Last Updated: 03/17/2026
Dr. Nima Mashkouri, D.M.D., (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. We are also committed to maintaining the privacy of your health information in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and disclose your personal information when you visit and use nimadmd.com (the “Website”). By accessing or using our Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to update and modify this policy at our discretion. If we make material changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Important Note About Medical Information: This Privacy Policy is not a HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices. Our Website is not intended to collect or transmit protected health information (“PHI”) through online forms, chat features, or email. Please call our office for confidential matters. Do not submit PHI or other sensitive medical details through the Website, including through forms, chat, or email.
Your personal information may be collected in various ways, including, but not limited to, subscribing to our newsletter, completing a form, and using Google Analytics.
According to generally accepted US privacy and information security standards, personally identifiable information (PII) is any information that can be used to identify, contact, or locate an individual person.
We may ask you to provide certain PII to provide our services.
We collect this information primarily to provide services, information, and marketing to you and our clients. This allows us to better understand your needs, personalize your experience, improve our services and website, and send you more relevant information.
We may contact you via email or phone regarding services, updates, or promotions, changes to this privacy policy, and related updates.
SMS communications are governed by the SMS Consent & Opt-Out Policy section below. SMS consent collected through Website forms, appointment requests, or other opt-in methods is voluntary and may include a separate checkbox or other clear mechanism indicating consent to receive SMS communications.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails or opt out of being contacted, you can follow the instructions at the bottom of each email, or change your account settings, and we will remove you from most future marketing communications where required by applicable law.
Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send transactional or service-related messages, such as appointment confirmations, billing notices, or security alerts.
We may collect the following information when you interact with our Website:
You may also visit our Website anonymously.
We collect information when you:
Whenever you visit our Website, we automatically collect certain information that your browser sends to our server, commonly referred to as Log Data.
This may include:
We may use the information we collect to:
We do not use your personal information for automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
We do not sell, share, or trade your PII with any third party unless otherwise noted and specified in advance.
This excludes third parties who assist us in our primary operations, including, but not limited to:
This information remains strictly confidential. We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards and use encryption where appropriate.
Non-personally identifiable information may be provided to third parties for lawful business purposes such as analytics, research, or aggregated reporting.
We may also disclose personal information in connection with a business transfer, such as a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, where permitted by law.
We may also disclose personal information to professional advisors (such as attorneys, auditors, and insurers) where necessary for legitimate business purposes and subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.
We do not “sell” personal information in exchange for money. However, certain advertising/analytics disclosures may be considered “sharing” under some laws (including California law). Where required, we provide opt-out mechanisms (see “California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)” below).
We are committed to securing your data and keeping it confidential. We take all necessary precautions to protect your information both online and offline.
Our website is scanned for security vulnerabilities, and we take every measure to safeguard your information. However, it is important to remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure.
When disclosing sensitive information, you can verify that the site is secure by looking for “https” at the beginning of the web address or the lock icon in the web browser.
If your data is needed offline, only employees with clearance for the specific service, such as customer service or accounting, are authorized to access it.
If you believe your interaction with us is no longer secure, please contact us immediately using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, comply with legal obligations, and resolve disputes.
Certain information, such as contact form submissions or administrative records, may be retained for longer periods where required for legal, security, or operational purposes.
You have the right to:
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.
If you submit a request, we may need to verify your identity and residency (where relevant) before responding.
You may also contact us via phone or email to request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information we maintain about you, where applicable under law. Our phone number and email address are listed in the “Contact Us” section below.
We use cookies and tracking technologies to improve your experience on our Website. These help us analyze Website traffic, remember user preferences, and enhance security.
Cookies are small pieces of data used to improve your access and identify repeat visits.
Cookies may be stored on your device or browser depending on the type of cookie used.
This allows us to collect, track, and target visitor interests and usage, and enables you to skip the login process when necessary.
This helps us provide you with the best experience possible.
Where required by applicable law, we obtain user consent before placing non-essential cookies or tracking technologies on your device through our cookie consent banner. You may manage or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time by selecting the “Cookie Preferences” or “Cookie Settings” link available on our website.
We use a cookie consent management platform to display our cookie banner and help users manage cookie preferences.
Where available, you can manage your cookie preferences using our cookie banner or “Cookie Settings” link in the Website footer.
For more detailed information about the cookies and similar technologies used on this Website, you may review our Cookie Settings tool.
You may choose to disable cookies in your web browser, but this may affect your experience in some areas of the site.
You can also manage cookies and tracking technologies through your browser settings.
Types of cookies we may use include:
We may employ third-party service providers to:
These third parties may access your personal information only to perform assigned tasks and must not disclose or use it for any other purpose.
This Website may use Google Analytics to help analyze how visitors use this Website.
Analytics data on this Website may be collected and processed by Google Analytics.
Google Analytics tracks where you came from based on your IP address, which may be anonymized or truncated depending on configuration.
