Feet & Co Ltd

Data Protection Privacy Notice for Patients

In providing your care and treatment, we will ask for information about you and your health. Occasionally, we may receive information from other providers who have been involved in providing your care. This privacy notice describes the type of personal information we hold, why we hold it and what we do with it.

Information that we collect

We may collect the following information about you:

Feet & Co Ltd is responsible for keeping secure the information about you that we hold.

Our Data Protection Officer, ensures that the practice complies with data protection requirements to ensure that we collect, use, store and dispose of your information responsibly. The DPO assigned at Feet & Co Ltd is the Practice Manager.

Those at the practice who have access to your information, include clinicians involved with your treatment and administrators responsible for the management and administration of the practice.

How we use your information

To provide you with care and treatment that you need, we require up-to-date and accurate information about you.

We will seek your preference for how we contact you about your care. Our usual methods are telephone, text message, email or letter.

We may use your contact details to inform you of products and services available at our Practice.

Sharing information

Your information is normally used only by those at the practice but there may be instances where we need to share part of it, for example, with:

We will only disclose your information on a need-to-know basis with your permission and will limit any information that we share to the minimum necessary.

In certain circumstances or if required by law, we may need to disclose your information to a third party not connected with your health care, including HMRC or other law enforcement or government agencies.

Keeping your information safe

We store your personal information securely on our practice computer system and in a manual filing system. Your information cannot be accessed by those who do not work at the practice; only those working at the practice have access to your information. They understand their legal responsibility to maintain confidentiality and follow practice procedures to ensure this.

We take precautions to ensure security of the practice premises, the practice filing systems and computers.

We use high-quality specialist software to record and use your personal information safely and effectively. Our computer system has a secure audit trail and we back-up information routinely.

Where we share your personal data with third parties to enable us to provide your care, we ensure the third parties comply with GDPR in the following ways:-

We keep your records for 8 years (adults) after the date of your last visit to the Practice. The hard copy records stored in our filling systems are then destroyed confidentially, we shred all documents that contain confidential information. Obsolete hardware is destroyed.

Access to your information and other rights

You have a right to access the information that we hold about you and to receive a copy. You should submit your request to the practice in writing or by email. We do not usually charge you for copies of your information; if we pass on a charge, we will explain the reasons.

You can also request us to:

If you do not agree

If you do not wish us to use your personal information as described, you should discuss the matter with the DPO at the practice. If you object to the way that we collect and use your information, we may not be able to continue to provide your treatment.

If you have any concerns about how we use your information and you do not feel able to discuss it with anyone at the practice, you should contact The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (0303 123 1113 or 01625 545745).

Website Privacy Notice

This privacy policy sets out how Feet & Co uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1 June 2012.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer''s hard drive. 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.

This website only uses a PHP session cookie which holds a set of random characters and is deteted when you close your web browser. It is strictly necessary that we use this cookie in order for the website to operate.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

If you complete the contact form on this site, we will use the information supplied to contact you if a reply is rquired. We do not use this contact 

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so.

Feet & Co