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We are committed to protecting the privacy of client information and to handling your personal information in a responsible manner in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012, the Australian Privacy Principles and relevant State and Territory privacy legislation (referred to as privacy legislation).
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and disclose your personal information, how you may access that information and how you may seek the correction of any information. It also explains how you may make a complaint about a breach of privacy legislation.
This Privacy Policy is current from 27 April 2020. From time to time we may make changes to our policy, processes and systems in relation to how we handle your personal information. We will update this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes. Those changes will be available on our website and in the practice.
Our main purpose for collecting, holding, using and disclosing your personal information is to provide healthcare services to you in a safe, efficient and responsive manner.
When you register as client at our practice, we collect personal information that is necessary and relevant to provide you with the best possible, individualised psychological care. Only staff who need to view your personal information will have access to it. If we need to use your information for anything else, we will seek additional consent from you to do this.
The information we will collect about you includes your:
Wherever practicable we will only collect information from you personally. However, we may also need to collect information from other sources such as treating GPs, Medicare, your health fund or DVA where necessary.
We collect information in various ways, such as over the phone, SMS communication, in writing, in person at our practice or over the internet if you communicate and transact with us online (i.e. our website, email, online booking system, social media). This information may be collected by clinical and non-clinical staff (i.e. Practice Manager, receptionists).
In emergency situations we may also need to collect information from your next of kin, relatives or friends. We may be required by law to retain medical records for certain periods of time depending on your age at the time we provide services.
Your personal information may be stored at our practice as electronic records. Personal information that we hold is protected by:
We will treat your personal information as strictly private and confidential. We will only use or disclose it for purposes directly related to your care and treatment, or in ways that you would reasonably expect that we may use it for your ongoing care and treatment. For example, the disclosure of your records to another clinician if your treating clinician is unavailable for your appointment.
There are circumstances where we may be permitted or required by law to disclose your personal information to third parties. For example, to Medicare, Police, insurers, solicitors, government regulatory bodies, tribunals, courts of law, hospitals, or debt collection agents.
We may need to occasionally disclose information about you to outside contractors who work with our practice for business and accreditation purposes such as an IT service provider or Accreditation Agencies. We impose security and confidentiality requirements on how they handle your personal information according to the Australian Privacy Principle. Outside contractors are required not to use information about you for any purpose except for those activities we have asked them to perform.
Other than for the purpose of providing psychology services or as otherwise stated above, our practice will not share your personal information with any third party without your consent.
We will not transfer your personal information to an overseas recipient unless we have your consent or we are required to do so by law.
You are entitled to request access to, and correction of, your personal information. You can lodge this request either via email (info@acaciapsychology.com) or by calling the practice on 1300 668 200. Our practice will acknowledge your request within 3 business days. We can post the requested information to your postal address, or we can email the information to you in accordance with our Email Policy.
There may be a fee for the administrative costs of retrieving and providing you with copies of your records.
Our practice will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is accurate, complete, up to date and relevant. From time to time, we will ask you to verify that your personal information held by our practice is correct and current. If you wish to correct or update your information, please make your request in writing to info@acaciapsychology.com
If you have a complaint about the privacy of your personal information, we request that you contact us in writing. Upon receipt of a complaint we will consider the details and attempt to resolve it in accordance with our complaints handling procedures.
If you are dissatisfied with our handling of a complaint or the outcome, you may make an application to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) by calling 1300 363 992 or visiting their website www.oaic.gov.au.