Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 1, 2026

Starting Point Acupuncture respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect through startingpointacupuncture.net, how we use it, and the choices available to you.

Information We Collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:

Submit a contact form
Send us an email
Call or otherwise communicate with us
Request information about our services

This information may include your name, email address, telephone number, and any message or information you choose to provide.
Please do not submit sensitive medical information, detailed health histories, Social Security numbers, payment information, or other confidential information through the website contact form.

Information Collected Automatically
When you visit this website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, and similar technologies. This information may include:

Your Internet Protocol address
Browser and device type
General geographic location
Pages visited
Time spent on the website
Referring website
Date and time of your visit
Website interactions and navigation activity

This information helps us understand how visitors use the website and allows us to improve its performance, usability, and content.

How We Use Your Information
We may use information collected through the website to:

Respond to your questions or requests
Provide information about acupuncture services
Communicate with you about a potential appointment
Operate, maintain, and improve the website
Understand website traffic and visitor activity
Protect the security and proper operation of the website
Comply with applicable legal obligations

We do not sell or rent your personal information.

Contact Forms and Email
Information submitted through the website may be delivered to Starting Point Acupuncture by email or stored within the website platform.
Although reasonable efforts are made to protect your information, ordinary website forms and email communications may not be completely secure. Please avoid including detailed medical information or other highly sensitive information in a website message or standard email.
Submitting a contact form does not create a practitioner-patient relationship.

Cookies and Analytics
This website may use cookies and similar technologies that help the website function properly, remember visitor preferences, measure website traffic, and improve the visitor experience.

Some cookies are necessary for the operation and security of the website. Other cookies, including analytics or marketing cookies, may be optional.

Depending on your location and the settings available on the website, you may be able to accept, decline, or manage nonessential cookies through the website’s cookie banner. You may also control cookies through your browser settings.

Disabling cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.

Wix and Other Service Providers
This website is created and hosted using Wix.com. Wix may collect, process, and store information as necessary to provide website hosting, security, analytics, forms, and related services.

We may also use trusted third-party service providers to help operate the website, manage communications, measure traffic, or provide technical support. These providers may have access to information only as needed to perform services on our behalf or as permitted by their own privacy policies.

Third-party providers may store or process information in the United States or other locations.

Links to Other Websites
This website may include links to third-party websites or services. Starting Point Acupuncture is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of websites operated by others.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website you visit.

How We Protect Information
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, electronic transmission, email system, or data-storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

How Long We Keep Information
We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

Respond to your request
Maintain appropriate business records
Provide requested services
Meet legal or regulatory obligations
Resolve disputes
Protect the security and integrity of the website

Information that is no longer reasonably needed may be deleted or securely disposed of.

Your Privacy Choices
You may contact us to:

Ask what personal information we have received from you through the website
Request that inaccurate information be corrected
Request deletion of information, when legally permitted
Withdraw consent for certain communications
Ask questions about how your information is handled

Certain information may need to be retained for legal, professional, security, or recordkeeping purposes.

Children’s Privacy
This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website.

If you believe that a child has submitted personal information through the website, please contact us so that we can review and, when appropriate, remove it.

Healthcare and Privacy Notice
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the public website.

It is not intended to replace any Notice of Privacy Practices or other patient privacy notice that may apply to health information created or maintained as part of an acupuncture consultation, treatment, or practitioner-patient relationship.
Information collected during patient care may be subject to separate privacy, professional, and healthcare recordkeeping requirements.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to the website, our practices, technology, or applicable requirements.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Your continued use of the website after an update means that you acknowledge the revised policy.

Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy or information submitted through the website, please contact:

Starting Point Acupuncture
David Paton, Licensed Acupuncturist

1603 Edmondson Ave, Suite 100

Catonsville, MD 21228

410-299-1952
drdavidpaton@gmail.com
startingpointacupuncture.net