Privacy Policy:
Osteopath Sutherland Shire ("Osteopath Sutherland Shire") operates osteopathsutherlandshire.com.au and may operate other websites. It is Osteopath Sutherland Shire's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Osteopath Sutherland Shire collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Osteopath Sutherland Shire's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Osteopath Sutherland Shire's visitors use its website. From time to time, Osteopath Sutherland Shire may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Osteopath Sutherland Shire also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on osteopathsutherlandshire.com.au blogs/sites. Osteopath Sutherland Shire only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Osteopath Sutherland Shire's websites choose to interact with Osteopath Sutherland Shire in ways that require Osteopath Sutherland Shire to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Osteopath Sutherland Shire gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at osteopathsutherlandshire.com.au to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Osteopath Sutherland Shire are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Osteopath Sutherland Shire collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Osteopath Sutherland Shire. Osteopath Sutherland Shire does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Osteopath Sutherland Shire may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Osteopath Sutherland Shire may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Osteopath Sutherland Shire does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Osteopath Sutherland Shire discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Osteopath Sutherland Shire's behalf or to provide services available at Osteopath Sutherland Shire's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Osteopath Sutherland Shire's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Osteopath Sutherland Shire will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Osteopath Sutherland Shire discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Osteopath Sutherland Shire believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Osteopath Sutherland Shire, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Osteopath Sutherland Shire website and have supplied your email address, Osteopath Sutherland Shire may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Osteopath Sutherland Shire and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Osteopath Sutherland Shire takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Osteopath Sutherland Shire uses cookies to help Osteopath Sutherland Shire identify and track visitors, their usage of Osteopath Sutherland Shire website, and their website access preferences. Osteopath Sutherland Shire visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Osteopath Sutherland Shire's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Osteopath Sutherland Shire's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Osteopath Sutherland Shire, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Osteopath Sutherland Shire goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Osteopath Sutherland Shire may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Osteopath Sutherland Shire and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Osteopath Sutherland Shire may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Osteopath Sutherland Shire's sole discretion. Osteopath Sutherland Shire encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a osteopathsutherlandshire.com.au account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Covid 19 Privacy Policy
Prospective and past patients, have been asking if they are to be required to be vaccinated.
The answer is no, our policy will remain that we will never discriminate against anyone regarding their race, religion, age, gender or medical (vaccination) status.
When anyone asks us, our policy from the 20th February 2022 will be:
We will not be commenting on our past covid status, exemption status or medical (vaccination) status.
Patient files and how we’ll communicate with you
Patients history/files will not be shared with any other party, institution or entity without permission from the patient.
Information you provide us, in consultations, via email, phone or otherwise, is stored remotely on secure servers as per industry standards. All clinic staff have access to your information and only access your information for legitimate clinical purposes. Please note that practitioners may, for ease of communication, contact you from their personal mobile devices or personal email accounts.
For appointments, our software will email you an appointment confirmation on making a booking. Likewise, by default, our software will send you an email the day prior to each appointment to remind you of your appointment.
From time to time, we use our software to notify patients via email or text that may be of interest to them – for example when staff are taking and/or returning from leave and general clinic news. If you receive an email or text from us and you’d prefer to opt-out, unsubscribe or simply reply ‘stop’ and we’ll remove you from the list.