Privacy Policy

Effective date: 1 September 2026 Last updated: 1 September 2026 Published by: MediCiti Hospitals

1About this policy

MediCiti Hospitals (“MediCiti”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of everyone whose information we handle — our patients, our employees, our vendors and the visitors to our website. This is our single, common privacy policy: it explains what information our applications and website collect, why we collect it, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and the choices and rights you have.

We are the data fiduciary for the information described here. We handle it in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, and the confidentiality obligations that apply to us as a clinical establishment in India.

Please read this policy together with any specific notice, consent form or terms of use shown to you inside an application or at the point where we collect your information.

2Applications this policy covers

This policy applies to every application published by MediCiti Hospitals — on Google Play, on the Apple App Store and through our internal distribution — together with their web versions and our website at https://mediciti.co.in.

It covers the applications listed below and any application we release in the future. This page is the permanent privacy policy URL for all of them; it does not change when a new application is launched. If a new application collects information that is not already described here, we will update this policy, and the notice inside that application, before it is released.

MediCiti HIMS

Hospital Information Management System

The clinical and administrative system used to run hospital operations — registration, appointments, electronic medical records, diagnostics, pharmacy and billing.

Who uses it: Authorised hospital staff (clinicians, nursing, front office, diagnostics, pharmacy and billing teams). It is not a consumer application and is issued only to personnel authorised by MediCiti Hospitals.

MediCiti HRMS

Human Resource Management System

The employee self-service and workforce management system — attendance, leave, payroll, documents, appraisals and internal communication.

Who uses it: Employees, contract staff and authorised HR and payroll administrators of MediCiti Hospitals. It is not a consumer application and access is tied to an active engagement with the organisation.

MediCiti HSCM

Healthcare Supply Chain Management System

The procurement, inventory and materials management system — indents, purchase orders, goods receipt, stock movement, expiry tracking and vendor management.

Who uses it: Authorised stores, purchase, pharmacy and finance personnel, and approved vendors and suppliers who have been issued access. It is not a consumer application.

3Information we collect

We collect only the information we need to run these applications and to meet our legal obligations. The categories below are set out per application; an application collects only what its own table lists.

MediCiti HIMS

Category What this includes
Staff account data Employee ID, name, official e-mail and mobile number, department, role and access rights, login and audit-trail records.
Patient identity and contact data Name, age, gender, date of birth, address, mobile number, e-mail, emergency contact, and government identifiers (such as ABHA ID or an identity document number) where required for registration, insurance or statutory reporting.
Health data (sensitive personal data) Clinical history, symptoms, diagnoses, vitals, allergies, prescriptions, diagnostic and imaging reports, treatment and surgical notes, discharge summaries and other medical records.
Financial and insurance data Bills, payment records, payer or TPA details, policy and claim references. Card details are handled by the payment gateway and are not stored in the application.
Device and diagnostic data Device model, operating-system version, app version, IP address, crash logs and in-app activity logs used for security monitoring and audit trails.

MediCiti HRMS

Category What this includes
Employee identity and contact data Name, employee ID, photograph, date of birth, gender, personal and official contact details, residential address and emergency contact.
Employment data Designation, department, reporting line, date of joining, employment type, shift and roster, leave balances, appraisal and disciplinary records.
Attendance data Punch-in and punch-out timestamps, the work location associated with a punch, and — where selfie or geo-verified attendance is enabled — the attendance photograph and the coarse location captured at the moment of punching.
Payroll, tax and statutory data Salary structure, bank account details for salary credit, PAN, Aadhaar (where legally required), UAN and provident fund details, ESI number, tax declarations and investment proofs.
Documents Identity and address proofs, educational and professional certificates, medical-council registration where applicable, and other onboarding documents you upload.
Device and diagnostic data Device model, operating-system version, app version, IP address, crash logs and login history used for security and audit purposes.

