Privacy Policy

Tania Galvani Naturopath knows that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of all of our website visitors and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.

Tania Galvani Naturopath, UK based company.

This Privacy Notice describes how taniagalvani.com collects and processes your personal information through the website.

  1. What is Personal Data?
  2. What are my rights?
  3. What personal data do you collect?
  4. How do you use my personal data?
  5. How long will you keep my personal data?
  6. How and where do you store or transfer my personal data?
  7. Do you share my personal data?
  8. How can I access my personal data?
  9. Changes to this Privacy Notice
  10. How to contact us
  11. Comments
  12. Embedded content from other websites

1. What is personal data?

Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as “any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier”. Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers. The personal data that we use is set out in Part 4 How do you use my personal data?

2.    What are my rights?

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:

The Right to Information

This Privacy Notice should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 10 How to contact us.

The Right of Access

The personal data we hold about you. Part 3 What personal data do you collect? will tell you how to do this.

The Right to Rectification

The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 10 How to contact us to find out more.

The Right to Erasure

The right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we have. Please contact us using the details in Part 10 How to contact us to find out more.

The Right to Restriction of Processing

The processing of your personal data.

The Right to Data Portability

This means that if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.

The Right to Object

The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.

The Right to Avoid Automated Decision-Making

We do not use your personal data in this way.

For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 10 How to contact us.

Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

3.    What personal data do you collect?

We may collect some or all of the following personal data (this may vary according to your relationship with us): Name/telephone number/e-mail.

We process the Personal Data supplied by you once you have decided to sign up to our newsletter.

All client case histories are stored as a paper copy only in a locked filing cabinet. The details are used solely for the purposes of providing a safe and effective Naturopathic, Nutritional, kinesiology, pain genie or healing session by your practitioner. If you send us your copy via email then it is immediately printed and deleted from the computer.

All data stored on WordPress is password protected.

E mails sent via Mailchimp, are also protected by password.

Your E-mail address will be used to send out updates, to educate and to advertise offers. You can opt out of this at any point by selecting the opt-out option.

All data collected is relevant, collected for a specific reason and accurate. We would draw your attention to your right to request from us access to your personal data as well as your rights to have such data corrected or deleted once it is no longer necessary for the fulfilment of your contract with us.

4.    How do you use my personal data?

Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. This may be because the data is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data, or because it is in our legitimate business interests to use it. Your personal data may be used for one of the following purposes:

  • Supplying our services to you. Your personal details are required in order for us to enter into a contract with you.
  • Communicating with you. This may include responding to emails or calls from you.
  • Supplying you with information by email or post that you have opted-in to (you may unsubscribe or opt-out of email communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in every TaniaGalvaniNaturopath email that we send you, or sending an e-mail to Tania, at info@taniagalvani.com stating sufficient details about your subscription for us to be able to find it within our systems.

With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email or telephone with information, news, and offers on our products or services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.

5.    How long will you keep my personal data?

We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Your personal data will therefore be kept for the following periods (or, where there is no fixed period, the following factors will be used to determine how long it is kept):

  • With regard to digital issue subscribers, the details provided at sign-up remain on a MailChimp database. This records whether you have unsubscribed or whether our emails to you bounce, so that we no longer send you emails unless you choose to re-subscribe.
  • Personal client records will be kept for 7 years or in the case of minors, for 7 years after their 18th Birthday.

6.    How and where do you store or transfer my personal data?

We share your data with external third parties, as detailed below in Part 7 Do you share my personal data? that are based outside of the EEA. The following safeguards are applied to such transfers: We will only transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission has deemed to provide an adequate level of personal data protection. More information is available from the European Commission. Where we transfer your data to a third party based in the US, this may be protected if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This requires that third party to provide data protection to standards similar levels of data protection to those in Europe. More information is available from the European Commission. Please contact us using the details below in Part 10 How to contact us,  for further information about the particular data protection mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data to a third country. The security of your personal data is essential to us, and to protect your data, we take a number of important measures, including the following:

  • Storing digital subscription details with a reputable third party, MailChimp; Access to this source is password-protected and restricted to our publisher and website designer in the case of MailChimp.

7.    Do you share my personal data?

We may sometimes contract with the following third parties to supply products or services to you on our behalf. These may include payment processing, delivery, and marketing. In some cases, those third parties may require access to some or all of your personal data that we hold.

  • We use MailChimp for the processing of our emails to subscribers of our Tania Galvani Naturopath, Newsletters
  • We do not sell or rent any details of subscribers to other companies for their own marketing purposes.

If any of your personal data is required by a third party, as described above, we will take steps to ensure that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the third party’s obligations under the law, as described above in Part 6 How and where do you store or transfer my personal data?.

If any personal data is transferred outside of the EEA, we will take suitable steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR, as explained above in Part 6 How and where do you store or transfer my personal data?.

In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

8.    How can I access my personal data?

If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”. All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email shown in Part 10 How to contact us. There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding. We will respond to your subject access request usually within two weeks and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.

9.    Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection. Any changes will be made available within this section of our privacy policy and will also be added elsewhere if this is appropriate.

10.    How to contact us

If you have any questions about taniagalvani.com’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protections rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email: info@taniagalvani.com

11. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

12. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.