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Who We Are
SiZa Healthcare ("SiZa Healthcare", "SiZa", "we", "our", or "us") is a healthcare provider licensed by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA). We provide home healthcare services including doctor visits, nursing services, laboratory services, IV therapy, pediatric visits, elderly care, and related healthcare services.
We are committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and security of personal information and health information entrusted to us.
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Information We Collect
Depending on the services you use and your relationship with us, we may collect different categories of information.
2.1 Identification and Contact Information
This may include:
- Full name
- Date of birth
- Gender where relevant to healthcare services
- Emirates ID or other identification information where required
- Passport or visa information where required
- Telephone number
- Email address
- Residential, hotel, workplace, or service address
- Emergency contact details
- Parent, guardian, caregiver, or authorized representative details
2.2 Health and Medical Information
When you use our healthcare services, we may collect and process health information necessary for the provision and management of healthcare, including:
- Medical history
- Presenting symptoms and complaints
- Diagnoses and clinical assessments
- Treatment and care plans
- Medication information
- Allergies and adverse reactions
- Vital signs
- Laboratory and diagnostic results
- Imaging and radiology information
- Doctor and nursing notes
- Referral information
- Discharge and transfer information
- Information concerning previous or ongoing healthcare
- Information concerning physical or mental health where relevant to the healthcare service
- Other information necessary for safe and appropriate clinical care
Health information is treated as confidential and is subject to additional safeguards applicable to healthcare information.
2.3 Insurance and Payment Information
Where applicable, we may collect:
- Insurance policy details
- Insurance card information
- Pre-authorization information
- Claims information
- Billing information
- Payment records
- Transaction details
Payment card information may be processed through authorized payment service providers.
2.4 Communications
We may retain information contained in communications with us, including:
- Telephone communications
- Emails
- Website enquiries
- Appointment requests
- WhatsApp or other approved communication channels
- Customer service communications
- Feedback and complaints
2.5 Website and Technical Information
When you use our website, we may automatically collect certain technical information, such as:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Website pages visited
- Date and time of visits
- Referring website
- General website usage information
- Cookies and similar technologies
We use this information primarily to operate, secure, maintain, and improve our website and services.
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Health and Medical Information
Because SiZa Healthcare provides healthcare services, we may process sensitive health information as part of providing medical care.
Health information may be collected directly from you, from your authorized representative, from healthcare professionals, from hospitals or clinics, from laboratories, from insurers, from authorized healthcare systems, or from other sources where permitted or required by applicable law.
We process health information only for appropriate healthcare, administrative, legal, regulatory, safety, insurance, or other lawful purposes.
Access to patient health information is restricted to authorized persons who require access for legitimate purposes, including healthcare professionals involved in the patient's care, authorized administrative personnel, and other persons or organizations where access or disclosure is permitted or required by applicable law.
DHA's health-information policies require healthcare entities to protect the confidentiality and privacy of protected/personal health information and to maintain appropriate controls over health-information sharing.
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How We Use Your Information
We may use personal and health information for purposes including:
- Registering and managing patients
- Scheduling and managing appointments and home visits
- Providing medical, nursing, diagnostic, laboratory, and other healthcare services
- Assessing, diagnosing, treating, monitoring, and managing patients
- Maintaining accurate medical and healthcare records
- Coordinating care between healthcare professionals
- Referring patients to hospitals, specialists, laboratories, emergency services, or other healthcare providers where appropriate
- Managing emergency situations and protecting patient health and safety
- Processing insurance claims and obtaining necessary authorizations
- Processing payments and managing billing
- Communicating appointment confirmations, reminders, treatment information, reports, and service-related information
- Responding to enquiries, requests, complaints, and feedback
- Managing and improving our healthcare services
- Maintaining and improving our website and information systems
- Meeting DHA, government, regulatory, legal, public-health, and healthcare obligations
- Preventing fraud, misuse, unauthorized access, and other unlawful activity
- Maintaining business, financial, accounting, and administrative records
- Managing quality, patient safety, clinical governance, audits, and healthcare compliance
- Conducting internal reviews, risk management, and service improvement
- Sending promotional or marketing communications where permitted by applicable law and, where required, based on your consent or preferences
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Legal Basis for Processing
We may process personal information where permitted or required under applicable UAE laws and regulations.
Depending on the circumstances, processing may be necessary for:
- Providing healthcare services
- Managing and coordinating healthcare
- Maintaining medical records
- Protecting the health or safety of a patient
- Complying with legal or regulatory obligations
- Meeting DHA requirements
- Public-health purposes
- Insurance and healthcare administration
- Performing contractual or service-related obligations
- Responding to lawful requests from government or regulatory authorities
- Protecting our legal rights and interests
- Preventing fraud or unlawful activity
- Other circumstances permitted by applicable law
Where processing is based on consent, you may have the right to withdraw your consent, subject to applicable law and any circumstances in which we are legally required or permitted to continue processing the information.
