At HealthZone MD Family and Sports Medicine Wellness Center, we are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ health information in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other applicable laws and regulations. This HIPAA Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of protected health information (PHI) and explains your rights concerning your PHI.
Collection of Protected Health Information (PHI): We collect PHI necessary for providing healthcare services, including but not limited to: Personal information such as name, address, date of birth, and contact details. Medical history, current medical conditions, and treatment information. Health insurance information. Any other information relevant to your healthcare needs.
Use of Protected Health Information (PHI): We use PHI for the following purposes: Providing healthcare services and treatment to our patients. Billing and reimbursement purposes, including processing insurance claims. Healthcare operations, such as quality improvement initiatives and internal audits. Appointment reminders, patient communications, and follow-up care.
Disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI): We may disclose PHI in the following circumstances: Treatment: Sharing PHI with healthcare providers involved in your care. Payment: Sharing PHI with insurance companies, billing agencies, and other entities for payment purposes. Healthcare Operations: Sharing PHI with business associates and contractors who assist in our operations. Legal Requirements: Complying with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes. Public Health: Reporting information to public health authorities for disease control and prevention. Health Oversight: Providing information to government agencies for regulatory oversight activities. Law Enforcement: Sharing information in response to valid legal requests or law enforcement inquiries. Other Permitted Uses: With your authorization or as otherwise permitted by law.
Patient Rights: As a patient, you have the following rights regarding your PHI: Right to Access: You have the right to access and obtain a copy of your PHI. Right to Amend: You have the right to request amendments to your PHI if you believe it is inaccurate or incomplete. Right to Restrict Use and Disclosure: You have the right to request restrictions on the use and disclosure of your PHI. Right to Confidential Communications: You have the right to request confidential communication of your PHI. Right to Accounting of Disclosures: You have the right to request an accounting of disclosures of your PHI. Right to File a Complaint: You have the right to file a complaint with us or with the Office for Civil Rights if you believe your privacy rights have been violated.
Safeguarding of Protected Health Information (PHI): We maintain physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and security of PHI. This includes encryption of electronic PHI, restricted access to PHI, employee training on privacy policies, and regular security assessments.
Changes to Privacy Policy: We reserve the right to amend or modify this HIPAA Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on our website and become effective immediately upon posting. Contact Information: If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding our HIPAA Privacy Policy or the privacy of your PHI, please contact us at:
HealthZone MD Family and Sports Medicine Wellness Center
607 Park Grove Drive, STE A
Katy, TX 77450
281-256-8685
Infor@healthzonemd.com
Effective Date: [03/01/2023]
This HIPAA Privacy Policy is effective as of the date indicated above and applies to all PHI collected, used, or disclosed by HealthZone MD Family and Sports Medicine Wellness Center.
Effective Date – March 03, 2024
Healthzone MD Family and Sports Medicine Wellness Center oversees this website, www.Healthzonemd.com (“Site”) and all related services (collectively, our “Services”). We have developed this Privacy Policy to inform all users (“user(s),” “you,” or “your”) about how we collect information in the course of conducting our business, including on the Site, how we use the collected information, and a user’s rights with respect to the collected information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy, then do not access or use the Services. By accessing and/or using the Services, you accept and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Use here. Your use of our Services and any Personal Information (as hereafter defined) you provide through the Services are subject to this Privacy Policy at all times.
YOU MUST BE AT LEAST EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OLD TO ACCESS THE SITE AND USE OUR SERVICES. If you are under eighteen (18) years old, you are not permitted to use any part of the Services for any reason.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@healthzonemd.com or at the contact information.
When you use the Site, we process certain types of Information, as described below.
1. Personal Information
“Personal Information” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal Information that we collect on the Site includes, but is not limited to, first and last names, phone number, residential address, email address, together with more sensitive information, such as gender, date of birth, social security number, credit card and payment information, account reference numbers, and invoice information. When you access or use the Services, you may provide Personal Information to us, such as when you request to receive information or support; complete online forms and surveys; communicate with us or our representatives, whether through standard mail, email, or telephone.
