Privacy Policy

The conditions mentioned below are applicable for the use of the website of Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV, with registered office at Vosweg 2c/101, 3190 Boortmeerbeek and as contact person: Dr. Karl Waked: info@drwaked.be.

Each website visitor acknowledges these conditions and agrees to them. Moreover, each visitor holds the responsibility to read through the terms and conditions on a regular basis to be up to date on the most recent version.

A new European regulation on personal data protection is applied since May 25, 2018. It is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We are committed to informing you that this website and work processes are GDPR compliant. You can read how we do this in our privacy policy. The Belgian law require us to maintain the privacy of your health information and to inform you about our privacy practices by providing you with this Notice. We must follow the privacy practices as described below. This Notice will take effect on 01/01/2023 and will remain in effect until it is amended or replaced by us.

It is our right to change our privacy practices provided law permits the changes. Before we make a significant change, this Notice will be amended to reflect the changes and we will make the new Notice available upon request. We reserve the right to make any changes in our privacy practices and the new terms of our Notice effective for all health information maintained, created and/or received by us before the date changes were made.

Upon written request, you have the right to inspect and get copies of your health information (and that of an individual for whom you are a legal guardian.) There will be some limited exceptions. If you wish to examine your health information, you will need to complete and submit an appropriate request form. You may also request access by sending us an email to the address at the end of this Notice.

You may request a copy of our Privacy Notice at any time by contacting Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV. Information on contacting us can be found at the end of this Notice.

Your personal information

The General Data Protection Regulation defines the term Personal Data as follows: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("the patient"); an identifiable natural person is considered to be one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more elements characterizing the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Upon visiting this website no personal data will be processed, unless you fill in the contact form. In case of filling out the contact firm, those data will be collected and processed by Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV. Additional personal information collected through direct contact with you may be processed as well and added to your personal patient file. We will keep your health information confidential, using it only for the following purposes:

• Treatment: We may use your health information to provide you with our professional services. We have established “minimum necessary or need to know” standards that limit various staff members’ access to your health information according to their primary job functions. Everyone on our staff is required to sign a confidentiality statement.

• Disclosure: We may disclose and/or share your healthcare information with other health care professionals who provide treatment and/or service to you. These professionals will have a privacy and confidentiality policy like this one. Health information about you may also be disclosed to your family, friends and/or other persons you choose to involve in your care, only if you agree that we may do so.

• Emergencies: We may use or disclose your health information to notify, or assist in the notification of a family member or anyone responsible for your care, in case of any emergency involving your care, your location, your general condition or death. If at all possible we will provide you with an opportunity to object to this use or disclosure. Under emergency conditions or if you are incapacitated we will use our professional judgment to disclose only that information directly relevant to your care. We will also use our professional judgment to make reasonable inferences of your best interest by allowing someone to pick up filled prescriptions, medical imaging or other similar forms of health information and/or supplies unless you have advised us otherwise.

• Healthcare Operations: We will use and disclose your health information to keep our practice operable. Examples of personnel who may have access to this information include, but are not limited to, our  medical records staff, outside health or management reviewers and individuals performing similar activities.

• Required by Law: We may use or disclose your health information when we are required to do so by law. (Court or administrative orders, subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process.) We will use and disclose your information when requested by national security, intelligence and other federal officials and/or if you are an inmate or otherwise under the custody of law enforcement.

• Abuse or Neglect: We may disclose your health information to appropriate authorities if we reasonably believe that you are a possible victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence or the possible victim of other crimes. This information will be disclosed only to the extent necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health or safety or that of others.

• Public Health Responsibilities: We will disclose your health care information to report problems with products, reactions to medications, product recalls, disease/infection exposure and to prevent and control disease, injury and/or disability.

• Marketing Health-Related Services: We will not use your health information for marketing purposes unless we have your written authorisation to do so.

• Appointment Reminders: We may use or disclose your health information to provide you with appointment reminders, including, but not limited to, voicemail messages, text messages or emails.

• Payment: We may use and disclose your health information to seek payment for services we provide to you. This disclosure involves our business office staff and may include insurance organisations (private and public) or other businesses that may become involved in the process of mailing statements and/or collecting unpaid balances.

If you do not agree with the way your personal information is processed, please contact us by sending an email to info@drwaked.be.

The law on Personal Data Collections allows you at any given moment to have insights into your personal and health information, amend your personal and health information and make the necessary changes, if you feel it is accurate or incomplete. Your request must be in writing and must include an explanation of why the information should be amended. Under certain circumstances, your request may be denied. If you wish to make changes to your personal information, please send an email to info@drwaked.be.

