At Gratitude Weight Loss, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the confidentiality of your Protected Health Information (PHI) in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This section outlines how we manage your medical information, your rights as a patient, and how you can contact us with any privacy-related concerns.
How We Use and Protect Your PHI
We collect and use PHI to provide high-quality medical weight loss services and to comply with legal and regulatory obligations. PHI includes any health-related information that can identify you, such as your medical history, treatment plans, medications, and progress records. We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your PHI from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
We may use your PHI for:
- Treatment purposes (e.g., communicating with other healthcare providers involved in your care)
Other uses permitted or required by law (e.g., public health activities, legal proceedings)
- We will never sell your PHI or share it for marketing purposes without your explicit written consent.
Your Rights Regarding PHI
As a patient, you have the following rights concerning your Protected Health Information:
- Right to Access: You can request a copy of your medical records.
- Right to Amend: You may request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete PHI.
- Right to an Accounting of Disclosures: You can ask for a list of times we shared your PHI, excluding those related to treatment, payment, or operations.
- Right to Restrict Use: You may request restrictions on how we use or disclose your PHI.
- Right to Confidential Communications: You can ask us to contact you in a specific way (e.g., only by phone or mail).
- Right to File a Complaint: If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you have the right to file a complaint without fear of retaliation.
Contacting Our Privacy Official
If you have questions about this policy, your rights, or how we handle your PHI, please contact our designated Privacy Official:
Privacy Official Judith Pierce, APRN Gratitude Weight Loss 5505 N Atlantic Ave, Suite 204 Cocoa Beach, FL 32931 Email: [email protected] Phone: (321) 334-3668
A legal Disclaimer
The explanations and information provided on this page are only general and high-level explanations and information on how to write your own document of a Privacy Policy. You should not rely on this article as legal advice or as recommendations regarding what you should actually do, because we cannot know in advance what are the specific privacy policies you wish to establish between your business and your customers and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal advice to help you understand and to assist you in the creation of your own Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policy - The Basics
Having said that, a privacy policy is a statement that discloses some or all of the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, processes, and manages the data of its visitors and customers. It usually also includes a statement regarding the website’s commitment to protecting its visitors’ or customers’ privacy, and an explanation about the different mechanisms the website is implementing in order to protect privacy.
Different jurisdictions have different legal obligations of what must be included in a Privacy Policy. You are responsible to make sure you are following the relevant legislation to your activities and location.
What to include in the Privacy Policy
Generally speaking, a Privacy Policy often addresses these types of issues: the types of information the website is collecting and the manner in which it collects the data; an explanation about why is the website collecting these types of information; what are the website’s practices on sharing the information with third parties; ways in which your visitors and customers can exercise their rights according to the relevant privacy legislation; the specific practices regarding minors’ data collection; and much, much more.
