DISCLAIMER, PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS
MEDICAL & PROFESSIONAL DISCLAIMER
DGL Wellness and John Saman provide nutritional education, wellness consulting, and educational discussion of health and laboratory information. DGL Wellness does not provide medical diagnosis, medical treatment, prescription services, or other services intended to replace care provided by a licensed healthcare professional.
Client Information and Use of the DGL Wellness Client Portal
DGL Wellness respects your privacy.
The DGL Wellness website is primarily an informational and educational website. DGL Wellness does not request or intentionally collect medical records, laboratory reports, detailed health histories, medication information, or other sensitive health information through the public website.
Please do not submit sensitive health information through website contact forms, blog comments, or other publicly accessible areas of the website.
Individuals who engage DGL Wellness for nutritional consulting services are directed to the DGL Wellness client portal through Practice Better. The client portal is the designated platform for completing intake and assessment forms, submitting health and nutritional information, uploading laboratory reports and other documents, and communicating with DGL Wellness regarding consulting services.
Practice Better provides the technology platform used by DGL Wellness for client portal functions, including client intake, document sharing, and secure client messaging. Practice Better states that its client portal and messaging services are designed to support HIPAA-compliant handling of client information and that client data is encrypted.
Clients should review the applicable Practice Better privacy policies and terms in addition to this DGL Wellness Privacy Policy.
Professional Status:
John Saman is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS®) with medical-doctor training. He is not a licensed physician and is not currently licensed to practice medicine in any state. His medical education and training should not be interpreted as medical license.
Information discussed during DGL Wellness consultations may include health history, symptoms, dietary patterns, laboratory results, nutritional status, lifestyle factors, dietary supplements, ingredients, and nutritional strategies. This information is provided for educational and nutritional wellness purposes and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition.
DGL Wellness provides nutritional consulting and education and is intended to complement, not replace, care provided by a client's primary care physician, specialist, or other appropriately licensed healthcare professional. DGL Wellness does not establish a physician-patient relationship and does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment.
DGL Wellness does not provide medical "second opinions." Clients should obtain medical opinions, diagnoses, and treatment recommendations from appropriately licensed healthcare professionals.
Clients should continue to maintain an appropriate relationship with their primary medical provider and should seek medical evaluation for new, worsening, persistent, or concerning symptoms. Clients should consult their physician or other qualified healthcare professional before beginning, stopping, or changing medications or dietary supplements, particularly if they have a medical condition, are pregnant or nursing, are taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, or are undergoing medical treatment.
DGL Wellness reserves the right to decline or discontinue nutritional consulting services when a client's needs fall outside the scope of nutritional education and consulting or when a client's circumstances require medical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, or other services that should be provided by an appropriately licensed healthcare professional
Information provided by DGL Wellness is intended to support informed nutritional and wellness decision-making and should be considered in conjunction with appropriate medical care. Individual responses to dietary changes, supplements, ingredients, and nutritional strategies may vary. Clients are responsible for discussing medical concerns, diagnoses, medications, and treatment decisions with their licensed healthcare professionals.
Nothing communicated by DGL Wellness, whether verbally, electronically, in writing, or through the DGL Wellness website, should be interpreted as establishing a physician-patient relationship or as providing medical diagnosis or treatment.
California Nutritional Consulting Disclosure:
California law permits individuals to provide nutritional advice and information concerning proper nutrition, including the role and use of food, food ingredients, and dietary supplements. DGL Wellness provides nutritional education and consulting within this context. Nothing provided by DGL Wellness is intended to constitute or authorize the practice of medicine, medical diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or cure of disease.
FDA Disclaimer:
Statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unless otherwise stated. Dietary supplements are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
PRIVACY POLICY:
DGL Wellness Privacy Policy is designed to help you (“The user”) understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using our Web Site located at wwwdglwellness.com
DGL Wellness recognizes that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use DGLwellness.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us. DGLwellness.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers’, consumers’ and online visitors’ privacy on our website.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
AGREEING TO TERMS:
By using or accessing this Web Site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to www.dglwellness.com Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.
UPDATES AND EFFECTIVE DATE:
www.dglwellness.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
DGL Wellness is not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs, websites, or other media without our permission. This privacy policy is subject to change without notice. If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
CAN SPAM ACT:
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
• Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
• Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders
• We may also send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
• Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred
To be in accordance with CAN-SPAM we agree to the following:
• NOT use false, or misleading subjects or email addresses
• Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way
• Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters
• Monitor third party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
• Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly
• Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can
• Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
ARBITRATION:
All claims and disputes arising under or relating to this Agreement are to be settled by binding arbitration in the state of California, specifically in Orange County, CA. The arbitration shall be conducted on a confidential basis pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any decision or award because of any such arbitration proceeding shall be in writing and shall provide an explanation for all conclusions of law and fact and shall include the assessment of costs, expenses, and reasonable attorneys' fees, the party initiating the arbitration claim will financially be responsible for. Any such arbitration shall be conducted by an arbitrator experienced in nutrition consultations/functional medicine and shall include a written record of the arbitration hearing. The parties reserve the right to object to any individual who shall be employed by or affiliated with a competing organization or entity. An award of arbitration may be confirmed in a court of competent jurisdiction.