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Privacy Policy

Brandon Dobson -Trading as Stoic Wellness (Stoic Wellness, us, our, and/or we) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This privacy policy (Policy) is compliant with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 (as amended and supplemented from time to time) (the Act) and the UK data protection principles. Our policy is available free of charge for you to access on our website at (https://stoicwellness.co.uk/privacy-policy).

Please note that except to the extent required by law, or when it is deemed impracticable to do so, you have the option of remaining anonymous, or using a pseudonym, when dealing with us in relation to a particular matter.

  1. SCOPE OF POLICY

This Policy applies to all information or opinion about an identified individual or an individual who is reasonably identifiable (you), whether the information or opinion is true or not, and whether the information is recorded in a material form or not (Personal Information) that is collected, stored, used and disclosed by Stoic Wellness.

In this policy, we explain the kinds of Personal Information we collect, how and why we collect and use it, and what controls you have over our use of it.

Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding the collection and use of your Personal Information.

  1. PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT STOIC WELLNESS COLLECTS AND HOLDS

The Personal Information collected, held, used and disclosed by us includes, but is not limited to, the following information about you:

  1. name and/or username;
  2. date of birth (see section 3 below);
  3. gender;
  4. country of residence;
  5. email address;
  6. medical/health information (see section 3 below);
  7. a record of pages you visit on our website;
  8. information about any complaints you may lodge; and
  9. information about or related to your customised training program, support provided to you by our coaches or any other service we provide you.

Some of the above information may also be classified as “health information” under the Act. Please see section 3 below for details about how we might collect, hold, use or disclose health information about you.

  1. HEALTH INFORMATION AND SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Given the nature of our business as provider of online fitness resources, and physiotherapy services we may also collect some sensitive information about you, for example, information about your health, which is afforded a higher level of privacy protection.

The Act includes the following information as “health information”:

  1. Information or an opinion about the health (including illness, disability or injury) of an individual;
  2. The individual’s expressed wishes about the future provisions of health services provided to him or her; or
  3. Personal information which is collected as part of providing a “health service”, collectively, ‘Health Information’.

Under the Act, a “health service” includes (among other things) any activity intended or claimed to assess, maintain, or improve an individual’s health, or to record the individual’s health for improving or managing the individual’s health.

Health Information which we might collect about you includes, but is not limited to:

  1. Any medical issues (as may be relevant to your use of Coach Support, Training Programs or similar services we provide to you);
  2. Your health situation (for example, whether you are injured, pregnant or disabled, to the extent relevant to your use of the Coach Support, Training Programs or other similar services we provide to you);
  3. Your current height, weight and BMI;
  4. What facilities or equipment you use to train;
  5. Training frequency;
  6. Training experience;
  7. Progress management – a weekly photo of you, and record of height, weight, and similar information, as you work towards your goals through our program;
  8. Progress management – a record of your progress in weekly exercises;
  9. Your daily calorie requirements calculated using the calorie calculator on our website;
  10. Your specific nutritional requirements;
  11. A description of your fitness and nutrition goals; and
  12. Any other information required for the provision of our programs and/or services to you.
  13. Activity data such as steps;

We will not collect, use or disclose any of your Health Information except to the extent necessary to provide a health service to you through our programs and services, and will ensure that any Health Information is collected, used and disclosed only in accordance with rules established by other competent health or medical bodies (where applicable) that deal with obligations of professional confidentiality.

  1. HOW STOIC WELLNESS COLLECTS AND HOLDS PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only collect Personal Information from you directly, unless it is unreasonable and impractical to do so.

We may collect Personal Information from you directly in the following ways:

  1. If you subscribe to a membership with Stoic Wellness or create an account on our website;
  2. If you purchase a one time service from us; 
  3. If you request assistance or advice from our online coaches and practitioners;
  4. If you make a request for support online, by email or by telephone;
  5. If you participate in promotional offers;
  6. If you choose to subscribe to our mailing list; or
  7. If you disclose information such as contact details via our website.

In a situation where it is unreasonable or impractical to obtain Personal Information from you directly, you may be asked to consent to our collection of your Personal Information from a third-party.

We will always notify you after any of your Personal Information has been collected by us from a third party.

Stoic Wellness holds Personal Information in databases hosted on servers based in the United States (including on servers through Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Uploadcare). None of these servers are based in the United Kingdom.

We take reasonable steps to:

  1. protect your Personal Information from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure;
  2. ensure that our system is appropriately backed-up to prevent the loss of your Personal Information; and
  3. destroy or de-identify Personal Information when it is no longer required.

