information you give us. If you have any questions please contact: [email protected]
1. YOUR CONSENT
1.1 By providing us with your personal information, including contact details and sensitive personal data such as your ethnicity or details about your health, you consent to the collection and use of any information you provide in accordance with this privacy policy.
1.2 We do not intend to collect personal details about children on this Website. If you are under 16, always check with a parent or guardian before giving personal information to anyone online.
2. WHO WILL BE HOLDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
2.1 MLW, as data controller, and the operator of our server (the data processor) will hold the information you provide via the Website.
3. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
3.1 The personal information that we collect from you is limited to the following information about you:
- name;
- date of birth;
- email address;
- address, postcode;
- financial details (where you are making payments or donating to us);
- phone number;
- the country you are in;
- ethnicity/details about your health;
- information about the way you use our Website, so that we can improve the effectiveness of our campaign (see our Cookies Policy see below for more information);
- the content of your Advance Decision and Advance Statement.
4. HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION?
We will obtain personal information from you in a number of ways, for example when you:
- enquire about our activities, the Website or us;
- register with the website or donate to us; or
- contact us through the Website or any other channel.
5. HOW DO WE USE THIS INFORMATION?
5.1 We will use your personal information in a number of ways including to:
- help you use what the Website offers, including to produce downloadable documents;
- provide you with any information you have requested;
- provide or administer activities relating to our services or the services offered on the Website;
- provide you with information relating to us or information that we think might be of interest to you, including information about our events and activities;
- process any donations that you make to us;
- maintain our organisational records;
- carry out research;
- email you about the Website, for example about improvements, developments or changes to our Website Terms and Conditions or this Privacy and Cookies Policy;
- remind you from time to time of the desirability of reviewing and updated your documents stored on the website.
6. WILL WE EVER SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH ANYONE ELSE?
6.1 We never share our membership lists with other organisations. We will not hand your personal information to third party organisations without your consent, except as set out in clause 6.2 to 6.3.
6.2 We may select a data processor to process your information on our behalf - the software provider that hosts the Website. The data processor is authorised to see and use your information but only to fulfil their contractual obligations to us and are not permitted to use it for any other purpose. We retain full responsibility for how your personal information may be used by such agents.
6.3 We may use information gathered from users of the website for research purposes. Anonymity will be strictly respected.
6.4 In exceptional circumstances we may share your information when we are legally required to do so.
7. FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
If you decide to make a donation to us, your debit or credit card details will be used only for this transaction through our secure online payment system.
8. HOW DO WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
8.1 We place great importance on the security of your personal information and we always try to take appropriate precautions to protect it.
8.2 Despite all of our precautions however, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. So, whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information which you disclose to us and you must understand that you do so at your own risk.
9. CHANGES TO YOUR DETAILS OR THIS POLICY
9.1 If your personal details change, please help us to keep your information up to date by notifying us at the email address at the beginning of this policy.
9.2 We may revise or update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our activities or for other purposes. If we do so, we will contact you by email.
Terms & Conditions
1. INTRODUCTION
By using or accessing the Website, you agree to be legally bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, please do not use this Website.
We take your privacy very seriously and we are committed to protecting your personal information. Your privacy will be strictly protected. Our Privacy and Cookie Policy is below, which also applies to your use of the Website.
2. ABOUT US
Through the Website, My Living Well aims to help individuals and professionals understand and take decisions about care towards the end of life, offering guidance to individuals on the preparation of an Advance Decision to refuse treatment and an Advance Statement of preferences and wishes. The motivation of those involved is to help everyone to have choice and control over their lives.
The cost of development of the Website has been funded from charitable donations. The Website is run on a not-for-profit basis, generating only sufficient income to cover its costs.
My Living Will is an incoporated charity (number 1172856). Registered address is 32 Laurier Road, London NW5 1SJ.
3. USE OF THE WEBSITE
We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice to you, modify or revise these terms and conditions at any time by updating the text of this page. Your continued use of this Website after amendments are made means you accept the terms and conditions as updated. Therefore, please visit this page regularly to review these terms and conditions.
