Cookie Policy

Scope

This statement applies to digital platforms used by Canterbury Geriatric Medical Research Trust, (CGM Research Trust).

Personal Information

The CGM Research Trust only collects personal information that you choose to give us, such as your name, address and contact details, and details of your medical conditions, which enables us to identify if you may be eligible to participate in a study we are running. On occasion we may also contact you via our database (cloud based) by email, with general news and information relevant to our studies and volunteers. We do not sell, share or distribute our database under any circumstances.

Security of your information is important. Personal information collected is stored by third party data storage providers, and we believe these providers offer safe and secure systems.

All information we collect about you will be treated with confidentiality and can be accessed only by CGM Research Trust employees.

By completing our online enrolment form, you agree to us holding your personal details within our volunteer database (cloud based).

Your Choices

Under the Privacy Act 1993, you may ask if we hold personal information on you, you may request access to the information we hold, and you may ask for correction of your personal information. You can ask to be removed from our contact list at any time.

You are under no obligation to participate in a study that we contact you about. If you decline to participate in a study, that will not affect your eligibility for participation in other studies.

You may gain access to any personal information about you that we hold. You can have us correct any errors or delete the information we have about you. You may opt out of any further contact with us.

How to Contact Us

Contact us about any of your privacy concerns or to suggest further improvements to this platform.

This is the Cookie Policy for CGM Research Trust, accessible from www.cgmresearch.org.nz

What Are Cookies

Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience of our website.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use

These May Include:

Survey related cookies – From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires, and these may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

Form related cookies – When you submit data to us through a form, such as those found on our contact page, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Site preferences cookies – In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we can provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be used whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

Third party cookies – In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser ‘Help’ for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality and features of this and many other websites that you may visit. Therefore, it is not recommended that you disable cookies.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and, as was previously mentioned, if you aren’t sure whether you need cookies or not, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.