Some security measures that we have in place to protect your Personal Information include the following:

  1. access to the database where your personal information is stored is restricted to particular authorised staff members;
  2. the password for database access is changed frequently;
  3. we use well-known and widely used development technology to run and maintain our website; and
  4. our hosting providers manage the server and database protection in accordance with standard web practices.

In the case that any of the Personal Information held by Stoic Wellness is lost, or subjected to unauthorised access, modification, disclosure or other misuse or interference, we will notify you immediately and advise you of the steps you should take in response to the breach. Additionally, if we receive any unsolicited Personal Information (i.e. we inadvertently obtain information about you that we did not request) we will determine whether we would have been able to obtain the information by the methods described in section 4. If not, we will, as soon as practicable, destroy the information and ensure that the information is de-identified.

  1. THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH BRANDON DOBSON HEALTH COLLECTS, HOLDS, USES AND DISCLOSES PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information which is collected by Stoic Wellness will be held, used and disclosed by us for the primary purpose of providing training, treatment, and fitness regimes to our customers including:

  1. personalising our fitness regimes to help you achieve your individual fitness goals;
  2. informing any potiential diagnosis of pathology resonably identifiyable by the availible means of our physiotherapy practice;
  3. Providing treatment recommendations for a new or existing pathology;
  4. formulating our fitness programs to suit your individual health requirements;
  5. providing you with the tools necessary to determine your nutritional requirements and track your food intake;
  6. notifying you of account activity or update (such as a completed training program, group comment or weekly check-in);
  7. sending you an email to notify you of any account changes or updates to our services (such as coach updates to our user programs, training group comments, or weekly check-ins);
  8. supporting and enhancing our relationship with you (this includes processing your membership subscription, providing you with better support and service and sharing company news and information with you);
  9. to provide insights into the progress and experiences of Stoic Wellness members; and
  10. to deal with complaints.

Stoic Wellness may also disclose Personal Information to the extent required or authorised by applicable law, but otherwise will never do so without your consent or otherwise as expressly provided for in this Privacy Policy.

Stoic Wellness does not sell any of your Personal Information to third parties.

  1. OVERSEAS STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

As set out in section 4 above, your Personal Information is stored on servers hosted in the United States through third-party hosting services Heroku, AWS, Google and Uploadcare.

We will not distribute the Personal Information you provide to another foreign entity unless we are required to do so by law or you provide your express consent to such a disclosure. Before disclosing any of your Personal Information to a foreign entity, we would also take reasonable steps to ensure that the entity to whom we disclose the information does not breach any of the UK Data Protection Principles.

  1. CONSEQUENCES IF ALL OR SOME PERSONAL INFORMATION IS NOT COLLECTED

You do not have to provide us with any Personal Information. However, if you choose to withhold any requested information, you may not be able to utilise our full offering, access special promotions or we may not be able to provide you with personalised support that is dependent upon the collection of such information.

  1. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to provide our services (as described in section 5 above) to you.

  1. ACCESS AND CORRECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have a right to request access to your Personal Information and to request its correction, by emailing us at: [email protected] or by otherwise sending your request to the address specified in section 10 below. Upon receipt of a written request from you, we will give you access to the Personal Information we hold about you within 30 days of receiving your request unless an exception to access applies under the Data Protection Act.

Upon receipt of a written request from you we will comply with our obligations under the Privacy Act to correct, amend, delete or cease to deal with any Personal Information we hold about you if it proves to be factually inaccurate, incomplete, or irrelevant to the purpose(s) for which it is been held within 30 days.

  1. COMPLAINTS PROCESS

If you have a complaint about the way we have dealt with your Personal Information please make a complaint in writing to our Customer Support Manager, whose details are included in section 11 below. We will respond to all complaints within 30 days.

Please note that you may lodge your complaint anonymously. However, this may limit our ability to deal with your complaint and implement a satisfactory remedy.

If you do not receive a response from us within the specified period, or are dissatisfied with our response, you may then lodge your complaint with the Information Commissioner Office (IOC). To lodge a complaint with the IOC you can either submit a Privacy Complaint Form online. The Privacy Complaint Form and further details on how to lodge a complaint with the IOC can be accessed via the IOC website at: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/your-personal-information-concerns/

  1. CUSTOMER SUPPORT MANAGER CONTACT DETAILS

Email: [email protected]

  1. UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy is subject to change without prior or separate notification. Any changes will be posted on our website.

This privacy policy was last updated on 22 Jan 2024.