Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website https://parkfieldshealth.blogspot.com.uk and served by Giovanna Giraud-Saunders, and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

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.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information  http://www.google.com/privacy.html 

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; www.parkfieldshomoeopathy.co.uk.)

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Privacy policy

According to the new law that comes into force from the 25th of May 2018 here is an extension of my privacy policy:

Here in Parkfields Health, I, Giovanna Giraud-Saunders, take your privacy very seriously. Therefore I urge you to read this privacy policy carefully. It contains important information about how I handle your contact details and personal information.

The legal basis of this contract is your consent. This means that I will only collect and store information about you which you have submitted to me.

Furthermore I will only collect and store information about you which is important to fulfil my role as your homoeopath to find the best matching homoeopathic prescription to meet your individual needs.

The data I collect from you is stored in a secure designated location. It is secured from external access and my computer is protected by pass word.

I hold data in the following way that no individual can be identified by anybody other than me:

·         I hold email addresses on my computer, which is protected by password

·         A separate paper patient registration form

·         A separate patient paper file with handwritten notes I take during consultations

·         A separate patient paper prescription sheet

·         A laptop without Internet access and no possibilities to connect via wireless, where I write up the case

·         A data stick as a back-up in case of accidental loss, damage or destruction.

You can request the data I hold on you. Within a 14 day time frame I can give you an overview of my case notes about your presenting symptoms, a symptom analysis and the medicines I prescribed for you. The requested information will be sent to you as a letter by post.

A request to access personal data must be made in writing and signed by the patient. Emailed requests, or requests made via text are not acceptable.

You have the right to request the erasure of your data but there are limitations.

Legally I have to store patient data for 7 years following the last occasion on which treatment was given. For children I have to store data for 7 years following their 18^th birthday. However, my insurer requests that I keep patients files for the following reasons:

·          That I can comply with a legal obligation for the performance of a public interest task, or exercise of legal authority

·          For public health purposes in the public interest

·          The exercise or defense of legal claims

Nevertheless I have the possibility to erase your contact details like email address from my computer with Internet access when I do not need it anymore.

I also ask you to inform me of any change in your contact details, such as changes of name, address or telephone numbers.

In any other case your personal information will not be shared with anybody without your consent.

If personal, special category data gets compromised in case of an unforeseen event like a fire or a burglary then I will notify you immediately about the loss of your data.

I give permission to be contacted by email.