Privacy And Disclaimer
Effective (September 28, 2018)
Committed to Your Privacy
Dr. Brian Harkins is committed to protecting your privacy. We understand that one’s health is a personal and private matter, and we want you to be at ease when you are accessing and using our website. The use of the Dr. Brian Harkins Website and other mobile app features that post about the “Service” are governed by our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Our Dr. Brian Harkins Website will notify you with the kind of information we will gather from you, when and in what manner we will use them, and how we intend to keep these details always safe and secure. This document serves as your agreement with the terms and conditions for using our website. If you do not approve to these terms and conditions and practices defined herewith, please do not use our Service. This Privacy Policy and Terms of Use cover only our Service.
By using Dr. Brian Harkins Website, you agree and accept the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Information Submitted to Our Website
When accessing and using Dr. Brian Harkins Website, we may ask you to provide us with pertinent identifiable information such as your name, e-mail address, telephone number, and other important details that we deem necessary. This information is considered herein as “Personal Information”, which will be used to contact you. We can only obtain this information from you if you voluntarily provide it, including but not limited to the following:
When using our Dr. Brian Harkins Website, you can opt to receive more information from Dr. Brian Harkins. Once you have chosen this option, we will send you email messages to introduce new services or any information that we believe you will be interested in. We may also request Personal Information from you regarding customer feedbacks and surveys that we conduct. Dr. Brian Harkins will also use your Personal Information to reply to questions or comments sent through email.
You may also choose to opt out from receiving commercial emails from Dr. Brian Harkins Website. To do this, you can notify us through email, letter, or give us a call. If in the future, you subscribe back to the commercial e-mails from Dr. Brian Harkins, that will cancel out your previous decision of opting out. However, you can still choose to opt out again afterwards.
Information We Collect From Our Website
Other than your Personal Information or other details you voluntarily submit to us through the Dr. Brian Harkins Website, we and/or other third parties may use different technologies to automatically gather or store particular information each time you visit or interact with Dr. Brian Harkins Website. This is herein referred to as “Usage Information”. This kind of information can be accessed or stored with the use of various technologies that are downloadable to any kind of device each time you access or use Dr. Brian Harkins Website. When we combine Usage Information with your Personal Information, collected directly from you on Dr. Brian Harkins Website, they will be treated as Personal Information.
Usage Information includes:
- Your IP address and other unique device identifier (Device Identifier is a numerical number assigned to your device so you can access Dr. Brian Harkins Website. Our website’s system can identify your Device by its Device Identifier but we do not treat Device Identifier as Personal Information)
- The functions of your Device, such as its operating system, browser, mobile network information, hardware, and others
- The URL used to refer you to our Dr. Brian Harkins Website
- The areas that you have visited within our Dr. Brian Harkins Website and the activities you did
- The location of your Device
- The characteristics of your Device
- Specific Device data
We may gather information about you from different places each time you visit our website. We may collect Usage Information on which pages you visited and how long you stayed on a page. This is for record purposes only.
How and When Do We Share Information with Third Parties?
We may share information that are not Personal Information with third parties to combine user statistics. We will share Device Identifiers with third parties, as well as data that is not treated as Personal Information. We will not share your Personal Information that you directly submitted to our Dr. Brian Harkins Website with third parties, unless you permitted or withhold approval to sharing at the moment you provided us your Personal Information. We will respect your choice.
Furthermore, we might share the information we have gathered about you, including your Personal Information, when you made it known to us at the time you provided the information, and as defined below or as stipulated in this Privacy Policy. Dr. Brian Harkins may further disclose your information in the following manner:
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- When providing information to or submitting a request for information from Third Parties: You are given choices on our Dr. Brian Harkins Website to either directly receive particular information or offers from third parties or allow Dr. Brian Harkins Website to send the information or allow access to third parties. Whatever you choose, your Personal Information and other details may be disclosed by Dr. Brian Harkins to third parties. This will be subject to privacy policies and practices of the third-party. Furthermore, when you interact with a third-party entity’s Tracking Technologies, tools, apps, content, or ads, they may collect or gain access to your information from our website or link to those information from our website. This includes the use of third-party social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or other ways of sharing content and posting tools. By interacting with third parties, you agree to their practices. Dr. Brian Harkins must not be held responsible for such third-party privacy policies and practices. Before interacting with third-party websites, it is very important to review their privacy policies and practices.
