Privacy Policy

Updated and effective: June 24, 2019

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING MEDICAL INFORMATION:  We do not provide personal medical advice in any online setting. Medical advice will not be provided outside of an in-person office visit. Do not send any sensitive personal information, including health-related information, through the Website. Existing patients should contact Dr. Attai using the UCLA Health MyChart patient portal, or by calling 818-333-2555 during regular business hours. Patients interested in a consultation with Dr. Attai should contact 818-333-2555 during regular business hours.  

PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes the data collection practices of www.DrAttai.com (the “Website”), owned and operated by Dr. Deanna J. Attai (“we,” “us,” “our”).  This policy is meant to inform our Website visitors (“you,” “your”), of our policies and procedures regarding how we may collect, use, and disclose your information. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

If you are located outside of the United States, you should know that the information you provide to us is being transmitted to us and processed in the United States, under this Privacy Policy and subject to applicable laws, which may not be as protective as the laws in your country.

Information You Provide:

If you choose to contact us through the Website, we will collect your first and last name, your email address as well as additional information you may choose to provide in your inquiry.

Information We Collect Automatically:

When you visit our Website, our servers automatically record information sent from your browser (“Log Data”).  Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, pages of the Website that you visit, the time spent on those pages, and access times and dates. We aggregate this information and use it to monitor, analyze use of and administer the Website.

To collect this information, we use Cookies.  A cookie is a small data file sent from a Website or application and stored on your computer or device.  Cookies allow us to recognize your browser, to serve certain features, to better understand how you interact with our Website, and to monitor aggregated usage. Most browsers have settings that allow you to delete cookies, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie. To learn more about browser cookies, including how to manage or delete them, look in the Tools, Help or similar section of your web browser, or visit AllAboutCookies.org.

By using our Website, you agree to our use of cookies.

We use Google Analytics to assist us in collecting and understanding Log Data.  For more information about Google Analytics, see the Google Privacy Policy.  To opt out, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  Note that we are not responsible for the Google Analytics opt-out tools.

Third-Party Tracking:

We do not serve advertising; however, when you use the Internet, parties not affiliated with us, such as advertising networks, web analytics companies and social networking platforms may collect information about your online activities over time and across this Website and other websites. This information may be used to provide advertisements for products and services that may interest you, and those companies may use cookies, clear GIFs and other tracking technologies.  We do not track your activity over time and across different websites or online services. Nor do we  not honor “do not track” signals transmitted by web browsers.

Formore information about third-party advertisers and for information about how to prevent them from using your information, visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) consumer website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. If you do want to opt out using these tools, you need to opt out separately for each of your devices and for each web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari) that you use on each device.

How We May Use Your Information:

We do not sell or rent your information. We use and disclose your personal information only to respond to an inquiry you may decide to send us or to share as well as:

  • To investigate a suspected violation of our Terms of Service, suspected fraud or other unlawful activity;
  • As may be required by law or by a court order, in which case we shall attempt to notify you and work with you to seek to limit the scope of the required disclosure;
  • To our third-party service providers to allow them to provide Website features on our behalf, such as maintenance services, email management, web analytics and improvement of our Website.
  • With your consent and as permissible under applicable laws and regulations.

Data Retention:

We retain information you provide only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes as described in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise permissible by law.

Data Access and Modification:

You may request to review, correct, update or request that we delete personal information you have provided to us by contacting us at [email protected].

Security:

Westrive to provide commercially reasonable practices, including administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, including encryption technologies, firewalls, access controls and additional measures to protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your data.  No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, and we are not responsible for security incidents not reasonably within our control.

Links:

Our Website contains social network sharing widgets.  You may log onto third party social networking websites via social network sharing widgets to share, comment or recommend blog posts.  The social network sharing widgets may provide information to their associated social networks or third-parties about your interactions with our web pages that you visit, even if you do not click on or otherwise interact with the plug-in or widget. Information is transmitted from your browser and may include an identifier assigned by the social network or third party, information about your browser type, operating system, device type, IP address, and the URL of the web page where widget appears. If you use social network tools or visit social networking websites, you should read their privacy disclosures, to learn what information they collect, use, and share.

Our Website also contains links to social networking and other websites. If you click on such a link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. Other Websites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.

For California Residents:

We do not disclose any personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes. For additional information about or privacy practices, or to review and request to have deleted any personal information you have shared with us, please send a request to [email protected].

Updates To This Privacy Policy:

As we continue to develop this Website, we may, in our sole discretion, make changes to this Privacy Policy. The “last updated” date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last revised. Changes will become effective when posted.  If you do not agree to changes to this Privacy Policy, you may not continue to use this Website.

Contact Information. For additional information regarding our privacy practices, please contact at [email protected].