Mitchell Egan Duffy (MED)

Mitchell Egan Duffy (MED) was established by Freyja O'Duffy who has been working as a freelancer for almost 20 years. Freyja understands what agencies and in-house teams need when hiring a freelancer and is on hand to provide support to consultants looking for their next opportunity or embarking on a freelance career. 
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT MED


"Freyja has been an invaluable support to me in identifying and engaging freelance resource since I started working in healthcare comms. Freyja is always a pleasure to work with due to her deep understanding of the industry, her extensive network and her no fuss approach. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Freyja to anyone searching for the right person to join their team." Alex Biggs, HAVAS Just::
 
"I feel very grateful to Freyja for facilitating this strong and growing network of healthcare PR freelancers. Online and in person, through the network I've met many other freelancers like me and been able to benefit from their experience, knowledge and support, as well as sharing my own. Freyja's friendly, perceptive approach and light touch are ideally suited to finding and connecting the right people, whatever the need. Whether you are a freelancer looking for support on any aspect of the business or a company looking for the right person for a specific role, I highly recommend Freyja and MED." Laura Musgrave, freelance consultant

"MED has been a huge help to me since  I began my freelancing career. Freyja has both a large network of contacts and a thorough agency knowledge, which together puts you in the best possible position to find your ideal role. It has been particularly valuable tapping into Freyja's own experience of working as a freelancer to set me on the right path." Kate Hone, freelance consultant

“Finding the right freelancer, often when we needed someone 'yesterday', can be a challenge. Freyja understands our industry, and having worked herself as a freelancer for many years, is well positioned to know what we need and who would best suit. MED provides a really simple yet professional and responsive service.” Tina Batchelor, pharma industry communications professional

"I've had a great experience of working with MED. Not only do they have an interesting and diverse offering of freelance opportunities - but all pitches are conducted in a friendly, encouraging and knowledgeable way. I couldn't recommend MED more!" 
Garrett Karaaziz, freelance consultant

"When I'm nearing the end of a contract I contact Freyja to see what's out there and to get an idea of the freelance market. As a fellow freelancer, Freyja understands what I am looking for so I am only ever put forward for roles that really play to my skills and experience."Maya Anaokar, freelance consultant
 

Privacy Policy


This webpage sets out when and how we use your personal information that you or others provide to us. 

WHO WE ARE

We are Mitchell Egan Duffy (MED), a limited company registered with number 10712637.

Our registered address is No 3, 8 The Downs, Wimbledon SW20 8HP.

Mitchell Egan Duffy (MED) is the controller and responsible for this website.

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us by email at info@medcomms.org 

HOW DO YOU USE MY DATA?

When you become a member
When you become a member of Mitchell Egan Duffy (MED), we will use your personal information to process your membership application and provide you with your membership information and benefits. The details we collect from you when you become a member include your name, email address, contact telephone number(s) and an up to date CV.

We need to process your personal information in this way to register you as a member and provide the ongoing membership services and benefits to you.

When you attend one of our MED events
When you attend one of our events (such as freelancer drinks), we will collect the following information from you: name, address, email address and phone number. employer/academic institution and payment details. If you are already a member and register to attend an event, we will use the membership details we already hold on file for you to confirm your booking.  

We provide a delegate list to the organisations and other individuals who attend our events. We do this because our events provide a useful network opportunity and we have a legitimate interest in wanting to help build and develop the freelance community. You can object to us using your information in this way by contacting us info@medcomms.org.

When you phone us or contact us
When you phone us or contact us by email with general queries, we may also handle your personal information (your name, contact details and the other details you provide to us) in order to provide the appropriate services you have asked us to. This could be when you ask us to provide more information about working as a freelancer, or explain how our network works.

We rely on your consent to handle your personal information in this way. If you do not provide us with the personal information we request from you for customer services purposes, we may not be able to fully answer your queries.

When you have expressed an interest in becoming a member of the MED freelancer network:

This section applies if you have opted in to receive marketing communications from us.

We will handle your personal information (such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number and sector preferences) to provide you with marketing communications in line with any preferences you have told us about.

When we send you marketing emails because you have opted-in to receive them, we rely on your consent to contact you for marketing purposes. 

Every email we send to you for marketing purposes will also contain instructions on how to unsubscribe from receiving them.

You are not under any obligation to provide us with your personal data for marketing purposes. 

You can tell us that you do not want your personal information to be processed in this way at any time by contacting us at info@medcomms.org or, where relevant, by following the unsubscribe link shown in every marketing communication you receive from us.

To make our site better:
We will also use your personal information to provide you with a more effective user experience (such as by displaying news and updates we think you will be interested in). 

We will also use your personal information for the purposes of making our site more secure, and to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes. 

We process your data for this reason because we have a legitimate interest to provide you with the best experience we can, and to ensure that our site is kept secure.

You can prevent us from using your personal information in this way by using the 'do not track' functionality in your internet browser. If you enable do not track functionality, our site may be less tailored to your needs and preferences.

If our business is sold: 
We will transfer your personal information to a third party:
  • if we sell or buy any business or assets, we will provide your personal information to the seller or buyer (but only to the extent we need to, and always in accordance with data protection legislation); or
  • if Mitchell Egan Duffy (MED) or the majority of its assets are acquired by somebody else, in which case the personal information held by Mitchell Egan Duffy (MED) will be transferred to the buyer. 
We process your personal information for this purpose because we have a legitimate interest to ensure our business can be continued by the buyer. If you object to our use of your personal information in this way, the relevant seller or buyer of our business may not be able to provide services to you.

