Privacy policy

Important Information

Purpose of this Privacy Policy

Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited (also referred to as SFR Medical) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you how we collect, process, and/or store your personal data when you engage with us, both on- and off-line, tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. This is applicable, but not limited to those who are looking for more information about Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited, potential or current clients, and victims who are subjects of SFR medical reports and their family members.

We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children online. When appropriate and consent has been given, we do collect data about children who are subjects of an SFR medical report.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other policies we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements other notices and policies and is not intended to override them.

Who we are

Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited is a UK provider of medical evidence reporting services that supports police forces and criminal justice agencies by producing and managing medical reports for investigations and legal proceedings. Through its services, SFR Medical aims to help improve access to timely, high-quality medical evidence, supporting the effective administration of justice and better outcomes for victims.

In this Privacy Policy, Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited is referred to as “SFR Medical”, “we”, “us” or “our”.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contacts us:

  • Full name of legal entity: Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited
  • Email address:Email address:  [email protected]
  • Telephone number: 01234943111

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.

Changes to the Privacy Policy and your duty to inform us of changes

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 1st July 2026.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-party links

This website and emails we may send you may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites or businesses and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Our role

SFR Medical may handle your personal information in different ways depending on the service being provided.

In many cases, SFR Medical processes personal information on behalf of police forces and criminal justice partners. When we do this, we act as a data processor, meaning we use personal information only on their instructions and for the purposes they have asked us to carry out. This will be the case where we are asked by them to use your personal information to produce medical evidence reports which will help them in their investigations and criminal proceedings.

In more limited cases, SFR Medical uses personal information for its own purposes. For example, we need to process information to run our business, meet our legal and regulatory obligations, and operate our optional referral pathway function, which is explained further below. When we do this, we act as a data controller, meaning we are responsible for deciding how and why personal information is used.

The role we are performing at any given time determines our responsibilities and how we manage your personal information. Throughout this Privacy Notice, we have sought to clearly identify when information relates to our role as a data processor and when it relates to our role as a data controller, so that you can understand how and why personal information is being used in each context and who the responsible entity is behind it.

The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

Due to the nature of our services, we do need to process personal information. Where we need to know who the data is about, we will need to use identifiable information. Where we can proceed without knowing to whom the information relates, we make sure to use anonymous data.

We will provide you with an overview of what personal information we may need below. When we do this, we differentiate between when we handle data on behalf of the police forces and when we use personal information for our own purposes.

Where we are the controller

As mentioned above, there are instances where we act as the controller and use personal information for our own purposes. This is the case where we use personal information for our business operations purposes or where we facilitate the optional referral pathway for victims who seek legal support in relation to compensation claims.

In particular, if you agree, we may share limited personal information with our legal support partners Streamlined Forensic Legal Limited (“SFR Solicitors”) so that they can contact you about legal advice and support following an incident. This may include help with making a compensation claim, including an application to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), where appropriate.

Our purpose is to support victims in accessing services that may assist with their recovery and access to justice. This includes enabling eligible individuals to receive independent legal advice and support in relation to compensation and other legal remedies that may be available to them.

We will only share the information needed to make the referral. The legal support provider will explain their services to you and if you choose to proceed, will discuss any further information they need directly with you.

Please note that we will only do this if we have your explicit agreement. The referral and subsequent legal support are entirely optional and will not affect the police investigation, criminal proceedings or health care treatment in any way.

For the referral, the following information will be shared:

  • Name
  • Contact details, including email address and telephone number;
  • Third Party Material Request (TPM)/reference number which will allow us to link the referral to our correct record; and
  • Referral consent data includes your preference regarding any optional referral or signposting request, your consent status, the date and time of your consent or withdrawal, and records of relevant communications.

Should you decide to move forward with SFR Solicitors and sign a Letter of Authority (“LOA”), SFR Solicitors may request us to share more information about you with them. This additional information is needed to enable them to assess whether you are eligible for a CICA claim or to substantiate your claim in further proceedings.

SFR Solicitors may request the sharing of the following information:

  • Health and medical data includes information about hospital or GP attendance, examination details, injuries, treatment, medical reports, medical evidence and other health-related information. This may include special category personal data.
  • Incident-related information contained in the relevant TPM form, which may include the date and location of the incident, relevant incident details, and the name of the relevant Police Force.

Where we act as the processor

In most cases, we are acting as the service provider to the UK Police Forces and criminal justice partners to provide them with medical evidence reports.

In this capacity, we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity data includes your first and last name, date of birth, gender, job title, Twitter handle, Facebook profile, biography, business association and relevant identifiers, such as a TPM/reference number.
  • Incident-related information contained in the relevant TPM form and any associated consent or authority form. This may include the date and location of the incident, relevant incident details and the name of the relevant Police Force.
  • Health and medical data includes information about hospital or GP attendance, examination details, injuries, treatment, medical reports, medical evidence and other health-related information. This may include special category personal data.
  • Contact data includes a billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone number.
  • Financial data may include bank account details.
  • Transaction data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us or we have purchased from you.
  • Technical data includes device type, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, language, gender, age, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
  • Profile data includes information similar to your identity data plus contact information along with any requests you may have made to us.
  • Usage data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • Marketing and communications data includes your preferences to not receive marketing from us.

We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may collect special categories of personal data about you, including health information, where necessary in connection with the medical evidence reporting services provided on behalf of Police Forces and, where applicable, any separate activity for which the relevant lawful basis and Article 9 condition have been identified.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this happens.

