Privacy Policy
How we handle the information you give us — including your prescriptions and your delivery details.
This document is awaiting legal review.
A final version is being prepared with our legal advisers. If you need to rely on any part of it in the meantime, please contact us and we will confirm the current position in writing.
dev note: see content/legal.tsFriecca Pharmacy Limited is a retail pharmacy. To dispense medicines and deliver orders we necessarily handle personal information, some of it sensitive. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can ask us to do about it.
01Information We Collect
We collect only what we need in order to dispense medicines, deliver orders and answer your questions. Depending on how you contact us, that may include your name, telephone number, email address, delivery address and the details of your order or prescription.
If you use one of the forms on this website, the information you type is sent to us so that we can respond. Please do not send sensitive medical details through a general enquiry form — our pharmacists can discuss your prescription privately.
- Contact details you give us by phone, WhatsApp, email or a website form
- Order and delivery details, including the address you ask us to deliver to
- Prescription and medicine information needed to dispense your order safely
- Insurance details where you ask us to process a claim on your behalf
02Health Information
Information about your health, your prescriptions and the medicines you take is sensitive. We treat it as confidential and share it only where it is necessary to dispense your medicine safely, to process an insurance claim you have asked us to handle, or where the law requires us to.
Our pharmacists are bound by professional obligations of confidentiality in addition to the commitments on this page.
03How We Use Your Information
We use your information to dispense and deliver your order, to contact you about it, to keep the records a pharmacy is required to keep, and to answer the questions you send us.
- To verify a prescription and dispense your medicine safely
- To arrange delivery and keep you informed about its progress
- To process insurance claims where you have asked us to
- To keep the dispensing and financial records the law requires
- To respond to enquiries, complaints and appointment requests
04WhatsApp & Phone Communications
Many of our customers order by WhatsApp or telephone. When you message a branch on WhatsApp, that conversation is handled through WhatsApp's own service as well as by us, and WhatsApp's privacy terms apply to the messaging platform itself.
We keep a record of orders taken by phone or WhatsApp so that we can dispense accurately and follow up if there is a problem. Please be aware that a message you send is stored on your own device as well as ours.
We do not use your number to send marketing messages unless you have asked us to.
06Third-Party Services
We use a small number of third-party services to run this website and to deliver your order, such as hosting, mapping and messaging providers. Those providers process data on our instructions and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.
[List of named processors to be confirmed by the client before publication.]
07How Long We Keep Information
Pharmacy records must be kept for the periods required by law, and we keep order and dispensing records for at least as long as those requirements demand. [Retention period to be confirmed with the client's legal adviser.]
Enquiry messages that do not relate to a dispensing record are kept only as long as needed to deal with the enquiry.
08Your Rights
Under the Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019 you have rights over the personal data we hold about you. These include the right to be told what we hold, to ask for a copy, to ask us to correct anything inaccurate, and to ask us to stop processing your data in certain circumstances.
Some of these rights are limited where we are legally required to keep a pharmacy record. We will always explain the position when you ask.
- Ask what personal data we hold about you
- Ask for a copy of that data
- Ask us to correct information that is wrong
- Object to particular uses, or ask us to delete data we are not required to keep
09Contact for Privacy Concerns
If you have a question or complaint about how we have handled your information, please contact us and we will look into it.
[Named data protection contact to be confirmed by the client.]
Questions about privacy policy?
Write to us at info@frieccapharmacyltd.com or call +256414533759. Our registered address is P.O. Box 8472, Kampala, Uganda.