GDPR Privacy Notice




DoctorAllie.com Website privacy notice


   

1.   INTRODUCTION  

  

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site DoctorAllie.com.

 

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age. 

  

Dr Alison Grimston is the data controller and I am responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

  

Contact Details

 

Our full details are: 

 

Full name: Dr Alison Grimston trading as Doctor Allie and Doctor Allie’s Vitality Clinics

alison@alisongrimston.co.uk

c/o Wellingham Vane, Wellingham Lane, Ringmer, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 5SN

     

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at admin@dralisongrimston.com

 

2.  WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUND WE PROCESS IT 

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymized data.

 

We may process the following categories of personal data about you:


  • Communication Data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.


  • Customer Data that includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract. 


  • User Data that includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back- ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business. 


  • Technical Data that includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising.  Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.


  • Marketing Data that includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions such as competitions, prize draws and free give-aways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising.  Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent, in which case we will have obtained your consent separately, or our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.


  • We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business). [NOTE SEE SECTION 4 BELOW]


  • We may also use Communication Data, Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.



  • [INSERT CATEGORY OF DATA] that includes data about [INSERT WHAT THE DATA IS ABOUT]. We process this data to [INSERT YOUR PURPOSE FOR PROCESSING]. Our lawful ground of processing is [INSERT LAWFUL GROUND OF PROCESSING] [which in this case are [INSERT LEGITIMATE INTERESTS] ] [NOTE: DELETE THE LAST SECTION OF THIS BULLET POINT IF YOU ARE RELYING ON A GROUND OTHER THAN LEGITIMATE INTERESTS]

Sensitive Data

 

We need to collect the following sensitive data about you in order to deliver the services or product.


Health data including physical and mental health data and history


We require your explicit consent for processing sensitive data, so when you submit your details, we will send you a further communication asking for you to confirm your consent to this processing.] [NOTE: IF YOU ARE RELYING ON AN EXEMPTION TO THE GENERAL RULE THAT THE PROCESSING OF SENSITIVE DATA IS PROHIBITED OTHER THAN EXPLICIT CONSENT, DELETE THIS SENTENCE AND INSERT THE GROUND ON WHICH YOU ARE RELYING – SEE MY VIDEO ON THIS]

 

Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time.


We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at admin@dralisongrimston.com. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.

 

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.


We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling. [NOTE DELETE THIS IF YOU DO CARRY OUT AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING AND INSERT DETAILS OF THE AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING AND PROVIDE MEANINGFUL INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOGIC INVOLVED AS WELL AS THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE ENVISAGED CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH PROCESSING FOR THE DATA SUBJECT – SEE THE VIDEO ON AUTMATED PROCESSING]

 

3.  HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

 

We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this [INSERT LINK TO COOKIE POLICY].


We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the UK EU, advertising networks such as Facebook based outside the EU,UK such as search information providers such as Google based outside the EUUK, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators. 


We may also receive data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the UK EU.

We may receive data from third parties such as referral partners and joint venture partners.

 

4. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS 


Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business). 


Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations,we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.

 

Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes we will get your express consent.


You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us at admin@dralisongrimsotn.com at any time.


If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc. 

 

5.  DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA  

 

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:

 

  • Other companies in our group who provide services to us. 

  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.

  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.

  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.

  • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. 

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

 

6.  INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS  


 

We are subject to the provisions of the UK General Data Protection Regulations that protect your personal data. Where we transfer your data to third parties outside of the EEAUK, we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure a similar degree of security for your personal data. As such:

 

  • We may transfer your personal data to countries that the European CommissionUnited Kingdom regulatory authorities have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or

  • If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shielda UK regulator approved privacy framework, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place; or

  • Where we use certain service providers who are established outside of the EEAUK, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the UK government which give personal data the same protection it has in UK.

If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. 

7.  DATA SECURITY  

 

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.

 

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.



 

8.  DATA RETENTION  

  

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.


For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.

  

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

 

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