Privacy policy

Cannon Barn Podiatry & Foot Pain Clinic is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office. The registration number is ZA376820.

As a healthcare service provider we need to be able to take certain details from a patient that include such things as:
• Name and address
• Telephone numbers and e-mail address(es)
• Medical history and medication details and observation notes after an appointment
• Next of kin contact details if deemed appropriate by your practitioner - for example, if the patient is under the age of sixteen.  It is your responsibility to ask permission of any third party before you give us their personal data.

All information will be kept to the essential minimum and only taken as part of an ongoing care plan for the podiatric issue you have.

Your personal treatment and observation data is stored as physical records. Your contact details are stored on the physical record and also electronically on a secure computer system. 

Physical records are kept within a secure locked location, and are used only the purpose(s) for which it has been collected. The only person who has access to your records is the person treating you.  Canon Barn Podiatry will collect and store the essential data needed in order to treat you. It will be kept up to date and we will only keep it as long as it is necessary by law after you have ceased treatment.

Your records are confidential. Occasionally it may be necessary to share information with other healthcare professionals such as other podiatrists or your GP. This will only be done with your knowledge and consent and when it is in your best interests in order to provide you with the most appropriate level of care.

If you have questions about your personal data please tell your practitioner.

Cookie policy

The cookies in use on our site are Squarespace Analytics and Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.

Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We can then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. 

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page. 

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

Squarespace Analytics use cookies to gather similar information to Google Analytics. The reason we have both is that Squarespace Analytics provide information from within our website administration portal, so they are easier to view than Google Analytics. Our site is set so that Squarespace cookies are only used after a visitor has checked and clicked the Cookie Banner notification, which appears to new visitors on the site and visitors who have not visited the site for thirty days or more. You can read more about Squarespace Cookie Policy here