Your privacy
At Spleen Australia, we collect personal and health information to register you for our services. The types of information we collect include:
- Personal and contact details (e.g., full name, date of birth, Medicare number, email, phone, postal address)
- Contact details of a next of kin or friend, to contact only when we are unable to contact you
- GP health summaries
- Vaccine history records from the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)
- Relevant hospital discharge summaries
We may collect this information directly from you, your treating doctor, or other medical professionals. To create an appropriate vaccine and antibiotic plan, we will need to access some of your medical information. This will be requested directly from your doctors and healthcare providers, who will send it to us.
In accordance with Victorian legislation and Government policy, Bayside Health protects the privacy of personal and health information it holds and uses it only for the purposes intended.
This Privacy Statement explains how your personal information (being information capable of identifying you as an individual) will be treated as you access and interact with this website.
For information regarding the privacy and security of patient information collected by Bayside Health, please read Bayside Health's Guide to Patient Information Privacy.
We are committed to keeping your information confidential and secure. Access to your information is limited to Spleen Australia staff. Your data will be stored securely and will not be sent or stored outside of Australia. Note: Monash Helix who manage the Spleen Australia database do have access the the data.