Privacy Policy
Yasmina Diab ABN 81 690 202 494 maintains a strict privacy of confidence concerning your personal information, and is committed to maintaining the privacy and the security of the personal information that we process. This Privacy Policy (Policy) has been developed in consideration of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), and outlines how we collect, use, store and disclose the personal information we process in the course of providing services to you.
By accessing our website www.diabdietetitics.com.au(Site) and using our services, you consent to your personal information being used in accordance with this Policy. This Policy applies to information provided to us by any other means. By using our services or site, you consent and accept the terms of this Policy for which your personal information will be processed in accordance with. If you have any questions or require any further information about this Policy or our privacy information practices, you can contact our Privacy Officer (contact details available at the end of this Policy).
Introduction
This practice is committed to best practice in relation to the management of information that is collected. This practice has developed a policy to protect patient privacy in compliance with the aforementioned legislations and principles. Our policy is to inform you of:
The kinds of information that we collect and hold, which, as a medical practice, is likely to be ‘health information’ for the purposes of the Privacy Act;
how we collect and hold personal information;
the purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information;
how you may access your personal information and seek the correction of that information
how you may complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how we will deal with such a complaint;
whether we are likely to disclose personal information to overseas recipients.
What kind of personal information do we collect?
The type of information we may collect and hold includes:
Your name, title, address, date of birth, email and contact details
Medicare number, DVA number and other government identifiers, although we will not use these for the purposes of identifying you in our practice
Other health information about you, including:
notes of your symptoms or diagnosis and the treatment given to you
your specialist reports and test results
your appointment and billing details
your prescriptions and other pharmaceutical purchases
your genetic information
your healthcare identifier
any other information about your race, sexuality or religion, when collected by a health service provider.
How do we collect and hold personal information?
We will generally collect personal information
From you directly when you provide your details to us. This might be via face to face discussion, phone conversation, registration form or online form.
from a person responsible for you
from third parties where the Privacy Act or other law allows it - this may include, but is not limited to: other members of your treating team, diagnostic centres, hospitals, electronic prescription services, Medicare, your health insurer, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, pathology services, radiology services, allied health professionals or other specialists involved in your care.
Your information may be communicated to the Australian Government Department of Human Services or another third-party billing agent for assessment and administration of payments in order to pay or process your application/claim for Medicare, Health Fund or Third Party (eg ADF Health Services Contract) account payments. With your consent, staff will process this claim on your behalf electronically.
Why do we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information?
In general, we collect, hold, and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
To provide health services to you
To communicate with you in relation to the health service being provided to you
to comply with our legal obligations, including, but not limited to, mandatory notification of communicable diseases or mandatory reporting under applicable child protection legislation
to help us manage our accounts and administrative services, including billing, arrangements with health funds, pursuing unpaid accounts, management of our IT systems
for consultations with other doctors and allied health professionals involved in your healthcare;
to obtain, analyse and discuss test results from diagnostic and pathology laboratories
for identification and insurance claiming
Information can also be disclosed through an electronic transfer of prescriptions service.
To liaise with your health fund, government and regulatory bodies such as Medicare, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) (if you make a privacy complaint to the OAIC), as necessary.
How can you access and correct your personal information?
You have the right under the Act to seek access to your personal information held by us, and we take all responsible steps to ensure that your personal information held by us is accurate, up-to-date, complete, relevant and not misleading. If you want to access your personal information, or if you believe that it is incorrect, incomplete or out of date, please contact us in writing (see please our practice contact details as noted below under ‘Contact Details’). We will respond to any such request within a reasonable period and we will grant access provided the request does not fall under one of the exceptions to access stated in the APPs. We may charge a reasonable fee for providing that information. Access may be denied in certain circumstances permitted under the Act (such as where the request creates a serious threat to life or safety or is otherwise unlawful).
How do we hold your personal information?
Our staff are trained and required to respect and protect your privacy. We take reasonable steps to protect information held from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. This includes:
Holding your information on an encrypted database
Holding your information in secure cloud storage (which is encrypted and maintained in domestic and overseas cloud servers as per the requirements of the Australian Privacy Principles)
Holding your information in a lockable cabinet where maintained in hardcopy
Our staff sign confidentiality agreements
Our practice has document retention and destruction policies, including sanitization and sentencing as per the AMA recommended procedures for files and data inclusive of deidentification and secure accredited shredding.
Privacy related questions and complaints
If you have any questions about privacy related issues or wish to complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles or the handling of your personal information by us, you may lodge your complaint in writing to (see below for details). We will normally respond to your request within 30 days.
If you are dissatisfied with our response, you may refer the matter to the OAIC
Phone: 1300 363 992
Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au
Fax: 02 9284 9666
Post : GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001
Website: https://www.oaic.gov.au/individuals/how-do-i-make-a-privacy-complaint
Anonymity and pseudonyms
The Privacy Act provides that individuals must have the option of not identifying themselves, or of using a pseudonym, when dealing with our practice, except in certain circumstances, such as where it is impracticable for us to deal with you if you have not identified yourself. Patients seeking certain treatments may be prepared to forego notifying their insurer or seeking a Medicare benefit and pay us directly if unwilling to identify yourselves.
Overseas disclosure
We may disclosure your personal information to the following overseas recipients :
Any practice or individual who assists us in providing services (such as where you have come from overseas and had your health record transferred from overseas or have treatment continuing from an overseas provider
overseas based cloud storage which remains encrypted from the point of origin to return
anyone else to whom you authorise us to disclose it
As part of our communication to you, forms and other data may be transferred from our email servers to your which may not reside in Australia. We will seek to keep this data encrypted and secured where possible to support your privacy.
Updates to this policy
This policy will be reviewed from time to time to take account of new laws and technology, changes to our operations and other necessary developments. Updates will be published on the practice's website.
Privacy and websites
This policy is available from our website. Our website may also collect other data from you in the form of “cookies”. Cookies are small data files that may be downloaded to your computer when you visit a website, which may be used to track your use of that website. Cookies must be enabled in order to use web-based software products offered by us and may be used to provide users of your computer with information that we think may interest the users of your computer.
We may use cookies from time to time to:
Track your usage of our software products
improve your experience on our software products;
provide you with better service when you use our software products;
recognise you when you return to our software products.
This information may be linked to any personal information you may provide and may be used to identify you. You can adjust your internet browser to disable or warn you when cookies are used. However, disabling cookies will stop our software products from functioning fully.
Contact details for privacy related issues
If you want to make a complaint about our management of your personal information, to collect information or request further information, please contact us. Our Privacy Officer will contact you about your complaint as soon as reasonably practicable and we will attempt to resolve it with you. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you may refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by contacting 1300 363 992 or by visiting the website www.oaic.gov.au. Further information about the Act and the APPs is also available from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
The Privacy Officer for issues is our admin who is supported by Yasmina Diab as required. They can be contacted on email at admin@diabdietetics.com.au or Ph: Tbc
Forms of Communication
This practice utilities a number of forms of communication including: (please tick)
Sms (eg appointment reminders)
Yes , No , Preferred
Phone calls
Yes , No , Preferred
Yes , No , Preferred
General Post
Yes , No , Preferred
All data maintained will be kept in a form that is accurate, complete and up to date. If you believe your records are inaccurate, or your personal information or circumstances change please update with our admin.
Acknowledgement and Consent
I consent to the handling of my information by this practice for the purposes and in the manner set out above, subject to any limitations regarding access or disclosure that I notify to this practice.
Yes, No
I consent to the communication to the Australian Government Department of Human Services (Medicare), Health Fund or other third party agent if claims for payment are necessary on my behalf.
Yes , No
Last revised: September 2025