Privacy Policy

This website respects and upholds your right to privacy protection under the Australian Privacy Principles (APP’s).

This policy describes how this website manages any personal information we have about you.

What personal information about you does it hold?

It may hold the following information about you:

• name, address, telephone number(s)
• date of birth
• e-mail address
• occupation
• transaction details associated with services we have provided to you
• any additional information provided to us by you

Dr Ben LaHood Eye Surgeon Pty Ltd will destroy or de-identify personal information due to redundancy after its legal obligations to retain the information have expired.

What is done with your personal information?

The purpose for which it is collected includes:

• To communicate to you promotional offers and special events
• To fulfill your order
• We may also use some of the information for direct marketing with your permission

We will not disclose personal information about you to any person except on a confidential basis to agents that we use in the ordinary operation of our business, such as for data processing, printing or mailing.  You may at any time opt out of receiving any communications from us (other than as required for the operation of our business or your successful treatment).

How personal information is held

We store personal information:

• contained in electronic records in a secure environment.

Such records are only accessible by those persons who require access to the personal information for the purpose of carrying out their employment with us, or by contractors engaged by us for the purpose of maintaining our computer systems.

How to access or correct information

You may request access to personal information held about you in writing.

If you believe that personal information held about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request amendment of it. This will be considered.  If it is not agreed that there are grounds for this, then a note will be added to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.

Cross Border Disclosures

Before we disclose personal information to an overseas recipient, reasonable steps will be taken to ensure the overseas recipient does not breach the APP’s in relation to that information.

Miscellaneous

This document represents our policy with amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 as at March 2014.  We may change this policy from time to time.  Although we intend to observe this policy at all times, it is not legally binding in any way on us.  From time to time we may regard it as necessary or desirable to act outside the policy. We may do so, subject only to any other applicable contractual rights you have and any statutory rights you have under the Privacy Act or other applicable legislation.