- When Third Parties Provide Services on Our Behalf: We may employ third parties to work on some services on our behalf or that of our Dr. Brian Harkins Website. These services may include hosting Dr. Brian Harkins Website, tracking the activities and analytics, designing and/or operating its features, and enabling Dr. Brian Harkins Website to send you marketing offers or performing other administrative services. We may allow these third parties access to user information to perform the services for which they were hired. Dr. Brian Harkins shall not be held responsible for technologies used by third parties or any activities arising from their performance of service.
- Protecting the Rights of Dr. Brian Harkins and Others: As far as we are allowed by applicable law, we may share your information when we, out of good faith, believe it is necessary and proper to:
- protect or preserve the safety, rights, or property of Dr. Brian Harkins or third parties. This includes the enforcement of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, and other applicable policies and agreements; or
- comply with legal and regulatory obligations such as pursuant to law enforcement inquiries, court orders or subpoenas. To the farthest extent allowed by applicable law, it is within our total discretion to allow or not such disclosures. It is also within our discretion to question or not any requests for disclosures. All these will be done by Dr. Brian Harkins without notifying you.
- Affiliates and Business Transfer: We may share your Personal Information, Device Identifiers, Usage Information, and Demographic Information with our mother organization, affiliates, and subsidiaries. We also reserve the right to disclose and/or transfer all those information:
- to an operator of the Service, applicable database, subsequent owner, or co-owner; or
- in connection with a restructuring, consolidation, merger, the sale of substantially all of our interests and/or assets, or other corporate changes.
- Interactions with Third-Party Services: Our Website may include serviceability that allows some kind of interactions between our Dr. Brian Harkins Website and a third-party web application or website. The use of such serviceability may consist of the operator of the third party delivering particular information to our Dr. Brian Harkins Website. Such information will be treated by Dr. Brian Harkins as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy, since the information is a result of your accessing of and interaction on our Dr. Brian Harkins Website. We might also provide third-party service interfaces or links on Dr. Brian Harkins Website to facilitate your sending a communication, tweeting, or posting on social media from our the Dr. Brian Harkins Website. Dr. Brian Harkins has no control or access to your communications through these third parties. Furthermore, Dr. Brian Harkins is not responsible for third-party website practices, when you use third-party sites or services. It is your responsibility to evaluate applicable third-party privacy policies before using such on our Dr. Brian Harkins Website.
Changing Your Information
If you want to make changes to Personal Information that Dr. Brian Harkins currently has collected, you have a number of options. You may revise your Personal Information by sending us an e-mail, a letter, or by calling us at any time.
How to Contact Us:
Dr. Brian Harkins
Attn: Web Services Manager
Building 1, 455 School St
Suite 10
Tomball, Texas 77375
Contact Number: 281.247.0503
email address: www.drbrianharkins.com
Securing Your Information
It is important to Dr. Brian Harkins to secure your Personal Information; thus we only employ reasonable methods to keep your Personal Information as secure as possible. However, no wireless transmission, mobile networks, electronic storage of information, or data transmission over the Internet guarantee 100% security of Personal Information. Please note that providing Dr. Brian Harkins with your information is at your own risk.
Information on Our Website
Materials found within the Dr. Brian Harkins Website is the exclusive property of Dr. Brian Harkins. We do not permit any reproduction or redistribution of all or any of our materials unless we give you a written consent. We also strictly prohibit any reproduction of illustrations or photographs appearing on the pages of our website.
The information provided on our website is designed to support and not to replace patient/site visitor and physician relationship.
Physician Directory and Videos
Dr. Brian Harkins allows all physicians who qualify for inclusion in our physician directory the opportunity to submit their profile and video. However, this must not be construed as an endorsement or corroboration of facts by Dr. Brian Harkins.
