Privacy Policy & Record Keeping

The personal data I collect about you will include data relating to your name, address, date of birth, wider contact details and data relating to all aspects of your health. I will process your personal data to allow me to provide you with my services as your medical herbalist in assessing your health needs and prescribing a personalised formula of herbal medicines. I will only use your data for the purpose for which it was collected. I will only share your data with other health practitioners (e.g your GP, or another herbalist) with your permission. I will only grant access to or share your data with authorised third parties where I am required or entitled to do so by law under lawful data processing.

I currently record your personal data on paper along with any notes made during a consultation and do not store any of the above information electronically. Consultation notes are kept in a locked box. It is a condition of my Insurance Policy to take and retain client records. The policy wording notes and current advice is that records will be kept for at least 7 years following the last occasion on which treatment was given. In the case of treatment to minors, it is advisable that records should be kept for at least 7 years after they reach the age of majority (18).