Privacy Policy

What this policy covers

This policy is about this website only. The site gives general information about the practice and is available in English, Russian and Arabic.

Information about your medical care is handled differently. It is protected health information under a US federal law called HIPAA. Patients receive the practice's Notice of Privacy Practices, and that notice, not this page, governs medical records.

Information you choose to send us

The website has a form for asking for an appointment. It asks for the details listed below. Adding a reason for your visit is optional.

Please keep that reason short and general. Do not include medical records or a detailed health history. The office will explain how to share records safely.

Right now the form does not send your details anywhere. It shows the office phone number so that you can call us instead. When online requests are available, what you enter will go only to the practice's own appointment system, and we will use it only to contact you about your request.

• Your first and last name
• Your email address
• Your phone number, with the country code
• Whether you want a call back soon or at a date and time you pick
• A short reason for your visit, if you want to add one (up to 500 characters)

Technical logs kept by our web host

A hosting company delivers this website to your browser. Like almost any web host, it may keep standard technical logs so that it can keep the site secure and running. These logs can show:

• Your IP address, the number that identifies your internet connection
• The type of browser you use
• Which pages were requested
• The date and time of each request

No cookies, tracking or advertising

This website does not use cookies, analytics tools, advertising tags or tracking pixels. It has no social media buttons and no content embedded from other companies. Our fonts and scripts are served by this website itself.

The only thing the site saves in your browser is one display choice: whether to preview pages as a laptop, tablet or phone. It is kept in your browser's session storage, stays on your device and is never sent to the practice.

Since the site does not track visitors, a browser's “Do Not Track” setting has nothing to switch off here.

How we use information

We use information from this website only for the purposes below. We do not use it for marketing.

• To contact you about an appointment request you sent, once online requests are available
• To keep the website safe, find and fix problems, and keep it working, using the host's technical logs
• To meet our duties under the law

Who we share information with

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.

Our web host handles the technical logs described above as part of running the site. Other than that, we would give out information only if the law requires it, such as a valid court order or subpoena, or if it is needed to protect someone's safety or the security of the website.

Please do not send health details by email or messaging apps

Email, WhatsApp and other messaging apps are not a safe way to send health information. Please do not use them to send us test results, records or details about your health. If you need to share medical records, the office will tell you how to do it securely.

Keeping information safe

We take reasonable steps to protect information that reaches us through this website. Still, no website or internet connection can be made fully secure, so we cannot promise that anything sent online will always be safe.

Links to other websites

Some pages link to websites we do not run. These include Dr. Barathan's profiles on a hospital website, a group practice website and LinkedIn, and articles in medical journals.

Those websites have their own privacy practices, and this policy does not cover them. Please read their privacy policies before you give them any information.

Children

This website is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. The appointment request form is for adults, or for a parent or guardian asking on behalf of a child. If you think a child under 13 has sent us information, please call the office so that we can remove it.

If you live outside the United States

The practice is in California, in the United States. If you send us information from another country, it will be handled in the United States. US privacy laws may not match the rules in your home country.

California privacy rights

If you live in California, state law may give you rights over your personal information. These can include asking what information we hold about you, asking us to correct it, and asking us to delete it.

To make a request or ask about these rights, please call the office phone number below or visit one of our offices.

Updates and translations

We may change this policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the new version on this page and change the “Last updated” date at the top.

This policy is offered in English, Russian and Arabic. If a translation and the English version do not match, the English version is the one that applies.