Privacy Policy

ALL INFORMATION RELEASED IS INTENDED TO BE HIPAA COMPLIANT AT ALL TIMES AND ARE COMPLIANT WITH INDUSTRY RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Welcome to our site. We understand that privacy online is very important, and we value your privacy. Therefore, we ask you to please read our Privacy Policy carefully before you proceed using our Website, https://www.EricWeissMD.com. Our site is owned and operated by Eric Weiss, MD, FACS, ASPS (Plastic Surgery & Regenerative Medicine) in Orange Park, FL.

This Privacy Policy presents information regarding how we may obtain and use the information we collect about you. Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) may be to comply with a court order or subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information. All of our employees are familiar with our security policy and practices.

Your access to and use of our Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy, which applies to everyone, including but not limited to: you, the visitor: users and others who find, wish to access or use the Website. When you access or use our Website, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of our Privacy Policy, then we do not agree to give you permission to access or use this Website, period.

WE WILL ADDRESS:

  • Information – or what – information we may collect and store
  • Purposes – of such collection of the information we may collect and store
  • Consequences of withdrawal of consent or failure to provide information

STORAGE

Any information we collect and store includes information that may be used to specifically identify you. We receive and store all information that you enter on our Website as well as provide to us by any other form of communication.

INFORMATION  / PURPOSE(S) OF COLLECTION OF THIS INFORMATION

Name
Your Name is used to:

  1.       Sign up for an account
  2.       Bill you
  3.       Contact you
  4.       Provide you with our services
  5.       Enforce our Terms of Service

Without your Name, we will not be able to sign you up for an account, nor provide our services to you.

Company Name
Your Company Name is used to:

  1.       Sign up for an account
  2.       Bill you
  3.       Contact you
  4.       Provide you with our services
  5.       Enforce our Terms of Service

Without your Company Name, we will not be able to sign you up for an account, nor provide our services to you.

E-mail Address
Your E-mail Address is used to:

  1.       Sign up for an account
  2.       Bill you
  3.       Contact you
  4.       Provide you with our services
  5.       Enforce our Terms of Service
  6.       Send you E-mail Newsletters

Without your E-mail Address, we will not be able to sign you up for an account, nor provide our services to you.

Website Name
Your Website Name is used to:

  1.       Sign you up for an account
  2.       Provide you with our services
  3.       Enforce our Terms of Service

Without your Website Name, we will not be able to sign you up for an account, nor provide our services to you.

Application Name
Your Application Name is used to:

  1.       Sign you up for an account
  2.       Provide you with our service
  3.       Enforce our Terms of Service

Without your Application Name, we will not be able to sign you up for an account, nor provide our services to you.

Telephone Number
Your Telephone Number is used to contact you.

Without your Telephone Number, we will not be able to provide you our services. 

Billing Address
Your Billing Address is used to bill you for our services.

Without your Billing Address, we will not be able to provide you our services.

Mailing Address
Your Mailing Address is used to contact you and bill you our services.

Without your Mailing Address, we will not be able to provide our services to you.

Credit Card Number
Your Credit Card Number is used to bill you for our services.

Without your Credit Card Number, we will not be able to provide our services to you.

Comment Form Visitors who leave Comments on our site will have data shown in the Comments Form including the visitor’s IP address and a browser user agent to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media Storage – If you upload images, avoid ones with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the Website. Also, any and all photos to be used for Patient Testimonials and/or in the Gallery must have the Media Release Form filled out, signed and dated by the patient, and sent to the office to be put into the patient’s Electronic Medical Record.

Should we at any time become aware of any potential or prohibited or illegal activities performed or to be performed by you, we may supply all of your information to law enforcement authorities. Notwithstanding the above, we may provide all of your information to law enforcement authorities upon request by such authorities.

