Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy tells you:

  • Who we are
  • What is personal data
  • What personal data BreathTec uses
  • How we collect and process limited personal data
  • How we store and back up the data
  • Who we may disclose your personal data to
  • How we keep your data safe
  • Your rights in relation to your personal data

Please be assured that we do not share any of your personal data with anyone else.

Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with our privacy practices.

Who are we?

BreathTec is the sole controller of all personal data gathered from the BreathTec service.

Company Number 12171637

28 Brandling Park,

Newcastle upon Tyne,

United Kingdom,

NE2 4RR.

What is personal data?

We treat any data that relates to an identifiable individual that is linked or linkable to you by BreathTec as “personal data”. Meaning that data that directly identifies you such as your name is classed as personal data. This Privacy notice covers how BreathTec handles personal data when you interact with us on our website.

What personal data does BreathTec use?

We only store information that you provide within our BreathTec service. This is a small amount of identifiable personal information such as first name and email address, along with any other non-sensitive data added by yourself within the BreathTec service. We do not need to know your date of birth, address or NHS number. We will collect your mobile number if you wish to have reminder texts from us.

We automatically collect and store certain types of information about your usage within the website, including your interaction with the content on it. We use cookies to make our website securely function. Please read our Cookie Policy for more details.

BreathTec will not disclose or pass on any personal data to any third party. In the unlikely event that the website provider is sold or integrated into another business, your details may be disclosed to the new owners only for the purposes of maintaining the supply of services if that is appropriate.

How do we collect and process your personal information?

As required by law, we only collect and process information about individuals where we have a legal basis for doing so.

We process your information on the following legal bases:

  • You have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose
  • We need to process the information to be able to operate the BreathTec service, provide personalised features and to protect the safety and security of the service.
  • It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security, enforcing our rules and policies, protecting our legal rights and interests, research and development, personalising BreathTec, and marketing and promoting BreathTec.
  • We need to process your information to comply with our legal obligations.

How do we keep your personal data safe?

We know that data security is important to everyone and we will wherever possible minimise the use of data. Your data will be stored within a secure IT environment.

Our website works to protect the security of your personal data during any transmission by using encryption protocols. All information submitted by you is automatically encrypted using the industry standard HTTPS protocol (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) for the transfer of sensitive data on the internet such as your name, age and email address.

To protect against unauthorised access to your account, we recommend that each user uses a completely unique password to any other they have used before as their BreathTec account password. We also recommend changing your password every 30 days.

We are committed to protecting your privacy but cannot guarantee the security of information disclosed by you online since the internet is not a secure medium. Please be careful and responsible when maintaining the secrecy of any password and/or account information.

We review our security practices on a regular basis to help ensure that your data is maintained secure and safeguarded in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations and our own internal policies and procedures.

How long will data be stored for?

We aim to hold information for no longer than necessary.  We will keep anonymised data for audit and research purposes.

Your rights in relation to your personal data

Under certain circumstances, you have the right by law to:

  • Request access to your personal data that we hold.
  • Request correction of the personal data we hold about you if it is incorrect, out of date or incomplete (e.g. your email address or telephone number)
  • Withdraw your consent to use BreathTec and request erasure of your personal data.

Please either:

Contacting the Regulator

You are entitled to lodge a complaint at the Information Commissioner’s Office if you are unsatisfied with how your data has been processed.

The Information Commissioners Office can be contacted either:

Last updated 18/03/2022