Who we are
Our website address is: https://drgaryevans.com.
SMS Text Messaging and Reviews
We collect phone numbers from our patients to send SMS text messages regarding their care and office experience. Specifically, we use a review generation system to text patients about their experience and ask them to leave a review. There are no incentives, payments, or rewards offered for leaving a review.
Message and data rates may apply for any text messages sent or received. Message frequency varies depending on your interactions with our office. You can opt out of these communications at any time by replying “STOP” to any text message you receive from us.
Phone Data Privacy and Sharing
We value your privacy. Phone numbers, SMS consent, and messaging data collected for our review program are strictly protected. This data is never sold, rented, or shared with third parties for marketing or any other unrelated purposes.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. As noted above, patient phone numbers and text messaging data are kept strictly confidential and are never shared or sold to third parties.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except they cannot change their username. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Patient phone numbers and associated messaging logs are stored securely within our encrypted practice management records for the duration of your time as a patient at our clinic.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or have provided your phone number for our communications, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, including your text messaging information. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, medical record retention, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.