You may learn more about Google Analytics’ privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by visiting Google’s Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
This Website may use the Google Ads remarketing service to advertise on third-party websites, including Google, to previous visitors to our Website. It could mean we advertise to visitors to our Website who previously visited but did not complete a task, such as submitting a contact form to make an inquiry. This advertisement could appear as an ad on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. The Google Display Network comprises over a million websites, videos, and apps where ads can be displayed. Sites in this network have partnered with Google to show relevant ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to this Website. Any data we collect will be used in accordance with the privacy policies of Google and this Website. You may opt out of Google’s targeted ads by visiting Google Ad Settings. You may also opt out of a third-party vendor’s cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
If you are a California resident, please see the “California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)” section below for information about opt-out rights that may apply to certain advertising-related disclosures.
You can manage advertising cookies through your browser settings or through our Website’s cookie preference tool.
This Website uses Facebook Pixel to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Data collected is used in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy and may be associated with your Facebook account.
This Website may use the “visitor action pixels” from Meta Platforms, Inc. (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or, if you are based in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”)) on our website (“Facebook Pixel”).
Facebook Pixel enables the tracking of user behavior after a user is redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad, allowing us to measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. Data collected in this way is anonymous to us, and we do not have access to the personal data of individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, and Facebook may link this information to your Facebook account and also use it for its own promotional purposes in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy. You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and off Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes.
Where applicable under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the legal basis for using this service may include user consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) or legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)). You can object to the collection of your data by Facebook pixel or to the use of your data for the purpose of displaying Facebook ads by updating your Facebook ad settings.
Personal data collected through advertising technologies may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your jurisdiction, including the United States. Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards are used for such transfers, which may include the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (where applicable) or Standard Contractual Clauses.
If you are located in the EEA/UK, please see the “International Data Transfers (EEA/UK)” section below regarding cross-border transfers and safeguards.
You can manage advertising cookies through your browser settings or through our Website’s cookie preference tool.
Our Website’s contact form submission data—IP address, user agent, name, email address, Website, and message—may be submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted, and it is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e., the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, Website, and message. The data is collected on this Website’s database and stored until it is no longer needed for administrative, security, or legal purposes.
Please do not submit confidential medical information through the Website contact form. If you need to discuss sensitive health information, please call our office.
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. We do not sell, trade, exchange, transfer, or otherwise give your PII to any other company for any reason without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the requested service or purchased product. However, this does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our Website, conducting our business, or servicing you, provided that those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
We may also release your information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our own rights, property, or safety, as well as the rights, property, or safety of others. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be shared with other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
If applicable law defines certain advertising-related disclosures as “selling” or “sharing,” we will provide required opt-out mechanisms (see “California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)” below).
We use the following information to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts: the user’s IP address, the user’s email address/username (i.e., the value they attempted to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user. Our Website is scanned regularly for security holes and known vulnerabilities to ensure your visit is as safe as possible. Your personal information is stored within secure networks and is accessible only to a limited number of individuals who have been granted special access rights to these systems and are required to maintain the confidentiality of this information.
All patient images on this Website are owned by Dr. Nima Mashkouri, D.M.D. We respect your privacy and understand that not all patients wish to have their images on the Internet. We will not post images of you or your procedures without your prior written consent. If you ever wish to have your images removed after giving consent, you can submit a written request to our office for removal.
This Website may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) or links to other websites on this site. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. The best practices of those websites are beyond our control. Our Privacy Policy applies only to this Website. By using our Website, you agree not to hold us liable for the actions of other websites on the Internet that are beyond our control.
This Website complies with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and does not address anyone under the age of 13. This Website does not knowingly collect PII from children under 13 years of age. If we discover a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers.
If you are a parent or guardian of a child under 13 years of age and are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take the necessary actions. Our phone number and email address are listed at the bottom of this page.
While our office complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), this Website is not intended to collect or transmit protected health information (PHI). You will not be required to enter any of your medical information on our Website. Any information obtained through the office may be used for the following reasons:
We will never share your health information with other people without your permission. However, regarding our Website contact form, please remember that communication via email over the Internet is not secure. Although it is unlikely, there is a possibility that the information you include in an email can be intercepted and read by parties other than the intended recipient. Our Website is not a portal for HIPAA-protected communications. We recommend calling our office directly for confidential matters. Please do not include personal identifying information such as your birth date or personal medical information in any emails you send to us. No one can diagnose your condition based solely on email or other written communications. Communication via our Website cannot replace the relationship you have with a physician or other healthcare practitioner.
Each time you visit our office, a record of your visit is made. Typically, this record contains your symptoms, examination, test results, diagnoses, treatment, and plans for future care or treatment. This information is often referred to as your health or medical record and serves as the basis for planning your care and medical treatment.
We may use your health information to send you information on the treatment and management of your medical condition that you may find to be of interest. We may also send you information describing other health-related goods and services that we believe may be of interest to you. If we are unable to provide you with test results in person or by phone, we may send the information to you using the mailing address on file or via electronic mail.
You have certain rights under the federal privacy standards, which include:
For more information about your rights under HIPAA, visit https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/index.html.
