Privacy Policy

About this website

This website provides professional information about Dr. Ramakant Patil and contact details for his Nashik practice. This policy explains how information may be handled when you visit the website or use its contact links.

Information collected through the website

The website does not offer patient accounts, online payments, appointment forms or medical-record uploads. You can read the professional information without submitting personal details through a website form.

The hosting service may process technical information such as your IP address, browser type, requested pages and access times to deliver the website, maintain security and troubleshoot errors. The hosting service’s configuration and policies determine how its technical records are handled and retained.

Contacting the practice

If you choose to call, email or message the published contacts, you may provide your name, contact details and the information needed to answer your enquiry. This communication takes place through the telephone, email or messaging service rather than a form on this website.

Please avoid sending medical records, a child’s photographs or sensitive health information through a general email enquiry unless the treating team has requested an appropriate method for sharing it.

Booking through WhatsApp

The “Book Appointment” buttons open WhatsApp, a messaging service operated by Meta, with a short message addressed to the practice’s appointment number. Nothing is sent until you choose to send it.

If you message that number, an automated appointment assistant may ask for details such as your name, phone number, the patient’s name and a preferred time, so that the appointment can be arranged. These messages are handled through WhatsApp and the practice’s booking service, and WhatsApp’s own privacy policy and terms apply to your use of WhatsApp.

How information is used

Information voluntarily provided through a contact or booking enquiry may be used to respond, arrange or confirm appointments, or clarify professional information. Technical information may be used to operate and protect the website. Enquiries are not treated as consent to receive unrelated promotional messages.

Cookies, analytics and embedded content

This version of the website does not use advertising cookies, analytics tools or embedded social-media, video or map widgets. External platforms, including WhatsApp, are reached only through links you choose to open. Essential technical processing by the hosting service may still occur when pages are delivered.

External links

The website links to external hospital, map, messaging, social-media, educational and news websites. Once you open an external link, that service’s own privacy policy and terms apply. This website does not control how those services collect or use information.

Children’s information

The website is intended to provide information for parents, caregivers and professional colleagues. It does not invite children to submit personal information or collect children’s medical records through website forms. Parents or guardians should arrange clinical communication directly with the practice.

Access, correction and privacy enquiries

If you have a question about personal information you voluntarily provided through an enquiry, or would like to request access, correction or deletion where applicable, contact the practice using the email below. Handling a request may depend on verifying the requester’s identity and any applicable clinical-record or legal requirements. This website policy does not replace the hospital’s clinical-record policies.

Security and retention

No internet, email or messaging service can guarantee complete security, so please share only what your enquiry needs. Enquiry and technical records may be kept for the purposes described above, and for as long as applicable law or clinical-record rules require.

Contact

For website privacy enquiries, use the published Antara Hospital contact:

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated if the website’s features or information-handling practices change. The revised date will be displayed on this page.