Handles health records, in the Dominican Republic

Ley No. 172-13, arts. 66, 75-79 (special categories of data) · Read the law's page

• Obtain the data subject's free, conscious, and voluntary consent before forming a file, bank, or register that reveals their sensitive data (political opinions, religious or philosophical convictions, union affiliation, or health or sex-life information).
• Do not create a data file, bank, or register that stores sensitive data except as this law provides, even though a church, religious association, clinic, hospital, or political or union organization may still keep a register of its own members.
• Include a person's criminal record data in a file, or communicate it to a public register, only once a court has ordered that person to stand trial, not merely upon accusation.
• As a Sociedad de Información Crediticia, never collect, store, or use in a credit report a consumer's political ideology, religious beliefs, emotional or affective characteristics, or information about their physical or psychological health or sexual conduct, preference, or orientation.when it serves a financial business
• Where you are a health establishment or health professional, process a patient's health data only under the Dominican Republic's health legislation and the duty of professional secrecy, and process data about racial origin, health, or sex life beyond that only where necessary for medical prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or managing health services, and only by someone bound by professional secrecy or an equivalent duty.