MediCiti HSCM

Category What this includes
User account data Employee or vendor user ID, name, official e-mail and mobile number, organisation, role and approval limits, login and audit-trail records.
Vendor and supplier data Business name and address, contact-person name, phone and e-mail, GSTIN, PAN, drug-licence and other statutory registration numbers, and bank details used for payment.
Transaction data Indents, quotations, purchase orders, invoices, goods-receipt and returns records, batch and expiry details, stock levels and movements, and approval history.
Device and diagnostic data Device model, operating-system version, app version, IP address, crash logs and activity logs used for security monitoring and audit trails.

What we never do. We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it with data brokers. We do not use it to serve advertising, and our applications carry no advertising SDKs and no cross-app or cross-site tracking for advertising purposes. This holds for every application we publish.

4How we use your information

We use the information described above for the following purposes and no others:

MediCiti HIMS

  • Registering patients and scheduling appointments, admissions and procedures.
  • Creating and maintaining electronic medical records, prescriptions, diagnostic orders and reports.
  • Managing pharmacy dispensing, billing, insurance and TPA claims.
  • Meeting record-keeping, clinical-audit and statutory-reporting obligations that apply to a clinical establishment.

MediCiti HRMS

  • Recording attendance, shifts, duty rosters and leave.
  • Processing payroll, reimbursements, statutory deductions and issuing payslips and tax statements.
  • Maintaining the employee record, including onboarding documents, qualifications and appraisals.
  • Delivering HR announcements, approvals and workflow notifications.
  • Meeting labour, tax, provident fund, ESI and statutory-audit obligations.

MediCiti HSCM

  • Raising and approving indents, purchase orders and goods-receipt notes.
  • Tracking stock, batch numbers, expiry dates and inter-department issues across stores and pharmacy.
  • Managing vendor records, quotations, rate contracts and invoice reconciliation.
  • Meeting record-keeping obligations under drug, tax and company law, and supporting internal and statutory audit.

Across all of our applications we also use information to:

  • Authenticate users, control access and keep audit trails of who viewed or changed a record.
  • Detect, investigate and prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents and unauthorised access.
  • Diagnose crashes and errors, and improve the reliability and usability of the applications.
  • Respond to your questions, requests and complaints.
  • Comply with the law, and to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

We process personal data on one or more of the following bases:

  • Your consent. Where you give it — for example when you agree to a consent notice at registration, or when you grant an optional device permission. You may withdraw consent at any time, as described in section 12.
  • Certain legitimate uses permitted by law. Including processing needed to provide medical treatment or health services, to respond to a medical emergency or a threat to life, and to fulfil an employment relationship, as recognised under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
  • Performance of a contract. To deliver the services you or your organisation have engaged us for, including employment and vendor contracts.
  • Legal obligation. Where a law, regulator, court or statutory authority requires us to collect, retain or disclose the information.

6Device permissions

Our applications ask for device permissions only for the specific features described below. Permissions marked Optional can be declined, and you can withdraw any of them later in your device settings — the rest of the application will continue to work, though the feature that needs the permission will not.

MediCiti HIMS

Permission Why we ask for it Status
Camera To capture patient documents, wound or clinical images into the record, and to scan patient wristband or sample barcodes. Optional
Photos and files To attach reports and documents to a patient record, and to save or share reports the user generates. Optional
Notifications To alert staff to critical results, new orders, admissions and task assignments. Optional
Biometric / device screen lock To unlock the app. Biometric matching happens on the device — we never receive or store your fingerprint or face data. Optional
Network access Required to connect to the hospital servers. The application does not function offline. Required

MediCiti HRMS

Permission Why we ask for it Status
Location Only when you tap to mark attendance, and only if geo-verified attendance is enabled for your role — to confirm the punch was made at an authorised work location. Location is not collected in the background and is not tracked between punches. Optional
Camera To take a selfie for verified attendance and to photograph documents you submit to HR. Optional
Photos and files To upload documents and proofs, and to save payslips and tax statements to your device. Optional
Notifications To send approval requests, roster changes, payroll and HR announcements. Optional
Biometric / device screen lock To unlock the app. Biometric matching happens on the device — we never receive or store your fingerprint or face data. Optional
Network access Required to sync with the HR servers. Required

