DATA PRIVACY POLICY

Information that you provide to me is handled in accordance with the current Data Protection Act, the principles of which are that personal information should be:

• Fairly and lawfully processed
• Processed for limited purposes
• Adequate, relevant and not excessive
• Accurate
• Not kept longer than necessary
• Processed in accordance with your rights as the data subject
• Secure

Protecting your Privacy

Information that you provide to me, is processed and stored solely for the purposes of:

• Administration
• Public relations
• Accounts and records
• Communications between myself and you

Under the Data Protection Act you are:

Entitled to request a copy of any information held about you. Entitled to data rectification – i.e. the right to request that any inaccurate data that is held about you is corrected, or if I have incomplete information you may request that I update the information such that it is complete. Entitled to data erasure – i.e. the right to request me to delete personal data that I hold about you.

Confidentiality

I may only share your data with other qualified healthcare practitioners solely for the purposes of your care.  I never otherwise share your data with a third party.  I never sell your data.  Data will not be given to other parties except as may be required by law.  I never share quotes from patients without their express permission.  Your data security is as important to me as my own.