Privacy Policy
Ensuring Your Privacy and Confidentiality
Your privacy and confidentiality are our top priorities. Our policy ensures that all team members uphold the confidentiality of patient information while maintaining the necessary details to deliver exceptional care. We are dedicated to safeguarding your right to privacy.
We handle your protected health information in compliance with state and federal laws, as detailed in our Notice of Privacy Practices. We will not disclose your care and treatment information without your consent, except as mandated by law. Confidentiality exceptions include:
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Suspected abuse or neglect of a child or elder
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Immediate threat of self-harm
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Potentially harmful actions towards yourself or others
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Legal court orders
Privacy Policy - the basics
Having said that, a privacy policy is a statement that discloses some or all of the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, processes, and manages the data of its visitors and customers. It usually also includes a statement regarding the website’s commitment to protecting its visitors’ or customers’ privacy, and an explanation about the different mechanisms the website is implementing in order to protect privacy.
Different jurisdictions have different legal obligations of what must be included in a Privacy Policy. You are responsible to make sure you are following the relevant legislation to your activities and location.
What to include in the Privacy Policy
Generally speaking, a Privacy Policy often addresses these types of issues: the types of information the website is collecting and the manner in which it collects the data; an explanation about why is the website collecting these types of information; what are the website’s practices on sharing the information with third parties; ways in which your visitors an customers can exercise their rights according to the relevant privacy legislation; the specific practices regarding minors’ data collection; and much much more.
To learn more about this, check out our article “Creating a Privacy Policy”.