MediCiti HSCM

Permission Why we ask for it Status
Camera To scan item, batch and shipment barcodes or QR codes, and to photograph delivered goods, damages or supporting documents. Optional
Photos and files To attach invoices, challans and certificates of analysis, and to save purchase and stock reports to your device. Optional
Notifications To alert users to approval requests, low or expiring stock and delivery updates. Optional
Location Only when a goods receipt or delivery is confirmed in the app, and only where site verification is enabled — to record the store or site at which the receipt was made. It is not collected in the background. Optional
Network access Required to sync with the supply-chain servers. Required

Across every application we publish, location, camera and microphone are never accessed in the background. They are used only in the foreground, at the moment you use the feature that needs them.

7How we share information

We share personal information only in these situations:

  • Within MediCiti Hospitals. With the departments and authorised personnel who need the information to do their work, on a strict need-to-know basis controlled by role-based access.
  • With service providers acting for us. Hosting, backup, communication and support providers who process the information only on our documented instructions, under contract, and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes. They are listed in section 8.
  • With payers and referring providers, at your request or with your consent. For example an insurer, third-party administrator, employer-sponsored health scheme, or another hospital or laboratory involved in your care.
  • Where the law requires it. With courts, police, regulators, health authorities and statutory bodies where we are legally obliged to disclose — for example notifiable-disease reporting, medico-legal cases, tax and labour filings, or a valid legal order.
  • In an emergency. Where disclosure is necessary to protect the life, safety or health of you or another person.
  • On a business transfer. If we reorganise or transfer part of our operations, information may transfer with it, subject to this policy continuing to apply.

8Third-party services we use

Our applications use a small number of third-party services. They receive only the data they need to perform their function, and none of them are permitted to use it for their own purposes.

Service What it is used for
Google Firebase (Cloud Messaging & Crashlytics) Delivering push notifications and receiving anonymised crash diagnostics.
Google Play Services / Apple Push Notification service Platform services required for app distribution, integrity checks and notification delivery.
SMS and e-mail gateway providers Sending one-time passwords, appointment and transaction alerts on our instruction.
Cloud hosting and backup providers Hosting the application servers, databases and encrypted backups within India.

9How we protect your information

We apply reasonable security practices and procedures appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, including:

  • Encryption of data in transit using TLS, and encryption of stored data and backups.
  • Individual user accounts with role-based access control, so users see only what their role requires.
  • Multi-factor or OTP-based authentication and enforced session timeouts on sensitive modules.
  • Audit logging of access to and changes made to records.
  • Segregated production, test and development environments, with real data restricted to production.
  • Regular backups, patching, vulnerability testing and reviews of user access.
  • Confidentiality obligations and periodic privacy training for staff and contractors.

No system can be guaranteed completely secure. If a personal data breach occurs, we will notify the Data Protection Board of India, CERT-In and the affected individuals as required by law, and take prompt steps to contain and remedy it.

10How long we keep your information

We keep personal information only for as long as it is needed for the purposes described in this policy, or for the longer period required by law.

MediCiti HIMS

Medical records are retained for the periods required of a clinical establishment in India — as a minimum, three years from the date of the last entry under the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, and longer where a medico-legal case, insurance claim, litigation or statutory audit requires it. Staff account and audit-trail records are retained for the duration of the user's authorisation and for the statutory audit period thereafter.

MediCiti HRMS

Employee records are retained for the duration of employment and thereafter for the periods prescribed by labour, provident fund, tax and company law — payroll, tax and statutory records are generally retained for up to eight years. Attendance photographs and punch locations are retained only for the attendance and payroll cycle they support, and for any period needed to resolve a dispute or complete a statutory audit.