External Links
Dr. Brian Harkins provides as much health-related information as possible, using external links from our Dr. Brian Harkins Website to other sites on the Internet. These websites are useful based on our own assessment. However, we are not endorsing these sites. Dr. Brian Harkins is not responsible for their privacy practices or content. Read carefully their privacy policy before supplying Personal Information to those sites.
Site Partners
Dr. Brian Harkins has formed partnerships with several other companies to help deliver the latest in health information and current health news to you. We have listed our site partners and what their role is on Dr. Brian Harkins Website, for easy access and to serve you better. Please read about our site partners and their privacy policies. While we try our best to keep them updated, they are not complete nor accurate.
Age Policy
Our Dr. Brian Harkins Website is for the general audience. We do not intentionally gather personal information from children who are under thirteen (13) years old. Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA“), they require parental notice and consent. If you are under 13 years of age, you are not allowed to use our Website. You should not submit to us or to our Dr. Brian Harkins Website any information about yourself.
When it comes to our knowledge that we have collected Personal Information from any child under 13 years old, as provided by COPPA, we will dispose of that information immediately. Parents or guardians who discover that their child, who is under the age of 13, and without their required consent, has provided us with personal information, should notify us immediately through the “How to Contact Us” section as shown above.
Personal Health Information
To get a copy of our Notice of Privacy Practices regarding protected health care information, or for questions or information with regard to your rights and our obligations, please contact:
Dr. Brian Harkins
Attn: Privacy Officer
Building 1, 455 School St
Suite 10
Tomball, TX 77375
Phone Number: 281.247.0503
Email address: www.drbrianharkins.com
Funding of Site
Dr. Brian Harkins Website is the website for Dr. Brian Harkins with address at Building 1, 455 School St, Suite 10 in Tomball, Texas. Our Dr. Brian Harkins Website is exclusively funded by Dr. Brian Harkins.
Warranty Disclaimer
Information accessed through our Dr. Brian Harkins Website is presented “AS IS” and is without expressed or implied warranty. All implied warranties of marketable value and appropriateness for a specific purpose are hereby disbarred. Dr. Brian Harkins and all related physicians and affiliated organizations offer no warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, usefulness, appropriateness, or completeness of the information.
Limitations on Liability
Under any theory of indemnity or liability, Providers or any affiliated organization shall not be responsible for information provided herein. Dr. Brian Harkins medical staff members responding to individual inquiries are independent of Dr. Brian Harkins. They are not our system employees.
Neither are physicians held responsible for providing such information under any theory of indemnity or liability. Their information is purely to educate and inform. Their responses are not considered as establishing a patient-physician relationship with the individual sending the request.
Jurisdiction
Dr. Brian Harkins Website does not aim to provide business in other jurisdiction besides the state of Texas. Solicitation of business in the name of Dr. Brian Harkins or creating contracts in any other jurisdiction are not allowed.
Dr. Brian Harkins Privacy Policy and Terms of Service are entered into and done within the State of Texas, United States of America. Therefore, it is governed by and shall be interpreted in all respects, subject to the laws of Texas, exclusive of the kind of law or conflict of law provisions that could apply under Texas law. Each party conclusively submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Texas State District Court sitting in Harris County, Texas, for any action or claim, directly or indirectly arising from the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service or related to our Dr. Brian Harkins Website.
However, if such court does not have jurisdiction over the subject matter of the claim or action, then the parties irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Whichever of those two courts has jurisdiction, the parties waive their right to any venue, jurisdictional, or inconvenient forum objections to the particular court. If the court holds that any of the provisions of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service are not enforceable, then those specific provisions shall be limited or eliminated to its minimum extent so that the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service shall remain in full force and effect.
The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement pertaining to its subject matter, between the contracting parties. It must not be modified except as defined in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service supersede anything in the Dr. Brian Harkins Website that is inconsistent with or in conflict with the terms of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Changes to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
Dr. Brian Harkins reserves the right to modify the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service any time we deem it necessary. Any modification will be effective immediately when the revised Privacy Policy and Terms of Service are posted in our Dr. Brian Harkins Website. Continuous use of our website is an indication of your agreement to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that have been posted at the time of your visit and use of our website. However, we will utilize Personal Information previously collected in the same way as it was represented the first time it was collected without your consent.