Legal Notice
Cookies & Privacy Policy
The VIP Clinic is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. We'll keep your data private and will only use it for the purposes set out in this policy.
Name of Business
The VIP Clinic
Registered office
519 High Street
Kingswinford
DY6 8AP
Contact details
Tel: 01384 386919
E-mail: morgan@thevipclinic.co.uk
VAT no. VAT Exempt.
Regulatory authority
General Osteopathic Council
Privacy Notice
GDPR 2018 PRIVACY NOTICE Scope This document refers to personal data, which is defined as information concerning any living person (a natural person who hereafter will be called the Data Subject) that is not already in the public domain.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is EU wide and far more extensive than its predecessor the Data Protection Act, along with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), seeks to protect and enhance the rights of EU data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU and its storage within the EEA.
1) This Practice: The VIP Clinic, 519 High Street, Kingswinford DY6 8AP hereafter, for the purposes of this Privacy Notice will be, referred to as ”we”, “us”, “our” or “the Practice”, is pleased to provide the following information:
2) Who we are: We diagnose and treat health conditions. Treatments are carried out in accordance with the Institute of Osteopathy’s patient charter http://www.iosteopathy.org/osteopathy/the-patient-charter/. The Practice may also provide other treatments, about which our staff will be pleased to provide more details.
3) Personal Data:
a) For the purposes of providing treatment, we may require detailed medical information. We will only collect what is relevant and necessary for your treatment. When you visit our Practice, we will make notes which may include details concerning your medication, treatment and other issues affecting your health. This data is always held securely, is not shared with anyone not involved in your treatment, although for data storage purposes it may be handled by prevetted staff who have all signed an integrity and confidentiality agreement. To be able to process your personal data it is a condition of any treatment that you give your explicit consent to allow us to document and process your personal medical data. Contact details provided by you such as telephone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses may be used to remind you of future appointments and provide reports or other information concerning your treatment.
b) For marketing purposes, the osteopaths may also use the contact details provided by you to respond to your enquiries, including making telephone contact and emailing information to you which the practice believes may be of interest to you.
c) In making initial contact with the Practice you consent to us maintaining a marketing dialogue with you until you either opt out (which you can do at any time) or we decide to desist in promoting our services. We may occasionally also act on behalf of our patients in the capacity of the data processor, when we may promote other practitioners based at our premises, who may not be employed by us. We do not broker your data and you can ask to be removed from our marketing database by emailing or phoning the Practice using the contact details provided at the end of this Privacy Notice.
d) Some basic personal data may be collected about you from the marketing forms and surveys you complete, from records of our correspondence and phone calls and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to, personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
e) Our website uses cookies, which are strings of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Our website uses cookies to help us to identify and track visitors and our website access preferences. Our website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website.
f) We will only collect the information needed so that we can provide you with the services you require, the business does not sell or broker your data.
4) The legal basis for processing any personal data: To meet our contractual obligations obtained from explicit Patient Consent and legitimate interest to respond to inquiries concerning the services provided.
5) Legitimate interests pursued by Us: To promote treatments for patients with all types of health problems indicated for osteopathic care.
6) Consent: Through agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to Osteopaths processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by using the postal, email address or telephone number provided at the end of this Privacy Notice.
7) Disclosure: We will keep your personal information safe and secure, only staff engaged in providing your treatment will have access to your patient records, although our administration team will have access to your contact details so that they can make appointments and manage your account. We will not disclose your Personal Information unless compelled to, in order to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental requests. The Practice may also enforce its Terms and Conditions, including investigating potential violations of its Terms and Conditions to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of its staff.
8) Retention Policy: We will process personal data during the duration of any treatment and will continue to store only the personal data needed for eight years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After eight years all personal data will be deleted, unless basic information needs to be retained by us to meet our future obligations to you, such as erasure details. Records concerning minors who have received treatment will be retained until the child has reached the age of 25.
9) Data storage: All Data is held in the United Kingdom. The VIP Clinic does not store personal data outside the EEA.
10) Your rights as a data subject: At any point whilst we are in possession of, or processing your personal data, all data subjects 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 – Legally as Osteopaths we have to store information for 8 years before It can be erased. This is a legal requirement. This is because we are classed as medical practitioners. We will then erase all data once the legal time has passed at your request. This exceeds the limits of GDPR.
• 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 organization.
• 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.
• In the event that we refuse your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, 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.
11) You can request the following information:
• Identity and the contact details of the person or organization (Osteopaths) that has determined how and why to process your data.
• Contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable.
• The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
• If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of the Practice and information about these interests.
• The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
• Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
• How long the data will be stored.
• Details of your rights to correct, erasure, restrict or object to such processing.
• Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
• How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (ICO).
• Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
• The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
• Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.
12) To access what personal data is held, identification will be required: We will accept the following forms of identification (ID) when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your driving license, 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 dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released. All requests should be made to morgan@thevipclinic.co.uk or by phoning +44 (0)781 359 2921 or writing to us at the address in section 1 above.
13) Complaints: In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by us you have the right to complain to us. If you do not get a response within 30 days, you can complain to the ICO.
The details for each of these contacts are:
The VIP Clinic
519 High Street
Kingswinford
DY6 8AP
Telephone: +44 (0)781 359 2921
Email: morgan@thevipclinic.co.uk
ICO
Wycliffe House,
Water Lane,
Wilmslow,
SK9 5AF
Telephone: +44 (0)303 123 1113
Email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is automatically saved on your computer when you visit our website and is used to help track activity across a website. The VIP Clinic uses cookies on our website for the following purposes:
Google Analytics
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We also use analytical and statistical tools that monitor details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, including but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data (but this data will not identify you personally).
We use Google products including: Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Google Adwords. We use these products to understand how the website is being used in order to improve the user experience. User data is all anonymous. The types of data collected includes: IP address, browser-generated information e.g. browser type, operating system, date and time of access, how long a person looks at a website, what they look at etc. Click here for an overview of Google’s privacy policies.
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Removing cookies
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Collection of personal information
If you contact us via a form on our website your personal information will only be used for us to contact you. No personal data you send us will be disclosed to a third party without your permission.
If you wish us to remove any personal details we hold about you, please email us at morgan@thevipclinic.co.uk