Welcome to the website for Yeargain Foot & Ankle (“YF&A”) hosted at dryeargain.com (the “Website”).
YF&A respects your privacy and is committed to protecting any personal information that you provide to us. This Privacy Policy explains our policies and practices regarding the use and disclosure of your personal information by YF&A. This Privacy Policy is reviewed and updated by YF&A from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this Privacy Policy periodically so that you are aware of how YF&A collects and uses personal information. By using our website, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information by YF&A as explained below.
Personally Identifiable Information
“Personal Identifiable Information” refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.
In general, you can visit the Website without providing us with any personal information. However, if you wish to use certain features of the Website, such as making an appointment, you may need to enter Personally Identifiable Information for those features. YF&A will only use your Personally Identifiable Information for the specific uses outlined on the Website, such as making an appointment.
Use of Personally Identifiable Information
We use your Personally Identifiable Information in order to deliver services, such as making in-person appointments with YF&A or to allow YF&A to contact you regarding services offered by YF&A.
YF&A may also use Personally Identifiable Information for various purposes, including without limitation to help diagnose problems with our site, to administer our site, and to enhance our site for optimal user experience; to monitor the usage and performance of our site, and to determine aggregate information about our users and usage pattern; to identify you when you access and use our services; to facilitate transactions and process payments; to provide maintenance, support, and customer service for our site; to conduct research and analysis.
Additionally, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information:
- To deliver, manage, and improve services, troubleshoot services and products, and maintain and improve functionality and security;
- To set up and provide ongoing patient support;
- To contact you regarding services offered by YF&A, this Privacy Policy, invoices, technical notices, updates, alerts, support notices, and other related information;
- To contact you regarding targeted advertising and marketing materials;
- To comply with the law or respond to legal process;
- To perform any other function or purpose with your consent;
- To share with our corporate affiliates and subsidiaries;
- To share with third parties that perform services to support our business or services. This may include hosting services, marketing and SEO companies, analysts, and payment processing services;
- To facilitate a change in ownership or control of YF&A;
- To support audit, legal, or other compliance and governance functions;
- To comply with legal obligations, establish our legal rights, or defend our legal rights.
Additionally, if you make an appointment with YF&A or are a patient of YF&A, we maintain your Personally Identifiable Information to contact you, allow us to provide you with medical services, and for invoicing and payment-related communications (“Medical Purposes”). These Medical Purposes may, necessarily, involve the transmission of your Personally Identifiable Information to third-party vendors, such as payment processing vendors. The use of your Personally Identifiable Information is required for Medical Purposes. To the extent your Personally Identifiable Information is Protected Health Information, as that term is defined under HIPAA, YF&A shall treat such Protected Health Information in accordance with HIPAA.
Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
YF&A may share Personally Identifiable Information with companies that are affiliated with us (that is, that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with YF&A) in order to improve the services YF&A offers. YF&A will not share Personally Identifiable Information with our other business partners for their marketing, advertising, or product/service offering purposes without your express, written consent.
If YF&A sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of assets or is otherwise involved in a merger or business transfer, we may transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to a third party as part of that transaction.
YF&A may share your Personally Identifiable Information with service providers that perform necessary services for operation of our services and business, including providing hosting services, marketing assistance, analyzing user data, processing payment card information, and for other legitimate purposes permitted by applicable law. If you agree to provide such information to these service providers directly, then your personal information will be subject to their privacy policies and terms of use.
Accuracy and Security
The accuracy and security of the Personally Identifiable Information is important to YF&A. If you contact us to correct your Personally Identifiable Information, we will attempt to correct such inaccuracies in a timely manner. YF&A is concerned with the security of your Personally Identifiable Information and is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect it from unauthorized access and use of that personal information. To that end, we put in place the appropriate policies and procedures to secure your Personally Identifiable Information. While there is no such thing as “perfect security” on the Internet, we will take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of your personal information.
Access and Choice
YF&A has implemented the following procedures that you may use to access, correct, or delete your personal information, or choose how your information is used:
- If you would like correct any inaccurate Personally Identifiable Information that YF&A maintains from users of the site, please email us at the addresses listed below under the Section titled “Communications and Opt Out Requests.”
- You may also have a right, in accordance with applicable laws, to access, update, and in some cases request deletion of the Personally Identifiable Information that we hold about you. When updating your Personally Identifiable Information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request. We will comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in accordance with applicable laws. We may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, as required under applicable legal obligations, or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or access.
- If you wish to stop receiving email marketing communications from YF&A, please contact us at the address listed below or click the “Unsubscribe” in any marketing communications. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as those about services you have received from YF&A, to facilitate services that you have requested or accepted, and to facilitate payment for services provided by YF&A.
Retention of Personal Information
YF&A retains your Personally Identifiable Information as needed to provide you with services or to fulfill our obligations; as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements; and for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which we collected such Personally Identifiable Information.
Notice to United States Residents
Your state consumer privacy laws may provide you with additional rights related to the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personally Identifiable Information. States such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Nevada, Utah, and Virginia have enacted state-specific privacy laws. These laws may provide you with the following rights:
- The right to access your personal data;
- The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data;
- The right to delete or limit your personal data;
- The right to obtain a copy of your personal data in a portable format;
- The right to nondiscrimination; and
- The right to opt out of processing for purposes of the sale of personal data, advertising, or profiling.
You are encouraged to review your state-specific laws and regulations to understand the privacy rights you may be entitled to enforce if you are not a Texas resident.
Security of Your Information
We value your privacy and will always do our best to protect your Personally Identifiable Information. YF&A is subject to the privacy and security standards defined by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your Personally Identifiable Information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the Personally Identifiable Information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide Personally Identifiable Information.
Cookies
YF&A Website uses “cookies” which are small text files stored on a user’s device (such as a computer or mobile device) when they visit a website. These files contain information that helps the website remember and recognize the user, enabling various functionalities and personalization. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Most browsers are set to accept cookies. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to warn you before accepting a cookie. Please be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the site, but most of the features on our website will be available even without accepting a cookie.
External Links
YF&A websites may provide links to other third-party websites. Even if the third party is affiliated with YF&A through a business partnership or otherwise, YF&A is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of such external links. These links are provided to you for convenience purposes only and you access them at your own risk.
Communications and Opt Out Requests
If you would prefer that we not use your Personally Identifiable Information for purposes other than Medical Purposes, if you have questions regarding our Privacy Policy, or you would like to request opt out with regard to any of your personal data rights please contact YF&A at manager@dryeargain.com and let us know.
If YF&A needs, or is required, to contact you concerning any event that involves information about you, we may do so by email, telephone, text, mail or other means provided to us by you.
