We provide Paedriatric services, Paedriatric surgery, Obstetrics and General Gynaecology – comprehensive antenatal and postnatal care, management of high risk pregnancies, primary and secondary treatment of infertility, management of uterine fibroids, urogynaecology, cancer screening, well woman checks, and breast care.
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South Shore Women’s and Children’s Hospital needs to gather and use certain personal data in delivering its services and fulfilling its obligations to you. We respect the trust you repose in us in providing us with your data and we are completely committed to preserving, protecting, and safeguarding your rights in accordance with the applicable principles of data privacy.
This Privacy Policy outlines the information we collect from you, why we collect such data, how we use the data, how you can control the data, and how we manage, store, protect, share, retain or delete your information. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you provide your data to us and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy policy is issued by South Shore Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The words "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy, refers to South Shore Women’s Clinic Limited.
By using this website (or by filing the consent section below) you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, as to allow us to utilise your data to service you more accurately.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy statement we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
This privacy policy applies generally to personal data processed in connection with the business of South Shore Women’s and Children’s Hospital. It serves to set out South Shore’s approach to your data.
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and as such, the version of this policy which you are reading may be changed at any time.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your interaction with us by sending a message to our Data Protection Officer identified below.
The type of information we collect includes Personal Data. Personal Data refers to any piece of information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual or pieces of information, which if collated together can lead to the identification of an individual person. Personal Data includes data such as email address, phone number, full name, account details, home address, school history, driver's license number, bank account number, medical history, passport number, etc pertaining to a natural person. It does not include data provided anonymously.
The specific types of personal data we may collect are as follows:
We use different methods to collect data from, and about you including through:
(a) Direct interactions
We collect your personal data when you provide the same to us in connection with your use of, or interest in our services. You may give us your data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
(b) Automated technologies or interactions
As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We may collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
(c) Third parties or publicly available sources
We may also receive your personal data from third parties to whom you have legally provided such data to, such as your employer, benefactors, etc. To the extent that such data is disclosed by third parties, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of your information. We do not control how they use or share your data and we cannot make any representations or warranties as to these.
We however have control over data that you have voluntarily shared to us directly or through your usage of our website. With your consent, we use your information to fulfil requests to receive information or materials from us, to carry out services for your benefit and to process applications and requests from you.
We do not use your data for any other purpose than for the purposes listed out in this policy and we do not sell, lend or rent any personally data about you to any third parties.
We collect data to enable us to provide our services to you; or process requests or applications which you make or are made on your behalf with your consent; or to provide you with our services.
We collect data to be able to communicate with you, to provide further information on our products and services and to assist you (mail subscriptions).
We also collect data to be able to respond to questions or requests which you submit as well as anticipate and resolve problems with any services we offer to you.
Under the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 (NDPR), personal data may be processed under any of the following lawful basis:
• Consent of the data subject
• Performance of a contract with the data subject.
• Legal obligation
• Vital interest of individuals
• Public interest
While we mostly collect and process your data with your consent, we may collect and process your data under any of the identified lawful basis depending on the circumstance.
In addition to being able to limit the data your directly provide to us, you also have the option of exercising any of the below rights with respect to your data:
It may be necessary for us to share your personal data with third parties such as:
• National Health Insurance Scheme or other Regulatory Authorities
• Hospitals
• Service Providers,
We could disclose any information about you as required by law and we may make such disclosures to law enforcement agencies and government officials, as necessary or appropriate under the relevant circumstance. Other than these instances, we do not disclose or share your personal data provided to us without your authorisation.
We have well-maintained systems for storing and managing your data, and we commit to conscientiously utilising your data in consonance with the provisions of this policy.
We have suitable security measures in place to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way by a third party.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to only those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who need to have access to their personal data to enable us to provide our services to you. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We admit however that no database is completely secure or “hacker proof” and we only guarantee the safety of your data to the extent of our undertaking all reasonable measures to protect your data.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements after which we will promptly delete your data from all our databases.
Where we have no further use for your data or where we have no continue legal or business rationale to keep your data, we shall delete your data or carry out any such activities to ensure your personal information in our possession is sufficiently destroyed.
Kindly contact us with any queries with respect to your data or this privacy policy through the contact below:
Moyosore Ikujenyo
opeoluwa.ikujenyo@southshorewch.com
South Shore Women’s and Children’s Hospital
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