Privacy Policy

Office Privacy Policy
Under Federal Law, your patient Health information is confidential and protected.  Patient Health Information includes information about your diagnosis, symptoms, mental health and medical treatment, test results, and any related pertinent information. Your health information also includes insurance, payment, billing, and payment information.

We only use health information about your treatment for health and mental health operations, and to obtain payment. This may include the evaluation of the quality or mental health care you receive and for administrative purposes. 

When you arrive at your visit, we will give you a copy of HIPPA Notice of Privacy Practices. Under no circumstance will your personal or medical information be released without your consent.
 

Web Site Use Policy
When using our website, we have devised this privacy statement to provide our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information by those visiting and interacting with our web site. We are committed to uphold the privacy of your personal information with the upmost regard. Below you will fine our information dissemination practices for this website and the gathering of your information.

We realize the importance of protecting your privacy and this policy is designated to assist you in the understanding of how we use and collect data and how we safeguard the personal information you have provided to us either online or in office. This policy is continuously assessed so it can be updated to improve the content using new technologies, patient needs and best business practices. 

Many commercial web sites use cookies, our web site utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and web server log files to collect information about how our web site is being used. Information that is gathered through cookies and web server logs can include dates and time of visits, the pages that are viewed, amount of time spent at our web site, and the web sites visited just before and after our website 

Explaining cookies: A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a web site, the person’s computer visiting the website asks that site’s computer for permission to store this file in a part on your hard drive which is specifically designated for cookies. When allowed in a computer’s browser preferences, each web site can send its own cookie, in order to protect your privacy your browser only allows a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

 

*Browsers are usually set to accept cookies.

 

If you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may change the configuration of your browser and refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site may not function as well when viewed by the users. A cookie cannot obtain any other data from your hard drive or transfer it on as computer viruses. 

As you visit and browse our web site, the site uses cookies to differentiate other users from you. In some instances, cookies allow you to log in more often than is needed for security. Cookies, in connection with the web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the overall number of people visiting our web site and provides information for which parts of the site is most popular. The collection of data helps provide feedback to continually improve our web site and provide the best mental health service to our patients.  Cookies do not provide any personal information about you, and we do not deliberately store any personal information that your browser provided to us in your cookies.

How do we use collected information? 
When visiting this website, you may provide both personal information with your knowledge that you choose to disclose to us and is collected on an individual basis, and Web site information that is collected as a corporation as you and others browse this Web site. The personal information you choose to provide includes registration information about yourself, credit card information which may be required to pay for services in which your personal information and credit card information is authorized to obtain information from various credit card entities. If you choose to communicate with us through email, we may keep the content of your email correspondence as well as our replies.

 

These communications are protected the same as communication received by telephone and by mail.  Your personal information is used solely for the purposes of business activities to provide the products and services that you have requested, to monitor the use of services, marketing, and promotional communications to improve your mental health care services, custom tailor our sites services, and informational content and design and for other purposes required by law. 

The collected information may be shared on a collective basis with others. Your identifiable information, whether personal or business will never be shared with other parties except when required by law. Periodically, we may also use the information to notify you of services, policies or changes to the website that may benefit your care. 

IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as traffic data so that data from web pages can be sent to you.

We do not share and sell information
We do not sell, lease, or share, any of the information that uniquely identifies a subscriber including but not limited to email addresses and mailing addressed with anyone except to the degree that it is necessary to provide care or process transactions related to your treatment that you have requested. 

How to correct or access your information
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information maintained in our data base from your patient portal. If you are not signed up for the patient portal and wish to be please call the office for instructions. 

Legal disclosure of information
We reserve the right to disclose information when legally compelled to do so or in good faith, it is believed that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights. We also reserve the right to disclose account information when it is believed that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone who is possibly violating our Terms of Service or to protect the safety of the general public, and those who visit our site. 

Linked websites
Websites are often linked to other websites. When leaving our site using any link that takes you to a different website gives you the responsibility for the privacy policy of that particular website and our Privacy policy no longer in effect but rather subjects you to the rules and polices of that website. Other websites may have a link to our website to provide information that may be helpful to users of our website, in which are not responsible for the practices of websites linked to us or for the content on those websites. Please read the privacy policies for any other websites before proceeding within that site. 

By using our website, you are giving consent to the collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time with or without notice.

Data Security
Please note that your information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United States. The laws on holding personal data in the United States may be less stringent than the laws of your Country of residence or citizenship. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Choosing to opt in/out of correspondence
You are allowed to unsubscribe from this site so you will not receive future messages. Once you unsubscribe, messages will discontinue sending the particular messages as soon as technically appropriate.

Children
Children must be supervised for our services under the age of 14. Please do not submit personal information. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in communication with permission and guidance from your parents or guardians. We prefer you contact the office for minor children. 

Should changes in ownership occur
If the web site or its assets is acquired or changes in ownership take place, your information would be considered part of those assets and may be transferred during that transition at which time protected information would still remain under the same measures of protection. 

Policy changes
The Privacy Policy may change at any time. Changes will be posted here as they are made. If a policy is changes email information will be sent out to those who have given prior permission to receive such correspondence and will be given at the time of your visit. Any future Privacy Polices will still uphold the utmost regard to the protection of patient data.