Preamble
ToThePoint
Massage respects the privacy of its customers.
We are
required, by law, to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your protected
health information and to provide its clients with notice of its legal duties
and privacy practices with respect to your protected health information.
This policy sets out how we collect, hold, use and disclose information in compliance with the Privacy Act (Cth) 1988 and the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy) Act (Cth) 2012.
Collection, Use and Disclosure of Information
A copy
of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The
Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.gov.au.
ToThePoint
Massage collects personal information directly from clients through electronic,
verbal and written correspondence. We may also collect information from others,
such as doctors, insurance companies and other health professionals.
Collection of Personal or Sensitive Health Information
Examples of personal information which may be collected include name, image, contact details, gender and attendance records.
We may
also collect sensitive health information such as client health details,
medical history and treatment details.
Use of Personal or Sensitive Health Information
Sensitive
information will be used by us only:
• For
the primary purpose for which it was obtained (Provide and administer health
and therapeutic services)
• For a
secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose
• With
your consent; or where required or authorised by law.
Data Quality
ToThePoint Massage takes reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is accurate, complete and up to date whenever it is collected, used or disclosed.
Data
Security & Retention
ToThePoint
Massage takes reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse,
interference and loss, unauthorised access, modifications or disclosure.
Health
information will be retained for a minimum of 7 years following the last
occasion on which service was provided. Where information was collected while
the individual was a child it shall be retained until the individual is 25
years old, or for 7 years, which is the greater.
ToThePoint
Massage takes reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal
information if it is no longer needed for any purpose for which the information
may be used or disclosed under the points outlined below.
Disclosure of your Health Information
Third
Parties
Where
reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information
only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with
information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to
ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third
party.
Disclosure
of Personal Information
If
ToThePoint Massage uses or discloses client information it will make a written
notice of the use or disclosure.
We may
disclose information about a client to a person who is responsible for the
client:
People who are able to give consent to these issues on behalf of a client unable or incapable of doing so include:
As a
further clarification on some of these points, a child of a client includes an
adopted child, a step-child or a foster-child of the client. A parent of a
client includes a step-parent or adoptive parent and a foster-parent of the
client. A relative of a client means a grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt,
nephew or niece of the client. A sibling of a client includes a half-brother,
half-sister, adoptive brother, adoptive sister, step-brother, step-sister,
foster-brother or foster-sister of the client.
Your
Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including
the following:
• Third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure; and
• Where required or authorised by law.
Public health & Safety
As
required by law, we may disclose your health information to public health
authorities for purposes related to: preventing or controlling disease, injury
or disability, reporting child abuse or neglect, reporting domestic violence,
and reporting disease or infection exposure.
Medical Emergencies
We may
disclose relevant health information to notify or assist in notifying a family
member, or another person responsible for your care about your medical
condition or in the event of an emergency or of your death.
Payment of Benefits
We may disclose your health information to your insurance provider for the purpose of payment or health care operations.
Workers’
Compensation
We may
disclose your health information as necessary to comply with Workers’
Compensation Laws.
Treatment
We may
disclose your health care information to other healthcare professionals within
this practice for the purpose of continuation of your treatment, payment or
healthcare operations.
On
occasion, it may be necessary to seek consultation regarding your condition
from other health care providers associated with this practice.
Where
reasonably practicable, it is our policy to seek and engage a substitute health
care provider, to provide assessment and/or treatment to you to enable
continuation of your treatment in the event that your primary therapist is
absent due to vacation, sickness, or other emergency situation.
Judicial
and administrative proceedings
We may
disclose your health information in the course of any administrative or
judicial proceeding where it is requested, and must be provided, by law.
Law
enforcement
We may
disclose your health information to a duly authorised official, including an
officer of the law, for purposes such as identifying or locating a suspect,
fugitive, material witness or missing person, complying with a court order or
subpoena, and other law enforcement purposes.
Deceased
persons
We may
disclose your health information to coroners or medical examiners.
Organ
donation
We may
disclose your health information to organisations involved in procuring,
banking, or transplanting organs and tissues.
Public
Safety
We may
disclose your health information to appropriate persons in order to prevent or
lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a particular
person or to the general public.
Specialised
Government Agencies
We may
disclose your health information for police, military, national security,
prisoner and government benefits purposes.
Change
of Ownership
In the
event that ToThePoint Massage is sold or merged with another organisation, your
health information/record will become the property of the new owner.
Transferring
Information to Another Health Service Provider
We shall
transfer health information to a designated / recognised health provider free
of charge on the receipt of a written request.
The
transfer of health information will occur within 14 working days.
Consent
By
acquiring or using our services, products or facilities, individuals consent to
the reasonable collection, use and disclosure of personal information.
