THE INFORMATION ON BOOKANEYETEST.CO.UK HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY OPTICIAL PROFESSIONALS AND INCLUDES THEIR OWN OPINION. NONE OF THE CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE IS TO BE TAKEN AS CLINICAL ADVICE AND YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONTACT YOUR LOCAL QUALIFIED OPTOMETRIST TO CONFIRM AN OPTICAL DIAGNOSIS.
Your privacy
At Book An Eye Test (division of HO2 Management Ltd) we are committed to the highest privacy standards. However, you choose to interact with us, we will only collect data that is necessary for us to ensure you are able to make an appointment at your local opticians. This policy provides detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and the very limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others.
Collection of your Personal Information
The information we collect (if you submit an appointment request) consists of your name, email address and telephone number. No additional personal information is collected by Book An Eye Test.
How we use this information
The information we collect about you is used to ensure we have enough details in order to make an appointment request at your chosen opticians. Book An Eye Test (HO2 Management Ltd) retains a copy of your personal information along with the local practice you have requested an appointment with.
Our policy on storage, processing and retention of your information
To provision and manage our services, your data is stored and processed by Wix.com Inc. within their European facilities. Any third-party company is only permitted to process your data for the specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We retain your information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our products and services and to maintain records to satisfy tax and other legal requirements.
How and when we may share your Personal Information
Where necessary we may disclose your information to health care professionals including the NHS. We may also pass information to external agencies and organizations, including the police, for the prevention and detection of fraud and criminal activity. Should any claim be made, we may pass your personal information to our insurers and if our business is wholly or partially transferred to a third party, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
Your rights with respect to the Personal Information we hold
You are entitled to access the personal information that we hold on you; any such request should be made using our contact details below. If any data we hold is inaccurate, this will be corrected promptly on request. In certain circumstances, you can request that we erase your data which we will do where this would not prevent us meeting our legal and regulatory obligations.
Updating your communication preferences
You may ask that we do not send you communications using any of the contact details we hold on our records, this may include your email, SMS, telephone and postal information. You may also request we restrict our communications to clinically necessary messages. Your personal preferences can be changed at any time by using the link at the end of every email and SMS message we send or by using our contact details below.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
Cookie: Cookie preference
Name: CookieControl
Purpose: This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on ico.org.uk. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
Cookie: Language selection
Name: language
Purpose: This cookie is used to remember any selection a user has made about language on ico.org.uk, using the language selector, so that the site will be shown in their chosen language when returning to the site.
Cookie: Universal Analytics (Google)
Name: _ga, _gali, _gat & _gid
Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Cookie: YouTube cookies
Name: PREF*, VSC*, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE* & remote_sid*
Purpose: We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
PREF – * Expires after eight months
VSC – * expires at the end of your session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE – *expires after eight months
remote_sid – * expires at the end of your session
Cookie: Vimeo cookies
Name: player – vuid
Purpose: We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. When you press play Vimeo will drop third party cookies to enable the video to play and to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. These cookies do not track individuals.
Cookie: HotJar
Name and Duration:
_hjClosedSurveyInvites – 365 days
_hjDonePolls – 365 days
_hjMinimizedPolls – 365 days
_hjShownFeedbackMessage – 365 days
_hjid – 365 days
_hjRecordingLastActivity – Session Length
_hjTLDTest – Session Length
_hjUserAttributesHash – Session Length
_hjCachedUserAttributes – Session Length
_hjLocalStorageTest – Under 100ms
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample – 30 Minutes
_hjIncludedInSessionSample – 30 Minutes
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress – 30 Minutes
Purpose: These cookies are used to track the customer’s experience and use of the website. We use this information to improve the functionality of the website and improve the customer experience. The cookies do not collect information that would directly identify anyone.
Cookie: Facebook Pixel
Name:
c_user – 365 days
xs – 365 days
fr – 90 days
_fbp – 90 days
oo – 5 years
dpr – 7 days
wd – 7 days
presence – session duration
sb – 2 years
dbln – 2 years
csrf – 24 hours
Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Privacy Policy Updates
We reserve our right to make any changes and updates to this privacy policy without giving you notice as and when we need to. Our most up to date privacy policy is always available on our website.
Last Updated: October 2020
Contacting us
You can reach Book An Eye Test at HO2 Management Ltd, Suite 317, India Mill Business Centre, Bolton Road, Darwen, Lancashire, BB3 1AE.