Clinic Chat GDPR/PDPA Retention Schedule
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Consent basics: clinic chat consent compliance basics. Transcript export: clinic chat transcript export for PMS.
Schedule Columns
What a clinic chat retention schedule must define
- Thread types: enquiry, booking, clinical, complaint, vendor spam
- Media retention vs text retention (often shorter for photos)
- Export-to-PMS rules and what stays only in inbox
- Deletion owner + quarterly review cadence
- Stop-rules: no personal-phone archives as the system of record
Compliance
Minimization beats “save everything for safety”
Media consent: clinic media file consent intake rules. Audit: clinic chat audit log playbook.
Ops
Retention only works with a shared inbox
FAQ
FAQs on clinic chat GDPR/PDPA retention schedules
Should every Instagram DM be kept forever for “legal safety”?
Usually no — define purpose-based windows; indefinite retention of personal chat is a PDPA/GDPR risk, not a safety feature.
How does Sookly help?
Sookly keeps clinic chat in a reception-owned Chat Receptionist queue designed for governed access — a prerequisite for real retention schedules. Join the waitlist.
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Clinic Chat GDPR/PDPA Retention Schedule - Retention without a schedule is accidental risk. Clinics need named retention windows for chat, media, and PMS exports — plus deletion owners — not screenshots living forever on staff phones.
Clinic Chat GDPR/PDPA Retention Schedule. Sookly Insights. https://www.sookly.co/en/insights/clinic-chat-gdpr-pdpa-retention-schedule
Chat and patient photos still living forever on staff phones?
Join the waitlist and we will map a GDPR/PDPA retention schedule onto your clinic’s shared inbox and export rules.