Privacy Policy

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Web Site Privacy Policies

SDBA Medicals Ltd

recognizes that respecting user privacy over the Internet is of utmost importance. This privacy statement is designed to provide information about the privacy and data collection practices for the sites: http://www.ukoffshoremedicals.co.uk & http://www.scuba4fun.org.uk  . The Site is operated by SDBA Medicals Ltd.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our site coordinator at mhdowns@btinternet.com or by postal mail to:

• SDBA Medicals Ltd
• 40 Royal Avenue
• Worcester Park
• Surrey
• KT4 7JU

Identifying Information.
In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or providing any information about yourself. In some areas of the Site, we ask you to provide information that will enable us to process an order, offer services that require registration, assist you with technical support issues or to follow up with you. Generally, SDBA Medicals Ltd requests identifying information when you:

• Register on any of our web sites.
• Place an order.
• Provide feedback to an online survey or tell us about an idea or suggestion.
• Request a SPECIAL SERVICE
• Request information or files from technical support or customer service.

In these instances, SDBA Medicals Ltd will ask for your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and other appropriate information needed to provide you with these services. In all instances, if you receive a newsletter or other mailing from us, you will always be able to "unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time.

What SDBA Medicals Ltd Will Do With Your Information.
If you choose to give us personal information for any of the purposes above, this information is retained by SDBA Medicals Ltd and will only be used by SDBA Medicals Ltd to support your customer relationship with us. We will not add you to a mailing list, or newsletter without your registration for this service. We will only contact you if further information is required from you to complete a service.

What Others May Do With Your Information.
SDBA Medicals Ltd does not share, rent, or sell any personally identifying information provided through our Site (such as your name or email address) to any outside organization for use in its marketing or solicitations. From time to time SDBA Medicals Ltd may use agents or contractors who will have access to your personal information to perform services for SDBA Medicals Ltd (such as DATABASE MAINTENANCE), however, they are required by us to keep the information confidential and may not use it for any purpose other than to carry out the services for SDBA Medicals Ltd. In addition, SDBA Medicals Ltd may also share aggregate information about its customers and its web site visitors to advertisers, business partners, and other third parties. For example, we might share that our users are x percent PCs users and y percent Macintosh users. None of this information, however, will contain personal, identifying information about our users.

Third Party Links

SDBA Medicals Ltd does provide links to other sites. Other Internet sites and services have separate privacy and data collection practices. Once you leave www.ukoffshoremedicals.co.uk / www.scuba4fun.org.uk , SDBA Medicals Ltd cannot control, and has no responsibility for, the privacy policies or data collection activities at another site.

Cookies

At times, we will use a feature on your web browser to send your computer a "cookie". We do not use cookies to retrieve any personal information from your computer. We only use cookies to learn ways to enhance our Sites, and to give you better, more personalized service while in our web site. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is sent. However, some functions of the Sites will not function if you refuse cookies. These areas of our web site will have information posted about cookies, and when a cookie will be uploaded to your computer.

Children's Privacy Protection

SDBA Medicals Ltd is sensitive to the heightened need to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13. The vast majority of the material on our web site is not intended for children and is not targeted to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children and, if we learn that we have received personal data from a child, we will remove this information from our database.

Changes to this Policy

SDBA Medicals Ltd may from time to time revise its privacy policy. You should therefore periodically visit this page, so you are aware of any such revisions. We will not, however, use your existing information in a manner not previously disclosed. You will be advised and have the opportunity to opt out of any new use of your information.
Contacting Us. If you have any questions about our privacy policy and/or the practices of our web site, you can write to:

• SDBA Medicals Ltd
• 40 Royal Avenue   
• Worcester Park
• Surrey   
• KT4 7JU

Privacy Notice for processing as an Approved Medical Examiner of Divers (AMED)

Purpose

As part of the process for providing medicals for fitness to dive as an AMED for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), AMEDs act as a data controller in their own right.

When AMEDs update the HSE database about the diver’s fitness and certification to dive, AMEDs act as a data processor and are subject to a strict data protection contract with HSE in order to support compliance under UK Data Protection legislation.

This work supports HSE as the regulator for Health and Safety in the UK and the work they do regulating diving certifications under the Diving at Work Regulations (DWR), when performing medical examinations necessary for diver certification.  

Lawful basis for processing

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018, the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

For the information you provide for your application for fitness to Dive and Diver certification, we will process your personal information under UK GDPR Article 6(1)

·         (c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject; under

o   The Diving at Work Regulations 1997

o   UK Statutory Instruments1997 No. 2776

For medical data that may be processed as part of the medical for fitness to dive AMEDs will process your health data under Article 9 (2) :UK GDPR

AMED will be relying on (h) Health or social care (with a basis in law)

Where (b), (h), (i) or (j) are relied on, the following condition under Part 1 of Schedule 1 of the DPA18 applies:

How we store your personal information:

Retention

Your medical records will be secured and kept for 7 years, in accordance with the legal requirement to keep these records.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under Data Protection law you have certain rights as a data subject.

Changes to this privacy notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review to make sure it is up to date and accurate. It was last updated on 1^st January 2026.