Information For Patients About Data Protection

Dear Patient,
The protection of your personal data is important to us. In accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO)) we are required to inform you about the purpose of the collection, storage, or transfer of your personal data by our practice. We also inform you about your rights regarding the protection of your data.

1. RESPONSIBILITY FOR DATA PROCESSING

Responsible for data processing:
Praxisklinik
Dres. Restel & Dr. Brandenstein GbR
Fachärzte für plastische und ästhetische Chirurgie
Königsallee 66, 40212 Düsseldorf
Tel.: 0211-3230606
You can contact the responsible data protection officer at:
Name: Christian Imhoff
Anschrift: Drennesweg 9, 47445 Moers
E-Mail: datenschutz@reintjes.de
Mobil: 0151 – 12 68 82 14

2. PURPOSE OF DATA PROCESSING

Your data are processed on the basis of legal requirements so that the contract for treatment concluded between you and your physician and all its associated obligations can be fulfilled. For this purpose, we process your personal data, especially data pertaining to your state of health. These data include your medical history, diagnoses, therapy recommendations and findings recorded by us or other physicians. Other physicians or psychotherapists who are treating you may also make your data available to us for this purpose (e.g. in medical reports). Collection of this data is the pre-condition for your treatment. If the necessary information is not provided, appropriate treatment cannot be given.

3. RECIPIENTS OF YOUR DATA

We only transfer your personal data to third parties when this is permitted by law or you have given us your explicit consent. Your data may be transferred to other physicians / psychotherapists, associations of statutory health insurance physicians, health insurances, health insurance medical services, medical councils, and invoicing agencies for private medical services. The data is transferred mainly for the purpose of billing the medical services you have received, to clarify any medical queries or queries regarding your health insurance status. In individual cases, the data may be transferred to other authorised recipients.

4. STORAGE OF YOUR DATA

We store your personal data only for as long as is necessary for completion of your treatment. We are required by law to keep these data for a period of at least 10 years after conclusion of your treatment. Other regulations may stipulate longer retention periods, for example 30 years for X-rays in accordance with Paragraph 28, Section 3, of the German Radiology Regulation.

5. YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to be informed about the storage of data pertaining to your person, as well as the right to demand the correction of incorrect data. Furthermore, you have the right under certain conditions to demand that your data be deleted or to restrict the processing of your data, and you have the right to data portability. Your data are processed on the basis of legal regulations. Only in exceptional circumstances do we need your consent. In such cases, you have the right to revoke your consent to future processing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible data protection authority if you are of the opinion that the processing of your data is not lawful.

6. GOOGLE ANALYTICS AND COOKIES

This website uses Google Analytics, an internet evaluation service from Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses what are known as "cookies" - these are text files which are stored on your computer to enable an analysis of website use by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address is first truncated within member states of the European Union or other signatory states to the agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA and then truncated. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, to prepare reports of website activities and to provide other services associated with website and internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transferred by your browser to Google Analytics is not amalgamated with any other Google data. You can prevent cookies being saved by changing a setting in your browser software, but please be aware that this may mean you are not able to use all the website functions to their full extent. You can also prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin from the link below. http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

If you do not agree to the use of cookies for visitor tracking on this website, you can switch the storage and use of your interests off or on again as you wish. The tracking cookies can be switched off using the same procedure as for setting an opt-out cookie, thus preventing anony-mised collection of data. If you should delete all your cookies, please be aware that the opt-out cookie is also deleted and may need to be renewed. Setting an opt-out cookie: To set the cookie and deactivate Google Analytics Tracking click here.

For more information go to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html?hl=de (general information about Google Analytics and Data Protection). We draw your attention to the fact that on this website Google Analytics has been extended to include the code “gat.anonymizeIp()” to guarantee anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).

7. LEGAL BASIS

The legal basis for the processing of your data is Article 9, Section 2 letter h) of the DSGVO in connection with Paragraph 22, Section 1 No. 1 letter b) of the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz [Federal Data Protection Act]. If you have any queries, please contact us.

Your Practice Team