Maria Garcia Therapy is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) under registration number ZB283902. We take the privacy of your information very seriously and this Privacy Notice is designed to inform you about our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data which may be obtained via our website or other means including online forms, email, or phone.

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Personal information is any information that can be used to identify a living person. We currently collect and process the following information:

• Personal identifiers and contact details (name, e-mail address, contact number), and any information you chose to share with us

• Website user stats

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• You are interested in contacting us for our services and have provided us with your personal details, either via online forms or email

• You have searched online and landed on our website

 

We use the information that you have given us in order to contact you back.

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We do not disclose any information you provide to any third parties.

 

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting contact@mariagarciatherapy.com.

(b) We have a contractual obligation.

(c) We have a legal obligation.

(d) We have a vital interest.

(e) We need it to perform a public task.

(f) We have a legitimate interest.

 

Your information is securely stored. We take all reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate technical and organisational measures are carried out in order to safeguard the information we collect from you and protect against unlawful access and accidental loss or damage.

We keep personal identifiers and contact details (name, e-mail address, contact number), and any information you chose to share with us and will hold information for 7 years from the date on which we collect the data. We will then securely dispose of or delete your information.

 

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at contact@mariagarciatherapy.com if you wish to make a request.

 

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at contact@mariagarciatherapy.com.

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You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

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