Privacy Policy

Patient Privacy

PLEASE READ THIS STATEMENT CAREFULLY

Due to Privacy Legislation, we require your consent to collect personal information. This practice collects your information in order to identify your medical record and provide an accurate, quality health service. This means that we will use the information you provide in the following ways:

Due to the Federal Privacy Act 1988, we require your written consent to collect personal information about you. Please read this information carefully and sign were indicated below.

We require you to provide us with your personal details and a full medical history so that we may properly assess, diagnose and treat you. We may need to collect information from previous doctors, health care workers, pathology or x-ray services that you have consulted with, for the primary purpose of providing quality health care. This means that we will use the information you provide in the following ways:

• Best assess your health care needs and provide medical treatment.
• Administration purposes in running our practice. We may need to contact you using phone numbers provided by you.
• Billing purposes and debt collection, including compliance with Medicare and Health Insurance Commission requirements.
• Disclosure to others involved in your care, including treating doctors, specialists and hospital booking staff outside this practice. This may occur through referral to other doctors, surgery at hospitals, for medical tests and in the reports or results returned to us following the referrals.
• Collection of data for research purposes. This information is used to improve our treatment protocols, which will enable us to improve our quality of care. The data is kept in a secure manner and only staff involved in the research has access to them. You may be contacted at some time in the future for follow up purposes. No information that can be used to identify you will be included in any publication of the research results. You may withdraw from the research at any time.
• You may be contacted for follow up in the future to ensure the long-term results of your procedure.

You have the right to see any health information we hold about you as well as the ability to correct any details that are not accurate.

FULL NAME: FULL NAME: DATE OF BIRTH: DATE OF BIRTH: DATE OF BIRTH:

ADDRESS: ADDRESS:

I have read the above information and voluntarily give my consent.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………

SIGNATURE OF PARENT / GUARDIAN: SIGNATURE OF PARENT / GUARDIAN: DATE: ___/___/___ DATE: ___/___/___ DATE: ___/___/___

Readers to register

• I have read the information above and understand the reasons why my information must be collected.
• I am also aware that this practice has a privacy policy on handling patient information.
• I understand that I am not obliged to provide any information requested but failure to do so might compromise the quality of health and treatment provided to me.
• I am aware of my right to access the information collected about me, except in circumstances where access might legitimately be withheld.
• I understand I will be given an explanation in these circumstances.
• I understand that if my information is to be used for any other purpose other than that set out above, my further consent will be obtained.
• I consent to the handling of my information by this practice for the purpose set out above, subject to any limitations on access or disclosure that I notify this practice of.
• I understand that my personal information may go offshore, if I select email as a preferred mode of contact.

Key NOTE

Due to the privacy laws, results cannot be given to a third party unless written authorisation is obtained or under special circumstances.  

Privacy

Your privacy is important to LiverGUT Clinic. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that LiverGUT clinic collects, and the ways in which LiverGUT clinic uses that personal information.

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION

LiverGUT Clinic may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

• information about your use of this website.
• information that you provide for the purpose of registering with the website.
• information about transactions carried out over this website.
• information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to the website services.

 PERSONAL INFORMATION usage

LiverGUT Clinic may use your personal information to:

• to administer this website;
• personalise the website for you;
• enable your access to and use of the website services;
• send to you statements and invoices;
• collect payments from you; and
• send you marketing communications.

Where LiverGUT clinic discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, LiverGUT Clinic may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

SECURING DATA

LiverGUT clinic, will take reasonable organisational and technical precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

LiverGUT Clinic will store all the personal information you provide on its secure web-based data base and servers.

Information relating to electronic transactions entered via this website will be protected by encryption technology.

CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

Information that LiverGUT Clinic collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which LiverGUT clinic operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

You may agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information, please contact us if otherwise.

STATEMENT Updates

LiverGUT clinic may update this privacy policy from time to time and will post new version on this website. Changes will be highlighted and please ensure to  check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

OTHER WEBSITES

This website contains links to other websites. This is mainly to use standardised patient information throughout the nation. Some useful internationally recognised website links are also used for patient resource purposes.

LiverGUT Clinic is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

CONTACT

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or LiverGUT treatment of your personal information, please contact us,or write to:

Admin@liverGUTclinic.com.au

Disclaimer

WARRANTIES policy

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. LiverGUT Clinic makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, LiverGUT Clinic does not warrant that:

• this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
• the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

LiverGUT Clinic will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

• to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss.
• for any indirect, special, or consequential loss; or
• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if LiverGUT clinic has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

EXCEPTIONS

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit LiverGUT Clinic liability in respect of any:

• death or personal injury caused by LiverGUT clinic negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of LiverGUT clinic; or
• matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for LiverGUT clinic to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Liability

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, LiverGUT clinic has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against LiverGUT clinic officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website. Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect LiverGUT clinic officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as LiverGUT clinic.

UNENFORCEABLE PROVISIONS

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Terms and conditions

INTRODUCTION

These terms and conditions are for safe use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions in full or in part, you must not use this website.

Only readers at least 18 years of age or more can to use this website. By using this website and by agreeing to these terms and conditions you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to LiverGUT clinic use of cookies in accordance with the terms of privacy LiverGUT clinic policy / cookies policy.

WEBSITE Licencing

Strictly LiverGUT Clinic and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all rights reserved as our own intellectual property.

Users can use, view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use is restricted as per terms and conditions below.

Restrictions

• Republication of the material from this website on to another website;
• Sub-license and selling material from the website;
• Showing any material in public from this website;
• Duplication or otherwise exploitation of material on this website for a commercial purpose;
• Deliberate editing or modifying any material on the website; or
• Redistribution of material from this website (except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution). *

*Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.

UnaCCEPTABLE USE

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without LiverGUT Clinic express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without LiverGUT Clinic express written consent.

 

 

LiverGUT Clinic reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at discretion. Access to certain areas of this website is restricted.

If LiverGUT Clinic provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

LiverGUT Clinic may disable your user ID and password in LiverGUT Clinic sole discretion without notice or explanation.