Privacy Policy

Alison Guthrie Homeopathy (“I”, “me”, “my”) is committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, use, store, and protect your information when you use this website or engage with my homeopathic services.

I am the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. My contact details are provided at the end of this page.

Data Controller

What Data I Collect

When you submit the contact form on this website, I collect the following information:

• Your name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Consultation type preference (initial or follow-up)
• Preferred consultation format (in-person or online)
• Any message you choose to include (optional)

When you visit this website, I may also collect anonymised usage data through Vercel Analytics if you have consented to analytics cookies. This data does not identify you personally and includes information such as pages visited, referral source, and general geographic region.

Purpose and Legal Basis

I process your personal data for the following purposes:

Health Data

As a homeopathic practitioner, I may process information relating to your health during consultations. Health data is a special category of personal data under GDPR (Article 9).

I do not collect health data through this website. Any health-related information is only discussed during consultations, with your explicit consent, and is handled in accordance with professional confidentiality standards.

Third-Party Services

I use the following third-party services to operate this website:

I do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to any other parties.

Data Retention

Contact form submissions are retained in my email system for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which they were collected (typically the duration of the practitioner-client relationship, plus any period required by professional or legal obligations).

Analytics data collected by Vercel is anonymised and retained in accordance with Vercel's data retention policies.

Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access — You can request a copy of the personal data I hold about you.
• Right to rectification — You can request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to erasure — You can request deletion of your personal data, subject to legal obligations.
• Right to restrict processing — You can request that I limit how I use your data.
• Right to data portability — You can request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to withdraw consent — You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting me.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact me at alisoncoard@gmail.com. I will respond to your request within 30 days.

Complaints

If you believe that your data protection rights have been violated, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission:

Changes to This Policy

I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. I encourage you to review this policy periodically.