NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
Click the link below to download and review our Notice of Privacy Practices, which explains how we protect your health information and your privacy rights.
HIPAA Notice Of Privacy Practices (updated for Feb 16, 2026)
SMS Communications and Data Privacy
By providing your phone number to Houston TMJ Facial Pain and Sleep during appointment scheduling, patient registration, or other communication with our office, you consent to receive SMS messages related to your care, including appointment confirmations, appointment reminders, intake form reminders, and office notifications.
Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply.
You may opt out of SMS messages at any time by replying STOP. For assistance, reply HELP or contact our office directly.
Houston TMJ Facial Pain and Sleep does not sell, rent, or share your phone number or SMS consent with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These safeguards include access controls that limit data access to authorized personnel and security measures designed to protect data during transmission and storage.
Your information may be shared with service providers that assist in operating our practice, such as scheduling systems or communication platforms, solely for the purpose of providing services to our patients and supporting healthcare operations. These service providers are contractually required to protect your information and are not permitted to use it for marketing purposes.
WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for this website. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
The security procedures are in place to protect against the misuse of your information.
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to ship an order.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the contact form on our website:
See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Security
Please do not use our contact form to email us confidential information. While we will not disclose this information to anyone, it could possibly be intercepted by unauthorized entities.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to enter your password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target our users’ interests to enhance their experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately