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Privacy Policy

How Appasani MD PC collects, uses, and protects the personal data you share with us.

Contacting us

This policy (together with our terms of website use and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which we, APPASANI MD PC, San Francisco, CA, will collect and process any personal data we collect from you, or which you provide to us, in the course of using our site, www.appasanimd.com.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age. APPASANI MD is the data controller, and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as "we," "us," or "our" in this privacy notice).

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at info@appasanimd.com.

What data we collect, for what purpose, and on what grounds

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymized data. We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

  • Communication Data — any communication you send to us, whether through the contact form on our website, email, text, social media messaging, social media posting, or any other communication. We process this data to communicate with you, for record keeping, and for the establishment, pursuance, or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground is our legitimate interests: replying to communications, keeping records, and establishing, pursuing, or defending legal claims.
  • Customer Data — data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services, such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details, and card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
  • User Data — data about how you use our website and online services, together with any data you post for publication. We process this data to operate our website, ensure relevant content, maintain security and back-ups, and enable publication and administration. Our lawful ground is our legitimate interests in properly administering our website and business.
  • Technical Data — data about your use of our website, such as your IP address, login data, browser details, length of visit, page views, navigation paths, visit frequency, time-zone settings, and device technology, sourced from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse use of the site, administer and protect our business, deliver relevant content, and understand advertising effectiveness. Our lawful ground is our legitimate interests in administering and growing our business.
  • Marketing Data — data about your preferences for receiving marketing and your communication preferences. We process this data to deliver relevant content and measure advertising effectiveness. Our lawful ground is our legitimate interests in studying how customers use our services, developing them, and growing our business.

We may use Customer, User, Technical, and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements and to measure their effectiveness (lawful ground: legitimate interests — growing our business), and to send marketing communications (lawful ground: consent or legitimate interests).

Sensitive data

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you through this website. Sensitive data includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade-union membership, health information, and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect information about criminal convictions and offences through this website.

Where we are required to collect personal data by law or under a contract and you do not provide it when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract; if so, we will notify you at the time. We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for, or a reasonably compatible purpose. If we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose, we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where required or permitted by law. We do not carry out automated decision-making or automated profiling.

How we collect your personal data

We may collect data when you provide it directly to us (for example, by filling in forms on our site or emailing us), automatically through cookies and similar technologies as you use the site, and from third parties such as analytics providers (e.g., Google), advertising networks, search information providers, and providers of technical, payment, and delivery services.

Marketing communications

Our lawful ground for sending you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests. We may send you marketing communications if you made a purchase or asked for information about our services, or you agreed to receive them, and in each case you have not opted out since. You can opt out of marketing emails at any time via the opt-out link in any marketing message or by emailing info@appasanimd.com. Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes, we will get your express consent.

Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with: service providers who provide IT and system-administration services; professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers; and government bodies that require us to report processing activities. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law, and we only allow them to process it for specified purposes on our instructions.

Data security

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. Access is limited to those who have a business need to know. We have procedures to deal with any suspected breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator where legally required.

Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For tax purposes, the law requires us to keep basic customer information for six years after they stop being customers. In some circumstances we may anonymise your data for research or statistical purposes, in which case it may be used indefinitely without further notice.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Cookies

Our site may use cookies to support basic functionality and analytics, as described under Technical Data above. You can set your browser to refuse all or some cookies; some parts of the site may not function properly without them.

Last updated: June 10, 2026 · Questions? info@appasanimd.com