Website privacy policy

Looking for your medical privacy rights? This page covers the website only. How Georgia Nephrology uses and protects your medical information is set out in our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices.

Effective August 11, 2026 · Last updated August 18, 2026

The short version

This website does not ask you for personal information. There is no contact form, no login, and no newsletter signup. We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is being used, but only if you say yes — nothing is loaded and no cookie is set until you do, and declining costs you nothing. We never send Google the name of the specific condition page you were reading.

What this policy covers

This policy applies to ganephrology.com and to nothing else. In particular, it does not cover:

• Your medical information. How the practice uses, protects, and shares your health information — and the rights you have over it — is governed by our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices, which is a separate and more important document.
• The MyChart patient portal. It is operated by a third party under its own terms and privacy policy.
• Anything that happens in one of our offices, or by phone, fax, mail, or email with our staff.

What this site collects

Nothing you type. There is no form anywhere on this website. When you want to reach us, the site gives you a phone number, a link to the MyChart portal, an email address, and downloadable PDF forms you fill in offline and bring with you or send to the office. Those routes are covered by our normal office privacy practices, not by this page.

Standard server records. Like almost every website, ours is hosted on servers that keep routine technical logs — the pages requested, the time of the request, and the browser and general region making it. These records are used to keep the site running and secure. We do not use them to identify individual visitors.

How we use this information

We use the limited information described above to deliver the pages you ask for, to keep the site secure and working, and — if you have allowed analytics — to understand in aggregate which parts of the site people find useful so we can improve them.

We do not use anything from this website to make decisions about your care, to build a profile of you, to advertise to you, or to add you to any mailing list.

Cookies

Before you make a choice about analytics, this site sets no cookies at all.

If you allow analytics, Google Analytics sets its own cookies to recognise a returning browser. We also store a single note recording the choice you made, so we don't ask you again on every page — it is kept in your browser's local storage rather than as a cookie, it stays on your device, and it is never sent anywhere. If you decline, that note is the only thing stored, and no Google cookie is ever created.

Third-party services embedded in a page — Google Maps on our location pages — may set their own cookies under their own privacy policies.

Analytics

With your permission, we use Google Analytics to see which pages people find useful, how they reach us, and where the site is confusing. It tells us about patterns across all visitors; we do not use it to identify you, and we never try to connect it to your medical record or your care.

We deliberately limit what Google is told. Because this is a kidney-care practice, the address of the page you're reading can reveal something about your health. So when you visit a condition or treatment page, we generalise the address before sending it — Google is told that someone read a condition page, never which condition. Pages that don't reveal anything about your health, like our locations or contact page, are sent normally.

We have also turned off Google's advertising features for this site. Your visit is not used to build advertising audiences, is not shared for ad personalisation, and is not used to follow you to other websites.

Google processes this information under its own privacy policy. How long it is kept is set out below.

Changing your mind

You can change your analytics choice at any time, and it takes effect immediately.

Allow analytics Turn analytics off

Turning analytics off stops any further information being sent from your browser. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and the site will keep working normally.

Third-party services

Google Maps. Our location pages embed a map so you can see where each office is and get directions. Loading one of those pages sends a request to Google, which may collect information under Google's privacy policy. Pages without a map make no request to Google.

MyChart patient portal. The "Patient Portal" links on this site take you to MyChart, which is operated by a third party and governed by its own terms and privacy policy. Once you leave this website, this policy no longer applies.

Our fonts, images, and scripts are served from our own site, so simply reading a page here does not hand your visit to an advertising network or a content-delivery network.

How we share information

We do not sell, rent, or trade information about the people who visit this website. We do not share it with data brokers, advertisers, or marketing networks, and we do not use it to build advertising audiences.

The only parties who handle anything from your visit are:

• Our website host, which serves the pages and keeps the routine server logs described above.
• Google, for the map on our location pages and — only with your permission — for analytics, both as described above.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, such as in response to a valid subpoena or court order, or where we need to protect the safety, rights, or property of our patients, our staff, or the public. If Georgia Nephrology is ever involved in a merger or acquisition, information about the website could transfer as part of that transaction, and this policy would apply until it is replaced.

Please don't send medical information through this site

Ordinary email is not a secure or encrypted way to send health information, and neither is any message sent to a general address. Please do not email us your symptoms, test results, medications, or anything else about your health or your treatment.

Use the MyChart patient portal for anything clinical — it is built for it — or call your office at 404-645-7150. Appointments are not booked by email: call the main line, or send a request through MyChart if you are already a patient. Completed patient forms are best brought to the office or uploaded through MyChart, and we would rather you did not email them. If you do choose to send health information by email, you are accepting the risk that it could be read in transit, and we will handle whatever you send under our HIPAA obligations once it reaches us.

Nothing you send us through email or this website creates a physician–patient relationship, and this website is not a channel for urgent problems. For a medical emergency, call 911.

How long information is kept

Routine server logs are kept by our host for a short period as part of normal operations and security monitoring, then discarded.

Analytics information is kept for two months — the shortest retention period Google Analytics offers — after which the underlying records expire. Aggregate reporting built from it, such as monthly visit counts, may be kept longer, but it is summary data and cannot be traced back to a visitor.

Security

This site is served over an encrypted HTTPS connection, so what you read here is protected in transit between your browser and our host.

The strongest protection on this website, though, is what isn't here: with no forms, no accounts, and no visitor database, there is no store of personal information for anyone to breach. That is deliberate. No website can promise perfect security, but a site that collects nothing has very little to lose.

Your choices and rights

• Analytics. You can turn it on or off at any time using the buttons above, and the change takes effect immediately.
• Your browser. You can block or delete cookies and clear local storage in your browser settings. This site keeps working normally either way.
• Your medical records. Your rights to see, get a copy of, correct, or restrict the use of your health information come from HIPAA, not from this policy. They are set out in the HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices, along with how to exercise them and how to file a complaint.
• Privacy laws where you live. Some states and countries give residents additional rights over personal information. If you believe you have such rights and want to exercise them, contact our Privacy Officer using the details below and we will respond.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Browsers can send a "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signal asking sites not to track you. There is no agreed standard for how sites must answer them, and this site does not detect them separately. In practice you are covered anyway: analytics here is off until you switch it on, so a visitor who never opts in is never tracked — which is what those signals ask for.

Children

This website is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children through this site. If you believe a child has provided information to us through this website, contact our Privacy Officer and we will delete it.

Links to other sites

This site links out to hospitals, dialysis providers, patient-advocacy organizations, and the patient portal. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of sites we link to, and we encourage you to read their policies.

Terms of use

Your use of this website is also subject to our terms of use, which cover the important point that the information published here is general education rather than medical advice about you.

Changes to this policy

If we change how this website handles visitor information — for example, by adding a contact form, or by changing what analytics is allowed to see — we will update this page to describe it before or at the time the change goes live, and revise the "last updated" date at the top. We encourage you to check back if you want to know where things stand.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about privacy at Georgia Nephrology generally, can go to our Privacy Officer:

Georgia Nephrology, LLC
Attn: Privacy Officer
595 Hurricane Shoals Road NW, Suite 100
Lawrenceville, GA 30046
404-645-7150