Privacy Statement

Dr. Brian Harkins is committed to protecting the privacy of our site visitors. We collect specific information from people accessing Dr. Brian Harkins Website. This Policy statement outlines what kind of information are collected and how the information are shared with and used by third parties. We have a separate HIPAA-required Notice of Privacy Practices that defines how Dr. Brian Harkins may use or disclose a visitor’s information.

Collection & Use of Personal Information

Dr. Brian Harkins collects, stores, and uses personal information from visitors so they can access and use our Website. Our Website collects only personal and identifiable information that visitors provide explicitly and voluntarily. These pieces of information allow Dr. Brian Harkins to provide requested information or notices regarding Dr. Brian Harkins and our services or facilities.

Dr. Brian Harkins website may collect, store, and use the following personal information:

Information about your device and about your visits to and use of Dr. Brian Harkins Website – This includes your IP address, browser type, geographical location, length of visit, referral source, and number of page views.
Information you provide to Dr. Brian Harkins when you signed up for registration – This includes your name, postal address, email address, and telephone number.
Information relative to any transaction between you and Dr. Brian Harkins or relative to Dr. Brian Harkins Website.
Information that you provide Dr. Brian Harkins when you subscribe to our website services, newsletters, or email notifications.
Other information that you choose to send us voluntarily.

Dr. Brian Harkins does not require any personal information from visitors to access and use Dr. Brian Harkins Website. Dr. Brian Harkins Website gathers only personal information that are voluntarily provided by the user.User information includes the user’s name, postal address, email, and contact number. With these, Dr. Brian Harkins can respond to your requests or send notification about our facilities or services.

If you willingly provide your personal information to Dr. Brian Harkins over the Internet, by registering to regular mail, filling out forms like “Contact Us”, or sending us an email, there are several things you should take note of:

Dr. Brian Harkins will use the personal information that you voluntarily provided only for the purpose of why it was collected.
There are employees, persons, or vendors performing services for Dr. Brian Harkins, and they are allowed to view and access your personal data.
Your personal information may be entered into the electronic databases of Dr. Brian Harkins.
The law may require Dr. Brian Harkins to disclose your personal data.

Electronic mail and other Internet channels are not necessarily safe against interception. Therefore, when you provide personal data to Dr. Brian Harkins online, it means you are taking this risk.

Cookies

Cookies are any information sent by one web server to another and is stored by the browser. When the browser requests a page from the server, the information is sent back to the server in order for the web server to identify and track the browser. Our Web server may collect the following general information about you:

The domain name from which you accessed the Web
The particular pages you visited
The web browser you’re using and its release number
The time and date you accessed Dr. Brian Harkins Website
The Web address that led you to our site

When you visit Dr. Brian Harkins website, we might use cookies, only if your browser accepts cookies. We use cookies to measure the amount of traffic going to our site, so we may improve the accessibility and usability of our site to meet the interests of our users. When we analyze data from cookies, it is always done in a comprehensive form. Dr. Brian Harkins do not keep records or view users’ site behavior unless it is defined in the Information Security Section.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

Other than those provided by this Privacy Statement or required or allowed by law, Dr. Brian Harkins does not disclose to third parties any personal data about our users. We will never ever disclose to a third party your personal data concerning your health conditions, unless in good faith, we believe that it is allowed or required by law.

Information Security

For the security of our site and to ensure that our services will always be accessible to all users, Dr. Brian Harkins Web servers will use industry-standard methods for monitoring of network traffic, to identify illegal attempts to upload information or change our data, or cause damage. Dr. Brian Harkins strictly prohibits illegal activities on our servers. It is a crime and is punishable by law.

External Links

Some documents contained on our website may have hypertext links or pointers to information that were produced and managed by other organizations. Dr. Brian Harkins does not control nor will guarantee the correctness, appropriateness, or completeness of any information linked from sites that are not owned by Dr. Brian Harkins. The Dr. Brian Harkins Privacy Statement is only applicable to Dr. Brian Harkins website. This statement does not apply to another site that visitors follow, even if these sites belong to local government, local officials, or state agencies. Read carefully the privacy statement of each and every site that you follow to ensure that you know how they handle personal data. The purpose of links or pointers is not to give significance to those sites or their information. Dr. Brian Harkins is not recommending or endorsing any opinions expressed and or services they are offering.

No Provider-Patient Relationship Created

By accessing and using our website, its services or medical information are not an implication that a patient-health care service provider relationship is created. Users to our website must always get the services of a professional healthcare provider for their specific health problems.

Changes to our Privacy Statement

Dr. Brian Harkins reserves the right to modify or change this privacy statement when we deem it necessary. Your consent to the terms of any modification or changes posted to the Website is explicitly expressed with your continued use of Dr. Brian Harkins Website.

e-Greeting Cards

We allow our Website visitors to send greetings to patients admitted in our facilities. All you have to do is give us the name of the patient, age, and the accommodation where the patient is being treated. We have forms that you can fill in with this information, your message, your name, email address, and how you are related to the patient. Send us the form by email. We will print the message onto a greeting card and have it delivered to the patient. However, we cannot guarantee that all messages will be delivered. We assume no responsibility for messages that are undelivered.