Privacy Policy

Your personal data and privacy in Healthy Weight Clinics

 

General
The AVG is the new law for the protection of privacy and personal data. Pursuant to this law, an organization that works with personal data has certain obligations and the person who owns the data has certain rights. In addition to this general law, specific rules apply to privacy in healthcare. These rules are set out in the Medical Treatment Contracts Act (WGBO). These privacy regulations are intended to inform you about your rights and our obligations that apply under the GDPR and the WGBO.

 

The clinic
Various personal data of yours can be processed in our clinic. This is necessary to be able to treat you well medically and necessary for the financial settlement of the treatment. In addition, processing may be necessary for, for example, combating a serious threat to your health or to comply with a legal obligation (for example, the mandatory reporting of an infectious disease under the Public Health Act).

 

Clinic Duties
According to the AVG, Healthy Weight Clinics is responsible for the processing of personal data that takes place in the clinic. The clinic fulfills the obligations arising from this as follows:

  • Your data is collected for specific purposes:
    • for care provision;
    • for efficient management and policy;
    • for support of scientific research, education and information.
  • In principle, no processing takes place for other purposes.
  • You will be informed that your personal data is being processed. This can be done by your healthcare provider, but also via a folder or via our website.
  • All employees within Healthy Weight Clinics are committed to handling your personal data confidentially.
  • Your personal data is well protected against unauthorized access.
  • Your personal data will not be kept longer than necessary for proper care.

For medical data, this retention period is in principle 15 years (from the last treatment), unless longer storage is necessary, for example for the health of yourself or your children. This is at the discretion of the practitioner.

 

Your rights as a data subject:
You have the following rights:

  • The right to know whether and which of your personal data are being processed.
  • The right to inspect and copy that data (insofar as this does not affect the privacy of another person harmed).
  • The right to correct, supplement or delete data if necessary.
  • The right to request (partial) destruction of your medical data. This can only be met if the retention of the data is not of significant importance to someone else and the data must not be retained on the basis of a statutory regulation.
  • The right to add a self-declaration (of a medical nature) to your file.
  • The right to object to the processing of your data in certain cases.

If you want to exercise your rights, you can do so verbally or through e-mail inform Healthy Weight Clinics. Your interests may also be represented by a representative (such as a written proxy, or your trustee or mentor).

 

Your details
You must bear in mind that medical data is, in principle, retained for a maximum of fifteen years under the law.

 

Provision of your personal data to third parties
The employees of Healthy Weight Clinics have the obligation to treat your personal data confidentially. This means, for example, that the healthcare provider provides your personal data requires your explicit consent. There are, however, some exceptions to this rule. On the basis of a statutory provision, the healthcare provider's duty of confidentiality can be broken, but also when there is a fear of a serious danger to your health or that of a third party. In addition, recorded data can, if necessary, be exchanged orally, in writing or digitally with other healthcare providers.
(for example, the pharmacist who processes a prescription and thus receives information from the treating physician).

 

Exchange data

After you have given specific permission for this, the clinic exchanges relevant medical data with your pharmacy via the National Exchange Point.

 

Question or complaint
Do you have a question or a complaint? For example about who we share data with or how we handle your medical data? Then we would be happy to discuss this with you. You will find here the Complaint procedure and the report form.