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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 August 2026

The short version

1. Who we are

Vela Health is a clinic staff dashboard operated by Phuket Medical Clinic (Bangtao) Co., Ltd., trading as Phuket Medical Clinic — Laguna ("PMC Laguna", "we", "us", "our"). It displays WHOOP physiological data belonging to guests who have explicitly consented to share it with their care team.

PMC Laguna is the data controller for the personal data described in this policy.

Registered entity Phuket Medical Clinic (Bangtao) Co., Ltd.
บจก. ภูเก็ต เมดิคอล คลินิก (บางเทา)
Company registration / Tax ID 0835567011370
Registered address 58/1 Cherngtalay, Thalang, Phuket 83110, Thailand
Privacy contact laguna@phuketmedicalclinic.com
Telephone +66 96 236 2449

Phuket Medical Clinic operates other branches as separate legal entities. This policy covers only guests of PMC Laguna who connect a WHOOP account to Vela Health.

2. What this policy covers

This policy applies when:

It does not cover WHOOP itself. WHOOP's own handling of your data is governed by the WHOOP Privacy Policy.

3. What we collect

3.1 WHOOP data — only with your consent

When you authorize Vela Health through WHOOP's OAuth consent screen, you choose which permissions ("scopes") to grant. Vela Health requests these, and receives nothing outside them:

ScopeWhat we receiveWhy
read:recovery Recovery score, heart rate variability, resting heart rate Core readiness signal reviewed by your care team
read:sleep Sleep duration, sleep performance, start and end times Track sleep quality across the program
read:cycles Day strain and average heart rate for a physiological cycle Understand daily load against recovery
read:workout Activity type and accumulated strain per workout Distinguish training load from daily-life load
read:profile Your WHOOP name and email address Match your WHOOP account to your clinic record

We do not request location data, and we do not receive data from any WHOOP member who has not completed the consent flow.

3.2 WHOOP access credentials

The OAuth access token and refresh token WHOOP issues for your connection. These are stored encrypted, are never displayed to clinic staff, and are never shared with anyone.

3.3 Clinic and account data

Your name, the program you are enrolled in, and your connection status. Separately, we hold accounts for clinic staff — name, email, role, and organization.

3.4 Technical data

Standard server logs — IP address, browser user agent, and timestamps — kept for security, troubleshooting, and abuse prevention.

4. How we use it, and our legal basis

WHOOP recovery, sleep, and strain data describes your health. Under Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) ("PDPA") this is sensitive personal data, and we process it on the basis of your explicit consent — given once on WHOOP's consent screen, and again at clinic intake.

We use the data to:

We do not:

5. Who can see your data

No other third parties receive your data.

6. Cross-border transfer

WHOOP operates from the United States, and our server is located in Malaysia. Your data therefore leaves Thailand. Where personal data is transferred abroad we rely on your explicit consent under section 28 of the PDPA, and we require appropriate contractual safeguards from the providers involved.

7. How we protect it

No system can be guaranteed perfectly secure. We work to protect your data using measures appropriate to its sensitivity, but we cannot promise absolute security.

8. How long we keep it

DataRetention
WHOOP metrics (recovery, sleep, strain, workouts) For the duration of your program, then 12 months, after which they are deleted or irreversibly anonymized
WHOOP OAuth tokens Deleted immediately when you disconnect or withdraw consent
Audit logs 24 months, for security and compliance
Server logs 90 days

9. Disconnecting and your rights

Disconnecting WHOOP

You can stop sharing at any time, using either route — both work on their own:

  1. Ask your care team to use Disconnect on your record in the Vela Health dashboard; or
  2. Revoke Vela Health's access directly from your WHOOP account settings.

What happens when you disconnect: we stop receiving new WHOOP data immediately, delete the stored OAuth tokens, and stop displaying your metrics to staff. If you also want your historical metrics erased, email us and we will delete them.

Your rights under the PDPA

Subject to the Act's conditions, you may:

To exercise any of these, email laguna@phuketmedicalclinic.com, or speak to reception at the clinic. We respond within 30 days. Withdrawing consent may mean your care team can no longer monitor your recovery data as part of your program.

10. Children

Vela Health is not intended for individuals under 18. Where a guest is a minor, we obtain consent from a parent or legal guardian as required by the PDPA. If we learn that we hold a minor's data without proper consent, we delete it.

11. Cookies

The dashboard uses a strictly necessary session cookie so clinic staff can stay signed in. We do not use advertising cookies or third-party analytics trackers.

12. Changes to this policy

We will post any updates on this page with a revised "Last updated" date. If a change materially affects how we handle WHOOP data, we will notify affected guests and, where the law requires it, ask for consent again.

13. Contact us

Questions, requests, or complaints about privacy:
Phuket Medical Clinic (Bangtao) Co., Ltd.
58/1 Cherngtalay, Thalang, Phuket 83110, Thailand
laguna@phuketmedicalclinic.com · +66 96 236 2449