Hampshire Dentists is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.
Hampshire Dentists is a “data controller”. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you as a patient. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice.
This notice applies to current and former patients of Hampshire Dentists. This notice does not form part of any contract to provide services. We may update this notice at any time.
Information that the individual is or has been a patient of Hampshire Dentists or has attended, cancelled or failed to attend an appointment on a certain day.
We will collect additional personal information in the course of marketing activities carried out by Hampshire Dentists.
If you do not provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have entered into with you (such as providing dentistry services or providing any other associated benefit), or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (such as health and safety).
i.	In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent.
ii.	Where we need to carry out our legal obligations or exercise rights in connection with providing our services.
iii.	Where it is needed in the public interest, such as for Government Department monitoring.
The amount that was paid for treatment, the amount owing, or the fact that the patient is a debtor to Hampshire Dentists.
We will never ever sell any of your personal data to any third parties.
Referring to NHS Local Authorities and designated agents.
We will share your personal information with other entities in our group as part of our regular reporting activities on Hampshire Dentists performance, in the context of a business activities such as system maintenance support and hosting of data.
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.
If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact Rebecca Cahill, Practice Manager in writing.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is evidently unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent please contact Rebecca Cahill, Practice Manager. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
We have appointed Rebecca Cahill as our Data Protection Officer to oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact the Data Protection Officer. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.