1. Introduction
Welcome to Snip Vasectomy UK (“we”, “us”, “our”). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in compliance with UK data protection laws, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
This policy outlines your rights regarding your personal data and how to exercise them. Please read it carefully.
2. Who We Are
- Company Name: Snip Vasectomy UK (a trading name of Magma Healthcare)
- Contact Email: hello@snip.co.uk
- Contact Phone: 0800 377 647
For the purpose of the UK GDPR, we are the data controller responsible for your personal data.
3. What Personal Data We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal data about you:
- Identity Data: Name, title, date of birth. | To identify you and provide our services.
- Contact Data: Email address, phone number, postal address. | To communicate with you, book appointments, and send reminders.
- Health Data: Information about your health, medical history, and vasectomy procedure. | To provide safe and effective medical care. This is special category data and is processed with your explicit consent.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform. | To administer and protect our website, and to understand how visitors use our site.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services. | To improve our website, services, and marketing.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences. | To send you relevant information about our services.
4. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
- Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Health Data by filling in forms on our website, or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
- Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookies Policy for further details.
- Third parties: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, such as analytics providers (e.g., Google) based outside the UK.
5. Lawful Basis for Processing Your Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., to provide you with a vasectomy procedure).
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
- Where we have your explicit consent to process your special category health data.
6. How We Use Your Personal Data
We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.
- To register you as a new patient: (a) Identity (b) Contact | Performance of a contract with you
- To provide medical services to you, including your vasectomy procedure: (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Health | Performance of a contract with you; Explicit consent for health data
- To manage our relationship with you which will include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy: (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Marketing and Communications | Performance of a contract with you; Legal obligation; Legitimate interest (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
- To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data): (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical | Legitimate interest (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security)
- To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you: (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Usage (d) Marketing and Communications (e) Technical | Legitimate interest (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so, typically within 72 hours of becoming aware of it.
8. International Transfers
We may transfer your personal data outside the UK. Some of our external third parties are based outside the UK so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK Secretary of State. The UK government has recognised New Zealand as an adequate destination for data transfers.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use in the UK which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
You can see more about these rights at:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at hello@snip.co.uk.
10. Complaints
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues www.ico.org.uk. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 02 March 2026. Any changes will be posted on this page.
