Scope

This notice 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), 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.

1 – Dr Oliver Thomson PhD Osteopath, based at 1 McCrone Mews, Belsize Lane London NW3 5BG which hereafter for the purposes of this Privacy Notice will be referred to as Dr Oliver Thomson, is pleased to provide the following information:

2 – Who we are
Dr Oliver Thomson is an osteopath that diagnoses and treats health conditions.

3 – Personal Data
a) For the purposes of providing treatment, Dr Oliver Thomson may require detailed medical information. He will only collect what is relevant and necessary for your treatment. When you visit Dr Oliver Thomson, he 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 Dr Oliver Thomson 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, Dr Oliver Thomson may also use the contact details provided by you to respond to your enquiries, including making telephone contact and emailing information to you which Dr Oliver Thomson believes may be of interest to you, including his newsletter.
c) In making initial contact with Dr Oliver Thomson, you consent to Dr Oliver Thomson maintaining a marketing dialogue with you until you either opt out (which you can do at any time) or he decides to desist in promoting our services. Dr Oliver Thomson may occasionally also act on behalf of his patients in the capacity of data processor, when he may promote other practitioners working at his premises, who may not be employed by him. Dr Oliver Thomson does not broker your data and you can ask to be removed from our marketing database by emailing or phoning the clinic using the contact details provided at the end of this Privacy Notice.
d) Some basic personal data may be collected about you from any marketing forms and/or 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) Dr Oliver Thomson’s website uses cookies. A cookie 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 Dr Oliver Thomson to identify and track visitors and their website access preferences. Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Dr Oliver Thomson website.
f) Dr Oliver Thomson will only collect the information needed so that he can provide you with the services you require, the business does not sell or broker your data.

4 – Legal basis for processing any personal data
To meet our contractual obligations obtained from explicit Client Consent and legitimate interest to respond to enquiries concerning the services provided.

5 – Legitimate interests pursued by Dr Oliver Thomson
To promote treatments for patients with all types of health problems.

6 – Consent
Through agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to Dr Oliver Thomson 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
Dr Oliver Thomson will keep your personal information safe and secure, and 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. Practitioners will not disclose your Personal Information unless compelled to, in order to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental requests. Dr Oliver Thomson 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
Dr Oliver Thomson 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. Dr Oliver Thomson does not store personal data outside the EEA. All data storage services used by Dr Oliver Thomson are fully GDPR compliant and available on request.

10 – Your rights as a data subject
At any point whilst BodyMatters is 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 he holds about you.
• Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that he holds about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data he holds 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 he holds 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.

In the event that Dr Oliver Thomson refuses your request under rights of access, he will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge. At your request Dr Oliver Thomson can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed.

11 – You can request the following information:

• Identity and the contact details of the person or organisation (Dr Oliver Thomson) 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 Dr Oliver Thomson 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
BodyMatters will accept the following forms of identification (ID) when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your driving licence, passport or birth certificate, together with 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 BodyMatters is dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released. All requests should be made to enquiries@droliverthomson.com or by phoning +44 (0)20 7419 7900 or writing to us at BodyMatters Clinic, 1 McCrone Mews, Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BG. If you do not hear back from him within five days please try another form of contact.

13 Complaints
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by BodyMatters 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:

Dr Oliver Thomson, 1 McCrone Mews, Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BG

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7419 7900 Email: enquiries@droliverthomson.com

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

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