CAUSEWAY CLEAR EARS: Privacy Policy – Health and Social Care

Causeway Clear Ears Patient Privacy Policy

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

  • Contact detail
  • What information we collect, use, and why
  • Lawful bases and data protection rights
  • Where we get personal information from
  • How long we keep information
  • Who we share information with
  • How to complain

Contact details

Post: Drumiller House, 1 Hillmans Court, COLERAINE, County Londonderry, BT52 2DF, GB

Telephone: 07849811025

Email: info@causewayclearears.co.uk

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide patient care, services, pharmaceutical products and other goods:

·   Name, address and contact details

·   Date of birth

·   Health information (including medical conditions, allergies, medical requirements and medical history)

·   Information about care needs (including disabilities, home conditions, medication and dietary requirements and general care provisions)

·   Test results (including psychological evaluations, scans, bloods, x-rays, tissue tests and genetic tests)

We also collect the following information to provide patient care, services, pharmaceutical products and other goods:

·   Health information

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

·   Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.

·   Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.

·   Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here.

·   Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.

·   Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.

·   Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. You can read more about this right here.

·   Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide patient care, services, pharmaceutical products and other goods are:

·   Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Where we get personal information from

·   Directly from you

·   Family members or carers

How long we keep information:

All records pertaining to your care and treatment will be stored for 7 years as recommended by Information Governance Standards/BSHAA and your information will be shared with your GP or Emergency Services if required.

Causeway Clear Ears is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy through compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, UK GDPR and EU GDPR.

You may request a copy of your medical notes at any time with no cost incurred.

Who we share information with

Others we share personal information with

·   Other health providers (eg GPs and consultants)

·   Emergency services

Duty of confidentiality

We are subject to a common law duty of confidentiality. However, there are circumstances where we will share relevant health and care information. These are where:

·   you’ve provided us with your consent (we have taken it as implied to provide you with care, or you have given it explicitly for other uses);

·   we have a legal requirement (including court orders) to collect, share or use the data;

·   on a case-by-case basis, the public interest to collect, share and use the data overrides the public interest served by protecting the duty of confidentiality (for example sharing information with the police to support the detection or prevention of serious crime);

 

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated

7 January 2025