Privacy Policy

Slí na Sláinte Medical

Last updated: December 2025

1. Introduction

Slí na Sláinte Medical is committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Irish data protection legislation.

This policy applies to all patients, website users, and individuals who interact with our services.

2. Who We Are

Slí na Sláinte Medical

Ballinasloe

Co Galway

Ireland

Email: info@slinaslaintemedical.com

Phone: +35391342705 

We are the data controller responsible for your personal data.

3. What Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal data:

• Personal Information
• Name
• Address
• Date of birth
• Phone number
• Email address
• PPS number (where applicable)
• Medical Information (Special Category Data)
• Medical history
• Test results
• Diagnoses
• Prescriptions
• Treatment records
• Referral information
• Website Data
• IP address
• Device information
• Browser type
• Website usage data

4. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal data to:

• Provide medical care and treatment
• Manage appointments and prescriptions
• Maintain accurate medical records
• Communicate with you about your care
• Meet legal and regulatory obligations
• Improve our services
• Manage practice administration

5. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your data under the following legal bases:

• Provision of healthcare
• Legal obligation
• Public interest in healthcare
• Consent (where required)
• Legitimate interests (administration and service improvement)
• Special category health data is processed in accordance with GDPR Article 9 for healthcare purposes.

6. How We Store and Protect Your Data

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data, including:

• Secure IT systems
• Access controls
• Confidentiality agreements
• Encrypted systems where applicable
• Secure storage of physical records
• Only authorised staff have access to patient information.

7. Sharing Your Information

We may share your information only where necessary, including with:

• Other healthcare professionals
• Hospitals and specialists
• Laboratories
• HSE and public health bodies
• Legal or regulatory authorities (where required by law)

We never sell your personal data.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal and medical records in accordance with Irish healthcare regulations and professional standards.

Data is only kept for as long as necessary for lawful and clinical purposes.

9. Your Rights Under GDPR

You have the right to:

• Access your personal data
• Rectify incorrect data
• Restrict processing
• Request erasure (where legally applicable)
• Data portability
• Object to processing
• Withdraw consent (where applicable)
• Lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission

10. Cookies and Website Data

Our website may use cookies to improve user experience and functionality.

For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.

11. Contact and Complaints

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us:

Email: info@slinaslaintemedical.com

Phone: +35391342705 

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with:

Data Protection Commission (Ireland)

www.dataprotection.ie

12. Policy Updates

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time.

The latest version will always be available on our website.