Privacy Policy
We provide this Privacy Policy to let you know our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information through www.drmengperio.com (the “Site”), as well as any information we collect offline and during the services we provide to you. Note that we combine the information we collect from you from the Site, through the services we provide to you, or offline.
By accessing the Site, you consent to the information collection, disclosure and use described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and the terms of this notice at any time at our own discretion. We reserve the right to make changes in our privacy practices and the new terms of our notice effective for all personal and health information that we maintain, including personal and health information we created or received before we made the changes. You are encouraged to frequently check back on this page for any policy changes. Your continued use of this website after such changes constitute your acceptance.
What Information We Collect and Why We Collect Them
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and store data in log files. They include information such as your IP address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser (ex: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome etc) you used to visit our website. Time, date, and pages you visited are also received in the log files.
Patient and Doctor Referral Forms
If you voluntarily fill up a contact form at drmengperio.com, any personal and health information that you provided will be sent to us. That information will be retained as long as necessary to respond to your reasons of contacting us.
Cookies
A cookie is an information string that gets stored on the visitor’s computer and provided to the website each time the visitor returns. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computer set their browsers to refuse cookies or by setting preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security before visiting our site. However, this may have drawbacks that certain features of the site may not function properly and it may also affect how you interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to log into accounts.
Ads
We may use third-party advertisements to support our site. Many of these advertisers use cookies when they advertise on our site. For example, Google through their Google AdSense Program may show you certain ads based on specific sites you visited.
Accounts and Logins
If you have an user account with us, then we will use cookies for signup management and general administration. These cookies are usually deleted after you log out but some may remain to remember your site preferences when logged out. Login related cookies are mainly for the convenience purpose to prevent you from having to log in again every time you visit our site. These cookies also restrict access to certain features of the website when an user is not logged in.
Analytics
Our site uses Google Analytics, one of the most popular and trusted analytics solution on the internet to help us understand how you use our website and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies track things such as pages you browse, where you are, IP adress, type of computer and operating system you use. These data are collected for statistical analysis purpose only to improve our website. None of your personal information is collected.
If you wish to opt out these cookies so that none of your information is collected and stored by Google Analytics, you may download and install Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can also access Google Privacy Policy to find out about how Google uses your data.
Embedded Content
There may be embedded content (such as videos and images) from other websites in the articles of our site. Viewing those embedded content is equivalent to visiting other websites directly and these websites may use cookies to collect data about you and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. Please check with their privacy policy if there are any concerns.
Email Subscription
Our site uses a third party email subscription service, Mailchimp, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and to allow certain notification/features that are only valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users. Any information you submitted for email subscription of our website is subjected to Mailchimp Privacy Policy
Uses and Disclosures of Personal and Health Information
We use and disclose health information about you for treatment, payment and health care operations.
Treatment
We may disclose your health information to those involved in providing the care you need. We may use or disclose your health information to another dentist or other healthcare providers for treatment we do not provide. We may also share your health information with a pharmacist to provide you with a prescription or with a dental lab that tests and fabricates dental prostheses or orthodontic appliances.
Payment
We may use and disclose your health information to obtain payment for services we provide to you
Health Care Operations
We may use and disclose your health information in connection with our health care operations. These may include, but are not limited to, quality assessment and improvement activities, reviewing the competence or qualifications of health care professionals, evaluating practitioner and provider performance, conducting training programs, accreditation, certification, licensing or credentialing activities.
Your Authorization
In addition to our use of your health information for treatment, payment or health care operations, you may give us written authorization to use your health information or to disclose it to anyone for any purpose. If you give us an authorization, you may revoke it in writing at any time. Your revocation will not affect any use or disclosures permitted by your authorization while it is in effect. Unless you give us a written authorization, we cannot use or disclose your health information for any reason except those described in this notice.
To Your Family and Friends
We must disclose your health information to you, as described in the Patient Rights section of this notice. You have the right to request restrictions on disclosure to family members, other relatives, close personal friends or any other person identified by you.
Persons Involved In Care
We may use or disclose health information to notify or assist in the notification of (including identifying or locating) a family member, your personal representative or another person responsible for your care, of your location, your general condition or your death. If you are present, then prior to use or disclosure of your health information, we will provide you with an opportunity to object to such uses or disclosures. In the event of your incapacity or emergency circumstances, we will disclose health information based on a determination using our professional judgment disclosing only health information that is directly relevant to the person’s involvement in your health care. We will also use our professional judgment and our experience with common practice to make reasonable inferences of your best interest in allowing a person to pick up filled prescriptions, medical supplies, X-rays or other similar forms of health information.
Marketing Health-Related Services
We may contact you about products or services related to your treatment, case management or care coordination or to propose other treatments or health-related benefits and services in which you may be interested. We may also encourage you to purchase a product or service when you visit our office. If you are currently an enrollee of a dental plan, we may receive payment for communications to you in relation to our provision, coordination or management of your dental care, including our coordination or management of your health care with a third party, our consultation with other health care providers relating to your care or if we refer you for health care. We will not otherwise use or disclose your health information for marketing purposes without your written authorization. We will disclose whether we receive payments for marketing activity you have authorized.
Change of Ownership
If this dental practice is sold or merged with another practice or organization, your health records will become the property of the new owner. However, you may request that copies of your health information be transferred to another dental practice.
Required By Law
We may use or disclose your health information when we are required to do so by law.
Public Health
We may, and are sometimes legally obligated to, disclose your health information to public health agencies for purposes related to preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability; reporting abuse or neglect; reporting domestic violence; reporting to the Food and Drug Administration problems with products and reactions to medications; and reporting disease or infection exposure. Upon reporting suspected elder or dependent adult abuse or domestic violence, we will promptly inform you or your personal representative unless we believe the notification would place you at risk of harm or would require informing a personal representative we believe is responsible for the abuse or harm.
Abuse or Neglect
We may disclose your health information to appropriate authorities if we reasonably believe that you are a possible victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence or the possible victim of other crimes. We may disclose your health information to the extent necessary to avert a serious threat to your health or safety or the health or safety of others.
National Security
We may disclose to military authorities the health information of Armed Forces personnel under certain circumstances. We may disclose to authorized federal officials health information required for lawful intelligence, counterintelligence and other national security activities. We may disclose to correctional institutions or law enforcement officials having lawful custody of protected health information of inmates or patients under certain circumstances.
Appointment Reminders
We may contact you to provide you with appointment reminders via voicemail, email, messages, postcards or letters. We may also leave a message with the person answering the phone if you are not available.
Sign-In Sheet and Announcement
Upon arriving at our office, we may use and disclose medical information about you by asking that you sign an intake sheet at our front desk. We may also announce your name when we are ready to see you.
