How we use your personal data
At Barley Mow Dental Care we are committed to protecting your personal data.
We will use your sensitive personal data for the purposes of providing our services to you or if we need to comply with a legal obligation. Our legal ground of processing this data is your explicit consent and provision of Dental treatment
We will use your non-sensitive personal data to (i) register you as a new patient, (ii) manage payments, (iii) collect and recover monies owed to us (iv) to manage our relationship with you, (v) send you details and reminders of your treatment and appointments.
Our legal grounds for processing your data are in relation to points (i) to (iv) above are for performance of a contract with you and in relation to (iii) and (v) above, necessary for our legitimate interests.
We will not share your details with third parties for marketing purposes.
Disclosure of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data with (i) service providers who provide IT and system administration support, (ii) professional advisors including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers (iii) HMRC and other regulatory authorities (iv) to other professionals for the purposes of discussing your treatment
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. They are only allowed to process your personal data on our instructions. We will, in most cases, reply within one month of the date of the request unless your request is complex or you have made a large number of requests in which case we will notify you of any delay and will in any event reply within 3 months.
If you wish to make a Subject Access Request, please send the request to the practice or email us marked for the attention of the Data Compliance Officer.
Data security
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We also limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breaches and will notify you and any applicable regulator where we are legally required to do so.
Data Deletion
In certain circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. See the section entitled ‘your rights’ below for more information.
We may anonymise your personal data so that you can no longer be identified from such data, for research or statistical purposes. In these cases we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Data retention
We will only keep your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it. We may retain your data to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements for 11 years or until you turn 25.
You have the right to ask us to delete the personal data we hold about you in certain circumstances. See section 6 below.
Your rights
You may chose to exercise certain rights in relation to your personal data that we process. These are set out in more detail here:
In relation to a Subject Access Right request, you may request that we inform you of the data we hold about you and how we process it. We will not charge a fee for responding to this request unless your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, in which case we may charge a reasonable fee, or decline to respond.
Keeping your data up to date
We have a duty to keep your personal data up to date and accurate; therefore, from time to time we will contact you to ask you to confirm that your personal data is still accurate and up to date.
If there are any changes to your personal data (such as a change of address) please let us know as soon as possible by writing, or via email to
Complaints
We are committed to protecting your personal data, but if for some reason you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).
We would be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.