Privacy Policy & Cookie Disclosures

1. Scope & Overview

This Privacy Policy ("Policy"), effective November 8, 2026, explains how Premier Urgent Care Guide ("we," "us," or "our"), publisher of https://premierurgentcarefw.com/ (the "Site"), collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards limited technical data when you visit our pages, interact with our tools, or contact our editorial team.

Because people visit acute-care health websites while researching sensitive personal or family symptoms, we engineered our Site around strict data minimization. We are an independent consumer health publication—not a medical clinic, healthcare clearinghouse, or covered entity storing electronic health records—and we deliberately avoid collecting personal health histories.

2. Interactive Calculators: 100% Local Browser Execution

Our interactive tools—including the ER vs. Urgent Care Triage Tool, Urgent Care Cost Estimator, Wound, Stitches & Tetanus Checker, Fever & Hydration Calculator, and the Structured Message Composer—are built entirely with client-side JavaScript.

• No Network Transmission of Tool Inputs: When you check a symptom box, enter a child's weight or temperature, choose a tetanus immunization interval, or enter an insurance copay or deductible amount, those calculations occur exclusively inside your device's temporary browser memory (RAM).
• No Backend Form Database: Our calculators do not issue POST, PUT, or fetch requests sending your health or financial inputs to our web servers, analytics endpoints, or third-party databases.
• Automatic Clearing on Tab Close: As soon as you refresh the page or close your browser tab, all calculator selections are discarded from memory.

3. Standard Log Files & Technical Website Data

Like virtually all public websites and content delivery networks (CDNs), our web hosting infrastructure automatically records standard, non-medical HTTP server log entries when your browser requests a page, stylesheet, or image. These standard log files may include:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address (used transiently for routing, rate-limiting, and DDoS security defense);
• Browser type and version, operating system, and general screen viewport category (mobile vs. desktop);
• Date and time stamp of the page request and HTTP response status code (e.g., 200 OK or 404 Not Found);
• Referring URL (such as a search engine link that brought you to the Site) and requested page path.

This technical information is not linked to any personally identifiable health profile and is used solely to maintain website security, diagnose broken links, optimize mobile page speed, and measure aggregate editorial readership.

4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Cookies Disclosure

To keep our clinical guides, printable exam checklists, and interactive patient calculators completely free without subscriptions or paywalls, PremierUrgentCareFW.com displays programmatic advertisements provided by third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense. In compliance with Google Publisher Policies and applicable privacy laws, please note the following disclosures:

• Third-Party Advertising Cookies (Including DoubleClick / Google Advertising Cookies): Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as Google advertising and DoubleClick cookies) and web beacons to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the Internet.
• Personalized & Non-Personalized Ad Serving: Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to PremierUrgentCareFW.com and/or other sites across the Internet, as well as to measure ad impressions, prevent invalid click fraud, and cap ad frequency.
• How to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of personalized advertising served by Google at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings (My Ad Center). In addition, you may opt out of participating third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising across the web by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance consumer choice portal at www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at optout.networkadvertising.org.
• How Google Partner Sites Process Data: To learn in detail how Google collects, uses, and protects data when you visit websites that implement Google services, please review Google's official disclosure: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

5. Cookie Inventory & Your Consent Controls

Below is a transparent breakdown of browser storage items and cookies associated with visiting PremierUrgentCareFW.com:

6. Voluntary Email Correspondence

If you choose to email us at [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected], we receive your email address and any text you include in your message. We use this information strictly to investigate your citation report, answer your question, or fulfill a privacy request. We never sell, rent, or trade reader email addresses to marketing lists or data brokers.

Important Reminder: Because standard internet email is not an encrypted clinical portal, never send personal medical symptoms, lab reports, Social Security numbers, insurance ID numbers, or Protected Health Information (PHI) to our email addresses.

7. U.S. State Privacy Rights (Indiana ICDPA, California CCPA/CPRA & Other States)

Depending on your state of residence—including Indiana, California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Iowa, Delaware, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Minnesota, Maryland, and other states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws—you have specific statutory rights regarding your personal information:

Indiana Residents — Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (ICDPA)

Under the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (Indiana Code § 24-15, effective January 1, 2026), eligible Indiana consumers have the right to:

• Confirm whether a controller is processing the consumer's personal data and access such personal data;
• Correct inaccuracies in personal data previously provided by the consumer;
• Request deletion of personal data provided by or obtained about the consumer;
• Obtain a portable copy or representative summary of personal data previously provided; and
• Opt out of the processing of personal data for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

California Residents — CCPA / CPRA Rights ("Do Not Sell or Share")

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), California residents have the Right to Know, Right to Delete, Right to Correct, Right to Non-Discrimination, and the Right to Opt Out of the "Sale" or "Sharing" of Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising. While Premier Urgent Care Guide never sells names, emails, or health calculator inputs for money, allowing third-party ad networks such as Google AdSense to place personalized advertising cookies may be classified as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under California law. You may opt out at any time using the Cookie Preferences control above ("Essential Only"), enabling the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal in a supported browser, or adjusting Google Ads Settings.

8. European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom & Swiss Visitors (GDPR)

Although our publication is tailored primarily to patients in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the United States, visitors accessing our Site from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland enjoy rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR:

• Legal Bases for Processing: We rely on legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) to deliver secure, fast-loading web pages and protect infrastructure from cyberattacks, and on consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) where required for non-essential advertising cookies.
• Your Data Subject Rights: You have the right to request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, to object to processing, and to withdraw cookie consent at any time without affecting prior lawful processing.

9. Children's Privacy (COPPA — Under Age 13)

PremierUrgentCareFW.com is written for adults, parents, and adult caregivers. Even where our guides discuss pediatric topics (such as infant fever cutoffs, middle ear infections, or IHSAA school sports physical checklists), those resources are intended strictly for adult parents and guardians. We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or store personal information from children under 13 years of age in compliance with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If you believe a child under 13 has sent personal information to one of our email addresses, please contact [email protected] immediately so we can permanently delete the message.

10. Data Security, Policy Changes & How to Contact Us

We enforce HTTPS/TLS encryption in transit across all pages of PremierUrgentCareFW.com, minimize server-side software dependencies, and avoid storing sensitive user records. Whenever we update this Privacy Policy to reflect new regulatory requirements or site features, we will post the revised Policy at this URL and update the Effective Date at the top of the page.

To exercise any state or international privacy right, appeal a privacy request decision, or ask a question about our privacy practices, contact our Privacy Desk:

• Email: [email protected]
• Subject Line: Privacy Rights Request — PremierUrgentCareFW.com
• Response Timeframe: We acknowledge privacy inquiries within 5 business days and complete verified statutory requests within 30 to 45 days as required by applicable law.