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Perfect Balance Privacy and Cookie Policy

Perfect Balance Privacy and Cookie Policy

Data controller:

Perfect Balance Clinic Ltd | Registered Office Wellington House, 273-275 High Street, London Colney, St Albans, AL2 1HA | Registered in England and Wales 06925401

Data protection contact:

[email protected]

Last updated: January 2020

Here at Perfect Balance Clinic we take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your account and to provide the products and services that you have requested from us.

We are committed to protecting your and your family’s personal information when you are using any of our services. The Privacy and Cookies Policy relates to our use of any personal information we collect from you via the following services:

  • Any Perfect Balance Clinic Website that links to this Privacy and Cookies Policy
  • Social media or official Perfect Balance Clinic content on other websites
  • Mobile devices
  • ALICE services

It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide us by phone, SMS, email, in letters and other correspondence and in person.

Perfect Balance Clinic works hard to safeguard your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information inline with all applicable laws and regulations concerning the protection of personal information including the current Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulations introduced in May 2018.

In order to provide you will a full range of products and services, we sometimes need to collect information about you. You can trust us with your information – we have created this policy to help you understand what data we collect, how we collect it, what we disclose and how we use, store and transfer it.

Our Privacy Commitments:

  • We will only collect, keep, use and share your personal data for legitimate business reasons, as outlined in our Privacy Policy, or if we are required to do so legally
  • For as long as we keep your data we will work with you to keep it up to date and we will protect it with the appropriate security and safety measures
  • We will be as transparent as we can with you on what personal data we collect, how we use it and how it will be processed

Remember you can email us at [email protected] to update your privacy preferences, alternatively, you can change your settings via our reception team or using our ALICE system, located in the reception area of any one of our clinics. If you have any questions at all about our privacy or cookies policy you can contact us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at [email protected].

These policies apply to:

  • All visitors to our website
  • All prospective job applicants
  • All clients who use our products or services

There is some information in this policy that refers specifically to Perfect Balance Clinic employees, however, prospective employees/employees will need to refer to the full Employee Privacy Policy for specific details in relation to privacy whilst employed by Perfect Balance Clinic.

Who we are:

Perfect Balance Clinic is a private multidisciplinary healthcare provider, established in 2009. We have a number of skilled therapists located across our clinics who all work closely together in order to achieve the best possible results for our clients’ condition. We are professional, modern and evidence-based practice and our integrated team mean we work with you and our colleagues with a holistic approach to get you better, quicker. We pride ourselves on our collaborative working practices between our therapists and our admin team – all “under one roof”. Our clinics are located conveniently across London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire.

The products and services we offer includes:

  • Osteopathy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Sports massage and therapy
  • Rehabilitation
  • Podiatry and foot clinics
  • Pilates
  • Psychology
  • Private GP
  • Nutritional advice
  • Reflexology
  • Laser and shockwave therapy
  • Workstation assessments
  • Bespoke pregnancy, corporate and athlete services

We are recognised by all major insurers and all our therapists are covered by private health insurance policies.

1.1 Compliance with Regulatory Authorities:

We regularly review our compliance with our Privacy and Cookies Policy. When we receive formal written complaints, we will contact the person who has made the complaint to follow up. We will also work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities such as the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data. As a Data Controller who is processing personal information and who meets certain criteria, we are registered with the ICO.

2.0 Compliance with Data Protection:

2.1 What information we collect about you:

We collect information to provide better products and services to all our service users. We collect information in the following ways:

  • The information you give to us: Many of our services require you to provide us with personal information as part of our client registration, appointment booking or marketing processes. When you sign up to receive any of our products or services we will ask you for information such as your name, email address, residential address or telephone number.
  • The Information we get from your use of our services: We collect information about the services that you use and how you use them, like when you visit one of our clinics or visit a website that uses our advertising services or view and interact with our ads and content.

The types of personal information we use may include:

  • Personal details such as names, addresses, telephone numbers
  • Family details for example next of kin
  • Education, training
  • GP details
  • Employment details
  • Financial details
  • Services, for example, details of services accessed or offered by providers
  • Lifestyle and social circumstances
  • Physical and/or mental health details
  • Visual images, personal appearance, and behaviour, for example if CCTV images are used as part of building security
  • Details held in the client’s records, where we hold or manage the clients’ records
  • Responses to surveys, where individuals have responded to surveys sent by Perfect Balance Clinic

Our legal basis for collecting and processing this data is because you have either given us consent to process this data as part of the provision to you of the services purchased by you or because the processing of your data is necessary for a contract we have with you. All sensitive data is encrypted and stored securely using industry-standard data encryption, multiple layers of firewalls are in place, and we perform regular security audits.

2.1.1 Information for job applicants and employees:

Perfect Balance Clinic will process information provided by applicants either directly or via third parties such as job application sites, for the management of their application and the subsequent selection process. This involves providing details to the shortlisting and selection panels. Other details are kept helping fulfill our obligations to monitor equality and diversity within the organisation and in the application process. You can find out more information about the use of personal data throughout the application process or by visiting our dedicated page on our Perfect-Balance-Recruitment-Privacy-Policy We also process sensitive classes of information for our employees that may include:

  • Racial and ethnic origin
  • Trade union membership
  • Religious or similar beliefs
  • Employment tribunal applications, complaints, accidents, and incident details
  • Criminal Offence data (including alleged offenses), criminal proceedings, outcomes, and sentences

This information will generally relate to our job applicants (if successfully offered a position with us) and our employees, this is covered by the Privacy Notice for Employees, or for those health professionals we manage.

