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Our Privacy Policy
The Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Center has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. If at any time you find this privacy policy unacceptable, you must immediately leave this website.
Your Information
We respect your privacy. Any information we collect from you, including your email address, will simply be used to send you the information you have requested. We will not give or sell your personal information to any unaffiliated third party. If you give us your email and permission to send more information, you may opt out of receiving any additional email messages at any time, by unsubscribing from our email list.We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website by (1)identifying which parts of our site are most heavily used (2) to tailor site content to user needs and (3) togenerate aggregate statistical reports. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that user sessions will be tracked, but the users will remain anonymous.You need not provide the Surgery Center with personally identifying information (e.g., name, telephone number, email address, city and/or state of residence) as a condition of using our site. However, your failure to provide certain personally identifying information when asked will prevent certain features of the website from functioning or will prevent the Surgery Center from effectively responding to certain requests. The website will collect only that personally identifying information that you affirmatively provide in response to a direct request.
We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to your browser on the date of your visit, instead of your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with any personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a “cookie” on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing your return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser. Please refer to your browser settings for additional information on disabling cookies or visit Google Analytics currentlyavailable opt-outs for the web.
Mailing Lists
Our website offers the ability to subscribe to newsletters that may offer services, promotions, and special event invitations. You can opt-out of these newsletters at any time by selecting the “unsubscribe from this list” option at the bottom of the e-mail.
Consent
When you provide us with personal information through messaging us we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent and/or have you sign a physical consent.
Disclosure
We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.
Third Party Sites
Links within our site may connect to external sites outside of our domain as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the Surgery Center’s site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites, and do not make any representations about them. Before visiting or providing personally identifying information to any third-party website, you should review its privacy policy and practices, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect your privacy.
HIPAA
The Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Center is committed to protecting the privacy of all of our patients’ personal health information. Part of that commitment is complying with the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which requires us to take additional measures to protect personal information and to inform our members about those measures. Our notice of privacy practices provides information about how we may use and disclose protected health information about you.
The notice contains a patient rights section describing your rights under the law. You have the right to review our Notice before signing this consent. The terms of our Notice may change. If we change our notice, you may obtain a revised copy by contacting our office. You have the right to request that we restrict how protected health information about you is used or disclosed for treatment, payment, or health care operations. We are not required to agree to this restriction, but if we do, we shall honor that agreement.
The patient understands that: Protected health information may be disclosed or used for treatment, payment, or health care operations. The practice has a Notice of Privacy Practices and that the patient has the opportunity to review this Notice. The Practice reserves the right to change the Notice of Privacy Practices. The patient has the right to restrict the uses of their information but the practice does not have the right to agree to those restrictions. The patient may revoke this consent in writing at any time and all future disclosures will then cease. The Practice may condition receipt of treatment upon the execution of this consent.
Age of Consent
By using our website, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.
Security
The Surgery Center has implemented and maintains reasonable security procedures and practices to protect against the unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction or disclosure of your personally-identifying information.
Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action
The Surgery Center is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its relations with its patients and staff members, without regard to age, citizenship status, color, disability, marital or parental status, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.
