Privacy Policy for Bay Animal Hospital
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Information We Collect
We may collect personal information from you when you visit our website, contact us through our website, or use our services. The types of personal information we may collect include:
- Name, address, and contact information (phone number and email address)
- Pet’s name, age, and medical history
- Payment information (credit card or bank account information)
How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information to provide you with veterinary services and to manage our business operations. Specifically, we may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To communicate with you regarding your pet’s medical care
- To process payments for our services
- To send you promotional materials or newsletters (only if you have given us consent to do so)
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances:
- To provide you with veterinary services (e.g., sharing your pet’s medical history with a specialist or referral hospital)
- To process payments for our services (e.g., sharing your payment information with our payment processor)
- To comply with legal obligations (e.g., sharing your information with law enforcement or regulatory authorities)
Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, which have their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these websites.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, and use. However, no transmission of data over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us.
Children’s Privacy
Our services are not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately at (310) 545-6596.
Right to Know and Data Portability
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months (the “right to know”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that Personal Information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information.
- If we sold or disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
- sales, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
- disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
- The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
Right to Delete
You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the “right to delete”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.)
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
We will delete or deidentify Personal Information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.
For any data deletion requests, please complete this request form.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page periodically to review any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or our handling of your personal information, please contact us at (310) 545-6596.