Notice of Privacy Practices
This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed, and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
Embarcadero 4 Dental is required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to maintain the privacy of your protected health information (“PHI”), to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, to notify you following a breach of unsecured PHI, and to abide by the terms of the notice currently in effect.
How we may use and disclose your health information
For treatment. We use your health information to provide your dental care, and may share it with other health professionals involved in your care — for example, a specialist we refer you to, a dental laboratory, or your physician.
For payment. We may use and share your information to bill and collect payment from you, your insurance plan, or other payers — for example, when we submit a claim to your dental insurance.
For health care operations. We may use your information to run our practice, improve your care, and contact you when necessary — for example, appointment reminders by phone, text, or email, or follow-up after a procedure.
Other permitted uses. We may disclose your information when required by law, for public-health and safety purposes, to health-oversight agencies, in response to lawful court orders, and to people involved in your care or payment for your care (such as a family member you bring to an appointment) unless you object.
Uses that require your written authorization. We will not use or disclose your PHI for marketing purposes, and we will never sell your information, without your written authorization. You may revoke an authorization at any time, in writing.
Your rights
You have the right to: see or get a copy of your dental record (usually within 30 days of a written request; we may charge a reasonable cost-based fee); ask us to correct information you believe is wrong or incomplete; request confidential communications (for example, contacting you only at a specific phone number); ask us to limit what we use or share — and if you pay for a service in full out of pocket, you may require us not to share that information with your insurer; receive a list of certain disclosures we have made of your information; get a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically; and choose someone to act for you (a legal guardian or person with medical power of attorney may exercise your rights).
Complaints
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with us directly using the contact information below, or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201, 1-877-696-6775, or at hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints. We will never retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Changes to this notice
We may change the terms of this notice at any time; changes will apply to all information we hold. The current notice is always available on this page and on paper at our front desk. This notice is effective as of July 29, 2026.
Website privacy
This website is intentionally simple and private. We do not use analytics or advertising trackers, we do not set cookies, and the site has no forms — browsing it requires no personal information. A few pages embed third-party content that loads from those providers’ servers when you view the page: video (YouTube, in privacy-enhanced mode), maps (Google Maps), and fonts (Google Fonts). Online booking takes place on Zocdoc, and payments on their respective providers’ sites; each is governed by its own privacy policy. If you email us, please remember that ordinary email is not a secure channel for detailed health information — for anything sensitive, call us instead.
Embarcadero 4 Dental — Attn: Dr. Dorothy Gogol-Mach
4 Embarcadero Center, Lobby Level, San Francisco, CA 94111
415-576-9800 · info@4dental.com