Notice of Privacy Practices
Effective October 1, 2026
This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
Our duty to protect your health information
Why Weight Health & Wellness ("we") is required by law to keep your protected health information (PHI) private, to give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, to follow the notice currently in effect, and to tell you if a breach affects your unsecured information.
How we may use and share your information
Treatment. To provide and coordinate your care, for example sharing information with a pharmacy that fills your prescription or another provider treating you.
Payment. To bill and collect payment for the services you receive.
Health care operations. To run our practice, improve quality and contact you about appointments, for example appointment reminders.
Business associates. With companies that help us run the practice, such as our secure electronic records and booking system. They must sign an agreement to protect your information.
Other uses allowed or required by law
We may share information when required by law; for public health and safety, such as reporting adverse reactions to medications; for health oversight activities; for lawsuits and legal actions when required; for law enforcement as permitted by law; to prevent a serious threat to health or safety; with coroners or medical examiners; for workers' compensation; and for specialized government functions.
Uses that need your written permission
We will not use or share your information for marketing, sell your information, or use your photos (including before-and-after photos) for advertising without your written authorization. You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time, except where we have already acted on it.
Your rights
You have the right to: get a copy of your health record; ask us to correct your record; request confidential communications (for example, contact at a different phone or address); ask us to limit what we use or share; get a list of certain disclosures we have made; get a paper or electronic copy of this notice; and choose someone to act for you. If you pay in full out of pocket, you may ask us not to share that information with your health insurer.
Communications
Please do not send medical details by WhatsApp, text or regular email. Use your secure client portal. If you choose to contact us by these channels, you accept the risk that they are less secure.
Complaints
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you can contact us using the details below, or file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights at www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Changes to this notice
We may change this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we hold. The current notice is always available on this page and on request.
Contact
Privacy contact: Dr. Anya Pennycooke, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
Why Weight Health & Wellness
Email: whyweighthealthandwellness@gmail.com