PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY
(data handling)
New Data Protection Legislation is coming in to force in the UK on 25th May 2018. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is EU wide legislation, and is currently being enacted into UK law and will become the 2018 Data Protection Act.
This legislation will affect every business that handles personal data for clients, customers or staff. Personal data has been defined by the act as 'any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified'.
The data we collect on you
We will take all appropriate technical and organisational steps to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability and authenticity of your data.
What information you collect:
The personal data we collect will include information relating to your name, address, date of birth, and wider contact details. We will also collect data relating to your health.
What you use it for:
Your contact information is used in order to contact you regarding appointments and ensure that we can get to your home/business for your appointment. Any health information is used in order to treat any issues you may have.
Who you might share it with:
Your information may be shared with your GP or other Consultant, but never without your permission or authority.
How long you keep it for:
Personal data will not be kept for longer than is necessary. In the case of a client's treatment notes, records will be kept for 7 years after the last treatment. In the case of minors' records, these will be kept for 7 years after they reach the age of 18.
You have the Individual Rights under the Data Protection act 2018:
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To be informed about the personal data we hold on you
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To access your personal data
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To object to the processing of your personal data
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Restrict the processing of your personal data
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To rectify your personal data
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To erase your personal data
You can exercise your Individual Rights at any time without charge. However, if your request is considered repetitive, unfounded or excessive a reasonable administration fee can be charged.
Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer / device.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.
Cookies and links to other sites
Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs.
We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Our website contains hyperlinks to many other websites. We are not responsible for the content or functionality of any of those external websites, but please let us know if a link is not working by contacting the MTG Creativity: info@mtgcreativity.co.uk
If an external website requests personal information from you, the information you provide will not be covered by the Betty Mary Sports Massage’s privacy policy. We suggest you read the privacy policy of any website before providing any personal information.
When purchasing goods or services from any of the businesses that our site links to, you will be entering into a contract with them (agreeing to their terms and conditions) and not with Betty Mary Sports Massage.
Website Visitor Tracking
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.