Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 11, 2026

This policy explains what happens to information when you visit ocsportsortho.com. It covers the website only.

This is not our HIPAA notice

If you are a patient of this practice, the health information we hold about you — your records, your treatment, your billing — is governed by our Notice of Privacy Practices, not by this page. That is a separate document with separate rights, and you can find it on our Patient Forms page.

This policy is about something narrower: what our website does when someone visits it. Browsing this site does not make you a patient, and nothing you do here becomes part of a medical record.

What we collect automatically

Like nearly every website, ours records basic technical information each time a page is requested. Our hosting provider logs your IP address, the type of browser and device you are using, the pages you visited, and the date and time. We use this to keep the site running, to diagnose problems, and to protect against abuse.

What we collect only if you agree

We would like to understand how people use this site — which pages are read, which are ignored, whether patients can find our phone number. For that we use Google Analytics.

Google Analytics does not run unless you say yes. When you first visit, you will see a notice asking whether you are willing to allow analytics. If you decline, or simply ignore it, no analytics cookies are set and nothing is sent to Google. The site works exactly the same either way.

Our Cookie Notice explains in detail what is collected if you do say yes, and how to change your mind.

What we do not collect

We want to be specific, because on a medical website this matters:

• There are no forms on this site. Nothing asks for your name, your email, your date of birth, your insurance, or your symptoms. There is nothing to submit.
• There are no accounts and no patient portal. There is nothing to log into.
• We do not take payments through this site.
• We do not ask you what is wrong with you. There is no symptom checker and no intake questionnaire.

The forms you can download from this site are PDFs. You fill them in offline and bring them with you. They are never transmitted through the website.

Who else sees anything

Two companies, and only two:

• Our hosting provider, which runs the website and keeps the server logs described above.
• Google, through Google Analytics — and only if you have agreed to analytics.

We do not run advertising on this site, we do not use advertising pixels, and we have no arrangement with any data broker, marketing network, or social media platform.

We do not sell your information

We do not sell personal information. We do not share it in exchange for anything of value. We do not hand it to anyone for their own advertising or marketing, and we do not disclose it to third parties for those third parties to market to you — so if you write and ask us for the disclosure list California's "Shine the Light" law provides for, the answer will be that there is nothing on it.

How long we keep information

• Server logs are kept by our hosting provider for 90 days and then deleted.
• Analytics data, if you agreed to analytics, is retained by Google for 14 months and then deleted automatically.
• Your answer to the consent notice stays on your own device until you change it or clear your browser data. We never receive a copy.

We do not keep anything else, because we do not collect anything else.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Browsers can send a Do Not Track signal, but there is no agreed standard for what a website should do in response, so most sites ignore it. We take a simpler approach: analytics on this site is off until you turn it on, whatever your browser sends.

We also honour the Global Privacy Control signal. If your browser or extension sends GPC, we treat it as a decision to decline analytics and we will not show you the consent notice.

Links to other sites

Some pages link to places we do not control — Google Maps for directions, for example. Once you follow a link off this site, this policy stops applying and theirs begins.

Children

This website is written for adults making decisions about orthopaedic care, including parents and guardians acting for a young athlete. We do not knowingly collect information from children through this site. Since the site has no forms and no accounts, there is nothing for a child to submit.

This is about the website only. Care provided to patients under 18 is governed by our Notice of Privacy Practices and by law.

Your choices

• Analytics. Decline it, or change your mind at any time using the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of every page.
• Your browser. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Nothing on this site will break if you do.
• Questions or requests. Contact us using the details below and we will respond.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal information a business holds about you. Given how little this website collects, there is usually very little to act on — but ask us and we will tell you honestly what we have.

Security

We keep the site on a reputable hosting platform, serve every page over an encrypted connection, and collect as little as we can in the first place. No website can promise perfect security, and we will not pretend otherwise.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy in a way that matters — if we add a form, start taking appointment requests online, or use a new analytics tool — we will update the effective date at the top and post a notice on this page. Please check back if it has been a while.

How to reach us

Please do not send health information by email. Ordinary email is not a secure way to send medical details, and anything you email us is not part of your medical record. For anything about your care, your symptoms, or your treatment, call the office instead.

For questions about this policy or about information collected through this website:

OC Sports & Orthopaedics
Practice Manager
27725 Santa Margarita Pkwy, Suite 100, Mission Viejo, CA 92691
Phone: (949) 393-3193
Email: info@ocsportsortho.com