2. Non-Personal Information
“Non-Personal Information” means information that does not identify you, but provides insights regarding your use of the Site. For example, we collect information about your use of the Site, including but not limited to Internet connections, computer equipment, browser information, websites visited before entering and after leaving the Site, IP addresses, clicks, and other information about your use of the Site that does not identify you as a user. Personal Information and Non-Personal Information are collectively referenced as “Information.” Information we collect about you may be aggregated with other users’ Information. It may also be combined with associated Personal Information that you provide to us or that we receive from third parties. If we combine or associate information from other sources with Personal Information that we collect through the Site, we will treat the combined Information as Personal Information in accordance with this Policy.
3. Geolocation Information
You may choose to allow us to access your location by granting the Site access to your location when prompted or through your device’s location services settings. You may change these settings on your device, but this will impact your use of and access to the Services.
We use Non-Personal Information collected by cookies, web beacons, and other Internet tracking technology to store your preferences, improve website navigation, make personalized features and other services available to you, to generate statistical information, monitor and analyze user traffic and usage patterns, monitor and prevent fraud, investigate complaints and potential violations of our policies, to improve the products, services, materials, and other content that we describe or make available through the services, and otherwise help administer and improve the services. For more information about our use of tracking technology, please see our Cookie Policy here. We may identify you from your Personal Information and merge or co-mingle Personal Information and Non-Personal Information. Except as otherwise stated, we may use Information we collect from you for the legitimate business purpose of providing our Services to you, including, but not limited to:
In addition, we may use third‐party e‐mail providers to deliver communications to you. This is an opt-in e-mail program. If you no longer want to receive these e-mail communications, you may opt-out of receiving e-mail communications by contacting us at info@healthzonemd.com.
We may, from time to time, invite you to participate in online surveys. The information requested in these surveys may include, but is not limited to, your opinions, beliefs, insights, ideas, activities, experience, purchase history, and purchase intent regarding products, events, and Services. The information collected by these surveys is used to research market trends, company growth, community needs, etc. Your input will help us to improve customer experience and shape development of our products and Services. We do not sell, rent or otherwise disclose personal information collected by our Site to third parties in the ordinary course of business.
We may share Personal Information with the following parties:
Corporate affiliates, including corporate parents, subsidiaries, other affiliated entities, and associated entities for the purposes described in this Policy which are required to treat the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy;
Service providers that help us administer and provide the Services (for example, a web hosting company whose services we use to host our platform). These third-party services providers have access to your Personal Information only for the purpose of performing services on our behalf. We have entered into contractual relationships with these service providers and require them to comply with all applicable information privacy laws and regulations and to use the Information only for the purposes for which it was disclosed. We require that any third-party service providers limit their use of your Information solely to providing services to us and that they maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of your Information and not make unauthorized use or disclosure of the Information.
Authorized third parties, who are parties directly authorized by you to receive the applicable Information, such as when you authorize a third-party application provider to access your account. The use of your Information by an authorized third party is subject to the third party’s privacy policy.
Third parties in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), in which case we will require the recipient to use such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
As we believe necessary:
(i) under applicable law;
(ii) to enforce applicable terms and conditions;
(iii) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others;
(iv) to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues;
(v) to respond to claims that contact information (e.g. name, e-mail address, etc.) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment and
(vi) to respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include authorities outside your country of residence; and
Under your express consent.
We take reasonable steps online and offline to safeguard the Personal Information that you provide to us, including, without limitation through SSL, encrypted connections, firewalls, and other website security measures. It is common knowledge that transmission of information via the Internet is not wholly secure, and we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of your Personal Information, or any other information, transmitted to or through our Site or Services or otherwise provided to us. We are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of such information. It is your responsibility to safeguard any passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features associated with your use of the Service(s). Any transmission of information is at your own risk. If you have any questions about security on our Services, or if you become aware of any unauthorized use of an account, loss of your account credentials, or suspect a security breach, notify us immediately via email at info@healthzonemd.com. If our security system is breached, we will notify you of the breach to the extent required under applicable law.
