Privacy Policy

Body Mechanix HarpendenPrivacy Policy

1. 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. We are committed to safeguarding your personal information and we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information.

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), seek 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.

 

2. Who We Are

Body Mechanix Osteo Ltd (hereafter for the purposes of this Privacy Policy referred to as Body Mechanix) is a registered company in England and Wales with registration number 10110834. It’s registered and operating address is 69B High Street, Harpenden, AL5 2SL.

Body Mechanix assesses, diagnoses and treats a wide range of health problems. They provide services to aid patient rehabilitation, prevent injury and generally promote mind-body well-being. Treatments are carried out in accordance with the guidelines and patient charters of its practitioners’ affiliated professional bodies, where they exist.

 

3. Personal Data

  1. For the purposes of providing treatment, Body Mechanix 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 pre-vetted 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 Body Mechanix 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. As part of our obligations as primary healthcare practitioners, there may be circumstances related to your treatment, on-going care or medical diagnosis that will require the sharing of your medical records with other healthcare practitioners, which may include (but it is not limited to) GPs, consultants, surgeons and/or medical insurance companies. Where this is required we will inform you first unless we are under a legal obligation to comply.
  2. For marketing purposes, Body Mechanix may also use the contact details provided by you to respond to your enquiries, including making telephone contact and (either directly itself or through a third party supplier) emailing information to you which the practice believes may be of interest to you.
  3. Body Mechanix may also act on behalf of its patients in the capacity of data processor, when we may promote other practitioners and services based at our premises, who may not be employed by us. The Putney Clinic will only collect the information needed so that we can provide you with services that may be of interest to you. The business does not sell or 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 Policy and by unsubscribing electronically from our marketing mailing list.
  4. 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.
  5. Body Mechanix’s website uses cookies, which is a string 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. Cookies help the Body Mechanix to collect standard log information and visitor behaviour information. This is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. For further information visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove them. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.
  6. The cookies used on our website do not collect uniquely identifying information, but assist in the website experience to the user. Google’s Remarketing feature uses Cookies to serve relevant messages based on someone’s past visits to our website. Information about how you can opt out of Google’s use of cookies can be found by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out Page.

 

4. Legal basis for processing any personal data


To meet our contractual obligations obtained from explicit Patient Consent and legitimate interest, including processing payments and insurance claims on behalf of clients, and to respond to enquiries concerning the services provided.

 

5. Legitimate interests pursued by Body Mechanix


To promote treatments for patients with all types of health problems including osteopathy, chiropractic care and a wide range of other general services which benefit the health and mind-body well-being of its clients.

 

6. Consent

Through agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are consenting to Body Mechanix 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 Policy.

 

7. Disclosure

Body Mechanix will keep your personal information safe and secure.

Only staff who could be engaged in providing treatment or services for you will have access to your patient records, although our administration team will have access to your details so that they can make appointments, process insurance payments and generally manage your account.

We may also share, receive information from or exchange information:

  1. with other practitioners and providers of services based at our premises, who may not be employed by us and, some of whom, may use our database;
  2. with agents or suppliers who support us to deliver our services to you or who perform essential services for us; and
  3. in the event of a merger, asset sale or other related transaction.

We will only share or exchange data with third parties with the protection of a written agreement and we take care to ensure they have high data security standards. Otherwise, Body Mechanix will not disclose your personal information unless compelled to, in order to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental requests. Body Mechanix 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 practitioners and staff.

 

8. Retention Policy


Body Mechanix will process personal data during the duration of any treatment and will continue to retain the personal data for eight years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. Thereafter, 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 (or 8 years from the date of last treatment, whichever is the greater).

Where personal information is collected for the purposes of recruitment and an applicant is unsuccessful, that information will be erased promptly.

 

9. Data storage


All Data is held in the United Kingdom. Body Mechanix does not store personal data outside the EEA.

 

10. Your rights as a data subject


At any point whilst Body Mechanix are in possession of, or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights:

  1. Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you;
  2. Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete;
  3. Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records;
  4. Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing;
  5. Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation;
  6. Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing; and
  7. 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 Body Mechanix refuses 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 Body Mechanix can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed.

 

11. Information you can request

  1. Identity and the contact details of the person or organisation (Body Mechanix) that has determined how and why to process your data;
  2. Contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable;
  3. The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing;
  4. If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of the Putney Clinic and information about these interests;
  5. The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed;
  6. Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to;
  7. How long the data will be stored;
  8. Details of your rights to correct, erasure, restrict or object to such processing;
  9. Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time;
  10. How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (ICO);
  11. 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;
  12. The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you; and
  13. 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. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website and making a copy available at our premises. You should therefore check our Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

 

13. To access what personal data is held, identification will be required

Body Mechanix will accept the following forms of identification (ID) when information on your personal data is requested: one valid proof of identity (Passport, Driving License or National ID Card) and one valid proof of address (Utility Bill,Bank Statement,Credit Card Statement, Council Tax Letter, Mortgage Statement, Residency Cards). The following document standards must be adhered to:

  • Please provide full, in date, documents with all the required information clearly visible.
  • We accept scanned copies, photos of the original or online versions of documents e.g. bank statements/ utility bills; no scans of scans.
  • ID Documents must be within the validity date shown on the document
  • Proof of address documents must be dated within 3 months from the date Body Mechanix receive the document.

If Body Mechanix is dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released. All requests should be made to [email protected] or by phoning 01582 945900 or  by writing to us at the address below.

 

14. Link to other sites

This Privacy Policy applies only to our site. If you leave our site via a link or otherwise, you will be subject to the policy of that website provider. We have no control over that policy or terms of the website. You should check that policy before continuing to access the link.

 

15. Complaints

Body Mechanix is regulated by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), which is responsible for regulations that cover the collection, storage, processing, disclosure, transfer and destruction of personal data in the United Kingdom and we are registered with them as a data controller.

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Body Mechanix, 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:

  • Claire Mckenna, Clinic Director, at Body Mechanix Osteo Ltd. Address: 69B High Street, Harpenden, AL5 2SL. Telephone: 01582945900. Email: [email protected]
  • ICO: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF. Telephone +44 (0) 303 123 1113.