Last updated: 20 October 2026
This policy explains how Kenmare Foot Clinic collects, uses and protects your personal information, including the health information we hold about you as a patient.
Kenmare Foot Clinic, Unit One, O’Shea House, New Road, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, V93 W592, is the data controller for the information described in this policy. You can contact us by email at info@kenmarefootclinic.ie or by phone on 085 288 1393.
Contact details you give us when you enquire or book an appointment, such as your name, phone number and email address.
Appointment details, including the date, time and service booked.
Anything you tell us in a message sent through the contact form on this website.
Health information you give us before and during treatment, including relevant medical history, medication, symptoms, and a record of the treatment provided.
Basic technical information about your visit to this website. This is covered separately in our Cookie Policy.
Health information is a special category of personal data and is given additional protection under data protection law. We collect it only where it is necessary to assess and treat you safely.
We handle health information only where it is necessary to provide your care, in line with the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The legal basis we rely on will be confirmed on this page shortly.
To arrange, confirm and provide your appointments. To keep an accurate clinical record of your care. To contact you about an appointment. To answer enquiries you send us. To meet our legal, professional and insurance obligations.
We do not sell your information and we do not share it for marketing purposes.
We may share it with any provider we use to manage appointments or records, with our insurer or professional body where we are required to do so, with another healthcare professional where that is necessary for your care and you have agreed to it, and with the providers who host this website and our email. Those providers act on our instructions only.
Clinical records are kept for as long as professional guidance and our legal and insurance obligations require, and are then securely deleted.
Enquiries that do not lead to an appointment are kept only as long as needed to deal with them, and are then deleted.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you, to have inaccurate information corrected, to ask us to delete information, to ask us to restrict how we use it, to object to our use of it, and to receive it in a portable format.
Some of these rights are limited where the information forms part of a clinical record we are required to retain. If that applies we will explain why.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@kenmarefootclinic.ie.
Your information is stored securely and access is limited to those who need it to provide your care or run the clinic.
This website only sets cookies if you accept analytics cookies. Which cookies are used, the other services the website relies on, and how to change your choice are all set out in our Cookie Policy.
If you accept analytics cookies, we use Google Analytics to understand how the website is used, such as which pages are visited, the type of device and approximate location. Google processes this information on our behalf. We use it only to improve the website and not to identify you. We rely on your consent for this, and you can withdraw it at any time through the cookie settings link on our Cookie Policy page.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please contact us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission, the supervisory authority in Ireland, at dataprotection.ie.
We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of the page shows when it was last changed.