We retain the Personal Information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our Site or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our products and services, improve our services, analyze our patient acquisition efficacy, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.
The Site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a link to another site, you will be directed to that third party’s site. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those other websites, their content or services, or the persons or entities associated with those websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of all third-party websites or services that you may visit.
We do not sell products or services for purchase by anyone under the age of thirteen (13). In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), we will never knowingly request or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of thirteen (13) without verifiable parental consent. If we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such Personal Information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practical. We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage so that we can verify that minors are not using the Service(s).
We reserve the right to modify and update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting an amended version of the statement on our Site. Please refer to this policy regularly. If at any time we decide to use Personal Information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you either on the panel home page of our Site or via e-mail.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
HealthZone MD Family and Sports Medicine Wellness Center
607 Park Grove Drive, STE A
Katy, TX 77450
281-256-8685
Infor@healthzonemd.com
Effective Date – March 04, 2024
The site, healthzonemd.com (“Site”) is owned and operated Healthzonemd.com. This Website Cookie Policy is intended to tell users (“user(s),” “you,” or “your”) about our Site’s collection, use, and dissemination practices regarding information that users provide to us through our Site or the services offered therein (collectively, the “Services”). This Website Cookie Policy is incorporated into the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use by reference.
As part of our overall operations, we store tracking technology on your browser to collect information. The information collected might relate to you, your preferences, your uses and actions, or your device, and is mostly used to make the Site perform and to provide a more personalized web experience and, sometimes, to provide targeted information to you. However, you can choose not to allow certain types of cookies. Choosing to opt out of certain cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.
We utilize Cookies, Anonymous Identifiers, Web Beacons, and other Internet tracking technology to collect information from a user’s computer, mobile, or other device.1
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to track how our users access and use our Services, to learn when and how users visit the Services, to make personalized features and other services available to users, to learn which terms are used, to learn which websites direct users to our Services, to compile and analyze aggregate statistics and trends, and to otherwise help administer and improve the Services. We also use tracking technologies to help display certain information on the Services and to improve your enjoyment and convenience when using or visiting our Services; for example, by remembering your contact and other information when you access or use the Services. We also use these devices to facilitate login and access actions to enter a user account. For more information on how we use the information we gather from our users’ activity on the Services, please see our Privacy Statement.
Our Cookie acceptance form makes it easy for you to enable and disable all non-essential cookies, however, it may not prevent all cookies from other websites being sent to your computer, mobile, or other device. To do this, you may want change your settings from within your browser by going to the “help” function on most browsers. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, then it is likely that some areas of the Services will not function properly when you use them.
The instructions for these vary from browser to browser and they may change from time to time as new versions are released.
Opting Out. If you do not wish to participate in preference-based advertising via third-party advertising networks, contact us. A couple of important notes about this opt-out tool: (1) it includes all the advertising networks that we may work with, but also many that we do not work with; and (2) it may rely on cookies to ensure that a given advertising network does not collect information about you (“Opt-out Cookies”) – an explanation of how Opt-out Cookies work can be found on above. Therefore, if you use different computers, change web browser, or delete these Opt-out Cookies, you will need to perform the opt-out task again.
Do Not Track Features. Certain browsers may offer you the option of providing notice to websites that you do not wish for your online activities to be tracked for preference-based advertising purposes (“DNT Notice”). Some browsers are, by default, set to provide a DNT Notice, whether or not that reflects your preference. Unfortunately, given how preference-based advertising works, DNT Notices may not be effective in communicating your preferences.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of Cookies and other tracking technologies, please send us an e-mail at info@healthzonemd.com. To learn more about our Privacy Statement, please read the statement here.
