PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated September 29, 2025
This
Privacy Notice for A. Rivera Medical Services LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”), describes how and why we might
access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your personal information when you use our services (“Services”), including when you:
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Visit our website at http://ariveramedical.com/ or any website of ours
that links to this Privacy Notice
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Visit our clinic in Falls Church VA. At A. Rivera
Medical Services, patients will get the dedication they expect from their
doctor. We are fluent in both English and in Spanish. A Rivera Medical Services
LLC was established in 2003 in Falls Church, Virginia. Dr. Rivera has been in
practice for over 30 years. He specializes in Internal Medicine, Hypertension,
and Nephrology. [En A. Rivera Medical Services, los pacientes van a recibir la
dedicación que esperan de su doctor. Hablamos ingles y español. A. Rivera
Medical Services fue establecido en el 2003 en Falls Church, Virginia. El Dr.
Rivera a estado practicando por más de 30 años. Se especializa en medicina
interna, medicina general, hipertensión, y nefrologia].
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Engage with us in other related ways, including
any sales, marketing, or events.
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice
will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible
for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you
do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services.
If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at info@ariveramedical.com.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
What personal information do we
process? When
you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information
depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make,
and the products and the features you use. Learn more about the personal
information you can disclose to us.
Do we process any sensitive personal
information? Some
of the information may be considered “special” or “sensitive” in certain
jurisdictions, for example your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation,
and religious beliefs. We do not process personal information.
Do we collect any information from
third parties? We do not collect any information from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your information
to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for
security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your
information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information
only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
How do we keep your information safe?
We have
adequate organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to
protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the
internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure,
so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other
unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and
improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Learn more about
how we keep your information safe.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are
located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain
rights regarding your personal information. Learn more about your privacy
rights.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise
your rights is by submitting a data subject access request, or by contacting
us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Want
to learn more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the
Privacy Notice in full.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- WHAT INFORMATION DO WE
COLLECT?
- HOW DO PROCESS YOUR
INFORMATION?
- WHEN AND
WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
- HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION?
- HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION SAFE?
- DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION
FROM MINORS?
- WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
- CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK
FEATURES
- DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS
HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS
NOTICE?
11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE
DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
1) WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal Information you
disclose to us
In short: We may collect personal information that you
provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily
provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or
our Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise
when you contact us.
Sensitive Information: We do not process personal information.
All personal information that you provide to us must
be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such
personal information.
2) HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR
INFORMATION?
In short: We process your information to provide,
improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and
fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information
for other purposes with your consent.
3) WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In Short: We may share information in specific
situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.
We may need to share your personal information in the
following situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in
connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets,
financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another
company.
- Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data
- Right to access your personal data
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to request the deletion of your personal data
- Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared
with us
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
- Right to opt-out of the processing of your personal data if it is used
for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy
law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that
produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”)
- Right to
access the categories of personal data being processed (as permitted by
applicable law, including the privacy law in Minnesota)
- Right to
obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed
personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including the privacy law in
California, Delaware, and Maryland)
- Right to
obtain a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal
data (as permitted by applicable law, including the privacy law in Minnesota
and Oregon)
- Right to review, understand, question, and
correct how personal data has been profiled (as permitted by applicable law,
including the privacy law in Minnesota)
- Right to
limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable
law, including the privacy law in California)
- Right to
opt out of the collection of sensitive data and personal data collected through
the operation of a voice or facial recognition feature (as permitted by
applicable law, including the privacy law in Florida)
4) HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as
necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless
otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is
necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer
retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or
other legal requirements).
When
we have no ongoing legitimate business or need to process your personal
information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this
is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored
in archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate
it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
5) HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION
SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information
through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We
have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational
security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information
we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your
information, no electronic transmission over the internet or information
storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or
guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties
will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal,
or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your
personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our
Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a
secure environment.
6) DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM
MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or
market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children
under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By
using our Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the
parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of
the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18
years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take
reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you
become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18,
please contact us at info@ariveramedical.com.
7) WHAT ARE YOUR
PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your
account at any time, depending on your country, province, or state of
residence.
Withdrawing your consent; If we are relying on your consent to process
your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending
on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact
details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?”
below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the
processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it
affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on
lawful processing grounds other than consent.
If you have questions or comments about privacy rights, you may email
us at info@ariveramedical.com.
8) CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK
FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile
applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate
to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing
activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology
standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As
such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism
that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a
standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we
will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy
Notice.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web
browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal
standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at
this time.
9) DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE
SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: If you are a resident of California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and
receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we
processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal
information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our
processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some
circumstances by applicable law.
Sources of Personal Information
Learn more about the sources of personal information we collect in
“WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT?”
How We Use and Share Personal
Information
Learn more about how we use your personal information in the section,
“HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?”
Will your information be shared
with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers
pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Learn more
about how we disclose personal information in the section, “WHEN AND WITH WHOM
DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?”
We may use your personal information for our own business purposes,
such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and
demonstration. This is not considered to be “selling” of your personal
information.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to
third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12)
months. We will not sell or share personal information in the future belonging
website visitors, users, and other consumers.
Your Rights
You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However,
these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your
request as permitted by law. The rights include:
Depending upon the state where
you live, you may also have the following rights:
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise these rights, you
can contact us by submitting a data subject access request, by emailing us at info@ariveramedical.com, or by referring to the contact details at
the bottom of this document.
Under certain US state data
protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on
your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not
submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in
accordance with applicable laws.
Request
Verification
Upon receiving your request, we
will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about
whom we have the information in our system. We will only use personal
information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to
make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the
information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide
additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for
security or fraud-prevention purposes.
If you submit the request through
an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify
your identity before processing your request and the agent will need to provide
a written and signed permission from you to submit such request on your behalf.
Appeals
Under certain US state data
protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may
appeal our decision by emailing us at info@ariveramedical.com. We will inform you in writing of any action
taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation
of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a
complaint to your state attorney general.
California “Shine The Light” Law
California Civil Code Section
1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are
California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of
charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we
disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and
addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the
immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would
like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by
using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT
THIS NOTICE?”
10) DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS
NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary
to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time.
The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date at the top
of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we
may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by
directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy
Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
11) HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT
THIS NOTICE?
If
you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at info@ariveramedical.com or contact us by post at:
- Rivera Medical Services LLC
6319 Castle Pl
Suite 1E
Falls Church, VA 22044
United States
12) HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR
DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of
your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to request
access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we
have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information.
You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your
personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by
applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal
information, please fill out and submit a data subject access request.