In some circumstances we may also need to share your personal information if we are under a duty to disclose or share it to comply with a legal obligation. 

WHAT ABOUT TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND ANALYTICS?

Information we collect about you: When you visit our site we will automatically collect the following information:
  • technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, screen resolution, operating system and platform; and
  • information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators, clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information we receive from other sources: We are also working closely with third party advertising networks, analytics providers, hosting providers and search information providers from whom we may also receive general aggregated anonymous information about you.
We will combine the information you provide to us with information we collect about you. 

COOKIES
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. We only use (and store) non-essential cookies on your computer's browser or hard drive if you provide your consent. 

Cookie Purpose:
  • JSESSIONID Preserves users states across page requests.
  • __utm.gif (google-analytics.com) Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor's browser and computer.
  • __utma Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
  • __utmc Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
  • __utmt Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.
  • __utmv Saves user-defined tracking parameters for use in Google Analytics.
  • __utmz Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics.
  • sp_id.2a25 Unclassified 
  • _sp_ses.2a25 Unclassified 
  • dm_last_page_view Unclassified 
  • dm_last_visit Unclassified
  • dm_this_page_view Unclassified
  • dm_timezone_offset Unclassified 
  • dm_total_visits Unclassified 
  • DmPagesCach Unclassified 
  • I (d32hwlnfiv2gyn.cloudfront.net) Unclassified 
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Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, which we do not have any control over. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. 
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.

WHERE IS MY DATA STORED?

We are based within the UK, however some of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal information will involve a transfer of data outside of the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal information outside of the EEA, we ensure it is protected by making sure at least one of the following safeguards is in place:
  • by transferring your personal information to a country that has been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection by the European Commission;
  • by using specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give your personal information the same protection it has
  • where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.
To keep this privacy policy as short and easy to understand as possible, we have not set out the specific circumstances when each of these protection measures are used. You can contact us at info@medcomms.org for the details as to how we protect specific transfer of your data.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or those of our third party data storage providers. 

HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR DATA FOR?

Where you are a member of MED, we will retain your data for a period of 5 years, to ensure that we are able to assist you should you have any questions, feedback or issues in connection with your membership or if any legal issues arise.

Where we have used your personal information to contact you for marketing communications, if you have opted-in:
  • we will contact you at least every 2 years to ensure you are happy to continue receiving electronic communications
If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, we promise to stop sending them to you. 
Where we have processed your data for any other reason (such as where you have contacted us with a question in connection with freelancing or becoming a member) we will retain your data for 2 years.

YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT UNDER DATA PROTECTION LAWS

You have the right to object to us handling your personal information when:
  • we are handling your personal information based on our legitimate interests (as described in the “How do you use my data” section above). If you ask us to stop handling your personal information in this way, we will stop unless we can show you that we have compelling grounds as to why our use of your personal information should continue; or
  • for marketing purposes. If you ask us to stop handling your personal information on this basis, we will stop.
WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS UNDER DATA PROTECTION LAWS?

You have various rights under the data protection laws, which you can exercise by contacting us. The easiest way to do this is by email at info@medcomms.org.  

Right of access
You are entitled receive confirmation as to whether your personal information is being processed by us, as well as various other information relating to our use of your personal information. 

You also have the right to access your personal information which we are handling. 

Right to rectification
You have the right to require us to rectify any inaccurate personal information we hold about you. You also have the right to have incomplete personal information we hold about you completed, by providing a supplementary statement to us.

Right to restriction
You can restrict our processing of your personal information where:
  • you think we hold inaccurate personal information about you;
  • our handling of your personal information breaks the law, but you do not want us to delete it;
  • we no longer need to process your personal information, but you want us to keep it for legal reasons; or
  • where we are handling your personal information because we have a legitimate interest (as described in the “How We Use Your Data” section above, and are in the process of objecting to this use of your personal information.
Where you exercise your right to restrict us from using your personal information, we will then only process your personal information when you agree, except for storage purposes and to handle legal claims.

Right to data portability
You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, standard machine readable format and to send this to another organisation controlling your personal information. 

This right only applies to your personal information we are handling because you consented to us using it or because there is a contract in place between us.

Right to erasure
You have the right to require us to erase your personal information which we are handling in the following circumstances:
  • where we no longer need to use your personal information for the reasons we told you we collected it for;
  • where we needed your consent to use your personal information, you have withdrawn your consent and there is no other lawful way we can continue to use your personal information;
  • when you object to our use of your personal information and we have no compelling reason to carry on handling it; 
  • if our handling of your personal information has broken the law; and
  • when we must erase your personal information to comply with a law we are subject to.
Right to complain
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office, the supervisory authority for data protection issues in England and Wales.

WHAT ABOUT WEBSITES WE LINK TO?

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates.  

Our site connects you to different websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites or use our services, please note that you have left our site and these websites have their own privacy policies.  

We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or websites. Please check their policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.

WHEN WILL YOU CHANGE YOUR PRIVACY POLICY?

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail or post.

Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

HOW DO I CONTACT YOU WITH FEEDBACK?

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to:

Mitchell Egan Duffy (MED) Ltd 
No 3
8 The Downs 
Wimbledon 
SW20 8HP

Or info@medcomms.org 

This privacy policy was last updated on 16/05/18.