Effective Date: 25/07/2025

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or book an appointment on this website operated by Dr. S Nayak.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following information when you interact with this site:

• Name and contact details (email, phone number)
• Appointment preferences and optional medical notes
• Technical data: IP address, browser type, device info
• Usage data from cookies and analytics tools

2. How We Use Your Information

Your information is used to:

• Book and manage appointments
• Send appointment reminders and confirmations
• Respond to inquiries or support requests
• Improve the website’s performance and functionality

3. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal data. Information may be shared with:

• Trusted third-party service providers (e.g., email, appointment systems)
• Regulatory or legal bodies if required by law

4. Cookies

This site uses cookies to improve user experience. You may disable cookies through your browser settings at any time.

5. Data Security

We implement appropriate security measures to protect your data, but please note that no system is entirely secure.

6. Your Rights

You may:

• Request access to the personal data we hold
• Request corrections or deletion of your data
• Withdraw consent for contact or marketing at any time

Contact us at contact@drsnayak.com for data requests.

7. Children’s Privacy

This website is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving 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 visit our login page, 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Where your data is sent

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

15. Policy Updates

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page.

16. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact:

Dr. S Nayak
Email: contact@drsnayak.com