Privacy Policy

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This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for ( www.imaxwieghtloss.com ). 

This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:

    1    What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.

    2    What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

    3    The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

    4    How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site.

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

    1    Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation);

    2    Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services;

    3    Information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us;

    4    Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters; and

    5    Any other information that you choose to send to us.

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We may share your information with another third party outside of our organization, if necessary to fulfill your request (e.g. to ship an order) or to facilitate our organization in managing our website.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, or new products or services.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

    1    See what data we have about you, if any.

    2    Change/correct any data we have about you.

    3    Have us delete any data we have about you.

    4    Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall-protected) servers.

Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Orders

We may accept orders and if we do we request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we'll use this information to contact you.

Disposal of Medication

 Disposing of unused weight loss medication should be done carefully to ensure it is done safely and responsibly. Here are some general guidelines on how to dispose of unused weight loss medication:

1. Check with a Pharmacist or Healthcare Provider: Consult with your pharmacist or healthcare provider for specific instructions on how to dispose of your unused weight loss medication. They can provide guidance based on the type of medication you have.

2. Do Not Flush Medications: Do not flush unused weight loss medications down the toilet unless the medication label specifically instructs you to do so. Flushing medications can contaminate water sources.

3. Check for Take-Back Programs: Check if there are any medication take-back programs in your community. These programs provide a safe way to dispose of unused medications. Local Pharmacies provide this option. 

4.Follow FDA Guidelines: The FDA provides guidelines on the safe disposal of medications. You can visit their website for more information.

Cookies

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to 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 in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

We do not honor the Do Not Track (DNT) web browser privacy preference at this time.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Sharing

We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. And:

We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order. And:

We may partner with another party to provide specific services. We will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Disclosures

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors in so far as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) in so far as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

    1    To the extent that we are required to do so by law;

    2    In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

    3    In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

    4    To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

    5    To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Questions and Complaints

If you want more information about our privacy practices or have questions or concerns, we encourage you to contact us.  If you think we may have violated your privacy rights, or you disagree with a decision we made about access to your medical information, we encourage you to speak or write to our Privacy Officer. If you have questions about this Notice or any complaints about our privacy practices, please contact:

Office of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Officer

Phone: 1.866.825.1606

1501 Yamato Road

Suite 200 West

Boca Raton, FL 3343 1

If you want more information about our privacy practices or have questions or concerns, we encourage you to contact us.  If you think we may have violated your privacy rights or you disagree with a decision we made about access to our medical information, we encourage you to speak or write to our Privacy Officer.  You also may file a written complaint with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the Office for Civil Rights' RegionIV office. 

Centralized Case Management Operations U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 

200 Independence Avenue, S.W

Room 509F HHH Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20201

Email to OCRComplaint@hhs.gov

We will take no retaliatory action against you if you make complaints, whether to us or to the Department of Health and Human Services. We support your right

to the privacy of your health information.

Your Rights Regarding Your Medical Information

You have several rights with regard to your health information. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact our Medical Records Department in our office. Specifically, you have the following rights:

Right to Request Restrictions - You have the right to ask that we limit how we use or disclose your medical information. We require that any requests for use or disclosure of medical information be made in writing. Written notice must be sent to the attention of the Office Manager at the practice and address indicated in the header of this Notice. We will consider your request, but in some cases, we are not legally required to agree to these requests. However, if we do agree to them, we will abide by these restrictions. We will always notify you of our decisions regarding restriction requests in writing. We will not ask you the reason for your request. For example, for services you request no insurance claim be filed and for which you pay privately, you have the right to restrict disclosures for these services for

which you paid out of pocket. You have the right to ask that we send you information at an alternative address or by alternative means. Your request must specify how or where you wish to be contacted. You have the right to opt out of communications for fundraising purposes.

Right to Access, Inspect and Copy - With a few exceptions (such as psychotherapy notes or information gathered for judicial proceedings), you have a right to inspect and copy your

protected health information if you put your request in writing. If we deny your access, we will give you written reasons for the denial and explain any right to have the denial reviewed. We may charge you a reasonable fee if you want a copy of your health information. You have a right to choose what portions of your information you want copied and to have prior information on the cost of copying. Consent is required prior to use or disclosure of an individual's psychotherapy notes or the use of the individuals PHI for marketing purposes.

Right to Amend - If you believe that there is a mistake or missing information in our record of your medical information you may request that we correct or add to the record. Your request must be in writing and give a reason as to why your health information should be changed. Any denial will state the reasons for denial and explain your rights to have the request and denial, along with any statement in response that you provide, appended to your medical information. If we approve the request for amendment, we will amend the medical information and so inform you.

Right to an Accounting of Disclosures - In some limited circumstances, you have the right to ask for a list of the disclosures of your health information we have made during the previous six years. The list will not include disclosures made to you; for purposes of treatment, payment or healthcare operations, for which you signed an authorization or for other reasons for which we are not required to keep a record of disclosures. There will be no charge for up to one such list each year. There may be a charge for more frequent requests.

Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice - You have a right to receive a paper copy of this Notice

and/or an electronic copy from our Web site. If you have received an electronic copy, we will

provide you with a paper copy of the Notice upon request.

Updates

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

Effective: January 18, 2024

Last Updated: July 17, 2024

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via the email address or phone number given on our website ( www.imaxweightloss.com ).