Privacy Policy & Data Protection.
Thank you for visiting our web site. This Privacy Policy tells you how we use any personal information that may collected at this site. Please read this document before using the site or submitting any personal information.
By using this web site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. These practices may be changed from time to time, but any changes will be posted on the web site and such changes will apply only to activities and personal information from the point of change and not on a retroactive basis.
You are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.
Please note that the practices set forth in this Privacy Policy apply to this web site only. If you link to other web sites, please review any privacy policies posted at those sites.
Note also that there is a separate, though aligned, privacy policy in force in the Podiatry practice and you are encouraged to ask to read the in-clinic privacy policy.
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Fonts
This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Your IP address
Visitor data
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.
Access to your information and correction
You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you and if you would like to know more about this and how it is stored then please get in touch with us via the Contact page on this website.
We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate. You may ask us to correct any information that you believe to be inaccurate or you may ask us to delete your data at any time.
Note, however, that we are obliged by law to retain all medical records for a period of no less that eight years from the point of the most recent treatment or consultation and, as such, we are unable to agree to requests to delete any such data.
Collection of information
We collect personal information, like names, phone numbers, postal addresses, email addresses, etc, when submitted voluntarily by our visitors through this web site. This information is used only to fulfil your specific request.
Your information is never shared or sold to any third-party companies or organisations.
We do not collect or store any debit or credit card details – currently, no payments are made through this web site.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text string which is an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from our servers and stored on your computer or device. When you first visit our web site, a session cookie is set which is read back on subsequent pages for continuity purposes. Note that the web site does not require the user to log in.
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set.
Cookies are not shared with any third-parties.
Distribution of information
We may share information with Government Agencies, Police or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when:
(1) permitted or required by law; or,
(2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or
(3) investigating any fraud which has already taken place.
The information is not provided to these organisations or to any other for marketing purposes.
Data security
Your personal information is kept secure. Only authorised employees, agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information.
External websites
Our web site provides links to certain and specific other websites. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the content or practices of these other web sites. Our provision of such links is for information purposes only and we do not endorse either these websites, their content, their owners, or their practices.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to these other websites, which are subject to any privacy and other policies they may have.
Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics is a website monitoring tool that allows website owners to see volumes of visitors to their website, their source, and to analyse how the content of their website is viewed and navigated. This in turn, allows optimisation of the content and pages on our web site and any marketing programmes that drive traffic to the website. Google Analytics does not store any personal information about website visitors, but does use persistent cookies to identify repeat visitors.
You may opt-out universally of all Google Analytics tracking used by all websites by visiting the following url – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gao
Contact information
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you want to know more what information we have collected about you, please email us via our online Contact section.