Why and how Personal Data are collected

When you visit our website, you may provide us with your Personal Data.

In this regard, Ruy Garcia Clinic is likely to collect your Personal Data through the following means:

• When you press contact and send a message through the form (complaints, suggestions, or information);
• When you post comments or images on our social media pages;
• When you establish a relationship with us in the context of the provision of services by our Clinic;
• When you subscribe to the newsletter provided by Ruy Garcia Clinic;
• When you participate in a contest, marketing program, test, or survey;
• When you apply for a job with the Clinic; or
• When you otherwise send us personal information. The information collected in this context may be processed for the purposes of the relationship between Ruy Garcia Clinic and the Data Subject, in compliance with regulatory and/or legal obligations, to protect and defend the rights, interests, property, and safety of Ruy Garcia Clinic, its employees or others with whom it collaborates.

What is the legal basis for the Treatment?

The Treatment operations carried out concerning the Personal Data of clients by the Ruy Garcia Clinic are based on:

• On its legitimate interest in the realization of services, protection of its activities, in knowing better the preferences of its clients to customize offers and highlight articles, products, and/or services that best match the needs and desires of its clients;
• In the need to perform contracts entered into with its customers for the provision of services; and
• When the Treatment is required by the laws in force.

The Ruy Garcia Clinic also has a legitimate interest in carrying out recruitment operations to manage its activities in the best possible way. In this sense, the Ruy Garcia Clinic collects all necessary data on interested candidates.

The Ruy Garcia Clinic only collects and processes Personal Data if, inter alia:

• You have given consent to the Processing of your Personal Data for one or more specific purposes (where required); or
• Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract; or
• Treatment is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Ruy Garcia Clinic is subject; or
• Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of Clínica Ruy Garcia except when those interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the Data Subject, which requires the protection of Personal Data, especially if the Data Subject is a child.

The personal data collected in the Clinic, including those directly or indirectly related to your health, shall be processed by the Clinic for the provision of medical and dental services, in particular for making a medical diagnosis and providing health care or treatment appropriate to your needs and audit, as well as for managing the administrative services, in particular for scheduling appointments and complementary means of diagnosis or billing.

The data relating to your health will only be processed by professionals bound to confidentiality and the extent necessary for the provision of health care. If you wish the services provided by the Clinic to be covered by your insurance or health subsystem, the health data related to such services may be communicated to the Insurance Company and the subsystem of which you are a beneficiary, which is also required to maintain confidentiality.

What is the period of Retention of Personal Data?

The Ruy Garcia Clinic keeps Personal Data in accordance with the retention periods imposed by the legislation in force, particularly taking into account its activities, never keeping Personal Data longer than necessary according to the purposes for which they were collected and are being processed, for compliance with legal obligations (eg audit, accounting, and tax obligations), resolution of legal disputes and/or exercise their legal rights The circumstances may vary depending on the context and type of Personal Data.

How Personal Data is shared

Ruy Garcia Clinic guarantees that:

1. Personal Data is not provided to third parties without the prior consent of its holders;
2. Personal Data is not sold or given free of charge to companies that use them for direct marketing purposes or to other entities that use mailing lists for advertising products and/or services;
3. Transfers Personal Data to third parties when it receives the request from a judicial authority or a public authority with legal powers to do so, following the legal rules in force.
4. Ensures the confidentiality and security of Personal Data during transfer to the above-mentioned recipients.