Charleston Thyroid Center, LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://www.CharlestonThyroidCenter.com (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.  We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site.  By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection And Use: While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, such as in contact or comment forms. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name and email address (“Personal Information”).

Log Data: Like many site operators, we may collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).  This may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.  In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this data for multiple reasons, including but not limited to, marketing and analysis, security monitoring, and improving system performance.  Social media widgets may also track your data as well.

External Links: In order to provide visitors with greater value, we may provide links to various third party websites.  However, even if a third-party affiliation exists between Charleston Thyroid Center and that destination site, we exercise no authority over linked sites, each of which maintains independent privacy policy and data collection policies and procedures.  We assume no responsibility or liability for these independent methods or actions.  Similarly, we cannot take responsibility for the privacy initiatives or the content of such websites.  These destination links are provided only for your convenience, and as such, you access them at your own risk.  

E-Commerce and E-Healthcare Transactions: Some of our site features may use applications to collect data to facilitate an e=commerce or e-healthcare transaction.  We will ask your explicit permission to transfer this data to the third party to facilitate this transaction.  We may store this information to verify the transaction to verify the transaction for customer service and accounting reasons and may use this information to help personalize your experience on the Charleston Thyroid Center site.

Medical Website: We have an embedded scheduling widget and patient portal by our EHR provider.  To read more, click here.

Communications: We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other relevant information.

Cookies & Pixels: Cookies and pixels are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.  Like many sites, we may use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Security: The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes To This Privacy Policy: This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 1, 2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.  We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.  If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact Us: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at CharlestonThyroid@gmail.com