Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice explains how Fit for Life Physiotherapy LTD , trading as, Fit For Life NI collects, stores, manages and protects your personal data. It outlines the types of data that we hold and how we use them. Fit For Life NI takes its responsibilities around the correct collection, use and destruction of the personal data of its various audiences very seriously and is committed to openness and fairness in the handling of Personal Data. We aim to be clear when we collect information about you and not do anything you wouldn’t reasonably expect.

Fit For Life NI is the Data Controller (as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998 and all applicable laws which replace or amend it, including the General Data Protection Regulation) who will collect and process your personal data.

Who we are

Fit For Life NI is a private healthcare consultancy company committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK. We specialise in physiotherapy, massage, diet exercise prescription & facial aesthetic treatments.

Fit For Life Physiotherapy LTD’s registered address is Bannatyne Health Club Belfast, 106 Belfast Road, BT18 9QY

Our purpose

Our aim is a healthier population. We make people’s lives healthier and in turn assist the health care system.

For more information on Fit For Life NI see our website: www.fitforlifeni.co.uk

What information do we collect about you?

Fit For Life NI collect and process personal data to assess and treat patients successfully.

Name, title, gender and date of birth
Personal photo
Contact details including postal address, personal email, work email, phone number and if required links to social media accounts
Marital status and family
Occupation, GP details
Medical, lifestyle and diet history

For managing events, marketing and promoting the work of Fit For Life NI we may collect and process the following data:

Name, title
Postal address
Contact details work email, phone number and links to social media accounts
Personal photo and video of events

Patient Information

As part of our work, we request patients to complete a brief health questionnaire and when necessary we may ask patients to access and provide additional medical information in the form of blood tests, radiological investigations and results from any hospital or GP tests. We also ask patients to sign up to our newsletter through our website.

Sensitive personal data

We will always ask for your consent to collect this information and you may refuse to provide the information. You may also withdraw your consent for us to process this information at any stage though we may already have disposed of the information.

How do we collect the data?

The information we process is obtained directly from you. This can be via email, sign up to our newsletter on our website or by completion of our questionnaire.

Cookies

When you visit our websites, we use cookies to automatically collect information about how you use our sites.

Cookies are small text files that websites use to store information about things like user preferences. We use cookies on this website to:

help make the website easier to use for people with a website account
help people share our content via social media
help us understand how the site is being used so that we can identify areas that are working well and areas that need improvement.

Our website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google. This does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand web traffic and webpage usage.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

How will we use your information?

We use the information you give us to:

send you your personalised programme or newsletters and updates that you have subscribed to
provide you with the services and the information about our activities and events that you have requested
for internal record keeping so as to keep a record of your relationship with us
to fulfil contracts you have entered into with Fit For Life NI

Marketing communications

When and what do we communicate

Fit For Life NI will only contact you for marketing purposes, for example keep you up to date on our work, where we have your consent or we are otherwise allowed to do so.

We will make it easy for you to tell us if you would like to receive communications from us and hear more about Fit For Life NI work and the ways in which you would like to receive this information such as email, newsletter or post.

We will not send you marketing material or communications if you tell us that you do not wish to receive it. There are a variety of ways you can do this and these are detailed below.

Where you give us your consent to send you marketing information, you may opt out of this at any time. We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis, and we frequently encourage you to update your preferences, so you only receive news and opportunities you would like to hear about. You can update or withdraw your consent at any time.

Other circumstances in which you may receive communications from Fit For Life NI

‘Soft opt in’

This allows organisations to send communications by email to individuals, who we have an existing relationship with, and where we have identified that we have a legitimate interest in communicating about Fit For Life NI, provided they are given the opportunity to opt out at the time of initial communication or engagement. This may be where you joined one of our communities.

How to control what we send you or request we update your personal information?

The accuracy of your information is really important to us. We want to ensure that we are able to communicate with you in ways that you are happy with, and to provide you with information that is of interest.

If you wish to change how we communicate with you, or update the information we hold, then please contact us:

email us at admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk
write to us at: Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI, Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY
Telephone: 02890 397768 EXT4

Additionally, you can opt out of marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any marketing email from Fit For Life NI. You can also use the link to update your preferences.

How long will it take for these changes to be effective?

We endeavour to make updates to the marketing preference within:

24 hours from updates to preference on the website or via the link in our email
5 working days from receipt of email, call or letter

Who do we share your information with and why?

Fit For Life NI will only use the information within the organisation for the purposes for which it was obtained. We will not under any circumstances, share or sell your data with any third party for their own purposes, and you will not receive marketing from any other companies, charities or organisations as a result of giving your details to us.

We may share your information with:

We will share your information if we are required to by law (for example to law enforcement agencies for the prevention or detection of crime, subject to such bodies providing us with a relevant request in writing).

Where do we keep your data?

Fit For Life NI maintains all your data within the EU.

How long do we keep your data?

We will hold your personal data in our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity. These purposes are laid out in the section ‘How we will use your information’.

Data related to the application and management of funding applications, awards and grants will be retained for at least seven years after the completion of the programme or engagement.

Financial records will be retained in line with financial law and regulation for at least seven years. We will keep records of Alumni, Award holders, Fellows and Community members indefinitely.

This is to maintain the history of Fit For Life NI’s actions and engagements to understand the long- term effectiveness and impact of these actions on the goals of Fit For Life NI.

If you request that we stop sending you marketing materials we will keep a record of your contact details to enable us to comply with your request not to be contacted.

How do we protect your data?

We ensure that there are appropriate and operational measures in place to protect your personal data. We have an internal body with responsibility for Information Governance across the organisation.

