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LOOKING AFTER YOUR DATA

Preston Drove Osteopaths and Olivia Rowley are committed to protecting our patients’ privacy. We only collect the information we need to provide you with the services you require. We will never sell or broker your data.

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WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND WHY

Personal information

When you book an appointment, we collect personal information such as your name and date of birth so that we can identify you. We record your contact details so that we can respond to your enquiries, remind you about your appointments and provide you with information concerning your treatment and care. Some basic personal data may be collected about you from records of our correspondence and phone calls, from the marketing forms and surveys you complete and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to, personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. For marketing purposes, we may occasionally contact you to share information we believe may be of interest to you. We do not broker your data and you can ask to be removed from our marketing database at any time by emailing or phoning us using the contact details provided below.

Information about your health

When you attend an appointment, we will ask you about the reasons you are seeking osteopathic treatment and care, as well as general information about your health and aspects of your lifestyle that are relevant to your wellbeing. This information is necessary for us to provide safe, effective, appropriate treatment, advice and care, so we will ask you to agree to us documenting, storing and processing your medical data. Without this explicit consent, we are unable to accept you as a patient.

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HOW WE STORE AND PROCESS YOUR DATA

Preston Drove Osteopaths keeps your personal information safe and secure. We use Cliniko and Clinic Apps to store and process patient data. Cliniko and Clinic Apps are secure, GDPR compliant, web-based healthcare practice management services. Your data is always held and accessed securely. Only staff engaged in providing your treatment will have access to your patient records, although our virtual receptionist will have access to your contact details so that they can make appointments and manage your account. We will not disclose your personal information without your explicit consent unless compelled to do so in order to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental requests.

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SHARING YOUR DATA WITH OTHERS

As part of our obligations as primary healthcare practitioners there may be circumstances where we need to share information with other healthcare practitioners or organisations involved in your care, such as GPs, consultants, surgeons and/or medical insurance companies. This may include information about your health, such as details of your treatment, on-going care or medical diagnosis. We will always consult you first, unless we are under a legal obligation to comply.

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HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

Your clinical records are an important part of your personal health history. We will retain your records indefinitely unless you ask us to delete them. We are required by law to retain your records for a minimum of eight years after you cease to be a patient or, for children, until the child has reached the age of 25.

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YOUR RIGHTS

At any point whilst we are in possession of, or processing your personal data, you have the following rights:

• • • Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.

    • Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.

    • Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.

    • Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing.

    • Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.

    • Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.

    • Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right not to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.

EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS

If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact Olivia Rowley/ Preston Drove Osteopaths using the contact details below.

After the period during which we are legally required to retain your records has expired, you may ask us to delete your records. All personal data will be deleted, unless basic information, such as erasure details, needs to be retained by us to meet our future obligations to you or other legal or regulatory requirements.

In the event that we refuse a request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason, which you have the right to legally challenge. At your request, we can confirm what information we hold about you and how it is processed.

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CONTACT US

You can contact us by email or telephone:

Email: info@osteopathinbrighton.co.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 1273 506507

In order to protect your privacy, we will need you to confirm your identity before we are able to release any of your personal information. We will accept the following forms of identification (ID): a copy of your driving licence, passport, birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If we are not satisfied, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.

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DATA PROCESSING COMPLAINTS

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Olivia Rowley or Preston Drove Osteopaths you have the right to complain to us using the contact details above. If you do not get a response within 30 days, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF Telephone +44 (0) 303 123 1113 or email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/

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