Parisa Sekhavati
Ph: 0494105258
https://parisasekhavati.com.au
PRIVACY POLICY
Parisa Sekhavati respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our clients and website visitors. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information. "Personal information" is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you. Collection of personal information Parisa Sekhavati will, from time to time, receive and store the personal information you enter onto our website, provide it to us directly, or give it to us in other forms.
This information we collect includes:
• Your name, address, date of birth, email address and contact details
• Information about your health and family health history
• Information about other health professionals involved in your care.
• Any government identifiers such as Medicare number and DVA number. However, we do not use these for the purpose of identifying you in our practice
• Other health information about you, such as a record of your symptoms, your relevant medical history, the diagnosis made and the treatment we give you, specialist reports, test results, your appointment and billing details, your prescriptions, your healthcare identifier, your health fund details and, other information about you collected for the purposes of providing care to you.
We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to when you provide feedback, provide information about your personal or health status, change your content or email preference, respond to surveys and/or promotions, or provide financial or credit card information. Additionally, we may Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). collect any other information you provide while interacting with us.
Parisa Sekhavati collects personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you interact with us electronically or in person when you access our website and when we provide our services to you.
We may receive personal information from third parties. If we do, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Use of your personal information
Parisa Sekhavati may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information and updates about our services. We may also make you aware of new and additional products, services, and opportunities that are available to you. We may use your personal information to improve our products and services and better understand your needs.
Parisa Sekhavati may contact you by various means, including, but not limited to, telephone, email, SMS, social media, or mail. We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of our services.
We may, from time to time, need to disclose personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request.
We may be required to disclose personal information regarding your treatment and care in correspondence with your referring medical practitioner. If you are a Medicare or Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA) client, the Department of Human Services or DVA could request to see your medical records. Private health funds can also request access to client files for proof of a consultation. We may also use your personal information to protect the copyright, trademarks, legal rights, property or safety of Parisa Sekhavati, its customers or third parties. Information that we collect may, from time to time, be stored, processed or transferred between parties located in countries outside of Australia.
If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality. We would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances.
By providing us with personal information, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy. Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will request that the third party follow this Policy regarding handling your personal information.
Security of your personal information
Parisa Sekhavati is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us 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 information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
Information transmission and exchange are carried out at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit or receive from us.
Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that the personal information we collect will not be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Access to your personal information
You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). A small administrative fee may be payable for the provision of information. If you would like a copy of the information we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, outdated, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at info@parisasekhavati.com.au.
We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act.
Changes to Privacy Policy
Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this Policy at any time, at our sole discretion, and all modifications will be effective immediately upon posting them on our website or notice board. Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy.
Website
When you visit our website, https://parisasekhavati.com.au, we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site, etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site so that we can improve our service.
We may, from time to time, use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files that a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and store details about your use. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose to reject them by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
Our website may, from time to time, use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third-party services such as Google AdWords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.
Third-party sites
We have links to other websites that we do not own or control. This is to assist you with online booking for in-person appointments. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third-party websites do not constitute sponsorship endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Parisa Sekhavati is not responsible for the privacy practices of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
Complaints about privacy
If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please send details of your complaints to Parisa Sekhavati. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.
Reviewed: June 2024
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