Effective date: January 1, 2026 | Last updated: August 18, 2026
Merrifield OB-GYN (“Merrifield,” “we,” “us”) respects the sensitivity of women’s health information. Obstetrics, gynecology, fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care can involve some of the most private details a person shares. This Privacy Policy explains how the public website merrifieldob-gyn.com (the “Site”) collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you browse, submit forms, subscribe to email, or use the client-side cart.
This Policy applies to the public Site. If you become a patient, additional notices required by United States health privacy laws (including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, where applicable) may govern medical records held in a clinical system. Website forms are not a complete medical record and should not be used to send highly sensitive attachments unless we have directed you to a secure channel.
Merrifield OB-GYN is a women’s health practice focused on obstetrics and gynecology for patients in the United States. We do not publish telephone numbers or street addresses on this Site. Privacy questions may be sent through the Contact Us form with the subject “Privacy Policy.”
When you complete an appointment, contact, subscribe, or unsubscribe form, we may receive:
Please avoid including Social Security numbers, full insurance member IDs, or unnecessary intimate details in a public-website message. Share what is needed to route your request; we can gather the rest through appropriate clinical intake later.
The care-plan cart is stored in your browser’s local storage. Plan names, quantities, and displayed prices remain on your device until you check out or clear site data. Checkout displays a confirmation message and clears the cart locally. Merrifield does not receive your cart contents through a server on this static Site.
Newsletter emails saved for demonstration purposes on this static Site may also be stored in local storage on your device. This is not a clinical database.
Like most websites, hosting providers and your browser may process IP address, browser type, device type, referring pages, and timestamps. We do not use that technical data to make clinical decisions. If analytics tools are added in the future, we will update this Policy to name them and describe cookie choices.
We use information you submit on the Site to:
We do not sell personal information. We do not use Site-form content to train public generative-AI models. We do not display your name or story in testimonials without a separate written permission process.
We recognize that reproductive health data can be especially sensitive under state and federal law. If you mention pregnancy, miscarriage, contraception, fertility treatment, or related topics in a website message, treat that message as a limited administrative communication, not a confidential exam room. Use the minimum necessary detail. Once you are established as a patient, clinical documentation belongs in the designated health record with the safeguards that apply to that record.
We will not use website-form content for marketing of unrelated products. Newsletter content, when you opt in, is limited to women’s health education, practice updates, and similar topics described on the Subscribe Email page.
We may share information only:
We do not share subscriber lists with data brokers. Social media buttons are outbound links; if you visit those platforms, their policies apply.
The static Site relies primarily on local storage for the cart and optional subscriber list on your device. If your browser blocks local storage, the cart may not persist between pages. That is expected behavior, not a clinical error.
Essential technologies needed to display pages and remember cart contents are used to operate the Site. We will not place advertising cookies without updating this Policy and, where required, requesting consent.
Administrative emails and form submissions, once received by our operations team (when the Site is connected to an inbox or similar channel), are retained only as long as needed to complete the request, meet recordkeeping duties, and resolve disputes. Browser local storage remains until you clear it or complete checkout (for the cart) or unsubscribe (for the local subscriber list).
If you ask us to delete a newsletter address, we will remove it from the marketing list, subject to residual copies in backups for a limited period and any legal hold.
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures appropriate to a public informational website. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. Do not send full medical records, images of government identification, or payment card numbers through Site forms. The cart does not collect payment data.
Staff who handle incoming messages are instructed to treat reproductive health details as confidential administrative information and to escalate them into the proper clinical channel when a patient relationship exists.
Residents of certain states may have additional rights under consumer privacy statutes (for example access, deletion, or appeal of a denial). Because this Site does not sell personal information and is not used to profile you for advertising, many “sale or share” rights will not apply. We will honor applicable requests submitted through the Contact Us form.
The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through website forms. Pediatric gynecology or adolescent visits, when clinically appropriate, are arranged by a parent or guardian through adult-submitted requests. If you believe a child submitted information, contact us via the Site form and we will delete it from administrative channels where feasible.
The Site is intended for a United States audience. If you access it from another country, you understand that information you submit may be processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your country.
Embedded media (for example a highlight video) may be served by third-party networks. Those networks may collect technical data according to their own policies. Educational links in blog articles, if added, are provided for convenience and are not endorsements of every statement on a destination site.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect legal, operational, or technical changes. The “Last updated” date will change when we do. Material changes that expand how we use newsletter data will be reflected on the Subscribe Email page as well. Continued use of the Site after an update means you acknowledge the revised Policy.
As a privacy-by-design choice for this public website, Merrifield does not list clinic telephone numbers or physical addresses in headers, footers, or contact cards. That choice reduces scraping and unwanted contact. It is not an attempt to avoid accountability. You may still reach us through the Contact Us form, and a representative will reply using the email you provide.
For privacy questions, data requests, or concerns about a message you sent, use the Contact Us page and mark the subject as “Privacy.” We will respond within a reasonable period consistent with the nature of the request. If you believe your information was used in a way that is inconsistent with this Policy, please include dates and a description so we can investigate.
Thank you for trusting Merrifield with even a small amount of personal information. Women’s health deserves careful stewardship, on paper and on the web.
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