Last updated: July 2026
Introduction
This privacy notice explains how Doctify Ltd and Doctify Australia Pty Ltd (“Doctify”, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, stores, and shares your personal data when you use the Doctify Network, which includes:
Doctify is committed to ensuring your personal data is kept safe. To achieve this, we have a robust framework in place to ensure continued compliance with the UK and EU GDPR. The GDPR is widely understood to be the “gold standard” of data protection regulations worldwide, and we continue to uphold these standards
The Doctify Network is not intended to be accessed by children, but we recognise that adult carers may use it on behalf of children. As a result, we communicate in a way intended to be understood by adults, but we protect the personal data that we process with the enhanced care required when processing the personal data of minors.
This notice contains information for both patients and healthcare professionals. The information we process about these two groups is different. The sections are labelled “Patients” or “Healthcare Professionals” for easy reference. You do not need to review sections that do not apply to you.
If you have difficulty understanding this notice, please contact us via the details just below for assistance.
1. Important Information and Who We Are
Controller:
Contact details:
Postal address:
Supervisory authorities –. If you believe that we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles (the “APPs”) under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (the “Privacy Act”) or any binding registered APP code in our handling of your personal information, you may make a complaint to us. Any complaint should be made in writing and sent to our DPO using the details provided above.
The Doctify Network may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. Please note that these websites (and any services accessible through them) are controlled by those third parties and are not covered by this privacy notice. You should review their own privacy notices to understand how they use your personal data before you submit any personal data to these websites or use these services.
We keep our privacy notice under regular review.
This version was last updated on the date at the top of the page. It may change and, if it does, those changes will be posted on this page and notified to you when you next visit the Doctify Network.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during our relationship with you.
2. The Data We Collect About You
We collect and process different categories of personal data for patients and healthcare providers.
2.1 Patients
2.2 Healthcare Providers
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
4. How We Use Your Personal Data (and the Lawful Basis or Bases for Doing So)
A table setting out more detail on these uses is in Annex A.
Patients – We use your personal data to:
Healthcare Providers – We use your personal data to:
Automated Decision-Making (including AI)
We do not make decisions based solely on automated processing or profiling that produce legal effects concerning you (or have similarly significant effects).
5. Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal information but will only do so when this is fair and lawful. We will not share your information with any third parties for the purposes of direct marketing.
We use third parties who provide elements of services for us. We have contracts in place with these service providers. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct.
In some circumstances we are legally obliged to share information. For example under a court order or to a regulator or law enforcement when required to do so.
We may share your information with our professional advisers (for example our lawyers) when it is necessary for them to perform their professional duties.
We might share your information with prospective purchasers of our business.
Appointment Requests and Sharing Your Information with Healthcare Providers
When you submit an appointment request through Doctify, the information you provide – which may include health information – will be shared directly with the healthcare professional, clinic, or hospital you have chosen. We do this with your explicit consent and in the public interest of managing health and social care. Once your request has been transmitted, the healthcare provider becomes the controller of your information and is responsible for how they handle it. We recommend you review their own privacy notice.
Doctify will retain a record of your request to resolve queries and for legal and regulatory purposes – details on how long that retention is for are found in the table in Annex A below.
6. International Transfers
To deliver Doctify’s services to you, it may be necessary for us to transfer your personal data to service providers and business partners located outside of the territory it was originally collected in (an “International Transfer”).
Where an International Transfer is required, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with data protection laws, including:
Please contact the DPO (dpo@doctify.com) if you need further information about the specific mechanism relied on by Doctify for a particular transfer.
7. Data Retention
Specific retention periods for each category of personal data are set out in the table in Annex A. These periods are based on legal requirements, regulatory guidance, and legitimate business needs.
| Data Category | Retention | Legal Basis/Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Patient medical records | 8 years (adults) / until age 25 (children) | Requirements for clinical records |
| Verified reviews | Indefinite (anonymised) | Platform integrity |
| Unverified reviews | Indefinite (anonymised) | Platform integrity |
| Financial records | 7 years | HMRC |
| Marketing preferences | Until withdrawn + 3 years suppression | ICO guidance |
| Technical logs | 90 days | Security monitoring |
| Provider profiles | Active account + 7 years | Professional standards |
8. Your Legal Rights
Under data protection laws such as the GDPR and the Australian Privacy Act, you have the following rights which can be exercised by contacting our DPO at dpo@doctify.com. We will respond to your request within one calendar month:
Special considerations:
9. Cookies
We use cookies (small files which remember a user’s electronic device) to help improve the Doctify Network in a variety of different ways.
See our Cookie Policy for full details of the cookies we use and how to manage them.
To keep this notice easier to use and navigate and minimise updates, we do not duplicate all the information on our Cookie Policy in this notice.
