PRIVACY POLICY

1. General

ADHD-BED Integrated® Pty Ltd (“ADHD_BED”) is committed to providing you with the best possible client service experience. This following document sets forth the Privacy Policy for the ADHD-BED Integrated® website, www.adhd.clinic (the “website”). By using our website or engaging as a patient, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of ADHD-BED Integrated®’s terms of engagement (in the event that you are or become a patient) or otherwise provides the basis upon which we will deal with your personal information and is provided so as to inform you of:

  • the kinds of information that we collect and hold, which is likely to be ‘health information’ for the purposes of the Privacy Act;
  • how we collect and hold personal information;
  • the purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information;
  • how you may access your personal information and seek the correction of that information;
  • how you may complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how we will deal with such a complaint;
  • whether we are likely to disclose personal information to overseas recipients.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies: ADHD-BED Integrated® uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The information gathered through these technologies is used in part to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

ADHD-BED Integrated® welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further information, or wish to complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles or the handling of your personal information by us please contact us via email at [email protected].

If you are dissatisfied with our response, you may refer the matter to the OAIC:

Phone: 1300 363 992

Email: [email protected]

Fax: +61 2 9284 9666

Post: GPO Box 5218

Sydney NSW 2001

Website: https://www.oaic.gov.au/individuals/how-do-i-make-a-privacy-complaint


2. Collection of your personal information

The Privacy Act provides that individuals must have the option of not identifying themselves, or of using a pseudonym, when dealing with our practice, except in certain circumstances, such as where it is impracticable for us to deal with you if you have not identified yourself. However, for access to many additional ADHD-BED Integrated® client features on the website or to become a patient you are required to submit personally identifiable information.

Types of information we may collect:

Personal Information: Personal information is information defined as such under the Privacy Act and is used to specifically identify an individual, such as a user’s name, address, and e-mail address. Personal information also includes demographic information, such as date of birth, gender, geographic area, and preferences, when such information is linked to other personal information that identifies the individual. We may also collect and store the following personal information and material should you become a patient:

  •  Your name, address, date of birth, email and contact details
  • Medicare number, DVA number and other government identifiers
  • Other health information about you, including:
  • notes of your symptoms or diagnosis and the treatment given to you
  • your specialist reports and test results
  • your appointment and billing details
  • your prescriptions and other pharmaceutical purchases
  • your dental records
  • your genetic information
  • your healthcare identifier
  • any other information about your race, sexuality or religion, when collected by a health service provider.

Usage Information: Personal information does not include usage information. Usage information is data we collect about our services and client usage of those services, from which individual client identities have been removed. In other words, information about how you use a service might be collected and combined with information about how others use the same service, but no personal information will be included in the resulting data. Usage information helps us understand trends and client needs so we can better refine and introduce features to improve user experience. We might share usage information about our users with third parties for various purposes, such as helping us better understand and improve our services, and for advertising and marketing purposes.

And any other such information or material that we deem necessary and which may or may not include personal or health information.

3. Use of Cookies for Advertising and Marketing Purposes:

ADHD-BED Integrated® and our third-party partners, such as our advertising and analytics partners, use cookies and other tracking technologies (e.g., web beacons, device identifiers, and pixels) to provide functionality and to recognize you across different services and devices. We use cookies for various purposes, including:

  • Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our site and how users use our site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our website, the pages they visited on our website, what time of day they visited our website, whether they have visited our website before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our website more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information, and to monitor the level of activity on our website.

  • Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, selecting advertisements that are based on your interests, and measuring the number of ads displayed and their performance, such as how many people clicked on a given ad.

  • Social Media Cookies: These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our site or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities.

Your Choices Regarding Cookies: You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by setting or amending your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.

Consent for Cookies: In line with GDPR requirements, we will obtain your consent for the use of cookies where required, with clear and comprehensive information about the purposes for processing, especially for advertising and marketing cookies. You can withdraw your consent at any time.

Changes to Cookie Use: From time to time, we may use client information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice, including updating our cookie usage. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

This section ensures transparency about the use of cookies and tracking technologies for advertising and marketing purposes and provides users with options to control their cookie preferences, in compliance with GDPR guidelines.

4. Sharing of your personal information

We may occasionally hire other companies to provide services on our behalf, including but not limited to handling payments and client support enquiries. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. ADHD-BED Integrated® takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.

