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Our goal is to take appropriate steps to attempt to safeguard any medical or other personal information that is provided to us. The Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) requires us to: (i) maintain the privacy of medical information provided to us; (ii) provide notice of our legal duties and privacy practices; and (iii) abide by the terms of our Notice of Privacy Practices currently in effect.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Internet Privacy Policy governs our data collection, processing and usage practices. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this Internet Privacy Policy. You are free to explore the website without providing any information about yourself. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Internet Privacy Policy, you should not use the website.
In the ordinary course of receiving treatment and health care services from us, you will be providing us with personal information such as:
In addition, we will gather certain medical information about you and will create a record of the care provided to you. Some information also may be provided to us by other individuals or organizations that are part of your “circle of care” – such as the referring physician, your other doctors, your health plan, and close friends or family members.
We may use and disclose personal and identifiable health information about you for a variety of purposes. All of the types of uses and disclosures of information are described below, but not every use or disclosure in a category is listed.
We are required to obtain written authorization from you for any other uses and disclosures of medical information other than those described above. If you provide us with such permission, you may revoke that permission, in writing, at any time. If you revoke your permission, we will no longer use or disclose personal information about you for the reasons covered by your written authorization, except to the extent we have already relied on your original permission.
We reserve the right to make changes to this notice at any time. We reserve the right to make the revised notice effective for personal health information we have about you as well as any information we receive in the future. In the event there is a material change to this notice, the revised notice will be posted. In addition, you may request a copy of the revised notice at any time.
If you have any complaints concerning our privacy practices, you may contact the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services at 200 Independence Avenue S.W., Room 509F, HHH Building, Washington, D.C. 20201 (e-mail: [email protected]). You may also contact: Privacy Officer, Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates, 9157 Huebner Rd., San Antonio, TX 78240.
YOU WILL NOT BE RETALIATED AGAINST OR PENALIZED BY US FOR FILING A COMLAINT.
To obtain more information concerning this notice, you may contact our Privacy Officer at 9157 Huebner Rd., San Antonio, TX 78240.
This notice is effective as of April 13, 2003.
This Privacy Policy pertains only to this website and its practices for data collection, processing and usage. Practices and policies related to patients’ healthcare information is a separate matter, which is covered in our Patient Information section on this website.
Privacy Policy Regarding This Website
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Internet Privacy Policy governs our data collection, processing and usage practices. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this Internet Privacy Policy. You are free to explore the website without providing any information about yourself. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Internet Privacy Policy, you should not use the website.
We may update this Internet Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version online. You should check this page occasionally to review any changes. Your continued use of the websites, the subscription service and/or continued provision of personal information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current Internet Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about this Internet Privacy Policy or our treatment of the information you provide us, please write to us by email at [email protected] or by postal mail at 9157 Huebner Rd, San Antonio, TX 78240.
This website is not intended for or targeted to children under 13, and we do not knowingly or intentionally collect information about children under 13. If you believe that we have collected information about a child under 13, please contact us so that we may delete the information.
We will never sell your personal information to any third party.
We may post patient testimonials and comments on our website that may contain personal information. We obtain each patient’s individual consent via email and/or signed release prior to posting the patient’s name and testimonial.
We employ other companies and people to provide services to website visitors and patients, and on occasion we may need to share your information in a HIPAA-compliant manner. In all cases where we share your information with such agents, we explicitly require the agent to acknowledge and adhere to our policies for Internet privacy and the handling of patient data.
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We secure the personal information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When sensitive personal information is collected on our website and/or transmitted to another website, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Our website includes social media features (such as the Facebook “like” button), widgets (such as the “share this” button) or interactive mini-programs that run on our sites. These features may collect your IP address and which pages you visit on our sites, and they may set a “cookie” to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. This Internet Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the Internet Privacy Policy and other policies of the companies providing them.
Our website may provide links to other websites. We do not control — and are not responsible for — the content or practices of these other websites. Our provision of such links does not constitute our endorsement of these other websites, their content, their owners or their practices. This Internet Privacy Policy does not apply to these other websites, which are subject to those entities’ privacy policies and other policies.
We may use “cookies,” log files, clear gifs or other technologies to help personalize your online experience. For example, a cookie can help us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Other technologies allow us to determine which email subscribers click through and read our newsletters.
Our email list is “opt-in,” meaning that you must choose to receive communications from us. This also means that you may unsubscribe from our marketing communications at any time, which can be done simply by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of our emails or by sending us an email at [email protected].