900 Chesterfield Rd, Woodseats, Sheffield S8 0SH, UK
This page explains how Woodseats Pharmacy approaches data protection under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, particularly where pharmacy and healthcare services involve sensitive personal data such as health information.
Last updated: April 2026We are committed to handling personal data lawfully, fairly, transparently, and securely. As a pharmacy, some of the information we process may include data concerning health, which is treated as special category data and requires additional safeguards.
Under the UK GDPR, organisations must have a lawful basis for using personal data. Where health information is involved, an additional condition for processing special category data is also required. In a pharmacy setting, this may include processing information to provide healthcare or treatment, meet legal and regulatory duties, protect public health, or administer services you have requested.
Depending on the circumstances, you may have the following rights under UK data protection law:
If you would like to exercise a data protection right, please contact Woodseats Pharmacy using the contact details below. We may need to verify your identity before responding to protect confidentiality and patient safety.
We aim to deal with requests promptly and within the timeframes required by law, although extensions may apply where permitted.
We retain your information only for as long as necessary to provide services and comply with legal requirements.
Some rights are not absolute. In a healthcare and pharmacy context, we may need to retain or continue using information where this is necessary for legal compliance, patient safety, public health, clinical record keeping, fraud prevention, or the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
If you have concerns about how Woodseats Pharmacy handles personal data, please contact us first so we can review the issue. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
For more detail about how we collect and use information, please also read our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions pages.