Privacy Policy

Newark Therapeutic Massage (NTM) is committed to protecting your data privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out NTM’s policies regarding treatment of information that may be considered to be private and demonstrates our commitment to your data privacy.

Privacy Policy

This Policy governs Newark Therapeutic Massage's (NTM's) offline and online data collection practices. Newark Therapeutic Massage may change the content or services found on Newark Therapeutic Massage's website at any time, without notice, and consequently Newark Therapeutic Massage's Privacy Policy may change at any time in the future.  You agree to revisit this page regularly and your continued access to or use of the website will mean that you agree to the changes.
Public Areas: When using the public portion of Newark Therapeutic Massage's website, you can do so anonymously.  You are not required to provide us with any personal information and we do not monitor or collect any personally identifiable information from you on your use of the public portions of the website. Newark Therapeutic Massage may track the number of users who visit areas of the website for internal use such as improving accessibility to website facilities and marketing, but this tracking will not identify you individually. 
Use of Personal Information:  Newark Therapeutic Massage uses the personal and professional information that applicants provide when completing client intake forms, questionnaires or surveys, or completing or updating profiles, in order to conduct Newark Therapeutic Massage programs generally and also to provide notice of important events, activities, and proposals. You may “opt-out” of having this information used for such purposes by notifying Newark Therapeutic Massage in writing.  Otherwise, Newark Therapeutic Massage does not sell, lease or provide to any person or organisation personal information except as specified above and in the form information materials. Newark Therapeutic Massage may have to release information about users where authorised by the individual user or as otherwise required by law or NTM policy. NTM does not disclose credit card account information, except to submit the necessary information to the appropriate clearinghouse.

GDPR 2018 Privacy Notice

Scope
This document refers to personal data, which is defined as information concerning any living person (a natural person who hereafter will be called the Data Subject) that is not already in the public domain.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is EU wide and far more extensive than its predecessor the Data Protection Act, along with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), seek to protect and enhance the rights of EU data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU and its storage within the EEA.
1 – Newark Therapeutic Massage, based at 96 Harcout Street, Newark, NG24 1RF, which hereafter for the purposes of this Privacy Notice will be referred to as the NTM, is pleased to provide the following information:
2 – Who we are
At NTM we aim to treat conditions related to the soft tissues of the body - this mainly pertains to the muscular and connective tissues addressing tension and soreness of those areas through the application of therapeutic massage techniques such as Swedish and Deep Tissue massage.
The practice may also provide other related treatments, about which NTM will be pleased to provide more details.
3 – Personal Data
a) For the purposes of providing treatment, NTM may require detailed medical information. We will only collect what is relevant and necessary for your treatment. When you visit our practice, we will make notes which may include details concerning your medication, treatment and other issues affecting your health. This data is always held securely, is not shared with anyone not involved in your treatment. To be able to process your personal data it is a condition of any treatment that you give your explicit consent to allow a massage therapist to document and process your personal medical data. Contact details provided by you such as telephone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses may be used to remind you of future appointments and provide reports or other information concerning your treatment. 
b) For marketing purposes, NTM may also use the contact details provided by you to respond to your enquiries, including making telephone contact and emailing information to you which the practice believes may be of interest to you. 
c) In making initial contact with the practice you consent to the massage therapist maintaining a marketing dialogue with you until you either opt out (which you can do at any time) or we decide to desist in promoting our services.  NTM do not broker your data and you can ask to be removed from our marketing database by emailing or phoning the practice using the contact details provided at the end of this Privacy Notice. 
d) Some basic personal data may be collected about you from the marketing forms and surveys you complete, from records of our correspondence and phone calls and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to, personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. 
e) NTM will only collect the information needed so that we can provide you with the services you require, the business does not sell or broker your data.
4 – Legal basis for processing any personal data
To meet our contractual obligations obtained from explicit Patient Consent and legitimate interest to respond to enquiries concerning the services provided.
5 – Legitimate interests pursued by NTM
To promote treatments for patients with all types of health problems including back pain and neck pain, tennis elbow, frozen shoulders, sciatica, headaches, sports injuries, and other conditions relating to the relaxation of tension in the soft tissues of the body.
6 – Consent
Through agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to NTM processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by using the postal, email address or telephone number provided at the end of this Privacy Notice.
7 – Disclosure
NTM will keep your personal information safe and secure, only staff engaged in providing your treatment will have access to your patient records, although, in the future if a separate administration team is employed they will also have access to your contact details so that they can make appointments and manage your 
account on behalf of the therapist. NTM will not disclose your Personal Information unless compelled to, in order to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental requests. The practice may also enforce its Terms and Conditions, including investigating potential violations of its Terms and Conditions to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of its staff.
8 – Retention Policy
NTM will process personal data during the duration of any treatment and will continue to store only the personal data needed for eight years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After eight years all personal data will be deleted, unless basic information needs to be retained by us to meet our future obligations to you, such as erasure details. Records concerning minors who have received treatment will be retained until the child has reached the age of 25.
9 – Data storage
All Data is held in the United Kingdom. NTM does not store personal data outside the EEA.
10 – Your rights as a data subject
At any point whilst NTM are in possession of, or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights:
  • Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
  • Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records. Although we must hold certain data on you in order to administer treatment. 
  • Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing.
  • Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
  • Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
  • Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right not to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.
In the event that NTM refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge. At your request NTM can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed.
11 – You can request the following information:
  • Identity and the contact details of the person or organisation (NTM) that has determined how and why to process your data.
  • Contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable.
  • The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
  • If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of NTM and information about these interests.
  • The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
  • Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
  • How long the data will be stored.
  • Details of your rights to correct, erasure, restrict or object to such processing.
  • Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
  • How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (ICO).
  • Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
  • The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
  • Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.
12 – To access what personal data is held, identification will be required
NTM will accept the following forms of identification (ID) when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your driving licence, passport, birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If NTM is dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released. All requests should be made to [email protected] or by phoning +44 (0) 7909567222 or writing to us at the address further below.
13 Complaints
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by NTM you have the right to complain to us. If you do not get a response within 30 days, you can complain to the ICO.
The details for each of these contacts are:
Adrienne Deaville-Reed, MT
96 Harcourt Street, Newark, NG24 1RF
Telephone 07909567222 or email: [email protected]  
ICO
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF 
​Telephone +44 (0) 303 123 1113 or email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/

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