Effective Date: June 27, 2025

 

At The BoldMD, we are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect the information you provide when using our website or services.

 

1. What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

 

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After comment approval, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 

Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) as visitors can extract location data from these images.

 

Contact Forms

We may collect your name, email, phone number, and message when you fill out a contact form. This information is used solely to respond to your inquiry and provide requested services.

 

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie will determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login info and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days; screen options cookies last a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article. It expires after 1 day.

 

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the other site. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction.

 

Analytics

We may use web analytics services to better understand user behavior and improve the website experience. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.

 

2. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not share, sell, or disclose personal data to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Information sharing to subcontractors in support services, such as customer service, is permitted.

All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties, excluding aggregators and providers of the Text Message services.

 

3. How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. For registered users, we store personal information in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except usernames). Site administrators can also edit that information.

 

4. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of your personal data, including any data you’ve provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

 

5. Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

 

6. SMS Data Protection and Consent

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. Information sharing to subcontractors in support services, such as customer service is permitted. All other use case categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

 

7. Contact Information

For any privacy-related inquiries, please contact us at:

The BoldMD
📍 2700 Post Oak Blvd, Houston, TX 77056
📧 support@theboldmd.com
📞 832-979-1945
🌐 https://theboldmd.com/privacy-policy/