You may not alter or seek to alter the Website in any way or do anything that might or will damage or disrupt the good working order of the Website.
4. ACCURACY AND CHANGES
Whilst we aim to provide you with accurate information on this Website, we are unable to guarantee that the information and content contained in the Website is accurate, verified or complete. The information and guidance provided is not a substitute for medical, legal or other professional advice relevant to end of life care. We accept no liability if you or any person or organisation relies on or uses the information and/or content.
We may update the Website from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND USE OF CONTENT
The content on this Website is owned by us or third parties.
No content from the Website may be copied, used or reproduced without our prior written consent, except:
- where extracts from the Website are downloaded or printed for personal and non-commercial use; or
- where text from the Website is reproduced for the purpose of reporting in news publications provided that the text is reproduced accurately and fairly and not in a manner that could confuse or mislead others or cause damage to CIVA, My Living Will or their respective reputations and provided that this Website is acknowledged as the source of the information.
However, in no circumstances may you use graphics, trade marks, logos, designs, images or photographs from the Website, except with our consent. Please send your written requests to use content from the Website to: [email protected]
6. LIABILITY
We cannot guarantee that the Website will be uninterrupted or error free, or that the Website or your use of it will be free of viruses or harmful material. You are responsible for ensuring that your computer and computer system is suitable to use, and compatible with, the Website.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your computer system (including, but not limited to, your hardware, software and data) is not damaged by your use of the Website.
In circumstances where you suffer loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use of the Website, we accept no liability.
The limitations and exclusions above only apply to the extent permitted by law.
7. USE OF THE WEBSITE FROM OUTSIDE ENGLAND AND WALES
Whilst we welcome all visitors to this Website, we cannot guarantee that the Website is appropriate or available for use in any territory. Those who visit the Website from outside England and Wales are responsible for complying with all applicable laws. If use of the Website breaches any law in your jurisdiction(s), you may not use the Website and you must exit immediately.
8. LINKED SITES
We make no representations about any other websites. When you access any other website through links on the Website you understand that it is independent from us and that we have no control over that website and can accept no responsibility in relation to its content or the way you interact with it.
9. LINKING TO THE WEBSITE
You may link to any part of this Website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must ensure that by linking to this Website you breach no law or rights of others, and that the linking to this Website does not suggest any association, patronage, approval or endorsement, except with our prior written consent. We reserve the right to withdraw this linking permission without notice.
10. APPLICABLE LAW
English law and the jurisdiction of the English Courts will apply to these terms and conditions.
11. CONTACTING US
Please contact us at: [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns about this Website. If you contact us or we contact you in relation to the Website, we will do so in accordance with our Privacy and Cookies Policy
Your use of this site constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions.
Cookies
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed on a website user's device/computer hard drive by a website. There are several types of cookie. This policy explains how we use cookies on this website at www.mylivingwill.org.uk.
THE TYPE OF COOKIES WE USE
The types of cookies we may use on the Website are set out below.
Cookies essential to the function of the website
We use cookies to provide you with the opportunity to exercise the choices that are integral to the operation of this website, including generation of Advance Decision and Advance Statement documents. It is therefore a condition of using the website that users accept the use of cookies.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics are used widely by websites to collect information about how website visitors use a site. We may use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how users use the Website and to improve the Website.
Google Analytics collect information in an anonymous form and will not allow us to identify you or collect any personal information about you.
Google Analytics do not track your internet activity after leaving the Website.
Social media cookies
The Website may contain buttons and content from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to enable you to share content from our Website with your social media networks. If you use these features, these social media sites may use their own cookies. Information on how these are used can be found on their respective websites.
WEBSITE COOKIE ACCEPTANCE
We will use a cookie to record if users have accepted the use of cookies on this Website.
This cookie will be stored on your device/computer if you have consented to our use of cookies by indicating your consent to the pop-up message on the Website.
INTERNET BROWSERS
Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. However, it is possible to set an internet browser to reject cookies. If you do so, you will not be able to use this website to generate documents.