WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: July 24, 2026
Foundation Health MD PLLC respects your privacy. This Website Privacy Policy explains how Foundation Health MD PLLC, referred to as “Foundation Health,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you visit myfoundationhealthmd.com or use its public-facing forms, links, and features.
This Website Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the public Foundation Health website. It does not replace our Notice of Privacy Practices, which describes how we use and disclose protected health information in connection with healthcare services.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide through the website, including:
• Your name.
• Your email address.
• Your telephone number.
• Your state or general location.
• Information included in a contact-form message.
• Information you provide when requesting information about our services.
• Any other information you choose to submit.
Please do not include detailed medical histories, medical records, photographs, Social Security numbers, payment-card information, or other sensitive information in a general website contact form.
The website contact form is not a patient portal and should not be used for urgent or emergency medical needs.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the website, Squarespace may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:
• Internet Protocol address.
• Browser and device type.
• Operating system.
• Pages viewed and links selected.
• Date, time, and duration of visits.
• Referring website or search source.
• Approximate geographic location derived from an Internet Protocol address.
• Information about how visitors navigate and interact with the website.
This information may be collected through cookies, server logs, Squarespace analytics, and similar technologies.
2. Health Information and Our Notice of Privacy Practices
Information collected through ordinary use of the public website is generally governed by this Website Privacy Policy.
If information is created, received, or maintained by Foundation Health in connection with healthcare services and qualifies as protected health information, our Notice of Privacy Practices and applicable health privacy laws may also apply.
Our Notice of Privacy Practices explains how patients may access, correct, restrict, or request information about uses and disclosures of their protected health information.
If this Website Privacy Policy conflicts with our Notice of Privacy Practices regarding protected health information, the Notice of Privacy Practices and applicable law will control.
3. How We Use Information
We may use information collected through the website to:
• Respond to questions and requests.
• Provide information about Foundation Health and its services.
• Determine whether our services may be available based on the information you provide.
• Help you access scheduling or patient-intake resources.
• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website.
• Understand website traffic and visitor activity.
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, or technical problems.
• Maintain records of communications.
• Comply with legal, regulatory, professional, and contractual obligations.
• Protect the rights, safety, property, and operations of Foundation Health and others.
We will not use information submitted through a general website inquiry to provide individualized medical advice or emergency assistance.
4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The website may use cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small data files stored on a visitor’s browser or device.
Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies support essential website functions, security, navigation, accessibility, and visitor preferences. The website may not function properly without them.
Squarespace Analytics and Performance Cookies
Squarespace may use analytics and performance cookies to help us understand website traffic, page views, referral sources, and how visitors interact with the website.
Managing Cookies
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect some website features.
Where the website displays a cookie banner or cookie-management link, you may use those controls to accept, reject, or manage nonessential cookies. Necessary cookies may remain active because they support basic website operation and security.
5. Potential Future Analytics, Advertising, Communications, and Embedded Content
As of the effective date of this policy, Foundation Health has not enabled Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, newsletter sign-up forms, custom advertising or tracking code, or third-party video embeds that collect visitor information.
We may add or enable analytics tools, advertising technologies, newsletter or email-marketing forms, embedded videos, social-media features, or similar website integrations in the future.
Examples of services we may use include:
• Google Analytics.
• Meta Pixel.
• Email-newsletter or email-marketing providers.
• Video-hosting platforms.
• Social-media platforms.
• Other comparable analytics, communications, advertising, or embedded-content technologies.
If enabled, these tools may collect information such as:
• Your Internet Protocol address.
• Browser and device information.
• Pages viewed and links selected.
• Referral source.
• Approximate geographic location.
• Interactions with website content.
• Cookie, device, or advertising identifiers.
• Information you voluntarily submit through a newsletter or communication form.
We may use information collected through these tools to:
• Understand website traffic and visitor interactions.
• Evaluate and improve website content and services.
• Measure the effectiveness of outreach or advertising.
• Provide newsletters or other communications requested by visitors.
• Display, measure, or evaluate advertising where permitted by law.
• Maintain website functionality, security, and performance.
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
Before enabling technologies that materially change how personal information is collected, used, or disclosed, we may update this policy and provide any notices, consent mechanisms, cookie controls, or privacy choices required by applicable law.
We will not knowingly configure tracking or advertising technologies to disclose protected health information in a manner prohibited by applicable law.
Describing a technology in this policy does not authorize the disclosure of protected health information or replace any authorization, consent, contractual safeguard, or other requirement imposed by applicable law.
6. Squarespace
This website is created and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace may process information on our behalf, including information submitted through website forms and information generated through website visits. Squarespace may also independently collect and process certain technical information to operate, secure, support, and improve its services.
Squarespace’s collection and use of information for its own purposes are governed by Squarespace’s privacy and cookie policies.
7. Practice Better and Patient Services
The website may link you to Practice Better for scheduling, intake, telehealth, payment processing, patient communications, and access to the patient portal.
When you leave our website and use Practice Better, information you submit is transmitted through the Practice Better platform. Practice Better’s platform terms and privacy disclosures may apply to its operation of the platform.
Protected health information maintained by Practice Better on behalf of Foundation Health is also governed by our Notice of Privacy Practices and applicable written privacy and security agreements.
Established patients should use the secure Practice Better patient portal for sensitive clinical communications whenever reasonably available.
8. How We Disclose Information
Service Providers
We may disclose information to vendors that help us host, operate, secure, maintain, or support the website and our operations. These may include:
• Squarespace.
