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YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

GDPR is bringing in new legal protection for personal information from May 2018. This tells you what
personal information I gather via my website, and why, and what your rights are.

Therapist’s Name/Identity:

Therapist’s Contact Details:

Telephone No:

Email address:

Address:

Data Controller Contact Details: Jackie James

 
The Purpose of processing Client Data 
In order to give professional reflexology treatments, I will need to gather and retain potentially
sensitive information about your health. I will only use this information for informing reflexology
treatments and associated recommendations concerning aspects of health and wellbeing which I will
offer to you. I take basic contact details and information via my website to allow me to contact you
and handle bookings.

Lawful Basis for holding and using Client InformationInformation.

a) As a full member of the Association of Reflexologists, I abide by the AoR Code of Practice
and Ethics. The lawful basis under which I hold and use your information is my legitimate interests
i.e.my requirement to retain the information in order to provide you with the best possible
treatment options and advice.

As I hold special category data (i.e. health related information), the Additional Condition under
which I hold and use this information is: for me to fulfil my role as a health care practitioner bound
under the AoR Confidentiality as defined in the AoR Code of Practice and Ethics.

What information I hold and what I do with it

In order to give professional reflexology treatments, I will need to ask for and keep information
about your health. I will only use this for informing reflexology treatments and any advice I give as a
result of your treatment. The information to be held is:

Your contact details.

Medical history and other healthrelated information (which I will take from you at first
consultation)

Treatment details and related notes (which I will take after each consultation)

I will NOT share your information with anyone else (other than within my own practice, or as
required for legal process) without explaining why it is necessary, and getting your
explicit consent.

How Long I Retain Your Information for

I will keep your information for the periods as stipulated by my insurance.

Your data will not be transferred outside the EU without your consent.
Protecting Your Personal Data

I am committed to ensuring that your personal data is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised
access or disclosure, I have put in place appropriate technical, physical and managerial procedures to
safeguard and secure the information we collect from you.

I will contact you using the contact preferences you give me in relation to: Appointment times

Reflexology information or information related to your health.
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Your Rights

GDPR gives you the following rights:

The right to be informed:
To know how your information will be held and used (this notice).

The right of access:
To see your therapist’s records of your personal information, so you know what is held about
you and can verify it.

The right to rectification:
To tell your therapist to make changes to your personal information if it is incorrect or
incomplete.

The right to erasure (also called “the right to be forgotten”):
For you to request your therapist to erase any information they hold about you

The right to restrict processing of personal data:.
You have the right to request limits on how your therapist uses your personal information

The right to data portability: under certain circumstances you can request a copy of personal
information held electronically so you can reuse it in other systems.

The right to object:
To be able to tell your therapist you don’t want them to use certain parts of your
information, or only to use it for certain purposes.

Rights in relation to automated decisionmaking and profiling.
The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office:
To be able to complain to the ICO if you feel your details are not correct, if they are not being
used in a way that you have given permission for, or if they are being stored when they don’t
have to be.

Full details of your rights can be found at
https://ico.org.uk/fororganisations/guidetothegeneral
dataprotectionregulationgdpr/individualrights/
.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please use the contact details given above.

If you are dissatisfied with the response you can complain to the
Information Commissioner’s Office;
their contact details are at:
www.ico.org.uk
THERAPIST’S RIGHTS

Please note:

if you don’t agree to your therapist keeping records of information about you and your
treatments, or if you don’t allow them to use the information in the way they need to for
treatments, the therapist may not be able to treat you.

Your therapist has to keep your records of treatment for a certain period as
described above, which may mean that even if you ask them to erase any details about you,
they might have to keep these details until after that period has passed.

Your therapist can move their records between their computers and IT systems, as long as
your details are protected from being seen by others without your permission.

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