Data Protection and Privacy Statement

The UKC is a registered data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 - a copy of our registration is available here .

We treat disclosure of HIV status as a very important issue and will discuss cases where a disclosure has to be made (other than those above), outline the reasons and benefits for doing it (eg, to obtain a benefit or service), and get your written agreement before any disclosure takes place. We treat disclosure of status on the basis that it should not occur unless there is a real "need to know", that leaves decision making on disclosure with you.

We will take every possible step to carefully look after the information you provide to us, particularly your name and address which will not be used for any purpose other than the one you gave us that information for, to contact you if we need to from time to time, particularly relating to services or other items that you have expressed an interest in.

We will not pass your details to other organisations other than partner organisations involved in events that you have expressed an interest in, and only then where there is some valid reason for another organisation to receive those details (eg, in order for them to send you information that you have requested, on behalf of UKC). Examples of this might include an administrator employed at one agency as part of a partnership project where information is shared between the partners and is required by the administrator in order to organise an event like a conference. Another might be the list of names and addresses forwarded to a mailing agency that handles the single copy distribution of Positive Nation magazine, but in this case it is only the name and address that is supplied, no other informaton being necessary for them to address an envelope and despatch your magazine using Royal Mail PressStream mailing facilities.

Note - the police may subpoena (obtain a court order for) copies of any information about service providers' clients in connection with a criminal investigation. This has not happened at UKC, but we do not rule it out. There may be circumstances in which UKC may choose not to make notes of a particular client intervention - if you tell us things we don't want to hear, we may choose not to record them.