By providing your phone number and opting in, you agree to receive SMS text messages from Dr. Nima Mashkouri, D.M.D. at the phone number provided related to our services, including appointment reminders, customer service communications, account notifications, service alerts, and other relevant service-related updates.
Users may opt in to receive SMS messages by submitting a website form, scheduling an appointment, requesting information, or otherwise providing consent to receive text communications from Dr. Nima Mashkouri, D.M.D..
Where SMS consent is collected through a Website form or online scheduling tool, the form will include a disclosure stating that message frequency may vary, message and data rates may apply, and that consent to receive SMS messages is not required as a condition of purchasing services.
Where required by law or carrier policies, we may use additional steps to confirm your opt-in (for example, a confirmation message).
Message frequency may vary depending on your interaction with our services.
Message and data rates may apply according to your mobile carrier plan.
You can opt out of receiving SMS messages at any time by replying STOP to any message.
After opting out, you will receive a confirmation message and will no longer receive SMS communications from us unless you opt back in.
For assistance, reply HELP to any message or contact us by phone or email. Our phone number and email address are listed at the bottom of this page.
We do not sell, rent, or share SMS opt-in phone numbers with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes.
No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
Wireless carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Reply STOP at any time to unsubscribe.
Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of purchasing services.
We may use trusted messaging service providers to deliver SMS communications on our behalf. These providers process phone numbers only for the purpose of sending messages and are not permitted to use them for their own marketing purposes.
If you have questions about our SMS program, you may contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Our Website may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, articles) that behaves as if you visited the original third-party site. These sites may collect data, use cookies, or track interactions independently of our policies. Please review their privacy policies for details.
We strive to ensure our Website is accessible to all visitors. If you experience difficulty accessing any content, require assistance using the Website, or would like to request accessibility accommodations, please contact us by phone or email.
If you would like to submit a comment or complaint about our Privacy Policy, you can send a letter outlining your concerns.
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, please send us a letter describing the specific cause of the privacy concern. You will not be penalized or otherwise retaliated against for filing a complaint.
If you believe your personal data has been processed in violation of applicable privacy laws, you may also have the right to file a complaint with your local regulatory authority.
By accessing or using our Website, you agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy. By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of personally identifiable information (PII) as described in this policy. Where required by applicable law, certain activities (such as non-essential cookies) may be subject to additional consent choices.
If you are a California resident, you may have the right to: (1) know/access the personal information we collect, use, and disclose; (2) request deletion of personal information (subject to exceptions); (3) request correction of inaccurate personal information; (4) opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information (as those terms are defined under California law); (5) limit the use and disclosure of “sensitive personal information” if applicable; and (6) not be discriminated against for exercising your rights.
Submitting Requests: You may submit a request by contacting us using the “Contact Us” information above. We may need to verify your identity before completing your request.
Authorized Agents: You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, where permitted by law, but we may require proof of authorization and/or identity verification.
Opt-out preference signals: Where required, we honor opt-out preference signals for the browser/device where the signal is enabled.
California Notice at Collection (Summary): Depending on how you use our Website, we may collect identifiers (such as name, email address, phone number, and IP address), internet or other electronic network activity information (such as pages visited and interactions), and, where you choose to provide it, content you submit through forms (such as your message). We collect this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing services, responding to requests, website analytics, advertising/remarketing, and security. We retain personal information as described in the “Data Retention & Your Rights” section above.
Sensitive Personal Information: We do not intentionally collect “sensitive personal information” as defined by California law through this Website, and we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
California “Sharing” Clarification: We may “share” identifiers and online activity information with advertising/analytics partners (such as via pixels or tags) to measure and improve advertising, which may be considered “sharing” under California law. You can opt out by adjusting cookie preferences via the link in the Website footer.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK), you may have additional rights under the GDPR, including the right to access, correct, delete, restrict processing of, object to processing of, and request portability of your personal data (subject to applicable exceptions). You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
Legal Bases: Depending on the context, we process personal data based on consent, to perform a contract or provide requested services, to comply with legal obligations, and/or for our legitimate interests (such as improving our Website, preventing fraud, and securing our systems).
GDPR Transparency: Where required, we provide the information described in Article 13 (for example, purposes and legal bases, recipients, retention, and rights) through this Privacy Policy and related notices (such as cookie notices).
Controller Contact (EEA/UK): For GDPR purposes, the data controller is Client/Practice Name. You can contact the controller using the details in the “Contact Us” section.
If you are located in the EEA/UK, your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your jurisdiction (including the United States) that may not provide the same level of data protection. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for such transfers, such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (where applicable) and/or Standard Contractual Clauses and other lawful transfer mechanisms.
We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users of significant changes to our Privacy Policy by updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of our Website after any modifications indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the information below.
Dr. Nima Mashkouri, D.M.D.
1304 15th St, Suite 200
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 458-8811
Website: nimadmd.com
Email: support@nimadmd.com
If you are a California resident and want to submit a CCPA/CPRA request, you may do so using the contact information above.
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