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Privacy Policy for AZ Trim Fast, a division of Trim Fast LLC

Effective February 19, 2026

In accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as of April 14, 2003 all health care providers are required to provide their patients with a “Notice of Privacy Practice” statement. 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. The health provider named above is required, by law, to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your protected health information and to provide our patients with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your protected health Disclosure of Your Health Care Information:

Treatment

1. We may disclose your health care information to other healthcare professionals within our practice for the purpose of treatment, payment, or healthcare operations.

2. On occasion, it may be necessary to seek consultation regarding your condition from other health care providers associated with the healthcare provider named above.

3. It is our policy to provide a substitute health care provider, authorized by the healthcare provider named above to provide assessment and/or treatment to our patients, without advanced notice, in the event of your primary health care provider’s absence due to vacation, sickness, or other emergency situations.

Telehealth & Virtual Services

AZ Trim Fast may provide certain services through secure telehealth platforms. By participating in telehealth services, you acknowledge that:

- Electronic communication carries inherent privacy risks.

- Technical disruptions may occur.

- Services may be provided through third-party secure platforms that comply with applicable privacy laws.

Your protected health information will be handled in accordance with HIPAA and applicable state regulations.

Emergencies

We may disclose your health information to notify or assist in notifying a family member, or another person responsible for your care about your medical condition or in the event of an emergency or of your death.

Payment Authorization & Card on File

By providing a credit or debit card to AZ Trim Fast, a division of Fast Trim LLC, you authorize us to securely store your card information for the purpose of charging your account for:

- Ordered medications

- Treatment services

- Cancellation or no-show fees

- Outstanding balances

Your card information is stored using secure, encrypted systems that comply with applicable Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards. Card information will be used solely for authorized charges related to services, products, or applicable fees incurred as a patient of AZ Trim Fast.

By maintaining a card on file, you acknowledge and agree that AZ Trim Fast may process charges in accordance with its published financial and cancellation policies. You may update your payment information at any time by contacting our office.

Electronic Communication & Text Messaging

By providing your phone number or email address to AZ Trim Fast, you consent to receive communications from us related to appointments, treatment updates, billing notifications, and promotional offers.

These communications may be delivered via:

- Phone call

- Voicemail

- SMS/text message

- Email

- Patient portal notifications

Message and data rates may apply. You may opt out of marketing text messages at any time by replying “STOP.” Opting out of marketing messages will not prevent you from receiving important service-related communications.

While we take reasonable safeguards to protect electronic communications, please understand that standard email and text messaging are not always fully secure methods of communication.

Marketing

We may contact you for marketing purposes or fundraising purposes, as described below.

1. As a courtesy to our patients, it is our policy to call your phone number or email on file prior to your scheduled appointment to remind you of your appointment time. No personal health information will be disclosed during this recording or message other than the date and time of your scheduled appointment along with a request to call our office if you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment.

Information We May Collect

We may collect personal identification information from users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when users visit our site, register on the site, subscribe to the newsletter, and in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, email addresses. Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personal identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.

Website Analytics & Tracking Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, and analytics tools (such as Google Analytics and advertising platforms) to:

- Improve website performance

- Understand visitor behavior

- Deliver relevant advertising

- Measure marketing effectiveness

These tools may collect information such as IP address, browser type, device information, and browsing activity.

You may disable cookies through your browser settings; however, some features of the site may not function properly.

We do not sell your personal health information.

Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal and health information. However, no electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed 100% secure.

Third-Party Service Providers

We may engage trusted third-party companies to assist in operating our practice, including but not limited to:

- Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems

- Payment processors

- Financing providers

- Appointment scheduling platforms

- Analytics providers

- Marketing platforms

These providers are contractually required to safeguard your information and may only use it for authorized purposes.

Public Health

As required by law, we may disclose your health information to public health authorities for purposes related to: preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability, reporting child abuse or neglect, reporting domestic violence, reporting to the Food and Drug Administration problems with products and reactions to medications, and reporting disease or infection exposure.

Judicial and Administrative Proceedings

We may disclose your health information in the course of any administrative or judicial proceeding. Law Enforcement We may disclose your health information to a law enforcement official for purposes such as identifying or locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person, complying with a court order or subpoena, and other law enforcement purposes.

Deceased Persons

We may disclose your health information to coroners or medical examiners.

Organ Donation

We may disclose your health information to organizations involved in procuring, banking, or transplanting organs and tissues. Research We may disclose your health information to researchers conducting research that has been approved by an Institutional Review.

Public Safety

It may be necessary to disclose your health information to appropriate persons to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a particular person or to the general public.

Specialized Government Agencies

We may disclose your health information for military, national security, prisoner and government benefits purposes.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.

Change of Ownership

If the health care provider named above is sold or merged with another organization, your health information/record will become the property of the new owner.

Your Health Information Rights

1. You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your health information. Please be advised, however, that the healthcare provider named above is not required to agree to the restriction that you requested.

2. You have the right to have your health information received or communicated through an alternative method or sent to an alternative location other than the usual method of communication or delivery, upon your request.

3. You have the right to inspect and copy your health information.

4. You have a right to request that the healthcare provider named above amend your protected health information. Please be advised, however, that the healthcare provider named above is not required to agree to amend your protected health information. If your request to amend your health information has been denied, you will be provided with an explanation of our denial reason(s) and information about how you can disagree with the denial.

5. You have a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your protected health information made by the healthcare provider named above.

6. You have a right to a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time upon request.

Changes to this Notice of Privacy Practices

1. The healthcare provider named above reserves the right to amend this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time in the future and will make the new provisions effective for all information that it maintains. Until such amendment is made, the healthcare provider named above is required by law to comply with this Notice.

2. The healthcare provider named above is required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information and to provide you with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information. If you have questions about any part of this notice or if you want more information about your privacy rights, please call the office number listed at the top of this page.

Complaints

Complaints about your Privacy rights, or how the healthcare provider named above has handled your health information should be directed to Practice Privacy Officer by calling this office at the number noted at the bottom of this page. If you are not satisfied with the way this office handles your complaint, you may submit a formal complaint to: DHHS, Office of Civil Rights, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Room 509F HHH Building, Washington, DC 20201