Stress Fracture Physio
In short. The tools collect the answers you type and, if you enter it, your email. Your results are sent to you and, when a clinician sent you the link, to that clinician. Nothing is used for research, follow-up contact or marketing unless you tick the box for it. If you use a tool on your own, your full answers are stored under a one-way code, not your email, and you can ask for them to be removed from research use at any time.
Stress Fracture Physio is a physiotherapy practice run by Beau Walker-Tyrrell and Blake Withers in Sydney, Australia. We are a health service provider, so the Australian Privacy Principles apply to everything on this page. Contact for anything privacy related: info@stressfracturerehab.com.
Each consent is asked separately, is never pre-ticked, and the exact wording you saw is recorded with its version number.
Sent by a clinician. If a clinician at the practice sent you a link, your answers are stored with your email as part of your clinical record, and your clinician receives a copy of the result.
On your own. If you arrived by yourself, your full answers are stored under a one-way code derived from your email. The stored row does not contain your email or name. The code lets your results from different tools be joined together, and lets us find and remove your responses from research use if you ask, without the stored data identifying you. Your email itself is used only to send your result and to record the consents you give.
If you tick the research box, a copy of your answers and scores is added to a pooled dataset under the same one-way code. This pool is used to understand how bone stress injuries behave and recover across many people and to improve the tools. While the practice holds the code's key it treats this pool as personal information and protects it accordingly; it is not shared in identifiable form. Anything published or presented from it uses aggregate figures only, with small groups suppressed so no individual can be picked out. Any future university research using the pool would go to a human research ethics committee, and identifiers would be severed before a researcher received anything.
We never sell your information and never share it with advertisers or data brokers.
Where a provider processes data outside Australia we take reasonable steps to ensure it is handled in line with Australian privacy law.
Clinical records are kept for as long as health records law in New South Wales requires: seven years from the last entry for adults, and until age 25 for anyone under 18 when treated. Marketing details are kept until you unsubscribe. Pooled research data under the one-way code is kept while the research purpose continues, and your entry is excluded from all future use when you withdraw.
The tools are for adults. A person under 18 may use a tool with a parent or guardian completing it with them and giving consent on their behalf, as the tool's opening screen states.
Data travels encrypted. Access to clinical records is limited to the practice's clinicians through signed-in sessions. Public users' answers are stored without names or emails. If a data breach were likely to cause serious harm we would notify the people affected and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, as the law requires.
Email info@stressfracturerehab.com. We will respond within 30 days. If you are not satisfied you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.
When this policy changes, the version and date at the top change, and the consent records keep the version that applied when you gave them.
Stress Fracture Physio · Beau Walker-Tyrrell and Blake Withers · info@stressfracturerehab.com