Privacy policy.

Effective date: September 1, 2022

PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIE POLICY

This website and the various content, features and products and services offered on this website (collectively, our "Site") are owned and operated by Lamorinda Gynecology & Surgery. We are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") shared with us. This Privacy Policy is to let you know what information we may collect from you on our site, if any, and how we may use and share that information, if at all. Lamorinda Gynecology & Surgery will not sell or share your Personal Information with any unaffiliated third parties. Please take a moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using our Site, you agree to accept the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site. 

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify you, including, name, mailing address, phone number, email address. You can visit our site without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself. However, to access certain information, services, or features that may be contained on our Site, we may require you to provide Personal Information. For example, we will collect certain Personal Information if you choose to subscribe to a mailing list, participate in special offers, sweepstakes or other promotions, or send questions or comments to us via e-mail. We may collect demographic information and information on your interests and preferences ("preferences information"). If we link any demographic or preference information to any Personal Information, then such information will be treated as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you provide us with Personal Information, we may retain and use that information for several purposes. We may use your Personal Information to facilitate the Service such as sending e-mail inspirations you sign-up for on our Site, responding to your questions, or sending e-mails to our mailing list subscribers. We may also use Personal Information to ensure compliance with our policies and applicable law. In addition, we may send you periodic communications by e-mail or regular mail, such as news updates, special offers or information on our products or services, if you have chosen to receive such communications. If you later wish to opt-out of receiving such e-mails from us, simply unsubscribe  by following the instructions in the e-mails you receive from us. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to our Site (e.g., service announcements or similar messages) without the opportunity to opt-out of them.

WITH WHOM WE MAY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use third parties to perform certain services for us, such as maintaining our Site and our mailing lists, sending mail, and providing marketing assistance and data analysis. We may provide Personal Information to those third parties when that information is necessary for them to complete a requested service or otherwise perform their duties. We will take reasonable steps to ensure these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on our behalf.

Visitor or customer information is generally one of the business assets involved in any acqusition transaction. If Lamorinda Gynecology & Surgery is acquired, visitor and customer information will be a transferred assets.

We reserve the right to disclose visitor information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other visitors, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We also reserve the right to disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

AGGREGATE INFORMATION

We may collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of our Site, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on our Site, how long they stay on that page and which hyperlinks, if any, they "click" on. We collect this information through the use of "cookies" and other tracking technologies, which are discussed in greater detail below. We collect this information to determine which areas of the Site are most popular and to enhance our Site for visitors. We may group this information into aggregate visitor data to describe the use of our Site to our existing or potential business partners, sponsors, advertisers, or other third parties, or in response to a government request. We also may group demographic and preference information and responses to surveys that we collect from visitors into aggregate data for the same purposes. This aggregate data will in no way personally identify you or any other visitors to our Site.

INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THIRD PARTIES

If you book a consultation, download or purchase a product or service through our Site, any booking, download or purchase will be made through a third-party service. Any information provided by you at that time is stored through the third party per their terms, and not on this website. Information provided by you to third parties may be transferred to Lamorinda Gynecology & Surgery to perform services and in maintaining this website. When you use our Site, you are agreeing to NOT hold Lamorinda Gynecology & Surgery or Dr. Cheruba Prabakar responsible for any security breach and/or any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties.  

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A cookie is a small text file that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. For example, we may use cookies to collect information about website activity and to maintain your experience on our site. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser. Please be aware that some features of our site may not function properly or may be slower if you refuse cookies. You may occasionally get cookies from third parties with links on our site. We do not control these cookies. The use of cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any Personal Information you submit while on our Site.

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. It is not our practice to link the information we record using tracking technologies to any Personal Information you submit while on our Site. However, we reserve the right to use IP addresses and other tracking technologies to identify a visitor to enforce compliance with our Site's policies, to protect our site, our customers, or others, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES; PUBLIC VENUES

Please be aware that when you are on our site, you may be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. These other sites may send their cookies to visitors, collect data, or solicit Personal Information. The privacy policies of these other sites may be significantly different from this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot guarantee the security of any of your Personal Information collected there.

Please keep in mind that whenever you give out Personal Information on a "public" venue online that information can be collected and used by others. If you choose to voluntarily disclose information in any blog, message board, chat room, or similar forum that may be available through our site or accessed from our site, the protections of this Privacy Policy will not cover such disclosure of information. Please use caution when disclosing any Personal Information on these venues. We are not responsible and will not be liable for any opinions, content, or other materials posted by users on any such venues, or for the use by other visitors or third parties of any information or content you may post to such venues.

SECURITY

We take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the Personal Information that you share with us from unauthorized access or disclosure. The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We maintain electronic and procedural safeguards to secure your personal information. However, there is some risk in transmitting information electronically. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. By supplying us with information, you acknowledge these risks and signify that you have voluntarily chosen to provide the information despite the inherent risks involved. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your Personal Information.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our Site is not intended for use by children under the age of majority. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of majority. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected Personal Information from a child under the age of majority, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to remove such information from our database.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

The terms of this Privacy Policy may change. We will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice on the homepage of our site for a reasonable period of time after such changes are made that this Privacy Policy has been updated and by changing the "Last Modified" for this Privacy Policy. You are responsible for checking this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

GOVERNING LAW

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed by the laws of the state of California. Lamorinda Gynecology & Surgery makes no representation that this Privacy Policy and such practices comply with the laws of any other country. Visitors who use our site and reside outside the United States use our site on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. If you reside outside of the United States, by using our site, you consent to the transfer and use of your information outside your country.

All questions regarding this policy should be directed to info@lamorindagyn.com.