Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are the Caribbean Association of Pharmacists (CAP). Our website address is: https://cap-pharmacists.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments & Member Interaction

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Information posted by members into the member’s sections of the website a

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

When visitors fill out contact forms on our website, all data included in the form is collected. Contact information may be retained to contact visitors directly regarding our products and promotions.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect visitor demographic data on our website. Click here to opt out of Google Analytics on all websites using a browser plugin.

eCommerce

When you make a payment on our website, your payment information, including address and credit card numbers are collected.

Social Shares

We use a social sharing widget on our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information.

Who we share your data with

Analytics and basic contact information are shared with our executive committee and may also be shared in part with our marketing partners.

Payment information is processed by the secure third-party payment processor Plug’n’Pay.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment or interact with other members, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (usernames cannot be changed). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

CARIBBEAN ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACISTS
c/o The Pharmacy Council of Jamaica,
91 Dumbarton Avenue, Kingston 10, Jamaica

Email: 

Additional information

How we protect your data

Member data on the website is protected by a firewall and the use of a secured browser connection. Your credit card information is never stored by CAP.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of a data breach, members will be notified via this website.

What third parties we receive data from

We may receive information from third parties such as local pharmacy associations, advertisers, sponsors and members.