Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you.

We need to keep comprehensive and accurate personal data about patients to provide you with safe and appropriate podiatry care.

This personal data includes:

Past and current medication conditions; personal details such as age, address, telephone number and general medical practitioner
Clinical photographs and videos (these are stored on your patient records and used for clinical purposes only)
Information about treatment provided, its purpose and cost
Notes of conversations or incidents that might occur for which a record needs to be kept
Records of consent to treatment
Correspondence with other health care professionals relating to patients.

Security of Information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) cloud-based system. Medical information can only be accessed by the treating Podiatrist.

Disclosing personal information

Your personal information will not be shared with any outside agencies or third parties, with the exception of referrals to other healthcare practitioners and any reports required in relation to your care, which will only be done with your verbal consent.

Any other use of your personal data will only occur with your informed consent or as detailed below.

To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

Retaining Personal Information

It is a legal requirement that this data is stored for a number of years (which can vary depending upon the persons age and circumstances but will be for a minimum of 7 years). Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Access to your Information and Correction

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address). Parents may access their child’s records if this is in the child’s best interests and not contrary to a competent child’s wishes. Formal applications for access must be in writing to Ceri Morris, Clinic Owner, Sussex Podiatry.

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

How to Contact Us

Sussex Podiatry, 36a Bonchurch Road, Brighton, BN23PH

You can contact us:

by post, using the postal address above