About this notice. Understand how information sharing supports your requested services, what permissions may be needed, and how to ask about or change a sharing permission.
Tissue Restoration Center (“TRC”) organizes information and communications as part of its nonclinical patient services. Coordinating with your selected surgeon, practice, facility, or another service provider may involve sharing information relevant to the requested work.
This page explains information sharing. Reading it, creating an account, or saving a planning selection does not itself provide blanket authorization to disclose your personal information.
1. The purpose and scope of sharing
Information sharing may support a consultation request, estimate review, scheduling, practical arrangements, or other services you request. The information, recipient, purpose, and permissions depend on the particular activity.
TRC must have the consent, authorization, or other lawful basis required for that activity. A request for one service does not automatically authorize unrelated disclosures. This notice supplements the Privacy Policy; it is not a complete description of every category of information processing or a substitute for a required authorization form.
2. Saving a preference is different from requesting a disclosure
Saving a surgeon, procedure, photograph, question, or desired result records an interest or information within the applicable planning process. That action does not, by itself, request distribution of your complete plan to all listed surgeons or other third parties.
Where you request TRC to share information for coordination, the applicable process identifies the purpose and recipient or recipient category and obtains any required permission. A provider may also require its own release or authorization before sending records to TRC or another recipient.
Saving an item does not establish that your surgeon has received or reviewed it. Information transmission, appointment confirmation, and clinical review are separate actions.
3. Information relevant to a request
Depending on the service and lawful basis, information may include contact details, procedure interests, desired results, appointment preferences, planning summaries, estimate questions, or relevant records and photographs.
The scope of a disclosure must be appropriate to its purpose and applicable requirements. Permission to share a planning summary should not be treated as permission to disclose all account information or unrelated financial, photographic, or health information.
If you are unsure what a sharing request covers, your Care Planner can clarify the intended information and recipient before the request proceeds. Do not include another person’s identifiable information without appropriate authority.
4. When a formal authorization is required
Some uses or disclosures require a specific authorization or consent under applicable law. Where HIPAA authorization is required, a general website acknowledgment or service agreement does not replace a valid authorization.
The authorization must contain the required elements, including a meaningful description of the information, who may disclose and receive it, the purpose, an expiration date or event, the appropriate signature and date, and required statements about revocation and other rights or consequences. The form and applicable law govern its scope.
Not every lawful disclosure requires a separate HIPAA authorization. The requirements depend on the information, the parties’ roles, the purpose, and applicable law. This notice does not establish TRC’s HIPAA status or create authority to share information merely by referring to HIPAA.
5. Recipients and separate purposes
Independent medical practices, facilities, financing providers, and other recipients have their own responsibilities and privacy practices. A recipient’s permitted use of information depends on applicable law, any relevant agreements, and the authority under which the information was received. Receiving information does not necessarily permit unrestricted further disclosure.
Permission for surgeon coordination is not automatically permission to submit financing applications, publish your photographs, or use your information for unrelated marketing. Each purpose must have the permissions or other lawful basis it requires.
Service-provider processing that supports TRC’s platform and operations is described in the Privacy Policy. It should not be confused with sending a patient-selected planning summary to an independent practice. This notice does not grant additional rights to sell information, use it for advertising, or train AI systems.
6. Changing or withdrawing a permission
You may contact TRC about changing or withdrawing a permission for future sharing. Follow the instructions in the applicable authorization or consent. Where a HIPAA authorization applies, revocation generally must be in writing and received by the responsible entity; the authorization explains how to do this.
Withdrawal generally does not undo disclosures already lawfully made or actions already taken in reliance on the authorization. It does not automatically require every recipient to delete its records or prevent a use or disclosure that remains required or independently permitted by law.
Removing a saved surgeon, changing a planning selection, or deleting an item from a view is not necessarily revocation of a separate authorization. State which permission you want changed so the request can be directed appropriately. TRC explains any effect on services that depend on the requested sharing; unrelated choices and applicable rights remain intact.
7. Sensitive information and communication channels
Photographs, procedure interests, health records, and financial information may be sensitive. Use the designated submission process and review the applicable privacy information before sending them. Do not assume that ordinary email or text messages provide the same protections as a designated document-submission service.
For a question about sharing, describe the issue without attaching unnecessary sensitive records. TRC can identify the appropriate next step. No communication method can guarantee absolute security; this does not reduce TRC’s duties to safeguard information or comply with applicable law.
Do not use a sharing request or TRC message for emergency medical care. Contact your treating team about medical concerns. For a medical emergency in the United States, call 911 or seek immediate emergency care.
8. Privacy rights and TRC accountability
Requests about access, correction, deletion, or other privacy rights are handled under applicable law and TRC’s relevant privacy notices. Identity or representative authority may need to be confirmed. This notice does not create a universal retention period, promise immediate deletion, or waive rights that apply to your information.
Independent recipients remain responsible for their own conduct. TRC remains responsible for its own information handling, statements, services, and any obligations it has under law or an applicable agreement. Nothing here excuses unauthorized sharing or limits rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be limited.
9. Questions, permission changes, or concerns
Contact TRC if you want to understand a proposed disclosure, change a permission, correct recipient information, or report a concern about information sharing. Identify the relevant service, recipient, or authorization without including unnecessary sensitive details in the initial message.
Email: care@tissuerestorationcenter.com
Phone: 631-906-9470
If an authorization issued by a separate medical practice identifies a different recipient for revocation, follow that form’s instructions. Contacting TRC alone may not revoke an authorization held by that practice.