Website Purpose
This website contains articles that bridge medical information to online resources. The articles review clinical topics and may contain the author’s opinion on scientific issues. All posts on this website are for informational purposes only and do not replace the doctor-patient relationship.
The website information does not replace the advice of qualified medical professionals (nurses, physician assistants, physicians, dentists, etc.). The website is meant to provide supplemental information to share and discuss with a patient’s physician.
The information is not meant to contradict or take the place of a physician’s diagnosis, treatment plan or prognosis. Please consult your physician or other medical professional regarding your own health issues.
The owner and author of this site is Dr. Alicia Racelis. Doc R has a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics with over 15 years of experience in the medical device industry.
The website address is https://epatient.us.
Feel free to reach out with any questions by visiting the contact page here.
Personal Data Collected
When submitting comments on this site, any information within the form may be collected. This can include personal and health-related data voluntarily shared within the contact form. This data is freely given under the active consent of the visitor submitting the comment to this site.
Epatient.us is a not-for-profit, informational site. Purchasing and transactional information are not collected for this website.
Any technical forms, surveys, or comments on this site may generate and be considered personal information. For example, User Profile information from registered users, cookies, and voluntarily submitted comments are collected by WordPress and other third-party embedded items.
Comments
When you submit comments on this website, you agree to share the information you submit in the comment form. Data shown in these comments are collected in order to answer questions, determine current trends and user interests as well as enhance the user experience. This includes featuring posts in response to user comments.
By default, WordPress (the site host) collects registered User Profile data, IP addresses, and browser usage data to help prevent spam.
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.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment(s).
Media
If you upload images, documents, videos, or other types of media to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to keep your data private. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images or other media types on this website.
Contact Forms
When submitting a contact form, any information volunteered within the form is logged for customer service purposes, to answer questions and determine user trends. This information will never be used for marketing purposes by epaitent.us.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on the site you may opt-in to saving your user name, email address, and website in the form of cookies. These cookies are for your convenience. By saving this data, you will not be required to re-enter your details again when you leave future comments. WordPress keeps these cookies for up to one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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 one day.
This website may include embedded content from other websites (YouTube, Flickr, etc.). Some third-party tracking, interaction monitoring, and cookies may be collected by these sites.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content in the form of videos, images, articles, etc. This content is hosted by third-party websites (YouTube, Flickr, etc.). This content behaves as if you have visited a third-party website.
These websites may collect your user data, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. This may include tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
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We Don’t Share Your Data
Epatient.us will not share your personal data with anyone. WordPress does not share your personal data with anyone.
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Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely on the website. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. At any time, the user or website administrators can see, edit or delete this information (except for the username).
Your Rights to the Data
If you have an account or have left comments on this website, you can request to receive an exported file. The exported file includes all the personal data held on this website about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete any personal data. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
We Protect Your Data
All data on this website, including your user data, is protected by encryption and two-factor authentication.
Data Breach Procedures
The following Bluehost policy is upheld. Epatient.us is a WordPress website that follows GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679). The following steps are taken to prevent and/or lessen a data breach:
- WordPress is updated regularly
- All plugins use the current version for security purposes
- Any unused plugins or themes are deactivated
- Regular encrypted and secure backups are performed
- Strong passwords are required for administrator accounts
- There is only one website administrator
- In the event of a high-risk data breach, the authorities will be notified within 72 hours
- All users will be notified should a high-risk data breach occur
Industry Regulatory Disclosures
Transfer of data: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
