Privacy Policy

This web page represents a legal document and is the Privacy Policy for Dr. Ayman Aboushala and our website https://www.draymanaboushala.com as required by European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By using our Website you agree to fully comply with and be bound by the following policy each time you use our Website. Please review the following terms carefully as mentioned below.

Definitions

The terms “us”, “we”, and “our” refer to Dr. Ayman Aboushala, Our website https://www.draymanaboushala.com, the owner of this Website. A “Visitor” is someone who merely browses our Website. A “Member” is someone who has registered with our Website to use our Services. The term “User” is a collective identifier that refers to either a Visitor or a Member.

This Privacy Notice describes the types of information we collect or receive, how we may use that information. The information we collect includes personal information and non-personal information, as such terms are defined below.

The Privacy Notice also describes the measures we take to protect the security of the personal information. We also tell you how you can reach us to ask us to (i) access, change or not use the personal information you have provided to us, (ii) withdraw any consent you previously provided to us, and (iii) answer any questions you may have about our privacy practices.

Your Consent

By using our Website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by us as set forth in our Privacy Statement and amended from time to time. If we decide to change our privacy practices, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always kept informed of what data we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Please check this page for changes from time to time to make sure you are aware of our latest privacy practices.

Your Privacy

We are committed to respecting your privacy. We recognize that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner. That’s why we have put a policy in place to protect your personal information. You may always visit our site and browse without giving us any personal information. Please read on for more details about our privacy practices.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you:

  • Create an account or leave a comment on the blog article;
  • Fill out the patient or any forms available on the website;
  • Participate in a survey, contest or sweepstakes;
  • Contact us for any reason, such as to request help with the Services or to provide us with your comments/feedback; or
  • Otherwise, communicate with https://www.draymanaboushala.com

The types of information we may collect include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, fax number, credit card information and other information you choose to provide.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We use the Contact Form 7 plugin to manage contact form submissions. The information such your name, email address, phone number and other information you chose to provide is sent as email messages to only a select few are allowed to access. The information is also stored in the database on our hosting server for backup and later reference purposes.

How long do we keep the contact information?

We don’t set a particular time limit for storing information because we need it for future reference. If you want your information to be removed from our database, please contact us. We will remove it anytime there are concerns about your privacy.

What data we collect automatically when you use our website

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for 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 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We store user input data sent through the contact forms on this website, along with meta information about the submissions, including the time stamp, the origin IP address, and the user agent (browser). We currently use Google Analytics on this website.

Who we share your data with

Noone, although we do use Google Analytics and some WordPress plugins on this website that may pass data, including personal information, to external servers to process.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Links to other websites

Our Website provides links to other websites. We do not control and are not responsible for, the content or practices of these other websites. Our provision of such links does not constitute our endorsement of these other websites, their content, their owners, or their practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these other websites, which are subject to any privacy and other policies they may have. You should use caution and review the privacy policies of any websites, services or third party providers that you visit from our website or our products to learn more about their information practices, which may be significantly different from ours

Questions about our Privacy Policy

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us at contact@draymanaboushala.com