Privacy

Privacy Policy

How Halcyon Pain Management Centre handles the personal and health information you give us — and what this website does and does not collect.

Last updated 22 August 2026

Draft — not yet reviewed

This policy is a working draft written from what the clinic’s own website says about its practice. The highlighted phrases are decisions only Halcyon can make, and the whole document should be checked by a lawyer against the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the medical records rules that apply in Telangana before it is published. Delete this box once it has been.

1. Who we are

Halcyon Pain Management Centre is a pain management clinic at 3rd Floor, KKR Commercial Complex, Kukatpally Y Junction, Moosapet Road, Hyderabad, Telangana 500072. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “Halcyon” mean that clinic, and “you” means anyone who contacts us, attends an appointment, or uses this website.

We decide how and why your personal data is handled, which under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 makes us the data fiduciary for it.

2. What this policy covers

It covers information you give us when you enquire, book, or attend the clinic, and anything this website collects. It does not cover other websites we link to — Google Maps for directions, for instance — which have their own policies.

3. What this website collects

Only what you choose to give the assistant when you ask the team to call you back, and — if you agree to it — anonymous statistics about how the site is used.

The assistant. It answers from a fixed list of answers held in the website itself; your questions are not sent to anyone while you chat. If you ask for a call back and press Send to the team, the assistant sends the clinic: the name and mobile number you give, where the pain is and for how long, which scans you have had, the time you would like to be called, the questions you asked in the chat, the page you were on, and how you reached the site (for example, the name of the search or social media advert you clicked). Nothing is sent until you press that button, and you can use WhatsApp or call instead.

Where it goes. The request is saved in the clinic’s own Google Sheet and emailed to the clinic’s own mailbox, using Google Workspace services that act on the clinic’s behalf. It is used only to call you back about your enquiry and to understand which pages and adverts bring people to the clinic. It is not sold or used to advertise to you. Confirm how long call-back requests are kept before they are deleted.

Stored in your own browser. So the conversation is not lost when you move between pages, the assistant keeps it in your browser until you close the tab. It also remembers, for up to 90 days, which page or advert first brought you to the site, so a later call-back request can say so. This stays on your device; clearing your browser’s site data removes it.

Cookies and measurement. When you first arrive, we ask whether we may use cookies to see how the site is used. Nothing is loaded until you press Accept: no cookies are set, and Google Tag Manager — which we use to run our website statistics — is not even downloaded. If you accept, it and the measurement tools it manages may set cookies to count visits, see which pages and adverts bring people to the site, and spot pages that are not working. If you decline, or ignore the notice, the site works exactly the same. You can change your mind at any time: change your cookie choice. Confirm which measurement tools are switched on inside Tag Manager, and list them here.

Our web host may keep standard server logs of requests, including IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting. Confirm what your host logs and for how long.

If advertising pixels, an online booking system or a live chat service are added later — including through Tag Manager — this section must be updated before they go live.

4. Information we collect

When you contact us

  • Your name and phone number when you call or message us.
  • Your email address if you write to us.
  • Anything you choose to send over WhatsApp, including scans, reports and photographs.

When you attend the clinic

  • Identification and contact details taken at reception.
  • Your medical history, symptoms and examination findings.
  • Diagnostic ultrasound images taken in the consulting room, and any X-ray, MRI, CT or other reports you bring or send.
  • Details of the procedures performed, medicines used, aftercare given and reviews attended.
  • Payment records. Confirm whether card details are held by the clinic or only by the payment provider.

Health information of this kind is sensitive. We ask for it only where it is needed to work out where your pain is coming from and to treat it safely.

5. Why we use it

  • To answer your enquiry and arrange an appointment.
  • To reach a diagnosis, plan treatment, and carry it out safely — including knowing about blood thinners, diabetes, blood pressure or pregnancy, which change what can be used.
  • To keep an accurate clinical record and to follow up after a procedure.
  • To raise and settle bills, and to support an insurance or reimbursement claim where you ask us to.
  • To meet our legal, professional and regulatory obligations as a medical establishment.

We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for advertising. Confirm whether appointment reminders or clinic updates are sent, and how people opt out.

7. Who we share it with

We share your information only where there is a reason to, and only as much as is needed:

  • The consultants and clinical staff treating you.
  • Laboratories, imaging centres and other providers involved in your care. List the ones you use.
  • Your insurer or third-party administrator, where you ask us to support a claim.
  • A doctor who referred you, or one you ask us to write to.
  • Service providers who work on our behalf — for example the practice management or record-keeping software we use — under an obligation to keep it confidential. Name the systems that hold patient data.
  • Courts, regulators or public authorities where the law requires it.

Confirm whether any of these providers store data outside India.

8. How long we keep it

We keep clinical records for as long as we are required to, and for as long as they may be needed for your continuing care. Enquiries that do not lead to an appointment are kept for a shorter period and then deleted.

Set the actual retention periods here — for outpatient records, for images, for billing records, and for enquiries — against the medical records rules that apply to you.

9. How we protect it

Access to records is limited to the people who need it for your care or for running the clinic. Paper records are held securely at the clinic and electronic records are held on describe the systems and their protections — access control, encryption, backups.

If a breach happens that is likely to affect you, we will tell you and the Data Protection Board of India as the Act requires.

10. Your rights

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 you may:

  • Ask what personal data of yours we hold and what we have done with it.
  • Ask us to correct anything inaccurate, complete anything incomplete, or update anything that has changed.
  • Ask us to erase your personal data, where we are not required to keep it.
  • Withdraw a consent you have given.
  • Nominate someone to exercise these rights on your behalf if you are unable to.
  • Raise a grievance with us, and escalate to the Data Protection Board of India if you are not satisfied with how we answer.

Write to info@halcyonpainfree.com or call +91 77880 91092, and we will respond within state your response time. We may need to confirm who you are before we act on a request.

11. Children

Where a patient is under 18, we take the information from a parent or guardian and act on their consent. This website is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from them.

12. Changes to this policy

If our practices change — particularly if this website starts collecting anything — we will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes will be brought to your attention rather than left to be discovered.

13. Contact and grievances

For anything in this policy, or to exercise a right under it, contact name and email of the person handling data protection grievances — or use the clinic’s general contacts below. The Act requires a grievance to be answered before it can be escalated to the Data Protection Board of India.

Ask us anything about your records.

If you want to know what we hold, have something corrected, or would rather we deleted an enquiry, the same numbers that book appointments will reach the team.

Call
+91 77880 91092  ·  +91 95536 04226
Email
info@halcyonpainfree.com
In person
3rd Floor, KKR Commercial Complex, Kukatpally Y Junction, Moosapet Road, Hyderabad, Telangana 500072