At Molesey Veterinary Centre, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This Policy explains when and why we collect personal data (in this document the words ‘personal data’ and ‘data’ are used to describe information that can identify an individual) about people who visit our website and/or are clients of the practice. We will describe how we use that data, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, how we keep it secure, and how you can access it and make changes if you choose to do so.
We may change this Policy from time to time. Please check this page occasionally to ensure you’re happy with any changes. By using our website / registering as a client, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to: Moleseyvets@hotmail.co.uk or by writing to Molesey Veterinary Centre, 4 Park Road East Molesey Surrey KT8 9LE. Alternatively, you can telephone 0208 9791384
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Our legal entity name is Molesey Services Ltd. We trade as Molesey Veterinary Centre and our postal address Molesey Veterinary Centre, 4 Park Road, East Molesey, Surrey, KT8 9LE. Enquiries can be emailed to Moleseyvets@hotmail.co.uk
We obtain information about you when you register with the practice, purchase products or services from the practice or use our website (for example, when you complete a contact form). The types of data we collect and process might include:
Where we are required to collect personal data by law or under the terms of the contract between us, and if you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, see your pet in a consultation, carry out a procedure or dispense drugs to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel our contract with you but if we do, we will notify you at the time.
We have CCTV in and around the practice for the purposes of prevention and detection of crime and employee monitoring. ‘Phone calls are recorded for the purposes of staff training and reference. These recordings are only accessible to management and telephone recording is paused if financial information is to be shared.
If you provide us with any personal data relating to any third party (eg information about your spouse or other family members) for particular purposes, by submitting such data to us, you warrant that you have obtained their consent to provide us with their personal data for those purposes.
Like many other websites, the www.moleseyvet.co.uk website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. For example, cookies help us to track which pages you visit on our website. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better, more personalised service.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. For more information on how to switch off cookies on your computer, visit your settings. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site.
The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited
For more information on Google Analytics’ privacy policy visit here – http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Google Maps
These are Google Maps third party cookies, which are unique identifiers to allow traffic analysis to Google Maps.
Molesey Veterinary Centre may use your personal data to:
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for processing your personal data. In order to meet our responsibilities under our contract with you, we will contact our clients when required to remind you when essential healthcare is due or if we think the health of your pet might benefit from information we send. Communication about these is essential to the long-term health of your pet and might include vaccination, parasite reminders and offers on services that might help your pet live a long, happy and active life.
We may use your information collected from our website, via cookies or direct input, to personalise communications to ensure they are relevant to you.
We review our retention periods for personal data regularly. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems on an internal digitally secured server for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us. Financial information is not stored.
The table below describes the way we intend to use your data, the legal grounds we will use to process it, and explains what our legitimate interests are when that is our legal basis:
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing |
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To register you as a new client | (a) Identity (b) Contact | Performance of a contract with you |
To process and deliver our commitment to you and your pet(s) including: (a) Healthcare plan (b) Sending reminders when preventative healthcare is due (c) Loyalty card information (d) Communicating treatment plans (e) Manage payments | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you and your pet (b) Necessary to meet our professional obligations (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests to recover debts owed to us |
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records updated and to study how clients use our products/services |
To administer and protect our business and our site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical | (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant content and information to you – in addition to reminders - and measure and understand the effectiveness of our communication | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests to see how clients use our services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy |
To use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, client relationships and experiences | (a) Technical (b) Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of clients for our services, to keep our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile | Necessary for our legitimate interests to maintain our obligations to you, your pet and the profession and develop our services in order to run a viable business. |
We will never sell your personal data to anyone.
Neither will we share your information with other companies for marketing purposes without your prior consent.
We may pass your information to carefully selected partners (eg service providers or sub-contractors) for the purposes completing tasks and/or providing services to you on our behalf (eg to process Direct Debit payments for our Healthy Pet Club, send reminders or to process insurance claims).
However, when we use third-party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have terms in place that requires them to keep your information secure. Third-parties are subject to strict confidentiality obligations and may only use your personal data to perform the necessary functions and not for other purposes.
We may also disclose personal data as permitted or required by law. For example, if asked by the police or HMRC, we may share your personal data for the purposes of prevention or detection of crime. Information is not shared with them outside of this purpose.
In some instances, it may be necessary to transfer your personal data overseas. Any transfers will be made in full compliance with UK data protection laws.
In the event that our business is transferred, sold or integrated with another business, your details may be disclosed to our advisers or any prospective purchaser’s advisers and may be passed on to the new owners of the business.
Responsible pet ownership includes a wide range of care, some of which will be administered by you; some by our vets and nurses.
Our responsibilities under our contract with you might include:
In the course of providing care for your pet, we may sometimes be required to share your details with third-parties – eg your insurance company, or external laboratories for processing blood, urine or faecal samples. We only share the information that is necessary at the time, and those third parties do not have permission to use your data for anything else.
Other than is required to provide care to your pet, or as may be required by law, we will never share your data with anyone else.
We may occasionally hear of products and services, provided by others and not by us here at the practice, which may be of interest to you. We will only tell you about these products and services if you have given us your consent. You can update your preferences at any point.
Maintaining accurate records is an important part of providing the best service to you and the best care for your pet(s). Periodically – for example when you bring your pet for an appointment – we will ask if any of your details have changed. You also have the right to request a copy of the information we hold, so that you can ensure its accuracy. You can do this by the following methods:
Email: Moleseyvets@hotmail.co.uk
Telephone: 0208 9791384
Or write to us at: Molesey Veterinary Centre, 4 Park Road, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9LE
You also have the right to be forgotten and can request for erasure verbally or in writing and we have processes in place to ensure that we respond to a request for erasure without undue delay and within one month of receipt. We are also aware that there are circumstances when we can extend the time limit to respond to a request, and that the right is not absolute and only applies in certain circumstances.
You can find out more requesting information on the data collected about you here: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/personal-information/
Your personal data will be retained for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it is collected or for business or legal purposes, or in accordance with applicable laws.
Should you choose to withdraw consent for marketing contact, please note that your personal data may still be retained on our database to the extent permitted by law.
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it is treated securely. All information transmitted via our websites (we have several practices within the group) such as payment card details or bank account information is encrypted using industry-standard 256 Bit SSL. You can confirm this by looking for a padlock symbol in the address bar of any modern browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
Please note: emails are never guaranteed to be 100% secure. For this reason, we ask that you never send us any sensitive information (eg bank account details, payment card number etc) by email. Instead, please either call the practice and provide this information over the telephone or visit the practice in person.
If you send non-sensitive information (eg your email address, contact details etc) by email, you do so at your own risk. We’ll do everything we can to ensure its security.
On occasion it is also necessary for us to hold certain personal information about you on mobile electronic devices used by practitioners in the field. This information will sometimes include your name, email address, appointment address, and any related medical records. This is required in order for us to fulfil our contractual obligations with you. Devices are electronically secured and can only accessed by our staff.
You may see links from our website to other, third-party websites. We have no control over those sites, or how they may process or handle your personal data. We recommend that you check the privacy policies on those websites too.
Similarly, if you arrived at our website by clicking a link from a third-party website, this privacy policy does not cover the way data may be collected and/or processed on that third-party-website.
We are keen to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.
As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EEA. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EEA in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy.
If you use our services while you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with those services.
We review this Policy regularly. It was last updated in May 2018.