Privacy Policy

Intro

Green Oak Therapies is committed to safeguarding the privacy of its clients, website visitors and service users. We respect and value the privacy of clients and everyone who visits Our Site and will only collect and use information in ways that are useful to you and in a manner consistent with your rights and Our obligations under the law.

This Policy applies to Our use of any and all data collected by us in relation to you as a client or use of Our Site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it.

Your acceptance of Our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon acceptance of our contract or your first use of Our Site. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must inform us and stop using Our Site immediately.

Data Controller & Protection Officer

Green Oak Therapies is to be considered a data controller for the purposes of this policy and in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, effective from 25 May 2018 (“GDPR”).

Green Oak Therapies is registered with the Information Commissioners Office.

Green Oak Therapies has decided that a Data Protection Officer is not required, in order to be compliant with GDPR.

GDPR Data Processing

Green Oak Therapies hold and process data under varying legal basis (see Appendix One; legal basis). Our most common processes are detailed as follows:
  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud
Green Oak Therapies also process data in terms of;
  • Testimonials - see clauses 16-19
  • Photographs at events; we reserve the right to use pictures taken at events for promotion and social media as part of a contractual basis on attendance, subject to your rights to opt out

Website

Data will only be collected through Green Oak Therapies’ website and booking function if you voluntarily submit it and consent to Us using it for the purposes of providing our Services and/or marketing (such as newsletters). Depending on the use of Our Site, We may collect some or all of the following data:
  • Name
  • Gender, Sexuality and Religion
  • Contact details of your GP and/or other Health Care Professionals
  • Job Title and Profession
  • Contact information such as email addresses and telephone numbers
  • A list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on Our Site, and the site you exit to (automatically collected through tracking software eg Google Analytics and Google Search Console). The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website and to understand usage for further development.
Green Oak Therapies' website has an SSL certificate to add a greater level of security.

This Privacy Policy does not extend to any websites that are linked to from Our Site or Social Media accounts (whether We provide those links or whether they are shared by other users).

We have no control over how your data is collected, stored or used by other websites and We advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites or platforms before providing any data to them.

Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned. We remind all users to act with caution when posting.

Green Oak Therapies does not store or process data directly on the website. The website does not contain logins for staff or members of the public to use.

Cookies

Green Oak Therapies uses cookies to:
  • Identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website and services generally
  • Help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services
  • Store your website use preferences.
Green Oak Therapies will ask you to consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website.

Website users are able to refuse, to accept or block cookies through their browser security settings at any time. Blocking cookies may reduce usability or the number of features available on our website.

Green Oak Therapies does not store, save or collect personal information from the website through cookies.

How We Use Your Data

Under GDPR we will ensure that your personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently, without adversely affecting your rights. We will only process your personal data if at least one of the following basis applies:
  • You have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes
  • Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at the request of you prior to entering into a contract
  • Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject
  • Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or of another natural person
  • Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller; and/or
  • processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

Testimonials

Green Oak Therapies may process testimonials on an anonymised basis

Green Oak Therapies reserve the right to copy, screen shot and use comments made about Green Oak Therapies in a public arena, such as on social media

Testimonials may be shared on Green Oak Therapies' website, social media, paper and/or digital marketing.

Green Oak Therapies reserve the right to use anonymised testimonials or testimonials without use of identifiable data, where consent is not recorded following provision of a testimonial.

Social Media

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are subject to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution regarding their own privacy and personal details. Neither this website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms. Users wishing to discuss sensitive details should do so through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

Green Oak Therapies' website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page through your social media platform account.

Green Oak Therapies reserves the right to publish comments, testimonials and posts made on social media in unedited form. We use automated social media walls and social share functions on our website to reflect up to date social media engagement. Website users are reminded that engagement with these functions is at their own risk.

Users are advised to take caution and use good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by Green Oak Therapies. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.