Withdrawal of consent does not necessarily affect processing that occurred lawfully before the withdrawal.
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Patient Consent
Depending on the service and applicable requirements, we may obtain consent or authorization from the patient, parent, guardian, legal representative, or other authorized person.
Patient consent may cover, where applicable:
- Provision of healthcare services
- Collection and use of health information
- Communication with healthcare professionals
- Sharing of relevant information for continuity of care
- Insurance processing
- Laboratory and diagnostic services
- Healthcare referrals
- Emergency treatment and escalation
- Access to authorized healthcare information systems or health information exchanges
Certain processing may be permitted or required by law without separate consent.
Where applicable to our services, SiZa may participate in authorized health information exchange processes, including NABIDH, in accordance with applicable DHA requirements and patient consent requirements.
DHA has issued requirements concerning the inclusion of NABIDH health-information access consent within the general consent process used by healthcare facilities in Dubai.
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Health Information Exchange and NABIDH
NABIDH is Dubai's health information exchange platform that enables the secure exchange of medical records between connected healthcare providers.
Where applicable to SiZa Healthcare and permitted or required by DHA and other applicable regulations, patient health information may be submitted to, accessed through, or exchanged using authorized healthcare information systems, including NABIDH.
Such access or sharing may support:
- Continuity of care
- Access to relevant medical information by authorized healthcare professionals
- Patient safety
- Clinical decision-making
- Healthcare coordination
- Regulatory requirements
- Public-health purposes
- Other lawful healthcare purposes
Access to health information through such systems is subject to applicable authentication, authorization, privacy, security, consent, and access-control requirements.
NABIDH's policies are designed to restrict access to authorized users and limit information exchange to the minimum necessary for the intended purpose.
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Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal information.
We may disclose or share personal and health information where permitted or required by applicable law, or where necessary to provide or manage healthcare services.
Depending on the circumstances, information may be shared with:
Healthcare Professionals
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Allied healthcare professionals
- Specialists
- Healthcare professionals involved in your care
Healthcare Facilities
- Hospitals
- Clinics
- Medical centers
- Emergency medical services
- Other authorized healthcare providers
Laboratories and Diagnostic Providers
Information may be shared with accredited or authorized laboratories, diagnostic providers, radiology providers, or other healthcare service providers where necessary to perform or coordinate services.
Insurance Providers
Where applicable, information may be shared with:
- Insurance companies
- Third-party administrators
- Claims processors
- Insurance networks
- Other authorized insurance service providers
Government and Regulatory Authorities
We may disclose information to DHA, other competent health authorities, government entities, law-enforcement authorities, courts, or other authorized bodies where required or permitted by applicable law.
Technology and Service Providers
We may use carefully selected third-party service providers to support our operations, including:
- Electronic medical record providers
- IT and cloud service providers
- Website and hosting providers
- Cybersecurity providers
- Appointment and communication platforms
- Payment processors
- Data storage providers
- Professional advisers
- Other vendors supporting our healthcare operations
Such providers may only access information to the extent reasonably necessary to provide their services and are expected to maintain appropriate confidentiality and security safeguards.
Emergency Situations
Where reasonably necessary to protect a patient's life, health, safety, or vital interests, relevant information may be disclosed to emergency medical services, hospitals, healthcare professionals, caregivers, or other authorized persons.
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Referrals and Hospital Transfers
Where a doctor or other authorized healthcare professional determines that a patient requires hospital assessment, emergency treatment, admission, specialist care, or other services that cannot appropriately be provided at home, SiZa Healthcare may coordinate or facilitate referral or transfer to an appropriate healthcare facility.
Relevant medical information may be shared with the receiving healthcare provider to support safe and effective continuity of care, subject to applicable law and healthcare requirements.
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Children and Minors
SiZa Healthcare may provide healthcare services to children and minors.
Where services are provided to a child or minor, we may collect and process information relating to the child as necessary to provide healthcare, maintain medical records, protect the child's health and safety, comply with legal requirements, and manage healthcare services.
Where required, we will obtain consent or authorization from a parent, legal guardian, or other legally authorized representative.
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Data Security
We take reasonable and appropriate technical, administrative, physical, and organizational measures to protect personal and health information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, misuse, destruction, or other unlawful processing.
Depending on the nature of the information and our systems, safeguards may include:
- Access controls
- Role-based access
- Need-to-know principles
- Authentication and authorization controls
- Secure information systems
- Appropriate encryption and secure transmission measures
- Confidentiality obligations for employees and contractors
- Security monitoring
- Backup and recovery measures
- Vendor and service-provider controls
- Secure disposal procedures
- Staff training and confidentiality requirements
- Incident management procedures
No electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted over the internet.
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Data Security Incidents
We maintain procedures for identifying, assessing, managing, and responding to suspected or confirmed personal-data and health-information security incidents.
