Privacy Policy | Gentle GI

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy is subject to the Terms of Use posted on this Site and may be amended without notice. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy on this site. Site users are encouraged to periodically check this policy to see if any changes have been made that may affect them. By using the Gentle GI site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. 

Personal-identifying information is data that can be used to identify or contact you. GENTLE GI collects only the personal-identifying information you provide to us through web pages at www.thegentlegi.com (the “Site”), such as when you request information about GENTLE GI services, or when you use certain features of the Site, such as making an appointment or emailing general inquiries to the practice. All personal identifying information, however, collected, is used only by GENTLE GI and for the sole purpose of acting as requested by the user and responding to the user and is not disclosed to any third parties. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other data, including, without limitation, data that GENTLE GI may collect on websites that are linked to the Site.

GENTLE GI reserves the right to disclose any personally identifying or non-personal identifying information collected through the Site if we are required to do so by law or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary in order to: fulfill a government request, conform with the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process served on us; protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Site; transfer to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of assets or other corporate change respecting GENTLE GI or this Site; protect or defend the legal rights or property of GENTLE GI , this Site or its users; or, in an emergency, to protect the health and safety of this Site’s users or the general public. 

We may also collect non-personal identifying information through the use of "cookies", which are small text files stored on your computer’s hard drive or web server and are used to aid in web page navigation. GENTLE GI does not store any personal identifying information in any cookies on your computer. Site users have the option of whether or not to accept cookies by resetting their web browsers to give notice when a cookie is being sent to their hard drives. Cookies may also be deleted from a hard drive, however, some parts of this Site may not function properly or may be slowed considerably if cookies are not accepted or disabled.

GENTLE GI uses Google Analytics as its web analytics tool. It helps us understand how visitors engage with our website. As Google Analytics customers GENTLE GI can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with our website so we can improve the user experience. Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. To view Google Analytics Privacy Policy, click here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html

This Site is not intended for use by minors. GENTLE GI does not knowingly allow anyone under 14 to participate in any activity on the Site. GENTLE GI does not provide services outside of the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, by submitting information to GENTLE GI you are consenting to the transfer of your data to the United States and our processing of your data in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

If you fill out a contact form and/or provide your telephone number online you should be contacted by a representative of GENTLE GI in order to provide you with the information you requested. Communications with or through the Site are not intended to and do not establish a patient-physician relationship or constitute the provision of health care services.  A Notice of Privacy Practices pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) is made available at the time any prospective or actual patient first receives services from GENTLE GI .

GENTLE GI takes reasonable steps to ensure the security of its website infrastructure and data, however, we make no guarantees or warranties concerning the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of personally identifiable information. 

The Site may contain links to other websites that GENTLE GI does not own or control. GENTLE GI does not endorse the content on any third-party websites and is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites, sites framed within the GENTLE GI Site, the privacy practices employed by third-party sites, or third-party advertisements, and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites. GENTLE GI does not endorse any product advertised on the GENTLE GI Site. 

Upon request, we provide Site visitors with access to a description of information that we maintain about them and offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information. Site users can have this information corrected by writing to us at the below address.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy please get in touch with the Webmaster at: 

GENTLE GI

701 N Post Oak Rd, #220 Houston TX 77024

drshapiro@thegentlegi.com

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