Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting telospsychology.com.au. We recognise the importance of your privacy and respect your right to control how your personal information is collected and used.

This Privacy Policy applies to our website, telospsychology.com.au (the “Site”), and to the products and services provided by us.

“Client Files” means information collected and held by us as part of providing our psychology services. It may include your personal details such as name, address and contact information, your medical records, clinical history, medications, diagnoses, and treatment.

In this policy “Personal Information” means any information that may identify you, or by which your identity might be reasonably determined. The information you provide us may include, amongst other things, your name, address, email address, and phone number.

“Sensitive Information” means any information about an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, memberships of a political organisation, religious belief or affiliation, philosophical belief, membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, sexual preference or practices, criminal record, or health information.

Purpose

The purpose for which we collect personal information is to provide you with our services which can include assessing, diagnosing and treating a presenting issue. Personal and sensitive information is retained in order to document what happens during the sessions and to enable the psychologist to provide relevant and informed psychological services.

We also collect personal information from you for the purpose of providing the best service experience possible on the website and for our internal business purposes that form part of normal business practices. Some provision of personal information is optional. However, if you do not provide us with certain types of personal information, you may be unable to enjoy the full functionality of the website.

Collection

Health Records will be kept in accordance with our statutory obligations.  If we no longer require the use of your personal or health information, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify it.

To provide our services to you, we may collect Personal Information, such as your contact details, including your name, email address and contact phone number, your business or company name; your payment and billing information, which we use to bill you for the Services and to process your payments, including credit card details. We may also collect details of conversations we have had with you or any other information relevant to us.

A client’s information is collected in a number of ways during psychological consultation with us, including when the client provides information directly during a consultation or when the client interacts with us using forms and email correspondence.

We may also collect Sensitive Information about you, such as medical reports, referrals, medication, health history and other important health information where you consent and such information is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you. We automatically collect, through our Site and Services, information that is often not personally identifiable, such as the website from which visitors came to our Site, IP address, browser type and other information relating to the device through which they access the Site. We may combine this information with the Personal Information we have collected about you.

Use & Disclosure

Personal information

Personal Information collected by us will generally only be used and disclosed for the purpose it was collected. This includes maintaining your account and contact details, providing you with our products and services and processing payments. We may disclose your personal information to third parties or contractors who are integral to the provision of our services.

We may from time to time use personal information for another purpose where it would be reasonably expected by you or if permitted by the Privacy Act, including to effectuate or enforce a transaction, procuring advice from legal and accounting firms, auditors and other consultants. We may also disclose your personal information in circumstances where we are compelled by Australian legislation or a court of law to do so.

We will not disclose, sell, share or trade your Personal Information to any third parties unless we first receive your consent.

In the event that we sell our business, or engage in a transfer, mergers, restructure or change of control or other similar transactions, customer information (containing personal information) is generally one of the business assets that form part of the transaction. Your personal information may be subject to such a transfer. In the unlikely event of insolvency, personal information may be transferred to a trustee or debtor in possession and then to a subsequent purchaser.

Sensitive Information

We may provide your health information to other medical service providers, such as your general practitioner or specialist medical practitioners. We will only supply this information with your consent, or in circumstances where it is required or directly related to the primary purpose for which your information was collected, such as for the delivery of health services, referral to another health service provider, and billing and liaising with government offices regarding Medicare entitlements and payments.

Your Sensitive Information will remain confidential except when:

a. It is subpoenaed by a court, or disclosure is otherwise required or authorised by law;

b.   Where a failure to disclose the information would, in the reasonable opinion of the practitioner, place a client or another person at serious risk to life, health or safety;

c.    Where the client’s prior approval has been obtained to share or report:

another professional advisor such as your General Practitioner or legal counsel;

with a third authorised person, such as parent or guardian, employer, other health provider or third-party funder such as insurance.

Access & Accuracy

You can access and/or correct information we hold about you at any time by contacting us at adam.f.psychology@gmail.com. We encourage you to contact us to keep your Personal Information up to date.

We will respond to your request for Personal Information within a reasonable time. We reserve the right to charge an administration fee to cover the costs of responding to your request, for example, where Personal Information is held in storage.

If required by law or where the information may relate to existing or anticipated legal proceedings, we may deny your request for access to your information. We will respond to your request, setting out the reasons for our refusal in writing.

Storage & Security

We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access and modification or disclosure. We use commercially reasonable physical, technical and administrative measures to protect the Personal Information that we hold, including, where appropriate, password protection, encryption, and SSL to protect our Site.

Despite taking appropriate measure to protect personal information used and collected by us, please be aware that no data security measures can guarantee 100% security all of the time. We cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to us via the internet and such transmission is at your risk.

Client Files are kept in accordance with statutory obligations.  If we no longer require the use of your personal or health information, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify it.

Personal information may be stored electronically through third-party data centres, which may be located overseas, or in physical storage at our premises or third party secure storage facilities.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords and other account information pertaining to our Platform, apps or services.

Data Breach Notification Scheme

If we have reason to suspect a data breach has occurred, we will undertake an assessment in accordance with the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme. If we determine there has been an eligible data breach, we will notify you as soon as reasonably practicable.

If the breach relates to the My Health Records Act, we may disclose your personal information to the My Health Records System Operator under s 73A of that Act.

Identifiers

An identifier is a unique number assigned to an individual to identify them. Identifiers include Medicare Numbers and Tax File numbers. We will not adopt as our own any identifier of you or use or disclose an identifier of you that has been assigned by a government agency unless permitted under the Act.

Anonymous Health Care

You may request to remain anonymous when you seek health services from us. While we endeavour to comply with any request to use our services anonymously or using an alias, there may be circumstances in which it is unlawful or impracticable to do so.

Your health care will always remain our priority, and we are unable to provide services in circumstances where treating you anonymously is impracticable or may compromise your treatment or health outcomes.

We cannot provide Medicare rebates or access to Veterans affairs entitlements without properly identifying you. If you request to be seen anonymously you will also not be able to access the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in the event you require any medication.

We have a legal obligation under the Public Health Act, to report certain medical conditions. If during the course of providing our services, we diagnose a prescribed medical condition, we must make a report, including your identity, to the Health Department.

Cookies, web beacons, & analytics

When you interact with our Site, we strive to make your experience easy and meaningful. We, or our third-party service providers, may use cookies, web beacons (clear GIFs, web bugs) and similar technologies to track site visitor activity and collect Site data. We may combine this data with the Personal Information we have collected from Customers. Examples of information that we may collect include technical information such as your computer’s IP address and your browser type, and information about your visit such as the products you viewed or searched for, the country you are in, what you clicked on and what links you visited to get to or from our site. If we identify you with this information, any use or disclosure of that information will be in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Third-party websites

At times, our Site may contain links to other, third-party websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy, but, instead, is governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites.

Changes to this policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updated versions of this Privacy Policy will be posted on our Site - you should check periodically to review our current Privacy Policy, which is effective as of the effective date listed above. Your continued use of any of our Site and Services constitutes your acceptance and understanding of the Privacy Policy as in effect at the time of your use. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the Personal Information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavour to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on the Site, or where practical, by emailing Customers. This policy current as of 20 May 2021.

Complaints and Enquiries

If you have any questions or complaints regarding privacy, or if at any time you believe we may have wrongfully disclosed your Personal Information or breached our privacy policy, please email adam.f.psychology@gmail.com.