Privacy Policy

MSS Medicolegal is a company providing an independent psychiatric medicolegal opinion services.

Personal information that may be disclosed to MSS Medicolegal may include information in relation to: name, address, date of birth.

In addition, personal information relating to the injury/medical issue(s) suffered by an individual may also be disclosed to us. Any personal information disclosed to us will be used in the management of the relevant individual’s claim and will be disclosed to a third party as instructed such as the medical expert(s) instructed in the case.

MSS Medicolegal will only ask for information relating to relevant individual’s claim/query.

MSS Medicolegal will keep all personal information confidential and will take suitable steps to protect personal information held against loss or theft.

The personal data held by us will be held on our IT EU based cloud storage and will not be transferred to other countries.

No third parties will have access to personal information held by MSS Medicolegal unless required to do so as part of an individual’s claim/query.

We are required under the UK law to keep information for a minimum of 7 years or the conclusion of a case, at which time the information we hold, both paper and electronic, will be destroyed.

In some instances we are required to keep information indefinitely, if for example ordered by the court, but if this is the case we will inform you.

You can ask us to amend the personal information we hold for you at any time you become aware that the information is incorrect.

You can do this by contacting us via email on info@mss-medicolegal.co.uk or write to us at the address below.

Under General Data Protection Regulations you have the right to access your personal data that we hold for you. If you would like to do so please email us on info@mssmedicolegal.co.uk.

If you have any additional questions regarding any aspect of this communication then please email info@mss-medicolegal.co.uk.

The privacy statement was last updated 15 May 2018.

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Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.mss-medicolegal.co.uk.

Contact forms

No direct information is stored on the servers for this website.

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Email address, Name, Telephone Number and Usage Data.

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you subject to your opt-in. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Usage data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

What rights you have over your data

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you by emailing info@mss-medicolegal.co.uk. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.