Performance in Exercise and Knowledge (PEAK): Optimizing Physical Activity in Your Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

PRIVACY POLICY

What is the purpose of this Privacy Policy?

This Privacy Policy explains how Siyemi Limited, collects, holds and uses your personal information in accordance with applicable data privacy legislation including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). By providing your personal information, you acknowledge that we will only use it in accordance with this Policy.

This educational activity is being presented in collaboration with our education partner Med-IQ LLC in the US, this Privacy Policy specifically sets out the data they will share with us and how we will process it in order for us, as the CME partner, to provide you with CME credit for participation. You will be asked to agree to the Privacy Policy of Med-IQ LLC before you will be allowed to view the education activity itself.

About us

Siyemi Limited is a medical education company, registered in England and Wales, number 5883995 and VAT GB 892 3912 94. The company consist of three Divisions: Siyemi Learning, European CME-CPD Academy and CME-CPD Academy and operates as one legal entity. Its registered office is University of Manchester Innovation Centre (UMIC), Arch 29 North Campus Incubator, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, UK. Siyemi is a “data controller” under relevant data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation for the information it collects for promotional, educational, CME and employment purposes.

What personal data will we hold about you?

Personal data is any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
In order to provide our educational products and services, we will need to collect the following types of information from you in order to verify who you are, that you have engaged in the education, and to provide context to the engagement data we need to report to the CME accreditation body:

Contact details: name and email address
Identification information: including, institution, city, country of work or residence

Why do we need to collect and store your personal data?

We require personal data, such as that listed above, in order to provide educational content and CME services to you. If you do not allow us to hold this information, we will not be able to provide you with CME credit.

How will we use your personal data?

We will only use your data in ways in which the laws allow, and the data that we hold will be:

Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
Collected only for valid and compatible purposes aligned with the service you access or are contracted to

We will not pass on or sell your details to any third party. On rare occasions, we may also use your personal data where we need to protect our or your interests, e.g. in the instance of legal claims, or where it is needed in the public interest, e.g. for the investigation, detection and prevention of crime.

How will we ensure the security of your personal data?

We have security measures in place to ensure that personal data provided by you is not accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. However, transmission of information via the internet is never entirely secure, and we ask that where we have provided (or you have chosen) a password to access our services, you maintain the confidentiality of this password at all times.
As part of our internal data security measures, all Siyemi employees are required to undertake regular and appropriate training in data protection policies to support our compliance with all laws relating to this Policy.

Who will we share your personal data with?

We may share your personal data to third parties as outlined below. We fully require these third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law and only for the purpose for which it was provided.

CME accreditation and regulatory bodies: where required, we will share your data with the relevant bodies to register your learning progress for it to be recognised
Legal or regulatory companies or organisations: your data may be shared when we are bound to provide data for legal reasons, e.g. in crime detection or prevention, or prevention of fraud.

In the event that Siyemi is acquired by a third party, your data may be shared as part of the business asset transfer process.

Your rights related to this Policy

We require personal data, such as that listed above, in order to provide educational content and services to you. If you choose not to provide your person data for such use, this may impede our ability to provide those content and services as intended or as contracted with you, or to fulfil our legal obligations.
You have the right to ask us not to process your data in the ways we have outlined above. You can exert this right by ensuring any “opt-in” checkboxes contained within all of our email communications remain unchecked, or by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at any time. You can also contact us and ask directly through any of the contact methods listed in the section at the end of this Policy.
You also have the right, at any time, to:

Ask us which information we hold about you
Request inaccurate information to be reviewed and corrected
Request additional restrictions to the processing of personal information
Request personal information to be erased, in certain circumstances

Your request will be fully complied with, unless we can demonstrate compelling legal or regulatory grounds as to why the processing should continue in accordance with data protection laws.
If you have a complaint regarding our use of your data, this can be lodged with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. The ICO’s contact details are Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF; telephone +44 303 123 1113; or www.ico.org.uk.

For how long will we store your information?

You may request we delete your information at any time. However, if you have participated in any educational activities, we will maintain your personal data records for as long as is necessary to perform or deliver our educational products and services to you. For programmes that are complete, we are required to keep records for a period of 6 years in order to comply with accreditation requirements of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the American Medical Association (AMA) and various European accreditation bodies.

What if you have queries about this policy?

Should you wish to make a request to exercise any of the above rights, you should contact our Compliance Officer via email at epozniak@siyemi.org or write to us at:
Siyemi Limited
University of Manchester Innovation Centre (UMIC)
Arch 29 North Campus Incubator
Sackville Street
Manchester M60 1QD, UK

V1.0 This version is dated 6 July 2020