10. Contact
DPO: dpo@doctify.com
General enquiries: hello@doctify.com
Postal address:
UK: Doctify Ltd, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
Australia: Doctify Australia Pty Ltd, 425 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065,
Annex A – Purposes of Processing
Where we rely on Legitimate Interests, we carry out a balancing test considering your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms. This is documented separately.
A1 – Patients
| Purpose / Activity | Categories of Personal Data | Special Category Data | Lawful Basis (UK/EU GDPR) | Additional Condition for Special Category Data | Retention Period | Rationale for Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appointment booking and management | Identity, Contact, Appointment Data | Health Data (conditions, treatments) | Performance of a contract – necessary to arrange your appointment | Art. 9(2)(h) – healthcare purposes | 8 years (adults) / until age 25 (children) | Requirements for clinical records |
| Healthcare service delivery | Identity, Contact, Appointment Data | Health Data | Performance of a contract – to deliver the healthcare services you request | Art. 9(2)(h) | As above | Ensures continuity of care and regulatory compliance |
| Review verification | Identity, Contact, Appointment Data, Verification Data | Health Data (only to confirm attendance) | Legitimate interests – to prevent fraudulent reviews and ensure platform integrity; Performance of a contract | Art. 9(2)(h) | Verification data deleted after 90 days; verified reviews retained indefinitely (fully anonymised in accordance with ICO guidance) | Fraud prevention, protecting service trust |
| Publishing patient reviews | Review Data | Health Data (if included in review text) | Legitimate interests – to inform other patients and support provider choice | Explicit consent (Art. 9(2)(a)) / Manifestly made public by the data subject (Art. 9(2)(e)) | Indefinite (anonymised) | Supports transparency and informed decision-making |
| Patient communications (service updates, reminders) | Identity, Contact, Appointment Data | None | Performance of a contract – to send essential updates | N/A | Account lifetime | To maintain service and appointment accuracy |
| Marketing communications | Identity, Contact, Marketing Preferences | None | Legitimate interests with soft opt-in under PECR (for existing patients who have not opted out); Explicit consent required for new patients and non-patients | N/A | Until withdrawn + 3 years suppression | Ensures suppression list accuracy |
| Fraud prevention & security | Identity, Contact, Technical Data, Verification Data | None | Legitimate interests – to secure systems and prevent unauthorised use | N/A | 90 days for logs | Security monitoring and incident detection |
| Platform analytics | Technical Data, Usage Data, Cookies | None | Legitimate interests – to improve services | N/A | 26 months | Google Analytics default retention for anonymised data |
| Personalisation | Technical Data, Usage Data, Location Data | None | Consent – only applied if you enable this feature | N/A | Account lifetime | Improves user experience |
| Legal compliance | All categories as necessary | Health Data (if relevant) | Legal obligation – to comply with statutory requirements | Art. 9(2)(h) or Art. 9(2)(f) – legal claims | As required by law | Regulatory or legal defence purposes |
A2 – Healthcare Providers
| Purpose / Activity | Categories of Personal Data | Special Category Data | Lawful Basis (UK/EU GDPR) | Additional Condition for Special Category Data | Retention Period | Rationale for Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profile creation and maintenance | Identity, Contact, Professional Profile Data | None | Performance of a contract – to display your services | N/A | Active account + 7 years | Maintain records for regulatory and contractual compliance |
| Publishing patient reviews | Review Data (about provider) | Health Data (in review context) | Legitimate interests – to inform patients about your services | Explicit consent / publication (Art. 9(2)(a)/(e)) from patient | Indefinite (following full anonymisation process with regular reviews) | Supports transparency and informed choice |
| Peer networking & endorsements | Identity, Professional Profile Data, Endorsements | None | Consent – if you choose to participate; Legitimate interests – to build professional connections | N/A | Until withdrawn | Professional relationship building |
| Communications (service updates, policy changes) | Identity, Contact | None | Legitimate interests – to keep you informed about operational matters | N/A | Account lifetime | Service continuity |
| Marketing communications | Identity, Contact, Marketing Preferences | None | Legitimate interests (soft opt-in under PECR for existing relationships); Consent for others | N/A | Until withdrawn + 3 years suppression | Marketing list management |
| Fraud prevention & security | Identity, Contact, Technical Data | None | Legitimate interests – to protect accounts and platform security | N/A | 90 days for logs | Security monitoring |
| Platform analytics | Technical Data, Usage Data, Cookies | None | Legitimate interests – to improve provider-facing features | N/A | 26 months | Service performance analysis |
| Legal compliance | All categories as necessary | None | Legal obligation – to meet statutory and regulatory requirements | N/A | As required by law | Compliance with healthcare and data protection laws |