• Website support providers.
• Email and communications providers.
• Practice Better.
• Payment processors.
• Website security and technical-support providers.
• Professional advisors.
• Analytics, advertising, newsletter, video-hosting, or social-media providers if those tools are enabled in the future.
Service providers acting on our behalf may process information as reasonably necessary to provide their services to us and as permitted by applicable law and our agreements with them. Some providers may also independently process certain technical or usage information for their own purposes, as described in their privacy policies.
Legal and Safety Purposes
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
• Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process.
• Respond to a lawful government request.
• Protect the safety, rights, or property of Foundation Health or another person.
• Detect, prevent, or investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Business Changes
If Foundation Health undergoes a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale, or transfer of some or all of its operations or assets, website information may be disclosed as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law and professional obligations.
With Your Direction
We may disclose information when you ask us to do so or give us permission.
9. Sale, Advertising, and Fundraising
Foundation Health does not currently sell or rent personal information collected through this website.
We do not currently disclose personal information collected through the website for targeted advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising based on activity across unrelated websites.
We may use advertising or measurement technologies in the future, subject to applicable law, appropriate disclosures, and available consent or opt-out controls.
We do not use or disclose protected health information for marketing, sale, or fundraising except as permitted by law and described in our Notice of Privacy Practices.
If these practices materially change, we will update this policy and provide any notices, consent mechanisms, or privacy choices required by applicable law.
10. Newsletter and Informational Communications
Foundation Health does not currently operate a website newsletter sign-up form.
If we offer a newsletter or other optional informational communications in the future, we may collect your name, email address, communication preferences, and information about your interactions with those communications.
We may use that information to send the communications you requested and to evaluate their delivery and effectiveness.
You may unsubscribe from optional marketing or newsletter emails by using the unsubscribe link provided in the message or by contacting us.
Unsubscribing from optional communications will not prevent us from sending nonmarketing communications related to an inquiry, appointment, transaction, patient relationship, legal obligation, or security matter.
11. Electronic Communications
If you contact us through the website or by email, we may respond using the contact information you provide.
Ordinary email and general website forms may not provide the same privacy and security protections as the secure patient portal. No electronic transmission method is completely secure.
Sending a message does not guarantee that it has been received, reviewed, or acted upon.
Do not use email, the website contact form, or the patient portal for emergency assistance. If you believe you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
12. Data Retention
We retain website information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
• Respond to inquiries.
• Provide requested information.
• Operate and secure the website.
• Maintain appropriate business records.
• Comply with legal, regulatory, professional, tax, insurance, and contractual requirements.
• Resolve disputes or protect legal rights.
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and the reason it was collected.
Protected health information and medical records are retained according to applicable healthcare laws, professional requirements, and the practices described in our Notice of Privacy Practices.
13. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information under our control.
No website, electronic communication, storage system, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure will never occur.
You are responsible for protecting the security of your devices, accounts, passwords, and internet connection.
14. Your Privacy Choices and Requests
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights regarding personal information collected through the website. These rights may include the right to:
• Request access to personal information.
• Ask us to correct inaccurate information.
• Request deletion of certain information.
• Request information about how personal information is used or disclosed.
• Withdraw consent when processing is based on consent.
• Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data-sharing practices if those practices are used and applicable law provides that right.
• Appeal the denial of a privacy request when applicable.
You may submit a website privacy request by contacting us using the information at the end of this policy. Please identify the request as a “Website Privacy Request.”
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. Some requests may be limited or denied when permitted or required by law, including when information must be retained for legal, medical, security, recordkeeping, or dispute-resolution purposes.
Requests involving medical records or protected health information should be submitted according to the procedures described in our Notice of Privacy Practices.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.
15. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content
The website may contain links to third-party websites and services, including Practice Better, laboratories, pharmacies, educational resources, video-hosting platforms, and social-media platforms.
The website may also include embedded content in the future, such as videos, maps, scheduling tools, or social-media features. Embedded content may allow the third-party provider to collect information about your device, browser, Internet Protocol address, website interactions, or account with that provider.
Foundation Health does not control the privacy, security, content, or operations of independent third parties. This Website Privacy Policy does not govern information collected directly by those organizations.
You should review the privacy policies and terms of third-party websites and services before providing personal information.
16. Children’s Privacy
The public website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through the website without appropriate parental or legal authorization.
A parent or legal guardian may contact Foundation Health regarding services for a minor. Please do not submit detailed medical information about a child through the general website contact form.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information through the website without appropriate authorization, please contact us.
17. Visitors Outside the United States
Foundation Health is located in the United States, and the website is operated from the United States.
If you access the website from another country, your information may be processed and stored in the United States or another country where our service providers operate. Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live.
Use of the public website does not establish eligibility to receive medical care from Foundation Health.
18. Changes to This Website Privacy Policy
We may update this Website Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, technologies, vendors, business practices, or legal obligations.
The current version will be posted on the website with an updated effective date.
Material changes will apply after the revised policy is posted or after any additional notice or consent required by applicable law.
We encourage visitors to review this policy periodically.
19. Contact Information
Questions or requests regarding this Website Privacy Policy may be directed to:
Joshua Schulist, MD
Privacy Officer
Foundation Health MD PLLC
137 Skyterra Way
Pisgah Forest, NC 28768
Telephone: (828) 338-9302
Email: info@myfoundationhealthmd.com
Website: myfoundationhealthmd.com
For questions, requests, or complaints involving protected health information or medical records, please refer to our Notice of Privacy Practices.