Notice of Privacy Practices
(Policy as of 8/31/07)
Keeping our client's personal health information secure is a top priority for us. While information is the cornerstone of our ability to provide superior Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) services, our most important asset is our client's trust. This notice tells you how we collect, handle, and disclose personal health information about you. If you want to limit our disclosing of this information, please submit your wishes to us in writing. Please contact our privacy officer, Dara Bergen, if you have any questions.
Our Policies and Practices to Protect Your Personal Health Information
We protect personal health information we collect about you by maintaining physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that meet or exceed applicable law.
Protected Health Information We Collect and May Disclose
The protected health information we collect about you comes from the following sources:
- Information received from your physician or other healthcare provider.
- Information we receive from you while providing MNT services and on enrollment forms, assessment surveys, or other forms.
- Information we receive from other sources such as caregiver, insurer, employer and other third parties.
We may disclose any of your protected health information to the following entities as long as this information is directly related to health services or your individual care. These entities include doctors, hospitals, health care providers, pharmacies, insurance companies, family members or other persons involved directly in your individual care.
Protected health information will not be used for marketing, except if the communication is by a staff member directly to you or to provide you with education or promotional material from us.
Your protected health information may be disclosed in the form of a "limited data set" for research, public health, and health care operations. A "limited data set" does not contain any direct identifiers of individuals (e.g. should not include name, address, phone number, social security number, medical number, etc.), but may contain any other demographic or health information needed for research public health or health care operations purposes.
Website-Specific Privacy Practices
Personal information that is collected is used only in ways that are necessary for the proper functioning of the website or in ways that are specifically indicated on pages where the visitor is asked to provide the information. This information will be used only for the use stated and will never be sold or redistributed to third parties for any other purpose unless required by law or otherwise noted on the same page as the data collection form.
As part of the normal functioning of the internet, the web server(s) on which this site resides collect technical information such as the date and time of each visit, the visitor's unique address on the internet (known as the IP address), the type of web browser the visitor is using, and the platform (such as Windows or Mac) the visitor is using. The web server(s) may also record the page the visitor was viewing just before coming to the web site (the "referrer"), if the visitor's web browser provides this information. This information is logged and the logs may be analyzed in an aggregate fashion to better understand the visitors and the way they interact with the web site. This information will be used to improve the web browsing experience of the visitors and will never be sold or redistributed unless required by law.