We have appropriate technical controls in place to protect your personal data:

Our network is protected behind firewalls
Anti virus and Malware software is deployed
All systems are password protected
Network protection is formally tested
Mobile and removable devices are encrypted

We have appropriate operational measures in place to protect your personal data:

We undertake regular reviews of who has access to information that we hold to ensure that your information is only accessible by appropriately trained staff.
We have a robust audit framework in place to ensure internal and external measures and obligations are in place and being maintained.

Your rights relating to your personal data

There are specific rights enshrined in law that you have around your data. These rights are:

Informed – you have the right to be informed about what data we hold and for what purpose
Access – you have the right to have access to your personal data
Rectification – you have the right to have your personal data corrected or removed if it is inaccurate
Erasure – you have the right to have your personal data deleted from our systems
Restrict processing – you have the right restrict the processing of your personal data
Right of objection – you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for communications and marketing
Portability – you have the right to have your personal data transferred
Withdraw consent – where you have provided consent to process your personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time
Complain – you have the right to complain to the regulator and/or seek judicial remedy if your data has not been treated in accordance with the law

We will respond to you within one month of receiving a request related to anyone of the above rights unless the number and complexity of the requests made is deemed sufficiently high in which case we may extend this time by a further two months. We will inform you if we need to make use of this additional time and why we need to do so.

We will not charge you for responding to any of these requests unless it can be demonstrated that you are making an excessive number of repetitive requests or that your request is not based on fact or realistic considerations. In such exceptional cases we may charge you a reasonable fee or choose to refuse your request.

If you disagree with our approach you may raise your concerns with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

To assist us in responding to these requests, we may ask you to verify your identity to make sure we do not give your personal data to the wrong person, update your data with details you did not provide or take action you did not request.

Right to be Informed

Fit For Life NI has published this Privacy Notice along with additional notices when we collect personal data from you to explain what personal data we collect and process. We aim to be as open and transparent as possible about how we use your personal data.

Right of Access

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal data please email us at admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk or write to Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI, Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY

Right of Rectification

It is important to us that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. If you believe that the information we hold is inaccurate or incomplete you have the right to ask us to rectify it. If we have passed your data to a third party for processing then we will also contact them to rectify the data. To request the rectification of your data please email us at admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk or write to Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI, Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY with details of your request.

Right of Erasure

This is sometimes referred to as the “Right to be forgotten”. You can request that we delete your personal data from our systems if you

Believe the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected
Withdraw your consent (subject to the requirement for us to retain data to process your request)
Believe we have processed your data unlawfully
Believe we should delete your data to comply with other laws or regulation

We may choose to refuse your request if we believe:

We have a legal obligation to keep your data
It is required for the legitimate interests and purposes of Fit For Life NI
It is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims

To request the erasure of your data please email us at admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk or write to Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI, Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY with details of your request.

Right of Restriction

You have the right to ask Fit For Life NI to restrict how we process your data. This provides for a temporary halt to processing your data. You may make the request if you believe that

We should not process your data whilst we are in discussions with you regarding a disagreement over the accuracy of your personal data, or;
We have processed your data in a manner you believe to be unlawful but rather than asking for the erasure of the data you would prefer another course of action to rectify your issue, or;
We no longer require the data but you do not wish us to dispose of it as you require it to establish or defend a legal claim

If such as restriction is put in place we shall limit the processing of your data to storage with the following exceptions

Where the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims
We must process it to protect the rights of another person

To request the restriction of processing of your data please email us at admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk or write to Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI, Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY with details of your request.

Right of Objection

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

If your data is being used for direct marketing purposes you have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you as outlined in this notice.

If we are processing your data for research or statistical purposes or processing your data based on our legitimate interests you may seek to object to the processing of your personal data.

We may reject your request

Where we are processing data for research and statistical purposes where there is a public interest in the continued processing of the data
Where we believe we have compelling legitimate grounds for continuing to process your data which outweighs any harm or damage to you through the continued processing of the data
Where the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims

To object to the processing of your data please email us at admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk or write to Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI, Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY with details of your request.

Right of Portability

Fit For Life NI must allow you to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes. This applies to personal data you have provided to us and is processed in our computer systems. You

can request that we provide you with a copy of this data in a format that can be read by another person’s or organisation’s computer system.

You have the right to transfer that copy of your data to another organisation or request that we do it for you where it is technically feasible for us to do so.

This right of transfer can be refused where we feel it may adversely affect the rights of another person.

To request the transfer of your data please email us at admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk or write to Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI, Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY with details of your request.

Right to withdraw consent

Where we rely on your consent for the processing of your data you have the right to change your mind and withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent we must stop processing your data.

To withdraw your consent for processing your data please email us at admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk or write to Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI, Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY with details of your request.

Right to Complain

You have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if:

We do not take action on your request within one month of receipt and do not provide you with reasons why
You believe that the way we are processing your data is not in keeping with the requirements of the law
You believe your rights have been infringed because of the way we have processed your data

Please see the following section for contact information.

How to contact us or raise a concern or complaint

Contacting Fit For Life NI

If you have any concerns about how your personal data is being collected and processed, or wish to exercise any of your rights detailed in this Privacy Notice please contact:

Fit For Life NI Data Protection Officer, Fit For Life NI Bannatyne Health Club and Spa, 106 Belfast Road, Holywood, BT18 9QY

Email: admin@fitforlifeni.co.uk Telephone: 02890 397768 EXT 4

Contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office

If you have wider concerns about how Fit For Life NI manages information or wish to make a complaint please contact the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). The ICO can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/. Concerns can also be logged via the ICO

website https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Future changes

If our information practices change at some point in the future we will update this policy. If material changes are made to this notice we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the website and where we communicate with you through digital media.

We keep our Privacy Notice under regular review. This Privacy Notice was last updated on 16th March 2019.