Cookies

A Cookie is a small file. We collect Cookies for various reasons including for security purposes. Its purpose is to ask permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. If you agree, this file is added and the Cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your dislikes, likes, and needs by remembering and gathering information about your preferences. We collect Cookies and may use Cookies for many reasons. Some include, but are not limited to:

  1. Analyzing our web traffic using an analytics package
  2. Identifying if you are signed-in to the Website
  3. Test content on the Website
  4. Store information about your preferences
  5. Recognized when you return to the Website

Cookies help us to provide you with a better Website because it enables us to monitor the pages you find useful as well as the ones you do not. A Cookie does not give us access to your computer or any information about you, except for the data you choose to share with us. It’s up to you – you can choose to accept OR decline Cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept Cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline Cookies if you would like; however, by doing so, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website. If you have an account and log into this site, we will set a temporary Cookie to determine if your browser accepts Cookies. This Cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log into the site, we set up several Cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days; screen option cookies last for one year; if you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks; if you log out, the login Cookies will be removed.

Embedded Content from other Websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use Cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Children’s Privacy (You MUST be 18 to view certain pages of our Gallery)

This Website is intended for use by a general audience of ages over 18 years of age. The following pages contain nudity and if the viewer is not 18 or older the individual is asked to please “click cancel now”. These pages include:

  1. Body Contouring
  2. Breast
  3. Facial
  4. After Weight Loss

Use of Google Analytics

This Website uses Google Analytics to collect information about your behaviors and you. You may opt-out of having this available to us by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

We want you to know with whom we may share your information

The following is a list of which we may share all or part of your information:

Comments – If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. Website administrators can also see and edit information. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Third-party vendors – Information shared may include Name, Company Name, and Contact Information with fraud parties for the sole purpose of preventing or investigating fraud.

Mail Chimp (or other Direct Email Companies) – Information shared may include Email, Name, and Company Name to send you emails on updates to laws, policies or procedures, new procedures or news regarding our medical practice.

QuickBooksTM – Information shared may be to record revenue and reconciliation with medical providers. We may share your Name, Company Name, and Contact Information to allow us tracking capability and follow-up.

Parties that need to operate the Website – Information shared may be with Parties that need to operate the Website for the purposes of fixing bugs or implementing new features and new improvements for cybersecurity purposes. We have data breaching policies in place. In these cases, all parties that need to receive information for this purpose will be subject to a Non-Disclosure Agreement and we will not release more information than required.

Advertising Companies – Your information is never sold to advertising companies nor do we use your information to allow advertisers to advertise third-party products or services on our Website.

Information retention – Your information is retained as obliged for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Direct marketing – Information you may have provided to us for education seminars or community events will be retained to advise you of new seminars or events in the future of which you may have an interest in. If at any time you wish to be deleted from this list, please call our office and request Removal from Community Email List.

Third-party Websites – Understanding this Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by other parties, please know these hyperlinks are provided for your reference, only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or privacy or other practices of such websites. It is up to you to read and fully understand any such website’s Privacy Policy. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.

Do not track signals – Your web browser you can set up and turn on or off to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”).

Your Rights – You have the following Rights and may exercise these Rights at any time by calling our office or filling out the Contact box on this Website. Please note we may ask you to verify your identity before we can exercise any of these Rights: Information Access: You have the Right to access any information that we may have;

Information Transmission: You have the right to ask us to transmit your personal information that we have collected on you to another provider (where technically feasible), such as an insurance company;

Rectification of Information: You have the right to request that we amend any of the information that we have collected on you;

You have the Right to:

  1. Withdraw your consent of the processing of your data;
  2. Request that we restrict the processing of your data;
  3. Request that we delete all or some of the personal information that we have collected on you; and
  4. Lodge a complaint regarding our collection, sharing, and processing of data with competent authorities in the proper jurisdiction.

Location of Data Processing – All Data Processing activities undertaken by us take place in the United States.

Transferring Data – We may transfer data to a website and application development and maintenance to a company or companies located in the United States for the sole purpose of maintaining our Website and application and performing further development work.

Changes to Privacy Policy – We reserve the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy at any time without notice.

Questions – If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please call our office or fill out the form on our Website under Contact for a response.

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