Complaints
Procedure
To
complain about the manner in which personal information is collected, used or
disclosed, contact ToThePoint Massage administration on (08) 70733676 or by
e-mail clinic@musclepainmassage.com.
You can
also contact the Office Of The Australian Information Commissioner on 1300 363
992, oaic.gov.au or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, GPO
Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001.
Your
Health Information Rights
You have
the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your
health information. Please be advised, however, that ToThePoint Massage is not
required to agree to the restriction that you requested, where that request may
conflict with any of the above.
You have
the right to have your health information received or communicated through an
alternative method or sent to an alternative location other than the usual
method of communication or delivery, upon your request.
You have
the right to inspect and copy your health information.
You have
a right to request that this practice amend your protected health information.
Please
be advised, however, that ToThePoint Massage is not required to agree to amend
your protected health information. If your request to amend your health
information has been denied, you will be provided with an explanation of our
denial reason(s) and information about how you can disagree with the denial.
You have
a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your protected health
information made by ToThePoint Massage.
You have
a right to a paper copy of this notice of privacy policy at any time upon
request.
Changes
to this Notice of Privacy Policy
We
reserve the right to amend this policy at any time in the future, and will make
the new provisions effective for all information that it maintains.
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information and to provide you with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information.
If you
have questions about any part of this notice or if you want more information
about your privacy rights, please contact us.
Access to your Personal Information
You may
access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct
it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal
Information, please contact us in writing.
ToThePoint Massage will not charge any fee for your access request, but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of your Personal Information.
In order to protect your Personal Information we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.
Maintaining the Quality of your Personal Information
It is an important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.
ToThePoint Massage recognizes that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use www.musclepainmassage.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information.
We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us. Musclepainmassage.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers', consumers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.
To help pay for the costs of the this website, we are accepting advertising on our site, in the form of Google Ads.
Musclepainmassage.com collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, email address, and telephone number.
This information is collected if you request information from us, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, schedule an appointment via Appointy, and sign up to join our email list or request some other service or information from us. The information collected is internally reviewed, and used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries. Once information is reviewed, we discard it or store it in our files.
If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.
A cookie is a string of information that musclepainmassage.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to musclepainmassage.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.
This
website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated
by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google
Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files that are
stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the
website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use
of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and
stored there.
Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6
(1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in
analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its
advertising.
IP anonymization
We have
activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. Your IP address
will be shortened by Google within the European Union or other parties
to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to
the United States. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent
to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this
information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your
use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to
provide other services regarding website activity and Internet usage for
the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as
part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by
Google.
Browser plugin
You can prevent these
cookies being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your
browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will
not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website. You can
also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website
(incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing
of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser
plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Objecting to the collection of data
You
can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking
on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your
data from being collected on future visits to this site: Disable Google
Analytics.
For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
Outsourced data processing
We
have entered into an agreement with Google for the outsourcing of our
data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the
German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
Demographic data collection by Google Analytics
This
website uses Google Analytics' demographic features. This allows
reports to be generated containing statements about the age, gender, and
interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based
advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This collected
data cannot be attributed to any specific individual person. You can
disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ads settings in your
Google account or you can forbid the collection of your data by Google
Analytics as described in the section "Refusal of data collection".
Musclepainmassage.com uses third-party advertising companies (Google Adsense, Google Custom Search) to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.
You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks by clicking here.
Some third-party advertisements are served by Google and their ad technology providers. You can view a list of their certified providers here. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google advertising privacy policy.
This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse musclepainmassage's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
The search box on this web site ("Search Box") is powered by Google Inc. ("Google"). You acknowledge and agree that Google's privacy policy (located at https://www.google.com/privacy.html) shall apply to your use of the Search Box and by using the Search Box you consent to Google using your personal data in accordance with its privacy policy.
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you're logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under here.
This site uses the Google Maps map service via an API. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of making our website appealing and to facilitate the location of places specified by us on the website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of Google.
Musclepainmassage.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purpose
To run and operate our site.
To display content on the site correctly.
Musclepainmassage.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.
If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.
You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.
If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.
This site also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings.
We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.
Musclepainmassage.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
Musclepainmassage.com lets you share content with your
friends and followers on various social media platforms. (Below are
links to their privacy policies.)
When you click on links to
social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest,
your browser connects directly with that site and sends information such
as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and information
about how you use the social media website.
If you want to
prevent those social media platforms from collecting your data, please
review their individual privacy policies by using the following links:
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Pinterest
To effectively prevent Facebook from collecting your data, log out of your Facebook account while using this website.
This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.
If we sell musclepainmassage.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.
Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.
Some information is collected by third-party services. These include our scheduling software Appointy.
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information.
If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, click here.
You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.
MusclePainMassage.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
If you do not agree to musclepainmassage.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.
Last updated: 24.1.2019