Data Privacy Notice
At Fitzgerald Plastic Surgery Ltd., we take your privacy seriously. We have obligations to you both under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and under legal and ethical regulations pertaining to the medical profession. The GDPR will come into effect on 25 May 2018, and from that date will supersede existing law and place enhanced accountability and transparency obligations on organisations when using your information. The GDP are will also introduce changes which will give you greater control of your personal information, including a right to object processing of your personal information whether processing is carried out for business purposes.
This summary explains most important aspect of how we use your information and what rights you have in relation to your personal information. Existing or potential patients or clients of the practice are welcome to discuss any queries they may have in relation to our policy, at any stage.
Summary of Policy
1. Who we are
Throughout this notice, “we”, “us”, “our” and “ours” refers to Fitzgerald Plastic Surgery Ltd.. Your information is held by this company. All of the businesses with whom we deal have their own Data Privacy Notices, and all external contractors and employees sign a data protection/ non-disclosure agreement in advance to being granted any access to the data we hold.
2. The information we collect about you
We will hold:
- data to identify you, including your contact information;
- data relating to your general practitioner and/ or other healthcare professionals, with whom we share your care;
- data relating to your next of kin, including the relationship, and their contact details ;
- data relating to your health history and other information disclosed during the course of consultations;
- data relating to treatments/ procedures discussed or carried out;
- data relating to your health insurance policy;
- data related to products and services purchased;
- data related to medical devices used during your care (e.g. breast implants)
3. When we collect your information
We collect information: (i) you give us (ii) communicated to us by other parties involved in your care
4. How we use your information and the legal basis
We use, and share, your data where:
- you have agreed work explicitly consented to the using of your data in a specific way (you may withdraw your consent at any time);
- use is necessary in relation to a service or treatment provided to you, or because you have asked us to provide a service or treatment (e.g. making a - - booking at the hospital for a surgical procedure);
- uses necessary to protect your “vital interests” in exceptional circumstances;
- use for our legitimate interests (which you may object to) such as managing our business including risk management, providing service information, - conducting marketing activities, training and quality assurance, and strategic planning;
- where we are legally obliged to do so.
5. Who we share your information with
When providing our services to you, we may share your information with:
- your general practitioner;
- healthcare professionals and medical consultants;
- administrative staff at the Beacon Hospital or other healthcare facility where you may receive care;
- our medical billing company;
- our IT contractors;
- our financial consultant/ accountant;
- representatives/ suppliers of products or devices used in your care
6. How long we hold your data
Your data will be retained for as long as is deemed necessary for good medical record keeping. Typically, data will be retained for a minimum of seven years.
7. Implications of not providing your data
If you do not provide information we may not be able to:
- accept you as a patient/ client of the practice;
- provide requested treatments, procedures, or products to you;
- we will tell you when we ask for information which is not a contractual requirement or is not needed to comply with our legal and ethical obligations.
8. Using companies to process your information outside the European Economic Area (EEA)
At the present time, we do not deal with any service provider organisation outside the EEA. Should we at some point in the future do so, (which is unlikely) we will always take steps to ensure that any transfer of information outside the EEA is carefully managed to protect your privacy rights.
9. How to exercise your information rights including the right to object
From 25th of May 2018, you will have several enhance rights in relation to how we use your information, including the right, without undue delay, to:
- find out if we use your information, access your information and receive copies of your information;
- have inaccurate/ incomplete information corrected and updated;
- object particular use of your personal data for a legitimate business interests or direct marketing purposes;
- in certain circumstances, to have your information deleted or our use of your data restricted (please note that we have certain legal and ethical obligations which preclude deletion of medical health records)
10. How to contact us
If you wish to exercise any of your data rights, you can contact us at office@fitzgeraldplasticsurgery.ie, or Suite 6, Beacon Consultants Clinic, Bracken Road, Sandyford, D18E7P4, by telephone +353 1 5553777, or fax + 353 1 5350884.
If if we are unable to deal with your request fully within a calendar month (due to the complexity or number of requests) we may extend this period by a further two calendar months and shall explain the reason why. If you make the request electronically, we will try to provide you with the relevant information electronically.
You also have the right to complain to the data protection commission or another supervisory authority.
You can contact the office of the Data Protection Commissioner at:
Telephone: +353 76 11048000 or LoCall Number 1890 252231
Fax: +353 57 8684757
email: info@dataprotection.ie
Postal address: Data Protection Commission, Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, R32AP23, Co. Laois
11. Updates
We will update our data proves notice from time to time. Any updates will be made available online and in our office. This current version of the notice was published on 25 April 2018.
Your privacy is of paramount importance to us. Please be assured that we will never share your data with any third party, or add you to any mailing list, without your express consent. Any information you provide is accessible only to Ms. Fitzgerald and her staff, and is subject to the rules governing doctor-patient confidentiality. While we have taken appropriate measures, as with any website, security cannot be absolutely guaranteed, and therefore we advise against including any highly sensitive material on forms submitted via this website.
Notice in relation to website
Fitzgerald Plastic Surgery Ltd. website (www.fitzgeraldplasticsurgery.ie)
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such.
General statement
We fully respect your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to us will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003, and GDPR 2018. In addition, any information provided within the context of the doctor-patient relationship is subject to the confidentiality rules of the Irish Medical Council.
Collection and use of personal information
We do not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by filling out an online application form). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties and is used by Fitzgerald Plastic Surgery Ltd. only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.
Requests regarding data supplied via this website
On request, we will supply copies of your personal data to you. If you wish to obtain such copies, you must write to the us at the address below or email info@www.fitzgeraldplasticsurgery.ie. You should include any personal identifiers which you supplied earlier via the website (e.g. Name; address; phone number; e-mail address). Your request is free of charge, will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take not more than 40 days to process.
If you discover that this office holds inaccurate information about you, you can request that we correct that information. Such a request must be in writing or via e-mail. In certain circumstance you may also request that data which you have supplied via the website be deleted.
Complaints about data processed via the website
If you are concerned about how personal data are processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to the attention of Ms. Fitzgerald at the contact details below.
Collection and use of technical information, including IP addresses
This website uses cookie technology. A cookie is a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website. Our cookies are not available to other websites. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use of this website.
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:
- the IP address of the visitor’s web server.
- the top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net).
- the previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used.
- clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded) .
- the type of web browser used by the website visitor.
Ms. Fitzgerald will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of Fitzgerald Plastic Surgery Ltd. never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by Fitzgerald Plastic Surgery Ltd., and only for statistical and other administrative purposes.
