Privacy Policy

 

Privacy Statement

We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online experience. This Privacy Statement applies to our Practice’s website and governs our data collection and usage practices. By using this website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

Our Practice collects personally identifiable information provided by you, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Our Practice also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by this website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of this website. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Our Practice encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Our Practice is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on any other websites.

 

Use of your Personal Information

Our Practice collects and uses your personal information to operate the website and deliver the services you have requested. Our Practice also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from this Practice and its affiliates. Our Practice may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Our Practice does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Our Practice may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Our Practice does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. Our Practice will disclose your personal information without notice, only if required to do so by law.

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

 

Use of Cookies

The website uses “cookies” to help this Practice personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

 

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

• Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

Security of your Personal Information

Our Practice secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Our Practice secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected using encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

 

Changes to this Statement

Our Practice will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company and customer feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Statement to be informed of how our Practice is protecting your information.

 

Reach Out to Us

For any queries, contact us  or email at compliance@garciaweightloss.com?

 

HIPAA Compliance

Our Practice is dedicated to safeguarding your medical information in line with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. This federal law ensures the confidentiality and security of healthcare information and provides patients with significant rights regarding their health records.

Garcia Weightloss, Aesthetics & Hormone Therapy upholds its’ duty to protect your privacy.  Under HIPAA we are required to provide the Notice of Privacy Practices.  This notice goes over how your protected health information (PHI) may be used and your rights to protect it.

The Notice of Privacy Practices is subject to change, at any given time.  All changes will reflect on this page and will be accessible to anyone who has access to internet connection.  Upon your request, we can provide you with an electronic or paper copy.

 

Protected Health Information (PHI)

Under HIPAA, Protected Health Information (PHI) refers to any information, whether oral, written, or electronic, that relates to an individual’s past, present, or future physical or mental health, the provision of healthcare, or payment for healthcare. Our Practice collects and stores this data with the utmost security and discretion.

 

Use and Disclosure of PHI

We use and disclose PHI for standard healthcare operations, treatment, and payment activities. Any other disclosure, not covered by this policy, will be made only with written consent. We may also disclose PHI in circumstances as required by law, such as for public health purposes, reporting abuse or neglect, or to federal officials for lawful intelligence and national security activities.

 

Marketing

We may use and disclose your protected health information for marketing activities. For example, your name and address may be used to send you a newsletter about our practice and the services we offer. We may also send you information about products or services that we believe may be beneficial to you. 

 

Patient Rights Under HIPAA

Patients have the right to:

• Access and obtain a copy of their PHI.
• Request amendments if they believe there are inaccuracies.
• Request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures.
• Receive a list of instances where we have disclosed their PHI without consent.
• Choose how we communicate with them about medical matters.
• File a complaint if they believe their privacy rights have been violated.

 

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

In line with the advancements in healthcare, we maintain Electronic Health Records (EHR). While ensuring swift and coordinated care, EHRs are protected with rigorous security protocols.

 

Updates in HIPAA Compliance

We regularly review our policies and practices to ensure they align with changes in the law, including the HITECH Act. Patients will be informed of any significant amendments.

 

Contact for HIPAA Queries

If you have any questions regarding our HIPAA policies or if you feel your rights under HIPAA have been violated, please contact our compliance officer at compliance@garciaweightloss.com, by phone at 813-871-6465 or by mail at 2801 S Macdill Ave, Tampa, FL 33629.