PRIVACY POLICY

We regard the lawful and correct treatment of personal information by Central Private Hospital, as very important to maintaining confidence between those with whom we deal, our patients, the public, and ourselves. We ensure that our organisation treats personal information lawfully and correctly.

To this end we fully endorse and adhere to the principles of data protection, as enumerated in the Data Protection Act 1998.

The Data Protection Act requires all organisations which handle personal information to comply with a number of important principles regarding privacy and disclosure.

The Act states that anyone who processes personal information must comply with eight principles. These state that information must be:

•Fairly and lawfully processed

•Processed for limited purposes

•Adequate, relevant and not excessive

•Accurate and up to date

•Not kept for longer than is necessary

•Processed in line with individuals' rights

•Secure

•Not transferred to other countries without adequate protection

Further information on the Data Protection Act can be found on The Information Commissioner Website

We respect your privacy online. It is our policy:

Choice and consent

To respect the purpose for which our site visitors gave us information. We give users choice and consent over how their personal information is used, and remove names immediately upon request.

Third party use

To not sell, rent, or loan our lists to third parties for e-mail marketing.

Security

To store subscriber and password files with personal information in a secure manner. We store such files in areas not accessible to Web browsers, or behind password protection, or off-line.