Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy. You can access our website without giving us any information about yourself. But sometimes we do need information to provide services that you request, and this statement of privacy explains data collection and use in those situations.
In general, you can visit our web site without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. However there may be occasions when you choose to give us personal information, for example, when you choose to contact us or request information from us. We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you.
We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations. We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other than that indicated below:
- To send you confirmation of requests that you have made to us
- To send you information when you request it.
We intend to protect the quality and integrity of your personally identifiable information and we have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to do so. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should be aware that we don’t have any control over the other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting these sites.
We will have various projects which will mean data is shared with outside organisations. One of these projects is the National Obesity Audit, please see attached the transparancy notice from NHSE here https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/clinical-audits-and-registries/national-obesity-audit/transparency-notice
Neighbourhood Navigators / Social Prescribing Service
Joyy Connect Social Prescribing
Purpose – the purpose of this service is to improve the efficiency of social prescribing and care navigation, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of patients by connecting them to local interventions such as exercise groups and activities.
Legal Basis –
Article 6(1)(e) ‘processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority…’; and
Article 9 (2) (h) ‘processing is necessary for the purposes of preventive or occupational medicine.. the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services’
Controllers – the Practice and First Community Health & Care (see Home | First Community Health & Care) are joint data controllers of the personal data processed for this service
Processors –
· Pungo Limited trading as Joy which provide the ICT system used to process data for this services
· Ardens Workplace Limited
We are using Abtrace for patient recalls and
Purpose: Abtrace CDSS is a Clinical Decision Support System in the form of software, which analyses clinical data within primary care electronic health records to improve clinical care of patients.
Legal Basis:
Article 6(1)(e) ‘…necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority…’
Article 9(2)(h) ‘… the provision of health or social care or treatment of management of health or social care systems…’
Please see the privacy policy for abtrace here:
https://www.abtrace.com/privacy-policy