Where required by applicable law or regulatory requirements, we will notify the relevant authorities and/or affected individuals in accordance with applicable requirements.
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Data Retention
We retain personal and health information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and for periods required or permitted by applicable UAE laws, DHA requirements, healthcare recordkeeping obligations, insurance requirements, regulatory requirements, accounting requirements, and legal obligations.
Medical and healthcare records may be subject to specific retention requirements. Accordingly, a request to delete personal information does not necessarily mean that SiZa Healthcare can immediately delete medical records or other information that we are legally or professionally required to retain.
When information is no longer required and there is no legal, regulatory, clinical, or legitimate business reason for retaining it, we will take reasonable steps to securely delete, destroy, or anonymize it in accordance with our applicable policies.
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International and Cross-Border Data Transfers
Some of our technology, service, professional, or operational providers may process information from locations outside the United Arab Emirates.
Where personal information is transferred or processed outside the UAE, we will do so only where permitted by applicable law and subject to applicable requirements and safeguards concerning cross-border transfers.
Where appropriate, we may use contractual, technical, organizational, or other safeguards to protect personal information during such processing.
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Cookies and Website Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Operate essential website functions
- Remember preferences
- Improve website performance
- Understand how visitors use our website
- Maintain website security
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Support other legitimate website functions
Some cookies may be provided by third-party service providers.
You may be able to control or disable certain cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of parts of the website.
Where our website uses analytics, advertising, or other non-essential technologies, their use will be subject to applicable law and our configuration of those services.
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Marketing and Communications
We may contact you regarding:
- Appointments
- Appointment confirmations and reminders
- Healthcare services
- Test results and reports
- Care coordination
- Billing and payment
- Service-related updates
- Customer support
- Important administrative communications
These communications may be sent by telephone, SMS, email, WhatsApp, or other communication channels you have provided or that are otherwise permitted.
Where required by applicable law, promotional or marketing communications will be sent based on appropriate consent or communication preferences.
You may request to stop receiving non-essential marketing communications by contacting us or using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the relevant communication.
Stopping marketing communications will not prevent us from sending essential communications relating to healthcare services, appointments, safety, billing, or other necessary matters.
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Your Data Protection Rights
Subject to applicable UAE laws and healthcare regulations, you may have rights relating to your personal information, including the right to:
- Request access to personal information held about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request completion of certain incomplete information
- Request deletion or erasure where legally applicable
- Request restriction of processing where applicable
- Object to certain processing where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Request transfer of personal information to another controller where legally applicable and technically feasible
- Exercise other rights available under applicable law
These rights are subject to legal, regulatory, healthcare, public-health, contractual, and other applicable limitations.
For example, we may be required or permitted to retain certain medical or health information for patient safety, continuity of care, public-health, regulatory, legal, insurance, or medical-record purposes.
The UAE Personal Data Protection Law recognizes data-subject rights while also providing circumstances in which erasure rights may be restricted, including certain health and public-health information held by private facilities.
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How to Make a Privacy Request
To exercise a privacy or data-protection right, please contact us at support@sizahealthcare.ae, +971-58-818-9967, or (04) 583 9520, or write to us at 607, Al Barsha Business Center, Al Barsha 1 , Dubai.
To protect patient confidentiality, we may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
If you are making a request on behalf of another person, we may require evidence that you are legally authorized to act on that person's behalf.
We will review and respond to requests within the period required by applicable law and regulatory requirements.
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Confidentiality of Patient Information
All patient information is treated as confidential and is handled in accordance with applicable UAE laws, DHA requirements, professional obligations, and SiZa Healthcare's internal policies.
Our healthcare professionals, employees, contractors, and relevant service providers are expected to maintain the confidentiality of information accessed in connection with their duties.
Access to patient information is limited according to role, legitimate purpose, authorization, and applicable access-control requirements.
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Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, applications, social media platforms, payment services, or other external services.
If you follow a link to a third-party website or service, that third party's own privacy policy and terms may apply.
SiZa Healthcare is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites or services that we do not control.
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Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:
- Changes to our services
- Changes to applicable laws or regulations
- Changes to DHA requirements
- Changes to our information systems or practices
- Changes to third-party services
- Other operational or regulatory developments
The updated Privacy Policy will be published on this website with the revised "Last Updated" date.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
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Governing Law
This Privacy Policy is governed by the applicable laws and regulations of the United Arab Emirates and the Emirate of Dubai, including applicable healthcare and data-protection requirements administered or issued by competent authorities.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any mandatory rights or protections available to individuals under applicable law.
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Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, complaints, or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal or health information, please contact us:
- SiZa Healthcare
- Address: 607, Al Barsha Business Center, Al Barsha 1 , Dubai
- Email: support@sizahealthcare.ae
- Telephone: +971-58-818-9967
- Landline: (04) 583 9520
We take privacy and patient confidentiality seriously and will review privacy-related enquiries in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and healthcare requirements.
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