As part of May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies. This European privacy law protects your privacy and personal data and applies to all countries within the European Union.
The data we collect is for the purposes of your treatment and for communication directly with with for treatment or booking purposes. This is a legal obligation imposed by the WGBO (Medical Treatment Agreement Act). Your treatment file contains notes about your state of health and reports in words about the examinations and treatments carried out.
With your explicit permission, the file can also contain data that are necessary for your treatment and that you have requested from another healthcare provide, for example from the physiotherapist/general practitioner.
We do not share your data with 3rd parties unless legally obliged, and do not use your data for marketing purposes. You are free to ask at any time for all data to be destroyed or dealt with however you wish.
As your treating therapist, we have sole access to the data in your treatment file. However, the data from your file can also be used for the following purposes:
– Informing other healthcare providers.
– Preparing invoices.
If we wish to use your personal data for other purposes, we will provide you with a notice explaining this use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.
The data will be kept digitaly for 20 years, as required by the Treatment Agreement Act.
To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please contact us.