Privacy Policy
At Bay Area Foot and Laser Podiatry Group, we care about your privacy and are committed to protecting it. Please check back regularly to keep track of any Privacy Policy updates.
Who We Are
Berkeley Foot & Ankle Podiatry Group, Inc. is a California corporation (entity number C4303153) doing business as Bay Area Foot & Laser Podiatry Group. Our registered mailing address is 3000 Colby Street, STE 104, Berkeley, CA 95706. For privacy-specific concerns, you can reach our business by calling 1 (510) 849-3800. Our website address is: https://bayareafootandlaser.com
Your Personal Data
What personal data and why we collect it
COMMENTS: When visitors leave comments on this website, 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 this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to this website can download and extract any location data from images on this website.
CONTACT FORMS: We use the Contact Form 7 plugin to manage form submissions from this website. The information is sent as email messages that 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. We use SiteGround as our website hosting provider. SiteGround is a web hosting company founded in 2004 and services more than 2,000,000 domains worldwide.
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.
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 use Google Analytics to improve this website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this website. It collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this website. Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie, which can only be used by Google, on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this website. Google’s ability to use and share information that Google Analytics collects is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this website by disabling cookies on your browser.
Google Analytics Terms of Service: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Who we share your data with
We do not share your data.
How long do 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 do you have over your data
If you have an account on this website, 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
We use hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) to encrypt data sent between our website and your browser.
How we protect your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights
All of the content on this website is subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights or licenses held by Berkeley Foot and Ankle Podiatry Group, Inc. dba Bay Area Foot & Laser Podiatry Group. Your use of the copyrighted material displayed on this website is strictly prohibited.