MediCiti HSCM

Procurement, inventory and vendor records are retained for the periods required under the Companies Act, 2013, the Goods and Services Tax law, and the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and rules — generally eight years from the end of the relevant financial year, and longer where an audit, dispute or investigation requires it.

When a retention period ends, we delete the information or irreversibly anonymise it. Aggregated and anonymised statistics, which cannot identify anyone, may be kept for planning, quality and research purposes.

11Account and data deletion

You can ask us to delete your account and the personal data associated with it, in any of our applications. Write to infolbn@mediciti.co.in from your registered e-mail address, or call +91 8371030303, with:

  • The name of the application you use.
  • Your registered name and the mobile number or e-mail on the account.
  • Your employee ID, patient UHID or vendor code, if you have one.

We verify every request before acting on it. We acknowledge requests within 7 working days and complete them within 30 days. Once the request is completed, your account is deactivated and the personal data linked to it is deleted, except for records we are legally required to retain — medical records, payroll and tax records, and procurement and statutory books of account, as described in section 10. Those records are locked down and kept only for the remaining statutory period, then deleted.

Deleting the app from your device does not delete your account or your data. To have the data removed, send us the request described above.

12Your rights

Subject to verification of your identity and to the exceptions the law allows, you have the right to:

  • Access a summary of the personal data we hold about you and how we process it.
  • Correct or complete data that is inaccurate, misleading or out of date. Clinical records are corrected by way of a documented amendment rather than by overwriting, so that the medical record stays complete.
  • Erase your personal data where we no longer need it and no law requires us to keep it.
  • Withdraw consent you have given, at any time, with effect for the future. Withdrawing consent may mean we can no longer provide a service that depends on it.
  • Nominate another person to exercise these rights on your behalf if you die or become incapacitated.
  • Complain to our Grievance Officer, and thereafter to the Data Protection Board of India.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in section 17. We do not charge a fee, and we will not treat you differently for making a request.

13Children's information

Our applications are intended for use by adults acting in a professional capacity, and are not directed at children.

Where a child receives treatment at our hospital, the child's health information is entered into the hospital record by our staff on the basis of consent given by a parent or lawful guardian, in line with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. We do not use children's data for tracking, behavioural monitoring or advertising.

14Where your information is stored

Personal data collected through our applications is stored on servers located in India. We do not routinely transfer personal data outside India. Where a service provider processes limited technical data outside India — for example crash diagnostics or push-notification delivery — the transfer is made only to countries not restricted by the Central Government, under contractual safeguards requiring a comparable level of protection.

15Our website

When you visit https://mediciti.co.in we collect the information you submit through our appointment, contact and newsletter forms — your name, phone number, e-mail and the message or preference you provide — so that we can respond to you.

The website also uses cookies and similar technologies, including Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, to understand how visitors use the site and to improve it. These record information such as pages viewed, time on page, approximate region and referring source. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; parts of the site may not work as intended if you do. We do not place advertising cookies that build a profile of you across other websites.

Our website may link to external sites. We are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices, and we encourage you to read their policies.

16Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our applications, services or legal obligations change. The current version is always published at https://mediciti.co.in/privacy-policy, with the effective date shown at the top — this address stays the same, so it remains valid for every application, including ones we launch later. Where a change materially affects how we use your information, we will give notice inside the affected application, by e-mail or by SMS before it takes effect and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent again.

17Contact us and grievance redressal

If you have a question about this policy, want to exercise a right, or wish to complain about how we have handled your personal data, please contact our Grievance Officer. We acknowledge every grievance within 7 working days and aim to resolve it within 30 days.

Grievance Officer

  • The Grievance Officer
  • infolbn@mediciti.co.in
  • +91 8371030303
  • MediCiti Hospitals, Mediciti Hospital, 13-254, NH 44, opp. Asian Mukund Theatre, Chandra Nagar, Medchal, Secunderabad, Telangana 501401, India
  • Monday to Saturday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM IST

General privacy enquiries

If you are not satisfied with our response, you may escalate your complaint to the Data Protection Board of India under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.