privacy

To ensure proper treatment, I, as your treating therapist, must maintain a patient file. This is a legal requirement under the WGBO (Dutch Healthcare Professions Act). Your file contains notes about your health and information about the examinations and treatments performed.

The file may also contain information that is necessary for your treatment and that I have requested, only after your explicit consent, from another healthcare provider (for example, your general practitioner).

To protect your privacy, I’m using practice software for complementary and integrated care since October 2025. This software is ISO27001 and NEN7510 certified. I handle your personal and medical data with care and ensure that unauthorized persons do not have access to it. As your treating therapist, I am the only person who has access to the data in your file.

I am legally bound by confidentiality (professional secrecy). The data in your file may only be used for the following purposes:
· to inform other healthcare providers, for example, when therapy has been completed or when referring to another practitioner. This is only done with your explicit consent.
· for use during peer review (the data used is anonymized).
· a small portion of the data (name, address, city of residence, date of birth, date of treatment) is used for financial administration, so that an invoice can be issued.

The data in the client file is retained for 20 years, as required by the Treatment Agreement Act.