Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 14, 2026
1. Introduction
Safeway Dermatology & Laser Center ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title.
- Contact Data: includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data: includes payment card details (processed securely by our payment providers; we do not store full card numbers).
- Transaction Data: includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
- Health/Medical Data: Any skin concerns, allergies, or medical history you voluntarily share with us during consultations or via forms, which is treated with strict medical confidentiality.
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., fulfilling an order).
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
- To provide medical or dermatological care based on the health information you provide to our clinic.
4. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
5. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
6. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
7. Contact Details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
- Email: info@safewaydermatology.com
- Phone: +234 903 427 9465