Privacy Policy

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BTPA Website Privacy Policy

This policy is effective from 20 January 2026.

The BTPA tracks your activity on our site in order to produce anonymous website statistics, to help us identify which pages on the website are popular.

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymous usage data. IP addresses are anonymised and no personally identifiable information is collected. See the Google Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy for the data that may be collected, and what it might be used for. Analytics cookies are only set after you give consent.

The BTPA website makes use of other cookies on its Members' Area - if you turn off cookies you may not have full access to the website.

Bowen Therapist searches which result in individual therapist details being displayed may be tracked and analysed for membership and administrative purposes. Your IP address may be stored, as well as the date and time you make the therapist search. This helps BTPA to know where in the country the distribution of Bowen Therapist searches occurs.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, which are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

General Data Protection Regulation Statement of Policy - Bowen Therapy Professional Association

The Policy

This is a statement of the data protection policy adopted by the Bowen Therapy Professional Association (BTPA) . To perform our function, we need to collect and use certain types of information about the members who use our services as a professional organisation. BTPA regards the lawful and correct treatment of personal information as highly important. We therefore strive to ensure that we treat personal information lawfully and correctly.

Data Protection Principles

BTPA endorses and is committed to adhering to the eight data protection principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998, which require that personal information is:

  • Fairly and lawfully processed.
  • Processed for limited purposes.
  • Adequate, relevant and not excessive.
  • Accurate, and kept up-to-date.
  • Not kept longer than necessary.
  • Processed in accordance with the data subject’s rights.
  • Secure.
  • Not transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area without adequate protection being provided to the personal data on individual subjects.

Use of Your Personal Data

We will use personal information provided by you for the purpose of carrying out professional membership services for the following purposes:

  • To establish whether a therapist has achieved certain levels of training competence and to ensure they have public liability insurance.
  • Internal record keeping.
  • Contacting BTPA Members about their merchandise orders.
  • Responding to enquiries from members of the public.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new services, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • To list your clinic details on our website if you are eligible and have requested this service.
  • To mail/email a quarterly magazine and a regular newsletter.
  • To keep in touch with the member regarding important updates relating to their membership.
  • To keep the member up to date with relevant information.
  • To adhere to our legal responsibilities.
  • To process requests and enquiries from you.
  • To communicate with you to remind you of your membership renewal date by phone, email or post.
  • To communicate with you about our services, events and news by email or post.
  • For audit purposes.
  • To prevent or detect fraud.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out above and we will remove it when the purposes have been met.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • Name, email address, postal address, clinic address and phone number (contact details).
  • Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers.
  • BTPA Members' use of the members' area (date and time) may be logged.
  • BTPA Member survey responses, course reviews and testimonials when submitted through the website.

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Consent to collect personal information

In compliance with the UK GDPR + PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), when a new member joins the BTPA they will be asked to agree to the BTPA's website privacy policy and GDPR statement. This consent will allow the BTPA to collect and process their personal information as detailed on this page.

BTPA must process your personal information to perform its function. If a member or potential member does not consent to the BTPA processing their personal information, that person will not be eligible to remain as a member or to join the association.

Security and Storage of Your Personal Data

The BTPA will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to limit the opportunity for unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and to guard against accidental loss, destruction of, or damage to personal data.

Sharing of Personal Data

We share information in the following circumstances:

  • Where we are required to do so by law.
  • When you have given consent for us to do so.
  • With our partner insurance companies, when you take out a policy under the BTPA block booking discount scheme with that company.
  • With the CNHC if you become a CNHC registrant through the BTPA.

Access to your personal information

You have a right to request a copy of the personal information that the BTPA holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We will contact you to check that the request has come from you before we disclose any personal information. Copies of available information will be supplied to your registered address. Requests should be made, in writing, to the BTPA Membership Secretary, PO Box 10844, Blaby, Leicester LE8 4YX.

Amendment of Personal Data Held

If you believe that the personal information we hold on you is incorrect, you should submit corrections, in writing, to the address given above as soon as possible.

How long we retain your personal information

Electronic member details are retained for as long as is necessary to provide the services of the association. Member details that are stored on paper records are destroyed no more than one year after a member leaves the association.

Data Controller

Any personal information that you provide is controlled by the Data Controller (The Secretary, BTPA, PO Box 10844, Blaby, Leicester LE8 4YX), registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, Reference Number Z7098088.

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