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Jerome Smith, Osteopath in Sydney CBD interviewing a male patient

Privacy policy

Who am I?
I am a registered osteopath providing hands-on treatment for back pain, neck pain, sports injuries and chronic pain in Sydney. I practice out of an osteopathic clinic in the Sydney CBD.

 

My Medicare provider number and AHPRA practitioner registration number can be provided on request.

Information I collect
I may collect contact information – this might include your name, date of birth, email address and phone number.

 

I may also collect preference information – this might include your contact and marketing preferences and brand or merchandise interests.

How I collect information
I collect contact and preference information on the website through our contact and subscribe forms. Your email marketing preference information can be changed via email using the “unsubscribe” link.

 

Any request to change your preference information can be done verbally or via email, phone or SMS.

What your information is used for
Your information may be used to contact you for marketing and/or advertising purposes and to provide news letters, health articles and offers.

 

Your information is not used for clinical purposes.
 

Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site I 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 to read online.

 

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

 

Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit my login page, I will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, I will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

 

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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.

Who I share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long I retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

 

For users that register on this website (if any), I also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).

 

Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

 

You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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