How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions: You may give us the data referenced above by filling in forms or corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes data you provide when you:
    • contract with us for our products or services
    • utilise our service
    • are involved in a Police medical evidence request and complete an electronic Third Party Material (“TPM”) form or provide information through the SFR Medical Portal
    • contact us directly to request information about compensation support, CICA eligibility or an optional referral/signposting service, where this is offered
    • request marketing materials to be sent to you
  • Automated technologies or interactions: When you interact with our website, we use Google Analytics to automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, including but not limited to those listed below:
    • police forces
    • the relevant TPM request form and any associated consent or authority documentation shared by the relevant Police Force
    • hospitals and/or doctors
    • hospital and/or police websites and/or FOIA requests
    • news media
    • social media channels
    • analytics providers
    • advertising networks
    • search information providers

How We Use Your Personal 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 execute against a contract we are about to enter or have entered into with you
  • 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 obligation

Where we rely on consent, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

Below is a description of the ways in which we may use your personal data, and of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground, we are relying on to process your personal data.

Purpose (activity) Type of data Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new client (a) Identity
(b) Contact 		Performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your order with may include:
(a) managing payments, fees and charges
(b) collecting money owed to us
(c) delivering SFR medical statements 		(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and communications 		(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
To manage our relationship with you which may include:
(a) contacting you for more information
(b) requesting a referral
(c) following up on a previous request 		(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and communications 		(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and communications 		(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
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 		(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you, either on this website or through our social media channels (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and communications
(f) Technical 		Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and communications
(f) Technical 		Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
(f) Marketing and communications 		Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
To administer an optional referral or signposting request relating to compensation support, CICA eligibility or legal support, where this service is offered and you have made a separate, clear affirmative request. (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Referral and consent data
(d) Health and medical data, where applicable 		(a) Consent under Article 6(1)(a) UK GDPR. Participation is voluntary and may be withdrawn at any time.
(b) Where health or other special category data is processed in connection with this activity, explicit consent under Article 9(2)(a) UK GDPR.
To consider and respond to a request from SFR Solicitors for relevant information held by SFR Medical, for example in relation to a potential CICA claim or legal support matter. (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Referral and consent data
(d) Health and medical data
(e) Limited incident-related information contained in the relevant TPM form, where necessary 		(a) Consent under Article 6(1)(a) UK GDPR.
(b) Where health or other special category data is involved, explicit consent under Article 9(2)(a) UK GDPR. In limited circumstances, Article 9(2)(f) UK GDPR may also apply where processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. Please contact us for additional information.

  • Promotional offers: we may use your identity, contact, technical, usage and profile data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant to you. You may receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from, or contracted with, us and you have not opted out of receiving these materials
  • Third-party marketing: we will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.
  • Opting out: you can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited providing contracted services to police forces which is the basis of our business

Cookies

Cookies are enabled on our website, specifically ones from Google, Facebook and Doubleclick.net. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your consent where this is necessary or permitted by law and where we have identified an appropriate lawful basis for doing so. Where required, we will provide you with relevant privacy information in accordance with applicable data protection law.

Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with the parties below for the purposes set out above:

  • internal and/or external third parties listed in the glossary, including SFR Solicitors, where you have made a separate request or provided consent for an optional referral or signposting service; and
  • specific third parties to whom we may choose merge parts of our business or our assets; alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them

If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International Transfers

We may share your data with authorised Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited staff and other service providers on a need to know basis. This may involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring everyone to follow the same rules when processing your personal data. These rules are called "binding corporate rules". For further details, see European Commission: Binding corporate rules.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries
  • Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

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.

Data Retention

How long will you keep my personal data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by contacting us. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see your legal rights below for further information.

In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

  • Request access to your personal data: commonly known as a "data subject access request". This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
  • Request correction of your personal data that we hold about you: this enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
  • Request erasure of your personal data: this enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request for erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
  • Object to processing of your personal data: if we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data: this enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
    • if you want us to establish the data's accuracy;
    • where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;
    • where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
    • you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it;
  • Request transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party: we will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
  • Right to withdraw consent at any time: where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
    This means, if you have provided your consent to be referred to SFR Solicitors, you will be able to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us under the email address or phone number indicated at the beginning of this Privacy Notice.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests without undue delay and, in most cases, within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Glossary

  • SFR medical report: a Streamlined Forensic Report, the medical evidence which Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited provides to the police after a crime has taken place, at the request of a police officer
  • Consent form: the form victims sign which gives Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited access to their personal, medical, and other data for the purpose of writing an SFR medical report
  • Legitimate interest: the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience
  • Performance of contract: the processing of your data where it is necessary to be able to fulfill a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract
  • Comply with a legal obligation: if required, we will process your personal data in a way that is compliant with and adheres to the relevant law(s)
  • Internal third parties: other entities in Streamlined Forensic Reporting Limited (acting as joint controllers or processors) based outside the EEA (in but not limited to India, South Africa, and the US) who provide IT and system administration, SFR processing and report writing, operational, marketing, and leadership services
  • External third parties: includes the following:
    • service providers acting as processors, based India, Canada, and the US who provide IT and system administration services
    • professional advisers, acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, funding sources, and insurers based in the UK and India who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services
    • HM Revenue & Customs, regulators, and other authorities, acting as processors or joint controllers, based in the UK who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances
    • police forces and other criminal justice partners or healthcare organisations, including the CPS, hospitals, GPs and other healthcare providers, acting as independent controllers in relation to their own processing activities, based in the UK
    • Streamlined Forensic Legal Limited (“SFR Solicitors”), a separate independent controller which may provide information about CICA eligibility, compensation support or legal services where you have separately requested or consented to an optional referral or signposting service