Privacy policy

Responsibilities

The medical practice is responsible for processing your personal data, in particular your health data. If you have any questions about data protection or would like to exercise your rights under data protection regulations, please contact us.

Data collection and processing purposes

Your data is processed (collected, recorded, used and stored) on the basis of the medical treatment contract and legal requirements in order to achieve the purpose of the medical treatment and fulfil the associated obligations.

The data is collected as part of your treatment. We receive, will receive or have received data from other doctors and healthcare professionals involved in your treatment, provided that you have given your consent.

Only data relating to your medical treatment is processed in your medical record, which includes personal data on the patient form, such as personal information, contact details, insurance data, as well as, among other things, information collected during medical treatment, health data collected such as medical history, diagnoses, therapeutic proposals, reports and results.

Storage period

Your medical records will be kept for 20 years after your last treatment. At the end of this period, it will be safely destroyed.

Data transmission

We will only pass on your personal data, in particular medical data, to external third parties if this is permitted or required by law, or if you have consented to the passing on of data as part of your treatment.

This data is transmitted to your health insurance, accident insurance, disability insurance or school counselor for billing purposes. The type of data transmitted depends on legal requirements. These data are also forwarded to cantonal and national authorities (p. e.g. cantonal medical services, health departments, etc.

The necessary patient and billing data are forwarded to the debt collection office for collection purposes.

Depending on your medical treatment and care, data may be passed on to other authorized recipients (e.g. laboratories, other doctors, hospitals, care centers, others involved in managing your health, your school’s educational advisor, etc.).

Revocation of your consent

Any express consent to the processing of your data may be revoked at any time, in whole or in part. The revocation or request for modification of consent must be made in writing.

Once we have received your written revocation, and if your data can no longer be processed on a legal basis other than consent, data processing will cease.

Revocation does not affect the lawfulness of data processing carried out up to the time of revocation.

Information, consultation and transmission

You have the right to obtain information on the personal data processed concerning you at any time. You can access your medical file or request a copy.

In the event of termination of your business relationship, you may request the original copy of your file in person or through a third party formally identified by you, upon written and signed request.

For security reasons, we do not send files by post. They are delivered by hand. You may be charged for any work required to produce a copy or original of your file. These costs will be communicated to you in advance.

Right to data transmission

You have the right to receive, for yourself or for a third party formally identified by you, your personal and/or medical data that we process automatically or digitally.

This applies in particular to the transmission of medical and/or personal data to a healthcare professional of your choice.

Any request for the direct transfer of data to another responsible person can only be met to the extent technically possible.

Rectification of your data

If you discover or believe that the data processed concerning you is inaccurate or incomplete, you may request that it be corrected.