**SMS Privacy Policy for Saintly Home Health**
At Saintly Home Health, your privacy is a top priority. We are committed to protecting your personal information and ensuring your SMS communications with us are safe and secure.
**What Information We Collect:**
– Phone number and any information shared via SMS (e.g., appointment details, care updates).
**How We Use Your Information:**
– To send appointment reminders, health updates, or other relevant communication related to your care.
– We do not share, sell, or distribute your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
**Security Measures:**
– We take appropriate measures to safeguard the information shared via SMS.
– While we strive to maintain the security of our SMS communications, please note that SMS is not a fully secure method of communication. We encourage limiting sensitive information in SMS messages.
**Your Rights:**
– You may opt out of SMS communications at any time by replying “STOP” to any of our messages.
– If you wish to review or change your communication preferences, please contact us.
By communicating with Saintly Home Health via SMS, you agree to our SMS privacy policy.
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**Opt-In SMS Policy for Saintly Home Health**
To ensure you receive important updates and reminders from Saintly Home Health, we offer an SMS notification service. By opting in, you consent to receive text messages from us regarding your care, appointments, and other relevant health information.
**How to Opt In:**
– Simply provide your phone number when signing up for services.
– You will receive a confirmation message asking you to confirm your participation by replying “YES” to opt in.
**What to Expect:**
– You may receive appointment reminders, health tips, care updates, or other relevant notifications.
– Message frequency will vary based on your care plan and communication preferences.
**How to Opt Out:**
– You may opt out of SMS notifications at any time by replying “STOP” to any message.
– Once you opt out, you will no longer receive text messages from Saintly Home Health.
**Standard Message Rates:**
– Message and data rates may apply based on your mobile carrier plan.
If you have any questions about our SMS policy or need assistance, please contact us directly.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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
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 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
Who we share your data with
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.