5. Use of your Personal Information

For each visitor to reach the website, we expressively collect the following non-personally identifiable Usage Information, including but not limited to browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed while browsing the website, page access times and referring website address. This collected information is used solely internally for the purpose of gauging visitor traffic, trends and delivering personalized content to you while you are using the website.

From time to time, we may use client information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will use for these new purposes only, data collected from the time of the policy change forward will adhere to our updated practices.

We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes of providing health advice or any other purpose for which such information is provided and where it would be reasonable to expect us to be able to use said information, as you expressly consent from time to time, or as otherwise permitted by law or pursuant to the Privacy Act. We may also use and share your personal information for the following express purposes:

  •  to supply our services to you including but not limited to responding to your enquiries;
  •  to send appointment confirmation or reminders;
  •  to share with third party health care providers with your consent;
  •  to send you payment and invoicing details and with Medicare or health insurance agencies;
  •  to update your Personal Information;
  •  to lessen or prevent a threat to a person’s life, health or safety or that of the public and/or it is impractical or improper to obtain your prior consent;
  •  to assist in locating a missing person;
  •  to defend, exercise or establish a legal or equitable claim or as part of any mediation, arbitration or investigation;
  •  where we are required by law to do so;
  •  where we engage the services of a third party to provide certain services and where said third party is under an obligation no less onerous than those of ADHD-BED Integrated® pursuant to this Privacy Policy and only where absolutely necessary and as detailed further below in item 6.

6. Email and Newsletters

When you create an account or become a patient, we ask for personal information such as your name, delivery address and email address. This personal information may be used to send you the newsletter(s) and other information that you have opted in to receive. You may choose not to receive emails or electronic newsletters from us by following the “unsubscribe” instructions in the specific email from which you wish to opt-out; (B) contacting [enter email contact] and specifying the particular email(s) from which you wish to be removed.

7. Disclosure of Usage Information

ADHD-BED Integrated® will not sell, rent, or share personal usage information with third parties without your prior consent except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy.

  • ADHD-BED Integrated®’s own business purposes: We use and disclose information about you for our own internal statistical, design, or operational purposes, such as to estimate market size, measure traffic patterns, and understand demographic, user interest, usage and other trends among our users. We might outsource these tasks and disclose personal information about you to third parties, provided the use and disclosure of your personal information by these third parties is restricted to performance of such tasks. We might also share personal information with third-party vendors who assist us in performing internal functions necessary to operate our business. We require our third-party vendors to keep such information confidential and to only use the information for the purpose it was provided.
  • Business transfers: Information about our users, including personal information, might be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personally identifiable information could be transferred to third parties as one of the business assets of the company.


8. International Users and Overseas Storage

We collect, process, and maintain your information in Australia under the Privacy Act 1988. If you are using this website from outside Australia, by providing your information to us you are consenting to the transfer of your information to Australia for processing and maintaining in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. Where we hold personal information (including health information) on any overseas storage platform, said information is held in an encrypted environment and as such the transmission to said overseas storage platform will not constitute a disclosure.

9. Security

We use reasonable security measures to store and maintain personally identifying information to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction by unauthorized parties while it is under our control.

We provide no guarantee that such personally identifiable information will not be the target of malicious or unauthorised attempts by third parties to obtain such information and in the event of such a third-party obtaining information through unauthorised means, we will be unable to control the use of such information.

10. Third Party Links

ADHD-BED Integrated® website might have links to other websites. We do not control, and therefore cannot be responsible for, the collection, use, or disclosure of your information by any such third-party websites. Please carefully review the privacy policy of any third-party website as they may differ from ours.

11. Third Party Sources

ADHD-BED Integrated® might also obtain information about you from third parties (such as demographic marketing information, address verification, third-party mailing lists or credit agencies) and collate such information with your personal information. Should we ever obtain this information, we will treat it all as personal information under this Privacy Policy.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

ADHD-BED reserves the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time and will apply to all personal and other information held by us at the time unless we are otherwise prevented from doing so by law.

13. Accessing Your Personal Information

You have a right to access your personal information, subject to exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please let us know. You may be required to put your request in writing for security reasons. ADHD-BED Integrated® reserves the right to charge a fee for searching for, and providing access to, your information on a per request basis.