Dr Steven Andrew Birrell – Consultant Psychiatrist

 Privacy Policy

Date of Policy: 18th October 2022

 

The type of personal information we collect 

We collect and process the following information:

• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details, web data, email addresses, telephone numbers)

• Clinical and legal information, including court and legal paperwork, and medical records. 

 

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• Business enquiry

• Legal instruction

We use the information that you have given us in order to contact potential business customers, to provide accurate quotes, and in the provision of medicolegal opinions. 

We will only share written information with your solicitor, who will then control access. If required to provide evidence in court, we may also require to share this information in a wider forum. 

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are: 

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting info@drstevenandrewbirrell.scot

(f) We have a legitimate interest.

 

How we store your personal information 

Your information is securely stored. 

We keep legal and clinical information for a period of 1 year after any appointment or written report is provided. We will then dispose of your data via secure and encrypted software, or – in the form of paper documents – by secure shredding and confidential waste disposal. 

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Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. 

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. 

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at info@drstevenandrewbirrell.scot if you wish to make a request.

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How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@drstevenandrewbirrell.scot

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:            

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk