Website Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June 14, 2025
Important: This policy governs www.kimgyn.com and information collected while you browse our public‑facing pages. If you become a patient and we handle your medical information, that data is covered by our separate HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP)—available on request.
Who We Are
Kim Gyn PLLC ("Kim Gyn," "we," "us," or "our") is a minimally invasive gynecologic surgery practice located in New York City. Our principal office is 877 Park Ave, New York, NY 10075, USA. Reach our Privacy & Security Officer at care@kimgyn.com or +1 (646) 798‑8212.
Scope of This Policy
- Applies to visitors, prospective patients, vendors, and anyone who interacts with the public portions of our website.
- Does not apply to third‑party services we link to—such as the Elation® patient portal, bill‑pay pages, or telehealth interface—or to Protected Health Information (PHI) collected there. Those services are governed by the NPP and their own privacy terms.
Information We Collect Automatically
We and our service providers may use certain technologies on the Sites to collect information about how you use and engage with the Sites, some of which may be Personal Data (“Other Information”).
The technologies we use include the following:
- Web Log File Data. Like most other websites or mobile applications, we collect some basic information automatically about you and store it in log files. This information may include IP address, browser type, internet service provider, pages you visit from and pages to go to after leaving the Sites, date and time stamp, clickstream data, website traffic patterns and server usage statistics. We use this information for site management and administration, to improve the content, overall performance and user experience on the Sites, to display advertising and personalized content on our sites, manage and improve our fundraising campaigns, manage our advertising on other sites, and for fraud protection and for protecting our rights.
- Data from Cookies and Other Data Collection Technologies. We and our service providers use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to manage the Sites and to collect information about you when you use the Sites. These technologies help us to recognize you, analyze your use of the Sites and identify solutions for how to make the Sites more useful. These technologies also allow us to display advertising and personalized content on our sites, manage and improve our fundraising campaigns and manage our advertising on other sites, as well as enhance the usability of the Sites by aggregating demographic and statistical data and providing this information to our service providers.
- Information for Analytics. We use analytics providers to help us evaluate and measure the use and performance of the Sites.
Please see more information on analytics and data collection technologies and the choices you can make in the “Your Online Choices” section of this Website Privacy Policy.
How & Why We Use Your Information
In addition to the uses described above, we may use your Personal Data for the following purposes:
- Maintaining and delivering the Sites and its services;
- Contacting you to respond to your requests or inquiries and provide support;
- Contacting you about programs, products, or services that we believe may be of interest to you, new service announcements, or event invitations;
- Improving our Sites and services;
- Developing new resources and services;
- Conducting, managing and growing our business;
- Analyzing patient experience as well as provider and hospital performance;
- Preventing, investigating and providing notice of fraud, unlawful or criminal activity or unauthorized access to or use of Personal Data, the Sites or our data systems, or to meet legal obligations;
- Investigating and resolving disputes and security issues and enforcing our Terms and Conditions; and
- For any other lawful, legitimate business purposes.
How We Share Information
We do not sell your Personal Data, however, we may share or disclose Personal Data collected through the Sites in the following ways:
Our third-party service providers include:
- Third-Party Service Providers. We may share Personal Data with third parties who perform services on our behalf, including helping us manage the Sites, managing our communication and donation channels and conducting analysis of your use of the Sites.
- IT service and support providers, including those providers involved in hosting and monitoring the Sites;
- Analytics providers;
- Marketing and advertising providers, including those providers involved in our newsletter emails, fundraising campaigns, and digital advertising campaigns;
- Payment and e-commerce providers, including those providers facilitating the fundraising, donation, and event pages;
- Recruitment and applicant support providers, including those providers involved in the management of our hiring and student management platforms;
- Providers of tools, widgets or buttons on the Sites, including those providers facilitating blog comments, sharing tools, forums and questionnaires; and
- Learning management platform providers, including those providers involved in the provision of virtual education and continuing learning programming.
- Affiliates. We also may share Personal Data with legal entities that are affiliated with us for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Website Privacy Policy and applicable law.
- Legal Process, Safety and Terms Enforcement. We may disclose your Personal Data to legal or government regulatory authorities in response to a search warrant, subpoena, court order or other request for such information or to assist in investigations. We may also disclose your Personal Data to third parties in connection with claims, disputes or litigation, when otherwise required by law, if we determine such disclosure is necessary to protect the health and safety of us or our users or to enforce our legal rights or contractual commitments that users have made.
- Business Transfers. Personal Data may be disclosed as a part of a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, reorganization, joint venture or financing or sale of our assets, and could be sold or transferred to a third party as part of such a transaction.
Your Rights & Choices
Marketing Communications
- Email: Click the "Unsubscribe" link in any marketing message. Transactional or appointment‑related emails will still arrive.
- SMS: Reply STOP to any promotional text to opt out.
Access & Correction
Request a copy of, or correction to, personal data you provided on the website by emailing care@kimgyn.com.
HIPAA Patient Rights
For PHI, see our NPP for instructions on exercising access, amendment, restriction, accounting of disclosures, and other HIPAA rights.
External Links
Our site links to external services (Elation portal, bill‑pay, telehealth). Those sites are governed by their own privacy statements; we encourage you to review them.
Children’s Privacy
We are committed to protecting privacy of young people using our Sites. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data on the Sites from children under age 13. We believe children should get their parents’ or guardians’ consent before giving out any Personal Data. If you become aware that we have collected Personal Data from a child without parental consent, please notify us promptly. If we become aware that a child under age 13 has provided us with Personal Data without parental consent, we will take steps to remove it.
Changes to This Policy
This Website Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revisions. We will notify you of changes by posting the new policy on the Sites and updating the effective date of the policy.
Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be effective upon thirty calendar days following our posting of notice of the changes on the Sites. If you do not wish to permit changes in our use of your Personal Data, you must notify us that you wish for us to delete your Personal Data prior to the effective date of the changes. Continued use of the Sites following such changes will indicate your acknowledgement of and agreement to be bound by the changes.
Contact Us
Privacy & Security Officer
Email: care@kimgyn.com
Phone: +1 (646) 798‑8212
Mail: Kim Gyn PLLC, 877 Park Ave, New York, NY 10075, USA