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Privacy statement

Which data we record, why, and what your rights are.

Privacy and cookie policy of midwifery practice beWonder

General

Midwifery practice beWonder processes a range of your personal data. This is necessary for your medical treatment and for settling the costs of it. Processing this data may also be necessary in order to meet a legal obligation — for example the duty to report an infectious disease under the Public Health Act.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. Since that date the same privacy legislation applies throughout the European Union. Alongside the general rules there are specific rules for privacy in healthcare, set out among other places in the Dutch Medical Treatment Contracts Act (WGBO).

Midwifery practice beWonder is therefore obliged to handle your personal data with care. This privacy policy sets out your rights and our duties as they apply under the GDPR and the WGBO.

The practice's duties

Midwifery practice beWonder is responsible for processing all the personal data it receives about you. Certain duties come with that, and we meet them as follows:

  • As a rule your data is processed only for providing care, for efficient management and policy, and to support scientific research, teaching and public information. In principle no processing takes place for other purposes
  • You are informed that your personal data is being processed. This may be through the registration form, a leaflet or our website
  • All staff at midwifery practice beWonder are bound to treat your personal data in strict confidence
  • Your personal data is properly protected against unauthorised access
  • Once your treatment has ended, we keep your personal and medical data for a further twenty years; see How long we keep data

Automated decision-making

No automated decisions are taken about individuals, certainly not on matters that could have far-reaching consequences for them. This refers to decisions taken by computer programs or systems without a person — a member of beWonder staff, for instance — being involved.

Midwifery practice beWonder uses the Orfeus software to record personal data.

Your rights

You have the following rights:

  • The right to know whether personal data about you is being processed and, if so, which data
  • The right to see that data and to receive a copy of it, in so far as this does not harm another person's privacy
  • The right to have data corrected, added to or removed, should that be necessary
  • The right to ask for your medical data to be destroyed, in whole or in part. Such a request will be granted if keeping the data is not of considerable importance to someone else and/or it does not have to be kept under a statutory provision
  • The right to add a statement of your own, of a medical nature, to your file
  • The right in certain cases to object to your data being processed

If you wish to exercise your rights, you can let midwifery practice beWonder know in person, by letter, by email or through the enquiry form on the website.

The registration form

By answering the questions on the registration form as fully as you can, you help us a great deal in finding your file and in protecting your privacy. Everything you tell us is of course treated in strict confidence.

Sharing your personal data with others

Staff at midwifery practice beWonder are obliged to treat your personal data in strict confidence. That means, for example, that we always need your express consent before passing your personal data on to anyone else. It is only ever passed to people directly involved in carrying out the treatment agreement you entered into with us — the midwife, your family doctor, the child health clinic, the maternity care service, the gynaecologist and the paediatrician. Anonymised data may also be supplied to bodies responsible for monitoring quality, such as PRN and Peridos.

There are a few exceptions to this rule. A care provider's duty of confidentiality may be broken on the basis of a statutory provision. The same applies if there is reason to fear serious danger to your health or that of someone else. Recorded data may also, where necessary, be exchanged with other care providers verbally, in writing or electronically.

Whenever we request information about you from a third party, a consent form signed by you is always sent with the request.

How we protect personal data

Midwifery practice beWonder takes the protection of your data extremely seriously and does everything it can to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorised access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorised alteration. If you feel your data is not properly protected, or you have any indication of misuse, please contact us.

A question or a complaint

Do you have a question or a complaint — about how we handle your medical data, for instance, or about who we share your data with? Your midwife will gladly talk it over with you. Midwifery practice beWonder would also point out that you can always lodge a complaint with the national supervisory authority, the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

Privacy on this website

Privacy and cookie statement

Midwifery practice beWonder attaches great importance to the privacy of visitors to this website. To safeguard your privacy as well as we can, we work to a number of core principles.

  • Informing you — We want to tell you as clearly as we can how and why we process personal data. That is what this privacy statement is for
  • Collecting less — We take care to limit our collection of personal data to what is genuinely needed for the website to work properly and for the services you have asked for
  • No marketing based on personal data — We do not hand over personal data for marketing purposes
  • Securing — We take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data, and we require the same of parties that process personal data on our behalf
  • The right to see and correct — We respect your right to see, correct or delete your personal data

This privacy statement sets out how we put these principles into practice and how we respect and protect your right to privacy.

Use of personal data

By visiting the website and using the services offered on it, you leave certain data with us. That may be personal data. We store and use only data we have obtained directly from you, or data where it was clear to you when you supplied it that it was being given to us to process.

Depending on the service you use, we may collect the following:

  • name, address and place of residence
  • email address
  • telephone number
  • date of birth
  • name of your family doctor
  • name and policy number of your health insurer
  • citizen service number (BSN)
  • details of earlier pregnancies
  • first day of your last period

For each service, the website states which data we collect.

This data is used for the following purposes:

  • handling your registration with the practice
  • calling you, for instance to arrange an appointment
  • recording your wishes for the birth, if you fill in a birth plan
  • improving our care on the strength of a completed feedback form
  • answering a question or comment you send us

The forms on this site are emailed to the practice; they are not stored on the website itself.

Security

We have taken security measures to limit misuse of, and unauthorised access to, personal data as far as possible. We keep no visitor statistics: there is no analytics service connected to this website.

How long we keep data

Unless a legal obligation stands in the way of deletion, your personal data is never kept longer than is needed for the purposes described in this privacy statement or on the website. For medical data there is a statutory retention period of 20 years, counted from the last change to the file.

Third-party websites

This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites reached through links on this website. We cannot guarantee that those third parties handle your personal data reliably and securely. We therefore advise you to read the privacy statement of such websites before using them.

Cookies

This website sets no cookies of its own. We do not use Google Analytics or any comparable measurement service, and we do not track you across other websites.

We do keep two small preferences in your own browser's local storage. They stay on your device and are never sent to our server:

  • your choice of the light or the dark theme
  • your answer to the cookie notice, so that we do not show it again on every visit

You can clear these preferences at any time through your browser settings.

Map and video from others

The contact page carries a Google Maps map, and a few pages carry a YouTube video. Those services do set cookies and do see your IP address as soon as they load. That is why they stay switched off until you allow them yourself: you first see a panel with a button. If you give no permission, nothing is fetched from Google or YouTube.

What Google and YouTube then do with that data is set out in their own privacy statements, and we have no influence over it. You can withdraw your permission by clearing this website's storage in your browser.

Changes to this privacy and cookie statement

We reserve the right to make changes to this statement. We recommend consulting it regularly so that you are aware of any changes.

Seeing, changing and deleting your data

For questions about our privacy policy, or about seeing, changing or deleting your personal data, you can contact us at any time.

Contact

Tel. 06 39 45 68 14 — Verloskundigenpraktijk beWonder, Twenterand-Wierden