Effective Date: May 21, 2026
Last Updated: May 21, 2026
Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego (“HDT,” “Home Dialysis Therapies,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, protect, and retain information collected through our website, online forms, email links, appointment requests, referral-related pages, career application forms, and other digital interactions connected with www.homedialysistherapies.com.
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through this website and related online interactions. It does not replace our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices, which explains how we may use and disclose protected health information as part of patient care, treatment, payment, and healthcare operations.
If you are a patient of Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego, information that identifies you and relates to your health, healthcare, or payment for healthcare may be protected health information under HIPAA and other applicable privacy laws. Please review our Notice of Privacy Practices for information about your rights with respect to protected health information.
This website is for general education, communication, scheduling, and referral support. It is not intended for emergencies. If you think you are having a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
1. Who We Are
Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego provides home dialysis education, training, support, and related healthcare services in San Diego County.
Main Clinic/Office:
Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego
10672 Wexford Street, Unit #250
San Diego, CA 92131
Phone: (858) 549-3400
Privacy Contact:
Denise Barnes, RN
Chief Executive Officer
Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego
10672 Wexford Street, Unit #250
San Diego, CA 92131
Phone: (858) 549-3400
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (858) 549-3400
Mailing Address: 10672 Wexford Street, Unit #250, San Diego, CA 92131
2. Information We May Collect
We collect information in several ways, depending on how you use the website.
Information You Provide Directly
You may provide information when you:
Submit a contact form
Request a call
Request dialysis options education
Schedule or request an appointment
Contact us about home dialysis services
Ask about insurance, funding, or coverage
Submit a provider referral inquiry
Download or request referral materials
Apply for a job
Upload a resume or employment-related document
Email us, call us, or otherwise communicate with us
The information you provide may include:
Name
Email address
Phone number
Mailing address
Preferred clinic location
Preferred contact method
Patient status or caregiver status
Provider or referring office information
General reason for contacting us
Information about dialysis interests or treatment options
Insurance or funding-related questions
Employment application information
Resume, work history, credentials, and related job application materials
Any other information you choose to submit
Health-Related Information You Submit
Because HDT is a healthcare provider, some information submitted through the website may be health-related. For example, you may submit information about kidney disease, dialysis status, treatment interests, referral needs, insurance questions, or other personal health circumstances. Please do not submit any personal health information through our forms. One of our staff will reach out to contact you for more details if necessary.
Please limit what you submit through general website forms. Website forms are designed for communication and scheduling support. They are not designed for urgent clinical instructions, emergencies, or detailed medical decision-making.
If you are an Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego patient or a referred patient, health information submitted through the website may become part of our patient intake, referral, care coordination, or administrative process and may be handled as protected health information when applicable.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the website, we may automatically collect certain technical information, including:
IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Pages viewed
Time and date of visit
Referring website
Approximate geographic location based on IP address
Interactions with website pages, forms, links, or embedded features
Cookie and similar technology data
This information helps us maintain the website, improve user experience, measure website performance, detect security issues, and understand how visitors use our pages.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, analytics tools, embedded content, or similar technologies. These tools may help the website function, remember preferences, measure traffic, improve performance, protect security, or understand how visitors interact with the site.
Types of cookies and tracking technologies may include:
Essential cookies needed for site function and security
Analytics cookies that help us understand website traffic and page performance
Preference cookies that remember user choices
Embedded content tools used by third-party services such as maps, videos, social media features, or scheduling tools
Advertising or marketing technologies if enabled in the future
At this time, HDT does not sell personal information for money. HDT does not knowingly sell protected health information. HDT does not knowingly use protected health information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
If future website tools involve the sale or sharing of personal information as those terms are defined under applicable privacy laws, HDT will update this Privacy Policy and provide any required opt-out mechanisms.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Signals
Some browsers transmit “Do Not Track” signals. There is no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals. At this time, our website may not respond to all browser “Do Not Track” signals.
Where required by applicable law, we will honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, to the extent those signals apply to our website and data practices.
3. How We Use Information
We may use information collected through the website to:
Respond to your questions
Schedule appointments or options education sessions
Contact you about services you requested
Process provider referral inquiries
Support intake, referral, or care coordination processes
Provide information about home dialysis options
Help patients and families understand general service pathways
Communicate with referring providers or healthcare partners when appropriate
Help with insurance, funding, or administrative questions
Evaluate job applications
Communicate with applicants
Operate, maintain, and improve the website
Measure website traffic and performance
Protect website security
Detect misuse, fraud, spam, or technical problems
Comply with legal, regulatory, licensing, accreditation, and compliance obligations
Protect the rights, safety, and property of HDT, our patients, staff, website users, and others
If information is protected health information, we use and disclose it only as permitted by HIPAA, our Notice of Privacy Practices, patient authorizations when required, and other applicable laws.
4. How We Share Information
We may share information with the following categories of recipients when appropriate:
HDT Staff and Workforce Members
We may share information internally with HDT employees, clinicians, administrative staff, social workers, dietitians, nurses, managers, billing personnel, compliance personnel, and other workforce members who need the information to perform their duties.
Healthcare Providers and Referral Partners
If you are a patient, prospective patient, referred patient, or provider contact, we may share information with nephrologists, referring providers, hospitals, transplant programs, home health partners, laboratories, payers, or other healthcare professionals involved in treatment, payment, care coordination, or related healthcare operations.
Service Providers and Vendors
We may use vendors that help operate our website, forms, hosting, email, security tools, analytics, scheduling, employment application tools, document storage, or administrative systems. These vendors may access information only as needed to perform services for us and are expected to protect the information.
Where a vendor creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information on our behalf, we require appropriate HIPAA business associate protections when required by law.
