Effective Date: April 6, 2026
Last Updated: April 6, 2026

 

At Berkeley Bodywork, we are committed to providing a safe, healing environment. This includes protecting your personal and health-related information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and safeguard your data via www.berkeleybodywork.com.

1. Notice at Collection (California Residents)

Under the CCPA/CPRA, we provide this notice regarding the limited information collected through this website.

  • Identifiers: Name, email address, and phone number (collected only if you voluntarily submit our contact form).
  • Sensitive Personal Information: Any physical health history, injury reports, or descriptions of pain that you choose to include in your message to us.
  • Internet Activity: IP address and basic site usage data (collected via essential cookies to ensure the website functions correctly).
  • Purpose of Collection: To respond to your service inquiries and determine if our bodywork treatments are appropriate for your needs.
  • Retention: We retain contact form inquiries for 3 years or as long as necessary to provide services and meet legal/insurance obligations.

2. Your California Privacy Rights

As a California resident, you have the following rights as of 2026:

  • Right to Know & Access: You can request a report of all data we have collected about you since January 1, 2022, including your intake history.
  • Right to Delete: You can request that we delete your personal information, subject to legal and professional record-keeping requirements for health practitioners.
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to update inaccurate health or contact information.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: We do not sell your data. We do not share your health data with third-party advertisers. You may opt-out of basic site analytics via our cookie banner.
  • Right to Limit Use of Sensitive PI: You have the right to limit our use of your health and injury data to only what is strictly necessary to perform your bodywork sessions.

3. How We Honor Opt-Out Requests

We respect your privacy choices automatically:

  • Global Privacy Control (GPC): Our website recognizes and honors GPC signals. If detected, we will automatically disable non-essential tracking.
  • Confirmation of Opt-Out: If you click “Decline” on our custom-coded consent banner, your choice is finalized. To verify your status, check the “Opt-Out Request Honored” badge located in the footer of this website.

4. Third-Party Service Providers

We share your information only with trusted partners necessary to provide our services:

  • Payment Processing: Digital payments are processed through Venmo, Zelle, ApplePay, and AppleCash. Credit cards are only accepted if linked to Health Savings Plans (HSA).
  • Email Services: Microsoft Outlook is used to receive and respond to your contact form submissions.
  • Website Hosting: GoDaddy provides the secure infrastructure that allows you to access this site. While your data passes through their servers to reach us, it is not shared with or used by GoDaddy for any secondary purposes.

These providers are contractually prohibited from using your sensitive health information for their own marketing or any purpose other than assisting Berkeley Bodywork.

5. Contact Us

To exercise your rights (Access, Deletion, or Correction), please contact:
Berkeley Bodywork Email: lara@berkeleybodywork.com
Address: 2421 Fourth St., Berkeley CA 94710