Your privacy is important to Dr. Michael Slezak, ND doing business as Michael Slezak, ND Naturopathic Medicine. Please read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
Please note, this privacy policy is separate from our HIPAA Privacy Notice and Policy which explains how we treat and protect our patient protected health information. Patients are advised to review our HIPAA Privacy Notice as well.
1. Who We Are
Michael Slezak, ND (“Dr. Slezak”) operates this website www.drslezak.com and collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you.
2. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
Michael Slezak, ND and any products and services offered herein are not intended for persons under the age of 13 and does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13 years of age. Michael Slezak, ND prohibits children under the age of 13 from using all interactive portions of this website, including leaving any comments, filling out forms, or otherwise submitting information. Our clinic will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we learn it has any information or content from anyone under the age of 13, we will delete that information.
3. The Personal Information We Collect and Use
a. Information Collected by Us
Michael Slezak, ND may collect, use, and is responsible for certain personal information that you provide when you voluntarily make an appointment, register for a class or presentation, leave comments, order a service or product, fill out any type of form, or otherwise contact Dr. Slezak via an online form or e-mail. The information collected may include your name, e-mail, phone number, and/or billing information and any information you submit in a message. You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information to merely access or visit this website.
Dr. Slezak may in the future collect domain information and “cookies” (small files saved on your hard drive by your web browser) to analyze website performance, track user patterns, save information from your previous visits and customize your experience. If we use this technology, we will ask for your consent to allow us to use cookies and Dr. Slezak or its third-party vendors may collect nonpersonal information through the use of these technologies. Nonpersonal information might include the browser you use, the type of computer you use and technical information about your means of connection to this website such as the operating systems and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as controller of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
b. Reasons We Collect and How we use your personal information
Dr. Slezak collects such information in order to allow patients to schedule appointments and website visitors to register for classes as well as to send appointment reminders and information about any classes for which a visitor has registered.
c. Who We Share Your Personal Information With
Dr. Slezak respects your privacy and will never sell, trade or transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties (beyond what is necessary for fulfilling a customer transaction or for the basic functionality of an online service) without your consent.
Dr. Slezak may release personal information to manage its business, protect users or the general public, or to otherwise comply with legal obligations.
d. Whether Information Has to Be Provided by You and Why
The provision of personal data (e.g., name, email address, phone number, etc.)] is required from you to schedule visits or register for classes, but we do not require you to provide any personal data in order to access the public areas of our website.
e. How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept
We will hold all non-client personal data until you let us know you would like for us to delete it or unsubscribe from our marketing contacts, which you are free to do at any time. We will hold all client and customer personal data in our files for a minimum of six years or longer if required by applicable law for patients.
4. Use and Transfer of Your Information Out of the EEA
This website is operated in the United States and third parties with whom we might share your personal information as explained above are also located in the United States. If you are located in the EEA or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide will be transferred to the United States. By using this website, participating in any of its services and/or providing your information, you consent to this transfer.
The United States does not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA. While the European Commission has not given a formal decision that United States provides an adequate level of data protection similar to those which apply in the United Kingdom and EEA, any transfer of your personal information will be subject to the derogation in Article 49 permitting non-repetitive transfers that concern only a limited number of data subjects, as permitted by Article 49 of the General Data Protection Regulation that is designed to help safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a misuse of your personal information.
If you would like further information, (see “How to contact us” below. We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of the EEA or to any organization (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.
5. Your Rights
If you want to unsubscribe from receiving e-mails from Michael Slezak ND, you may do so at any time. Each e-mail from Dr. Slezak includes instructions for unsubscribing from these e-mail communications.
If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
- Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
- Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
- Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
- Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
- Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
- Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
- Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
- Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
- Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
You may also have the right to claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, available here.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
- Email, call, or write to us.
- Provide us enough information to identify you (e.g., first and last name, phone number, email address)
- Provide us proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driver’s license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill)
- Provide us with the information to which your request relates including any account or reference numbers, if you have them if you have registered for a class.
6. Keeping Your Personal Information Secure
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable authorities of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
7. How to Complain
We hope that we can resolve any question or concern you raise about our use of your information.
If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.
8. Changes to This Privacy Notice
This policy is effective as of September 15, 2023. We may change, modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time and will notify you of any such changes by email or postal mail.
9. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the information we hold about you, or you wish to change your personal information in our records, please contact Dr. Michael Slezak, 555 Soquel Avenue Ste 260, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Phone (831) 239-2645.
Policy Last Updated September 15, 2023