Privacy Policy
Overview
This privacy policy sets out how Levitas Group Limited uses and protects any information that you give Levitas Group Limited when you use this website. Levitas Group Limited is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, it will only be used in accordance with our privacy statement. Levitas Group Limited reserves the right to change this policy from time to time by updating this page.
Scope of This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies only to the actions of Levitas Group Limited and users with respect to this website. It does not extend to any websites that can be accessed from this website, including but not limited to any links we may provide to social media websites.
Data Protection
It is necessary for the purpose of providing healthcare for Levitas Group Limited to retain patients’ personal data, including identity, contact details and medical information. All information is held within a secure and encrypted computer system.
Patients may request copies of their medical records at any time, in accordance with our Access to Medical Records policy, available on request or from reception. We will not share your information with any other parties without your express consent, except in cases of emergency such as a life-threatening illness.
We comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office. Please note that any demand for access may be subject to a fee which covers our costs in providing you with the information requested. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, and we will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
The Information We Collect
Information about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit and page views), collected in a way which does not identify anyone.
Information you provide by filling in forms on our website, such as when you register to receive information, refer yourself, or are referred by a doctor. This may include your name, date of birth, gender, contact information, demographic information, and — where applicable — financial information such as card numbers, in each case in accordance with this privacy policy.
How the Information Is Used
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service — in particular to improve the content and design of the website, to contact you about a request or enquiry, and to provide you with information you may have requested.
By sending us your details, health records and similar information, you consent and accept that it may be necessary for us to forward these clinical details electronically or in other formats. Levitas Group Limited will never share your information with other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Cookies
Our website uses analytical cookies, which allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the site. This helps us improve the way our website works — for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Cookies do not harm your computer and do not enable us or any third party to view any information on your computer’s hard drive. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies — though if you block all cookies, including essential ones, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website, and cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites.