Last updated: 21st August 2026
Cura Dental is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of our patients and website visitors. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal information.
Who We Are
Cura Dental is a dental practice providing dental care and related services.
Practice name: Cura Dental
Address: 26 railway road, Leigh WN7 4AU
Telephone: 01942 673 201
Email: [email protected]
For the purposes of UK data protection law, Cura Dental is responsible for the personal information that we collect and use as described in this notice.
Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect and process information including:
- Your name, address, telephone number, email address and date of birth.
- Information you provide when contacting us through our website, by telephone, email or in person.
- Appointment and treatment information.
- Dental and medical history and other information relating to your health.
- Clinical notes, treatment plans, X-rays, photographs and other information required to provide dental care.
- Payment and billing information.
- Correspondence and communications between you and the practice.
- Information relating to referrals to or from other healthcare professionals.
- Technical information collected when you use our website, such as your IP address, browser information and cookies, where applicable.
Health information is treated as particularly sensitive personal information and is handled accordingly.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal information to:
- Provide you with dental care and treatment.
- Maintain accurate clinical and patient records.
- Arrange, manage and remind you about appointments.
- Communicate with you regarding your dental care.
- Prepare treatment plans and estimates.
- Process payments and administer your account.
- Make or receive referrals involving other healthcare professionals.
- Meet our professional, regulatory and legal obligations.
- Respond to enquiries submitted through our website.
- Maintain and improve the security and operation of our website and services.
- Send marketing communications where we have an appropriate lawful basis to do so.
Our Lawful Basis for Using Your Information
We only collect and use personal information where we have a lawful basis for doing so under UK data protection law.
The lawful basis we rely upon will depend upon the reason we are using your information. This may include providing healthcare, complying with legal and regulatory obligations, performing a contract with you, pursuing our legitimate interests or obtaining your consent where consent is required.
As a dental practice, we also process information concerning your health. Where we process this special category information, we will ensure that an appropriate additional legal condition applies.
Who We May Share Your Information With
Where necessary and permitted by law, information may be shared with organisations or individuals involved in your care or the operation of the practice, which may include:
- Dentists, hygienists, therapists and other members of the dental team.
- Dental laboratories.
- Other healthcare professionals involved in your care.
- Hospitals, specialist dental services and referral providers.
- NHS organisations, where applicable.
- Regulatory, professional or legal bodies where required.
- IT, software and other service providers that process information on our behalf.
- Payment providers and other organisations involved in processing payments.
We do not sell your personal information.
Where third parties process personal information on our behalf, we take appropriate steps to ensure that information is handled securely and in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We retain personal information, including dental and clinical records, for as long as necessary to provide our services and to meet our professional, regulatory and legal obligations.
Different types of information may be subject to different retention periods. When information is no longer required, it will be securely deleted or disposed of in accordance with our data-retention procedures.
Keeping Your Information Secure
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
Access to patient information is limited to people who require it for legitimate purposes.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending upon the circumstances, UK data protection law provides you with rights relating to your personal information. These may include the right to:
- Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Ask us to erase certain information where the law allows.
- Ask us to restrict the way certain information is processed.
- Object to certain uses of your information.
- Request the transfer of certain information.
- Withdraw consent where we rely upon consent to process your information.
Not all of these rights apply in every situation, particularly where we are legally or professionally required to retain information.
To exercise your rights or ask a question about how we use your information, please contact us using the details above.
Cookies and Website Information
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to help the website function correctly and to understand how visitors use it.
Where cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of the website, we will obtain consent where required.
Further information about the cookies used on our website can be found in our Cookie Policy [INSERT LINK IF APPLICABLE].
Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content
Our website may contain links to, or content provided by, third-party websites. These third parties may collect information when you interact with their services.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites, and we recommend reviewing their privacy information separately.
Complaints
If you have concerns about how Cura Dental has handled your personal information, please contact us first so that we can try to resolve your concerns.
You also have the right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes to our services, legal requirements or the way we process personal information.
The latest version will be made available on our website.