Privacy Policy

Movement Skill Performance Alliance 661 625 636 understands that protecting your personal information is important. This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or otherwise collected by us when providing our exercise physiology services, educational programs, merchandise and website or when otherwise interacting with you.

The information we collect
Personal information: is information or an opinion, whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual who is identified or reasonably identifiable.
The types of personal information we may collect about you include:
When you contact us:
  • your name;
  • your contact details, including email address and/or telephone number; and
  • any other required personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.
As a client or potential client:
  • your sensitive information as set out below;
  • your name;
  • your contact details, including email address, street address and/or telephone number;
  • images of you, including images we take of you during appointments or images you share with us;
  • your Medicare number;
  • details of your referring doctor;
  • your date of birth;
  • your credit card or other payment details (through our third party payment processor);
  • your preferences and/or opinions;
  • information you provide to us, including through feedback, customer surveys or otherwise; and
  • details of goods and services we have provided to you and/or that you have enquired about, and our response to you.
When you visit our website:
  • your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour;
  • information about your access and use of our Services, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with our online Services, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider;
  • additional personal information that you provide to us, directly or indirectly, through your use of our Services, associated applications, associated social media platforms and/or accounts from which you permit us to collect information; and
  • any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.

Sensitive information:
is a sub-set of personal information that is given a higher level of protection. Sensitive information means information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, trade union or other professional associations or memberships, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or practices, criminal records, health information or biometric information.

Health information is a type of sensitive information and includes any personal information that is collected while providing you a health service. For example, any details you share with us in an appointment about your medical history or physical or mental health will be health information.

Sensitive information: The types of sensitive information we may collect about you include:
  • your medical history, including information relating to muscular-skeletal, metabolic, renal, cardiac, chronic diseases, epilepsy, diabetes, surgeries, medication, injuries, energy levels, sleep, mental health and nutrition;
  • any current injuries or health concerns;
  • imaging reports (which may include CT and MRI);
  • our correspondence with you or with other health professionals about you; and
  • any other required sensitive information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.

How we collect personal information

We collect personal information in a variety of ways, including:
  • Directly: We collect personal information which you directly provide to us, including when you contact us, book an appointment, sign up to our services (including our educational programs) or provide information to us at your appointment or while receiving our services.
  • Indirectly: We may collect personal information which you indirectly provide to us while interacting with us, such as when you use our website, in emails and over the telephone.
  • From third parties: We collect personal information from third parties, such as from a referring doctor or other health professional, from third party CT, MRI providers or radiographers, details of your use of our website from our analytics and cookie providers and marketing providers. See the “Cookies” section below for more detail on the use of cookies.

Why we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information

Personal information: We may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:
  • to contact and communicate with you about our Services;
  • for internal record keeping, administrative, invoicing and billing purposes;
  • for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our Services, associated applications;
  • for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our services and other information that we consider may be of interest to you;
  • to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have;
  • if you have applied for employment with us; to consider your employment application; and
  • if otherwise required or authorised by law.

Sensitive information:
We only collect, hold, use and disclose sensitive information for the following purposes:
  • any purposes you consent to, such as:
    - to provide our Services to you; and
    - to provide a written report to another professional, e.g. a general practitioner;
  • the primary purpose for which it is collected, including to:
    - book an appointment for you and to send you appointment reminders;
    - contact and communicate with you about your appointment;
    - enable your referring doctor to refer you to us;
    - register you as a client;
    - check you in at our practice;
    - to provide our exercise physiology and related services to you;
    - for internal record keeping;
    - for administrative purposes including invoicing and billing purposes;
  • secondary purposes that are directly related to the primary purpose for which it was collected, including disclosure to the below listed third parties as reasonably necessary to provide our Services to you;
  • to contact emergency services, or to speak with your family, partner or support person where we reasonably believe there is a serious risk to the life, health or safety of you or another person and it is impracticable for us to obtain your consent; and
  • if otherwise required or authorised by law.

Our disclosures of personal information to third parties

We may disclose personal information to:
  • third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, to us, including (without limitation):
    - our practice management system, currently Cliniko, to manage your appointments, our clinical records and our correspondence with or related to you;
    - software to send and receive emails and for internal business purposes, including for accounting purposes;
    - IT services for IT support, advice and management;
    - telehealth solutions;
    - delivery, shipping and courier service providers;
    - payment service providers; and
    - telecommunication service providers;
  • our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
  • our existing or potential agents or business partners;
  • anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
  • courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;
  • courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required or authorised by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
  • third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics (To find out how Google uses data when you use third party websites or applications, please see www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ or any other URL Google may use from time to time), Facebook Pixel or other relevant analytics businesses; and
  • any other third parties as required or permitted by law, such as where we receive a subpoena.

Overseas disclosure

While we store personal information in Australia, where we disclose your personal information to the third parties listed above, these third parties may store, transfer or access personal information outside of Australia.

Your rights and controlling your personal information
Your choice: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to provide our Services to you and your use of our Services.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Anonymity: Where practicable we will give you the option of not identifying yourself or using a pseudonym in your dealings with us.

Restrict and unsubscribe: To object to processing for direct marketing/unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.

Access: You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you. An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to withhold access to your personal information. If we cannot provide access to your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal. If we can provide access to your information in another form that still meets your needs, then we will take reasonable steps to give you such access.

Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to not correct your personal information. If we cannot correct your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal.

Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take in response to your complaint. If you are not satisfied with our response, you also have the right to contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Storage and security
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures, to safeguard and secure personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

Cookies
We may use cookies on our website from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. If and when you choose to provide our online website with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other party’s websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Personal information from social network accounts
If you connect your account with us to a social network account, such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram, we will collect your personal information from the social network. We will do this in accordance with the privacy settings you have chosen on that social network.

The personal information that we may receive includes your name, ID, user name, handle, profile picture, gender, age, language, list of friends or follows and any other personal information you choose to share.
If you agree, we may also use your personal information to give you updates on the social network which might interest you.

Where we have accessed your personal information through your Facebook account, you have the right to request the deletion of personal information that we have been provided by Facebook. To submit a request for the deletion of personal information we acquired from Facebook, please send us an email at the address at the end of this Privacy Policy and specify in your request which personal information you would like deleted. If we deny your request for the deletion of personal information, we will explain why.

Amendments

We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary this Privacy Policy by publishing the amended Privacy Policy on our website. We recommend you check our website regularly to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.

For any questions or notices, please contact us at:
Movement Skill Performance Alliance 661 625 636
Email: admin@movementskillperformancealliance.com
Last update: 12/10/2022

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