Notice of Privacy Practices

Advantage Mental Health and Marriage Counseling Inc., a California professional corporation

Effective date: October 24, 2026

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please read it carefully.

Contact us

If you have questions about this notice, want to use any of the rights below, or want to file a complaint with us, contact our Privacy Officer:

Mason Anglin, PsyD, LMFT #121211
Email: masonalmft@gmail.com
Phone: (916) 292-5775
Mail: Advantage Mental Health and Marriage Counseling Inc., Attn: Privacy Officer, 1430 Blue Oaks Blvd, Suite 120, Roseville, CA 95747

Your information. Your rights. Our responsibilities.

Your rights

You have the right to:

Get a copy of your paper or electronic record
Correct your paper or electronic record
Request confidential communication
Ask us to limit the information we share
Get a list of those with whom we have shared your information
Get a copy of this privacy notice
Choose someone to act for you
File a complaint if you believe your privacy rights have been violated

Your choices

You have some choices in the way that we use and share information as we:

Tell family and friends about your condition
Provide disaster relief
Provide mental health care
Market our services and sell your information
Raise funds

Our uses and disclosures

We may use and share your information as we:

Treat you
Run our organization
Bill for your services
Help with public health and safety issues
Do research
Comply with the law
Respond to organ and tissue donation requests
Work with a medical examiner or funeral director
Address workers' compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests
Respond to lawsuits and legal actions

To the extent that we have your substance use disorder patient records, subject to 42 CFR part 2, we will not share that information for investigations or legal proceedings against you without (1) your written consent or (2) a court order and a subpoena.

Your rights

When it comes to your health information, you have certain rights. This section explains your rights and some of our responsibilities to help you.

Get an electronic or paper copy of your record

You can ask to see or get an electronic or paper copy of your record and other health information we have about you. Ask us how to do this.
We will provide a copy or a summary of your health information, usually within 30 days of your request. California law gives you a faster timeline: after a written request, you can inspect your record within 5 working days and receive copies within 15 days. We may charge a reasonable fee based on our cost.
In rare cases, a mental health provider may decline to share part of a record if seeing it would create a substantial risk of significant harm to you. If that happens, we will tell you in writing, and you can ask that a licensed professional of your choice look at the record for you.

Ask us to correct your record

You can ask us to correct health information about you that you think is incorrect or incomplete. Ask us how to do this.
We may say "no" to your request, but we will tell you why in writing within 60 days.
If you are an adult, California law also lets you add a written statement of up to 250 words to your record about any item you believe is incorrect or incomplete.

Request confidential communications

You can ask us to contact you in a specific way (for example, home, office, or cell phone) or to send mail to a different address.
We will say "yes" to all reasonable requests.

Ask us to limit what we use or share

You can ask us not to use or share certain health information for treatment, payment, or our operations. We are not required to agree to your request, and we may say "no" if it could affect your care. If we agree, we may still share the information if you need emergency treatment.
If you pay for a service in full out of pocket, you can ask us not to share information about that service with your health insurer for payment or our operations. We will say "yes" unless a law requires us to share that information.

Get a list of those with whom we have shared information

You can ask for a list (accounting) of the times we have shared your health information for six years before the date you ask, who we shared it with, and why.
We will include all the disclosures except for those about treatment, payment, and health care operations, and certain other disclosures (such as any you asked us to make). We will provide one accounting a year for free but will charge a reasonable fee based on cost if you ask for another one within 12 months.

Get a copy of this privacy notice

You can ask for a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you have agreed to receive the notice electronically. We will provide you with a paper copy promptly.

Choose someone to act for you

If someone has authority to act as your personal representative, such as a legal guardian or someone with your health care power of attorney, that person can exercise your rights and make choices about your health information.
We will make sure the person has this authority and can act for you before we take any action.

File a complaint if you feel your rights are violated

You can complain if you feel we have violated your rights by contacting our Privacy Officer using the information at the top of this notice.
You can file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights by sending a letter to 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, calling (877) 696-6775, or visiting www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint.
We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

Your choices

For certain health information, you can tell us your choices about what we share. If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, talk to us. Tell us what you want us to do, and we will follow your instructions.