Our legal basis for collecting and processing this special category data is because the processing of your data is necessary for a contract we have with you and our additional special condition for processing this special category data is that it is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law in so far as it is authorised by Union or Member State law or a collective agreement pursuant to Member State law providing for appropriate safeguards for the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject.  All sensitive data is encrypted and stored securely using industry-standard data encryption, multiple layers of firewalls are in place, and we perform regular security audits.

2.1.2 Personal information from you about others:

Through your use of our services, we may also collect information from you about someone else, such as friend referrals. If you provide Perfect Balance Clinic with personal information about someone else, you must ensure that you are authorised to disclose that information to Perfect Balance Clinic and that, without Perfect Balance taking any further steps required by applicable data protection or privacy law, Perfect Balance may collect, use and disclose such information for the purposes described in this Policy.

This means that you must take reasonable steps to ensure that the individual concerned is aware of and/or consents to the various matters detailed in this Policy, including the fact that their personal information is being collected, the purposes for which that information is being collected, the intended recipients of that information, the individual’s right to obtain access to that information, Perfect Balance Clinics’ identify, and how to contact Perfect Balance.

Where requested to do so by Perfect Balance Clinic, you must also assist Perfect Balance Clinic with any requests by the individual to access or update the personal information you have collected from them and passed on to us for the service.

2.2 How we use the information we collect about you:

Your information may be used to:

  • Check and report internally how effective Perfect Balance and the products and services we offer has been
  • Investigate complaints, legal claims or important incidents
  • Make sure Perfect Balance Clinic continues to meet our clients needs both now and in the future
  • Review the care provided to make sure that this continues to be of the highest possible standard
  • Manage specialised services that Perfect Balance Clinic provides through third parties

We may keep your information in written form or on a computer. Whenever possible all information that identifies you will be removed. Our legal basis for collecting and processing this information is our legitimate interests in knowing more about our clients or it is necessary for a contract we have with you.

Perfect Balance Clinic is a Data Controller for the TM2 System; provided by our third party processor (TM2). This system holds personal health-related data of all clients registered with our clinics.

Our legal basis for collecting and processing health-related information obtained from our clients (special category data) is because the processing of your data is necessary for a contract we have with you and our additional special condition for processing this special category data is that it is necessary for the provision of health or social care or treatment.

For more information please contact [email protected]

2.2.1 Sharing your information:

There are a number of reasons why we may share your information. This can be due to:

  • Our obligations to comply with current legislation
  • Our duty to comply with a Court Order
  • You have consented to disclose

Perfect Balance will not sell your information to any third party organisation. We will also not share your information with any third party except as stated in this Privacy Policy or as required to provide our service to you or to fulfill our contract with you. If your information is shared with statutory bodies/other organisations to enable them to fulfill their statutory obligations, the information will only be shared where there is a statutory obligation to do so or you have given explicit consent to the processing of this personal data for one or more specified purposes.

To read more about our Frequently Asked Questions, please click here.

3.0 Cookie Policy:

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device. You are able to disallow cookies by selecting the relevant option when visiting our website.

To read more about our Cookie Policy, please click here.

4.0 Information Security:

We are committed to protecting Perfect Balance Clinic and our service users from unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of information that we hold. We do this through:

  • Encryption of many of our services using SSL
  • We review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorised access to systems
  • We restrict access to personal information to Perfect Balance employees, contractors, and agents who need to know the information in order to process it for us and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations. They may be disciplined, their contract terminated or appropriate legal action taken if they fail to meet these obligations.

Our induction process and regular training ensure that all our employees are aware of their responsibilities and best practice guidelines; ensuring the necessary safeguards and appropriate use of person-identifiable and confidential information. Under the Perfect Balance Code of Conduct, all our employees are also required to protect your information and inform you of how your information will be used. This includes, in most circumstances, allowing you to decide if and how your information can be shared. Everyone working in Perfect Balance Clinic is subject to the common law duty of confidentiality. Information provided in confidence will only be used for the purpose advised and consented to by the service user, unless it is required or permitted by the law.

5.0 Accessing Perfect Balance Clinic Website from outside the UK:

Perfect Balance Website is published in the UK by Perfect Balance Clinic at PerfectBalanceClinic.co.uk. The international version of the website, PerfectBalanceClinic.com, is made available to international users accessing the website outside the UK by Perfect Balance Clinic. All personal information submitted by users outside the UK will be processed in accordance with this Privacy and Cookies Policy.

6.0 Transparency and choice:

People have varying privacy concerns and our goal is to be as clear and transparent as possible with regards to the information we collect so that you can make choices about how this is used. You can:

  • Adjust/update your preferences with regards to how we market our products and services to you by contacting [email protected]
  • Set your browser to block all cookies, including cookies associated with our services or to indicate when a cookie is being set by us

7.0 Changes to the Perfect Balance Privacy Policy:

The Privacy and Cookies Policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Perfect Balance Clinic. The date of the most recent revision will appear on the top of this page. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use this website or submit your personal information to Perfect Balance Clinic. If changes are made to the Privacy and Cookies Policy, for instance affecting how we would like to use your personal information, we will provide a more prominent notice which may include email notifications of Privacy Policy changes.

8.0 Contacting Perfect Balance Clinic:

If you are within the UK, please send all requests for deleting your information, requests for copies of personal information held by Perfect Balance Clinic and questions about this Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy to our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].

If you are outside the UK, please email ([email protected]) or send a letter to Data Protection Officer, Perfect Balance Clinic, Mosquito Way, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AX

9.0 Resources and Further Information

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