Website Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy, along with our Terms & Conditions, explains how we gather and use your information as it relates to your activities on this Website. This Website is owned and managed by Garvey Physical Therapy and Wellness, LLC (“Garvey PT & Wellness”, “Garvey PT”, “us,” “our,” or “we”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of those who visit our Website, www.garveypt.com.
If you use this Website, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. We may change this policy without notice, and your use signifies that you agree to be bound by any changes.
How we collect information about you.
Our Website’s server and management system routinely collects information about the origin and site navigation of visitors to this Website. This data might include technical information (e.g.: your processor type, processor speed, operating system type, browser type, audio devices, modem devices, video cards, page views, and protocol address). But collected technical information is not linked to any of your personal identifying information. Garvey PT & Wellness may use this information to manage or modify this Website.
We may collect personal information, but only if you expressly provide it to us.
We may use cookies to collect anonymized information about how our visitors use this Website. This allows us to improve the Website and personalize your visit experience. Cookies are small data text files that are sent from a server computer to your computer during a web browsing session. The cookies are typically stored on your computer’s hard drive, and websites use them to simulate a continuous connection to that site and to allow a computer to automatically identify your browser when you visit the website. Some browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may be able to prevent cookies by changing your browser’s settings. If you disable cookies, it may impair your ability to use some features of this Website. Please visit www.allaboutcookies.org if you want to learn more about cookies.
How we use your information.
Garvey PT & Wellness may use personally identifiable information that you share with us as follows. We may use it:
(1) if you elect to receive information about our programs, items, or services, to provide you with such information, including marketing and promotional materials;
(2) to improve this Website; and
(3) to create non-personal summary or aggregate data for business analysis, market analysis, communications management, research, planning, or any other lawful purpose.
Unless we have your consent, we will never sell or lease your information to third parties.
You may opt-out of communications from us:
If you no longer wish to receive our marketing or promotional communications, please contact us with your request at seamus@garveypt.com or by phone at 920-266-9171. We will respect your wish to opt-out of communications.
Do not provide us with PHI.
This Privacy Policy details how Garvey PT & Wellness approaches the confidentiality of its visitors and clients. We take our responsibility to protect the privacy of your information seriously. However, because this Website (www.garveypt.com) is not intended to transmit or store protected health information (“PHI”), Garvey PT & Wellness’s activities as they relate to this Website may not comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). The protections extended to our practice’s records and data are not necessarily extended to non-PHI-related information shared or transmitted on this website.
It is important that you not use, provide, transmit, store, or disclose any PHI through our Website. We have no affirmative duty to monitor the sensitivity or type of the data that you might provide, transmit, store, or disclose while using this Website. If we develop actual knowledge that you are using, providing, transmitting, storing, or disclosing PHI through our Website, we will revoke your access to the Website and its Content.
You agree to indemnify us against damages from your sharing of PHI.
If you use, provide, transmit, store, or disclose PHI in connection with this Website or the Content, you agree to indemnify Garvey PT & Wellness against any damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising out such use, provision, transmission, storage, or disclosure of PHI.
This Website is not for children.
This Website is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of eighteen, and we do not collect personally identifiable information from any person who we know to be under the age of eighteen. If we inadvertently come to possess personally identifiable information about a child under the age of eighteen, we will not knowingly disclose that information to any third party.
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Security of communication through this Website.
We are not responsible for the privacy of emails. While our Website offers you the opportunity to communicate with Garvey PT & Wellness and its providers via email, most email is unencrypted. This means that unauthorized persons may be able to intercept emails that you exchange with Garvey PT & Wellness. By sending us an email or using this Website’s contact features, you agree that we are not responsible for the privacy of any email messages.
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Security of third-party websites.
Garvey PT & Wellness may provide links throughout this Website to third-party websites. If you follow these links, you demonstrate your agreement that we are not responsible for and do not control the information on these websites. Prior to following any third-party link, you should review that website’s terms and conditions of use, and privacy policy, as your visit to the website may bind you to those third-party provisions.
How we monitor social media.
Garvey PT & Wellness is active on social media, and we encourage your participation in our social media channels. This may include our blog, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other channels (collectively our “social media”). We may expand or narrow our available social media channels without notice, and this policy applies to our activities on any social media outlet, on our Website, and those accessed through our affiliates.
Your participation in our social media channels demonstrates your agreement that Garvey PT & Wellness may monitor and remove any postings or content that, in its sole discretion, are inappropriate.
Our social media activity does not constitute health advice:
Our social media postings and content do not constitute medical or healthcare advice, and they are not a substitute for the advice of a licensed healthcare professional who is familiar with your health history. Even if the posting user is a licensed healthcare professional, their comments should not be construed as personal health advice. If you have a medical concern, you should always personally consult with a healthcare provider. In an emergency, you should call 911.
We prohibit certain content on our social media:
Your activity on Garvey PT & Wellness’s social media is public, and information shared on social media often cannot be unshared. Your decision to post something may be irrevocable, or incapable of being undone. Please be cautious to not disclose personally identifiable information, such as your location, medical records, or financial information.
You are responsible for your conduct on our social media.
You alone are responsible for your activity on Garvey PT & Wellness’s social media. You specifically agree not to: (1) misrepresent yourself or use another person’s identity; (2) engage in harassment, defamation, spam, antagonistic behavior, or illegal activities; and (3) publish illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, unlawful, profane, harassing, or abusive content.
Garvey PT & Wellness may, but has no affirmative duty to, monitor its social media accounts. Your use signifies your agreement that Garvey PT & Wellness may monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, or delete your access to its social media at any time. We may review, edit, and/or delete anything you publish on its social media without notice and in our sole discretion.
Visitors may reproduce postings on our social media:
If you post content on Garvey PT & Wellness’s social media, you provide us with a non-exclusive, royalty-free, and worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, edit, reformat, publish, or display the content for any purpose. You acknowledge that Garvey PT & Wellness cannot and does not control the conduct of other visitors to its social media, who may reproduce visitors’ posts without permission.
The opinions expressed by individuals who are unaffiliated with Garvey PT & Wellness do not necessarily reflect the views of Garvey PT & Wellness.
This privacy policy is incorporated into this Website’s Term & Conditions.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the Website’s Terms & Conditions. By using this Website, you demonstrate that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy and the Terms & Conditions. Do not use this Website if you do not agree. Your continued use of this Website signifies your agreement to any changes that Garvey PT & Wellness may make to this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms & Conditions.