Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. 8^th Element understands that when you, our customer, use our website and member services systems, you are entrusting us with your most valuable asset—your data. You trust that its privacy will be protected and that it will be used only in a way that is consistent with your expectations.

This privacy statement explains what personal data 8^th Element collects from you, through our interactions with you and through our products, and how we use that data.

8^th Element collects data to operate effectively and provide you the best experiences with our website and our products. You provide some of this data directly, such as when you login to our online booking services, fill in and sign our Initial Health checks and consent forms, sign up for a class or course, sign our Event Par Q forms, or submit an enquiry via one of our website forms or social media platforms.

The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with 8^th Element, and the products and features you use. The data we collect can include the following:

• Name and contact data. We collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number and other similar contact data.
• We collect passwords, password hints and similar security information used for authentication for account access.
• Demographic data. We collect data about you such as your age, gender, location and training goals.
• Payment data. We collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument.
• We also collect information you provide to us and the content of messages you send to us, such as feedback and product reviews you write, or questions and information you provide for customer support.

Contact & Communication: We use data we collect to communicate with you and personalise our communications with you. For example, we may contact you by phone, SMS, email or other means to provide you with appointment reminders,  information about the products / services that 8^th Element offer, to invite you to events, or to provide feedback, or to send you our occasional email newsletters with important information on changes to our services, opening times or charges, along with injury prevention blogs and posts. When sharing your data via one of our sign up forms, you can opt whether you would like to receive communications from 8^th element. All emails* we send will provide the option for you to unsubscribe from receiving marketing/informational communications. We may still contact you by email or phone in the event of emergency. Or if there is important Information about appointments or classes (cancellations, emergencies etc)

*Email marketing campaigns published by 8^th Element may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity.

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with GDPR, subscribers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable, clear instructions on how to unsubscribe will by detailed instead.

Customer feedback: We use data from customer feedback to make improvement to our products.

Business Operations: We use data to develop aggregate analysis and business intelligence that enable us to operate, protect, make informed decisions and report on the performance of our business.

This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

8^th Element uses cookies & similar technologies for several purposes, including:

• Security:We use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of our websites and services.
• Showing Advertising:We may also in the future display advertising from third parties such as Google or other affiliate companies on the 8^th Element website. If we do, cookies will be used to record how many visitors have clicked on an advertisement and to record which advertisements you have seen so you don’t see the same one repeatedly.
• Analytics:In order to provide our products, we use cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service and to develop other statistics about the operations of our products. This software is provided by Google Analytics which will save a cookie to your device in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information Google Privacy & Terms.

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Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but provide controls that allow you to block or delete them. For example, you can block or delete cookies by clicking Settings > Privacy > Cookies. Instructions for blocking or deleting cookies in various browsers may be found by searching “(insert browser name) block cookies”.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

Although our website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout our website.

The owners of our website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that our website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

We store your personal details (name, address, email, phone number, medical history and case notes on our clinical software system, which by law is fully correspondent with GDPR regulations. Ensuring all data is stored in 2 27001 accredited data centres within the UK.   All our paper medical records and computer stored personal information is securely stored in line with data protection laws. By law we have keep this information for 7 years.  However, If you would like these records destroyed please contact us in writing and we will destroy this data with 30 days.

If you do not resubscribe you will not hear from you regarding the clinic or any useful information we have to share with you.  However, we require notice in writing to remove your medical data.

If you have any further questions about your data please contact us.