Privacy Policy
Data Protection Statement
As your optometrist, we record your personal details on our computer system in order to provide you with clinical care and dispensing services.
For legal and professional reasons we are obliged to retain such data for a significant period after our last contact with you. The advice from our professional body, the College Of Optometrists, is that this should be 10 years after our last contact in the case of adults, or in the case of children 10 years after they were last seen or their 25th birthday, whichever is the later. After that time we will anonymise your data so you will no longer be identifiable on our database.
We understand that holding your data is a significant responsibility and we give the following undertakings:
- We will only ask for and store data that is necessary to provide you with the clinical and dispensing services we provide.
- That data is held in a secure computerised database, and can only be accessed by our own staff, who use PINs to maintain security.
- We will not make your data available to any 3rd party – e.g. your GP or the Hospital Eye Service – without your permission.
- We will not supply your data to any 3rd party for commercial purposes, ever.
- You have the right to inspect the data we hold about you, and will make any corrections that you request as soon as practically possible.
- We will use your contact details to let you know when your appointments are due, and when your glasses, contact lenses and other products are available for collection.
- We occasionally take part in research to further scientific studies in eye and vision health. This data is always anonymised – that is any patient recognisable information is removed from the study.
- If you have any concerns about the data that we hold about you, your children or other adults for whom you are responsible, then please raise these with the practice owner, Andrew Morgan PhD, FCOptom, MCOptom in the first instance.