Insurance, Billing, and Payment-Related Parties
When applicable, information may be shared with insurers, Medicare, Medi-Cal, managed care plans, billing vendors, claims processors, or other payment-related entities for eligibility, authorization, payment, benefits, coordination, or administrative purposes.
Legal, Regulatory, and Safety Purposes
We may disclose information when required or permitted by law, including to comply with subpoenas, court orders, regulatory requests, licensing requirements, law enforcement requests, public health reporting obligations, audits, investigations, or legal claims.
We may also disclose information when necessary to protect the safety of patients, staff, website users, or others.
Business Transfers
If HDT is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, financing, or similar business transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable legal protections.
5. Protected Health Information and HIPAA
Some information collected by HDT may be protected health information under HIPAA. Protected health information generally includes information that identifies you and relates to your health, healthcare, or payment for healthcare.
This Privacy Policy describes our website privacy practices. Our Notice of Privacy Practices describes how we use and disclose protected health information for treatment, payment, healthcare operations, and other permitted or required purposes.
If there is a conflict between this Privacy Policy and our Notice of Privacy Practices regarding protected health information, the Notice of Privacy Practices controls.
6. Email, Forms, and Electronic Communications
When you submit a website form, send an email, or request contact through the website, you are choosing to communicate with us electronically.
Electronic communications can carry privacy and security risks. We use reasonable safeguards, but no website, email system, or online transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.
Please do not use website forms or standard email for emergencies, urgent symptoms, time-sensitive clinical questions, or detailed medical instructions. Call 911 for emergencies. Established patients should use the communication method provided by their care team for clinical questions.
By submitting a form, you authorize HDT to contact you using the contact information you provide. This may include phone, voicemail, email, or text message, depending on the information submitted and the nature of your request.
7. Job Applicant Information
If you apply for a position through the website, we may collect applicant information such as your name, email address, location, preferred work location, area of professional interest, relocation preference, resume, credentials, work history, and other information you choose to submit.
We use applicant information to evaluate applications, communicate with applicants, conduct hiring processes, maintain employment records, comply with employment laws, and protect legal rights.
Employment records maintained by HDT in its role as an employer may be treated differently from patient protected health information under HIPAA.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our website is intended for adults, caregivers, healthcare providers, and job applicants. It is not directed to children under 13.
Parents, legal guardians, or healthcare providers may contact us about a minor patient when appropriate. If we learn that a child under 13 has submitted information directly through the website without appropriate parent or guardian involvement, we may delete the information unless we need to retain it for legal, healthcare, safety, or compliance reasons.
9. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content
Our website may link to third-party websites or include embedded content, such as maps, videos, forms, social media links, or external resources.
Third-party websites and services are controlled by their own privacy policies and terms. HDT is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, accuracy, or content of third-party websites.
Clicking a third-party link may allow that third party to collect information about you. Review third-party privacy policies before submitting personal information.
10. Social Media
HDT may maintain social media pages or accounts. If you interact with HDT through Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or other social platforms, your interaction is also governed by the privacy policy and terms of that platform.
Do not post private medical information, patient details, or urgent medical questions on public social media pages.
11. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
Security measures may include access controls, limited workforce access, secure systems, vendor safeguards, monitoring, encryption where appropriate, and internal policies.
No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of information submitted through the website.
12. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, provide services, comply with healthcare recordkeeping obligations, process referrals, manage employment applications, meet legal and regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and maintain business records.
Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, legal requirements, patient status, applicant status, and operational needs.
13. Your Privacy Choices
You may contact us to request that we update, correct, or delete certain website information you provided, subject to legal, healthcare, employment, security, and recordkeeping requirements.
You may unsubscribe from non-essential email communications if such communications are offered.
You may control some cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect website functionality.
You may choose not to submit personal information through the website, but we may be unable to respond to your request or provide certain services without enough information.
14. California Privacy Rights
California residents may have certain rights under California privacy laws, depending on the type of information involved and whether the law applies to the specific information or entity.
These rights may include the right to know what personal information is collected, the right to request deletion, the right to correct inaccurate personal information, the right to opt out of sale or sharing, the right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, and the right to non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights.
Certain medical information, protected health information, employment information, and other categories of information may be subject to different laws or exemptions.
HDT does not sell personal information for money. HDT does not knowingly sell protected health information.
To submit a privacy request, contact:
Denise Barnes, RN
Chief Executive Officer
Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego
10672 Wexford Street, Unit #250
San Diego, CA 92131
Phone: (858) 549-3400
[email protected]
Phone: (858) 549-3400
Mail: Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego, Attn: Privacy Contact, 10672 Wexford Street, Unit #250, San Diego, CA 92131
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests. Verification may require confirming information we already have or asking for additional information needed to confirm your identity. We will use verification information only for verification and request processing.
15. Notice for Patients
If you are an HDT patient, former patient, prospective patient, or referred patient, your health information rights are described in our Notice of Privacy Practices.
Those rights may include the right to access certain records, request amendments, request confidential communications, request restrictions, receive an accounting of certain disclosures, receive a paper copy of the Notice of Privacy Practices, and file a privacy complaint.
Please review our Notice of Privacy Practices or contact our Privacy Contact for more information.
16. International Visitors
HDT provides services in California. This website is intended for users located in the United States.
If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your location.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we update it, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above.
Changes become effective when posted unless otherwise stated. Continued use of the website after changes are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.
18. Contact Us
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:
Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego
Attn: Privacy Contact
10672 Wexford Street, Unit #250
San Diego, CA 92131
Phone: (858) 549-3400
Email: [email protected]
For medical emergencies, call 911. For clinical questions, established patients should use the communication method provided by their HDT care team.