In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us to:

Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care or payment for your care
Share information in a disaster relief situation

If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may go ahead and share your information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share your information when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.

In these cases we never share your information unless you give us written permission:

Marketing purposes
Sale of your information
Most sharing of psychotherapy notes

In the case of fundraising: we may contact you for fundraising efforts, but you can tell us not to contact you again. If we have your substance use disorder patient records, subject to 42 CFR part 2, we will give you clear and obvious notice in advance and a choice about whether to receive fundraising communications that use your Part 2 information.

Our uses and disclosures

How do we typically use or share your health information?

Treat you. We can use your health information and share it with other professionals who are treating you. Example: your therapist consults with a clinical supervisor at our practice, or coordinates with your primary care doctor.

Run our organization. We can use and share your health information to run our practice, improve your care, and contact you when necessary. Example: we use health information about you to schedule appointments and manage your treatment.

Bill for your services. We can use and share your health information to bill and get payment from health plans or other entities. Example: we give information about you to your health plan so it will pay for your services.

We may also share information with business associates who perform services for us, such as our electronic health record, scheduling, and billing vendors. They must protect your information under a written agreement.

How else can we use or share your health information?

We are allowed or required to share your information in other ways, usually in ways that contribute to the public good, such as public health and research. We have to meet many conditions in the law before we can share your information for these purposes.

In all cases, including those listed below, if we have substance use disorder patient records about you, subject to 42 CFR part 2, we cannot use or share information in those records in civil, criminal, administrative, or legislative investigations or proceedings against you without (1) your consent or (2) a court order and a subpoena.

Help with public health and safety issues. We can share health information about you for certain situations such as:

Preventing disease
Reporting suspected child abuse or neglect, or abuse of an elder or dependent adult, as California law requires
Preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone's health or safety, including when California law requires us to take steps to protect a reasonably identifiable person from a serious threat of physical violence

Do research. We can use or share your information for health research, only as the law allows.

Comply with the law. We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we are complying with federal privacy law.

Respond to organ and tissue donation requests. We can share health information about you with organ procurement organizations.

Work with a medical examiner or funeral director. We can share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when an individual dies.

Address workers' compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests. We can use or share health information about you:

For workers' compensation claims
For law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official
With health oversight agencies for activities authorized by law
For special government functions such as military, national security, and presidential protective services

Respond to lawsuits and legal actions. We can share health information about you in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena, as the law allows.

California law

California law, including the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (California Civil Code section 56 and following), often gives you more protection than federal law. When California law is stricter, we follow California law. In particular:

Written authorization. We will not share your mental health information without your written authorization unless it is for your treatment, for payment, or another law allows or requires us to share it.
Psychotherapy notes. Separate notes a therapist keeps about the contents of sessions are kept apart from the rest of your record and are shared only with your written authorization, except in the limited cases the law allows.
Minors. In California, a minor who is 12 or older may be able to consent to their own outpatient mental health treatment (California Family Code section 6924 and Health and Safety Code section 124260). When a minor consents to their own care, the minor generally controls access to those records, and a parent or guardian may not be able to see them. A parent's access to a minor's mental health record may also be limited if we decide that access would harm our professional relationship with the minor or the minor's physical safety or psychological well being.
Sensitive services. California law gives added protection to information about sensitive services, such as mental health care, substance use treatment, HIV test results, reproductive health care, and gender affirming care, and limits sharing that information in many situations, including some requests that come from outside California.
Breaches. If your information is involved in a breach, we will notify you as federal and California law require.

Our responsibilities

We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
We will let you know promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and give you a copy of it.
We will not use or share your information other than as described in this notice unless you tell us we can in writing. If you tell us we can, you may change your mind at any time. Let us know in writing if you change your mind.

Changes to the terms of this notice

We can change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be available upon request, in our office, and on our website.

Who this notice covers

This notice applies to Advantage Mental Health and Marriage Counseling Inc. and its clinicians at our Roseville and Fair Oaks offices and by telehealth.