briym privacy policy

We understand how important your privacy is. We take care to maintain your confidentiality, in accordance with data protection laws (GDPR 2018) and the ethical guidance of APHP/NRPC. These guidelines have been set up to protect your confidential material.

Your personal information

At the point of booking your initial consultation with us you will be asked for your personal contact information, name, address, e mail, telephone number, and to share details of the issues you are looking for help with. An emergency contact and your GP will also be requested.

All notes made at each session will be anonymised. They will be kept for seven years after your therapy has come to an end. After this time, they will be confidentially destroyed.

 All personal information will be held on paper file and stored securely in a lockable secure filing cabinet. This information can only be accessed by briym. We will never pass on your contact details to any third-party organisation for the purpose of sales marketing or research and will never use your personal data for any other purposes other than the administration of the therapy sessions we are providing to you i.e. to arrange, cancel and rearrange appointments and collect payment for sessions.

Under GDPR as a client you have the following rights.

Right to be informed – what information, how it is stored, and for how long

Right to rectification- to rectify any inaccuracies, and to complete information that is incomplete

Right of access to your information

Right to erasure in certain circumstances – (some records can be kept in order to protect against claims -even if you as a client ask for them to be deleted)

Right to object to processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

Right to restriction of processing your personal information in certain circumstances