We may share certain information relating from your customer account (collected from you or the people that represent you) to approved third parties.
The reasons why this information may need to be shared to third parties would be on the grounds of legitimate interests – within the rules of the Data Protection Act and GDPR.
Most of the information we may share to third parties would be limited to the following:
1. Customer account name, the contact names given on the account, customer account postal addresses and contact details such as email/telephone listed on the customer account.
2. The products purchased on your customer account including batch/serial numbers and quantities.
3. Your profession (i.e. Doctor/Dentist/Nurse) and the status of your training and insurance certificates.
4. (See further below***)
The above information would generally be similar to what would appear on your customer invoice.
An example of the third parties which may need to have access to areas of the data outlined above includes:
A. Contractors to help Order Line Ltd carry out its requirements as a business including Courier companies (I.e. Royal Mail), software/operational support (I.e. SpaceStem Pvt Ltd), Locum Pharmacists, Bookkeeping and Accountants, Consultants (I.e. Solicitors, Regulatory affairs), - Credit Check Agencies (I.e. Experian) and Credit Card processing agents (I.e. Visa/Mastercard), etc
B. Regulatory Authorities (I.e. MHRA, GPHC, Police/Law Enforcement, PCI, etc)
C. Manufacturer's/Suppliers of the product(s) you may purchase from Order Line Ltd; further details below**
C**: Customer account information shared with Manufacturer's/Suppliers (based on the legitimate interests clause within the Data Protection Act/Recital 47 of the GDPR):-
Your purchasing statistics including product, quantities, batch/serial numbers (and possibly your account name/address) may be required by the supplier/manufacturer of the product(s) you purchase to aid them with any of the below requirements:
1. Stock traceability.
2. Anti-Fraud purposes.
3. Statistical analysis.
4. Supporting the Falsified Medicines Directive.
The above is required as part of a resource to help in overall auditing needs by the manufacturer/supplier related to the products they have supplied to Order Line Ltd and purchased by you. Any of the customer account data we share with the manufacturer/supplier will be under the following conditions:
- The customer purchasing account information (customer account name, account address, product(s) purchased, quantities purchased, batch/serial numbers of the product(s) purchased) shared with the manufacturer/supplier would only be related to the actual product(s) you may have purchased from us.
- The customer account information will be shared in a secure manner and the storage and handling of the data will be within GDPR rules by Order Line Ltd and the manufacturer/supplier.
- You may opt-out of any marketing related communications which the supplier/manufacturer may contact you directly - as per GDPR rules (Ref Recital 47 of the GDPR)
- We will only share the minimal amount of information to required by the manufacturer/supplier and would only share the information upon the manufacture/supplier sending a written and a valid request to Order Line Ltd for the information within the rules of the legitimate interests clause of the GDPR rules.
- All data transfers from Order Line Ltd to the manufacturer/supplier would be within the rules of the Data Protection Act and GDPR. All manufacturer's/suppliers we may share information with would have technical agreements/contracts in place to adhere to the Data Protection Act/GDPR and covering the importance of confidentiality.
***4. Disclosure of personal sensitive data to 3rd parties:
Sensitive information such as data which identifies a patient would be classed as sensitive information which would be shared to a limited number of third parties as follows:
- Regulatory Authorities – I.e. GPHC/MHRA/Law enforcement authorities based on legitimate interests – Ref Recital 47 of the GDPR
- SpaceStem Pvt Ltd – software and operational support to Order Line Ltd based on the needs of the business – Ref Principle 8 of the Data Protection Act.
- Locum Pharmacists and contracted staff - based on legitimate interests – Ref Recital 47 of the GDPR.
- Consultants contracted for regulatory support based on legitimate interests – Recital 47 of the GDPR.
All third parties have agreed on appropriate confidentiality rules/contracts to adhere to the Data Protection Act and GDPR rules. For further information, please refer to the Privacy Policy page which is part of this Information Charter.