This privacy policy explains how Cardiologists.London ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses and protects information when you visit our website or contact us about a consultation. We are committed to handling your personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Cardiologists.London is the website of Dr. James Howard and Dr. Ahran Arnold, consultant cardiologists practising at OneWelbeck Heart Health (1 Welbeck Street, London W1G 0AR), Hammersmith Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital. For privacy queries please contact pa@cardiologists.london.
We collect:
Once you become a patient, your clinical information is processed by the hospital you attend (OneWelbeck, Hammersmith or Charing Cross) under their own privacy notices. Cardiologists.London does not store patient medical records on this website.
We use the information you give us to respond to your enquiry, arrange appointments, and where appropriate to send you information related to your care. Technical and cookie data is used to maintain site security, measure how visitors use the site, and to measure the effectiveness of any advertising we run.
Our legal basis for processing your contact information is the performance of a contract (or steps prior to entering one) when you ask us to arrange a consultation. For analytics and advertising cookies, our legal basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
We use the following categories of cookies:
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clearing your browser storage for this site, which will cause the banner to reappear.
We do not sell your data. We share information only where necessary:
Enquiry emails are retained for as long as needed to manage your care, and otherwise no longer than necessary. Server log data is retained for a maximum of 12 months. Analytics data is retained according to Google's standard retention settings (typically up to 14 months).
Under UK GDPR you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to ask for it to be corrected or erased, to object to or restrict our processing of it, and to data portability. To exercise these rights, please email pa@cardiologists.london. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
We may update this policy from time to time. The "last updated" date at the top of the page will always reflect the most recent revision.