Restrictions 

You have the right to request that we place additional restrictions on our use or disclosure of your personal and health information. We do not have to agree to these additional restrictions, but if we do, we will abide by our agreement. (Except in emergencies.) Please contact us if you want to further restrict access to your health care information. This request must be submitted in writing.

Content

All gathered information, under the form of text, files, images, videos and other media, may be used by Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV for informative purposes only. No information will be used for marketing purposes unless we have your written authorisation to do so.

Accountability

Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV can not be held responsible for errors or incomplete information on this website. Incorrect information or shortcomings on this website will not result in any form of financial compensation towards you.

Duration of the data processing

Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV keeps the personal data of the different parties at least during the duration of the assignments entrusted to it. There are various obligations and protections applicable to patient records, such as professional secrecy, professional safekeeping obligations and the like. There are legitimate interests that allow the retention of personal data to continue after the closure of records. Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV confirms that this processing of personal data will be limited to what is necessary within the framework of patient interests. Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV is bound by professional secrecy, which includes personal data.

Access to the website

The access to this website and the use of it is strictly personal. The information provided on this website may not be used for any commercial, political, or publicity purposes, not for any form of commercial offers in any form.

Intellectual Property and Copyright

The user of this website acknowledges explicitly that the provided information, such as text and graphic elements, are protected by the Law on Intellectual Property and will remain property of Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV. The full or partial use, reproduction, adaptation, and/or publication of any information on this website by third parties, for commercial or personal purposes and in any form, is explicitly prohibited without requesting the written consent of Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV beforehand. Equally so, it is prohibited to spread any of the given information on this website electronically or to save it, with the exception of the automatic "cache" savings in the browser's memory. If Dr. Karl Waked does not undertake immediate action against any form of violence against the IP and Copyright, this does not mean that there is a consent given to the use of the provided information nor that a prosecution by law will not be set in place.

Log files

Upon every visit to this website, your actions may be stored as log files on the website server. This is limited to the standard log files, meaning that only the basic information will be saved in the log files. The saved information encompasses at which point in time which web pages are visited, as well as the IP address of the website visitor. This information will only be used to analyse specific trend, for good website maintenance, and to gather general demographic information. No analysis of the IP addresses will be made.

Cookies

The website of Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV makes use of cookies that allow you to personalise certain aspects of the website. For example, a cookie may allow you to save your language preference. The cookies that are used on the website of Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV will also gather demographic information of the website visitor. You can refuse the installation of these cookies on your computer, but such refusal may interfere with access to certain services of the websites.

Safety

On the website of Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV, several technical and organisational security measures are set in place to avoid the destruction, loss, falsification, alteration, unauthorised access or inadvertent disclosure to third parties of personal data collected as well as any other unauthorised processing of such data. Sensitive information that has been shared through the website, both online and offline, will be protected. No personal or health information will be passed or sold to third parties under any condition. The only exceptions to this policy are mentioned at the beginning of this Notice (under "Your personal information").

Links

The website of Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV contains links to third party websites. Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV can not be held responsible, nor accountable, for any incorrect or incomplete information on those third party websites. Every visitor of this website is encouraged to read the Privacy policy of every third party website that he or she visits through clicking on any link of this website. The Privacy policy of Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV only applies to the information gathered on this website.

Website maintenance

In order to keep this website under continuous maintenance, Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV has the right to:

• Block temporary or indefinite the access to certain parts of the website or even the complete website

• Remove every kind of information that may influence the use of the website or is not according to the national law or generally accepted Internet rules

• Render the website temporary inaccessible in order to execute the necessary updates

 Newsletters

Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV takes his role as a physician seriously and wishes to inform his clients pro-actively about important changes in legislation or trends in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, which could possibly affect the patient. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV requests from each client a prior consent for sending newsletters. With every form of informative communication, Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV will always offer the possibility to withdraw the given consent, should this be necessary.

Right of opposition

You have a right to object to the processing of your personal data for serious and legitimate reasons. In addition, you always have the right to oppose the use of personal data for direct marketing purposes; in such case, you do not even have to provide reasons.

Right of withdrawal of consent

To the extent that the processing is based on your prior consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent

Automated decisions and profiling

The processing of your personal data does not involve profiling nor will Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV subject you to automated decisions.

Right to file a complaint

You have the right to file a complaint with the Belgian Privacy Commission: Commission for the Protection of Privacy, Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, Tel +32 (0)2 274 48 00, Fax +32 (0)2 274 48 35, e-mail: commission@privacycommission.be; This is without prejudice to a remedy before a civil court.

Contact info Dr. Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV

Dr Karl Waked, Plastische Chirurgie BV
Adres hoofdzetel BV
info@drwaked.be
BE0788.259.414