HPM PRIVACY AND SECURITY STATEMENT
Thank you for visiting the HIPAA Privacy Workgroups Website and
reviewing our privacy and security statement. This website is owned
and maintained by Healthcare Provider Management (HPM). HPM is
strongly committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal
information and the security of our computer systems. With respect
to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information, HPM
makes every effort to ensure compliance with applicable Federal law,
including, but not limited to, the Privacy Act of 1974, the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and the Freedom of Information Act.
Healthcare Provider Management does not collect
personally-identifying information about you when you visit our
site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
When attending our seminars, participating in our
teleconferences, purchasing our publications, using some of our
websites and signing up for certain selected services, users must
first register. During registration, users are required to give
their contact information (such as name, e-mail address, mailing
address and phone number). We also may collect demographic
information (such as job title, company information and professional
certification). For internal purposes, we use this information to
communicate with users and provide requested services, and, for our
website visitors, to provide a more personalized experience on our
sites. We use aggregate demographic information about our audience
to improve our service, for marketing purposes and/or industry
reporting purposes.
For our publications and services that require payment, we
sometimes collect credit card information (such as account name,
number and expiration date), which is used for billing purposes
only, and is not otherwise shared.
We have features where users can submit information to us (such
as our evaluations and feedback forms), but such information is
never made public in an identifiable form without the author’s
permission. Requests for service, support or information may be
forwarded as needed to best respond to a specific request. We may
retain e-mails and other information sent to us for our internal
administrative purposes, and
to help us to serve customers better.
Our web sites have features that automatically collect
information from users. For our internal purposes, we gather date,
time, browser type, navigation history and IP address of all
visitors to our site. This information does not contain anything
that can identify users personally. We use this information for our
internal security audit log, trend analysis and system
administration, and to gather broad demographic information about
our user base for aggregate use. This data is never shared without
outside entities.
WITH WHOM YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED
When we have co-branded, customized, private label, powered by or
sponsored
products and services, or when we join with other parties to
provide
specific services, we may share (provide and receive) personal
information
with them. We do not share online contact or credit card
information with such third parties.
We never provide names, offline and online contact information
for marketing purposes to third parties.
We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber
at registration with site usage data to provide general profiles, in
aggregate non-personally identifiable form, about our users and
their preferences in the content of the site and advertising. We
never share individually identifiable demographic information with
our advertisers and business affiliates.
Other than as set forth above, we do not share personally
identifiable information with other companies, apart from those
acting as our agents in providing our product(s)/service(s), and
which agree to use it only for that purpose and to keep the
information secure and confidential. Also, our subsidiary and
affiliate companies, entities into which our company may be merged,
or entities to which any of our assets, products, sites or
operations may be transferred, will be able to use personal
information. We will also disclose information we maintain when
required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order
or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a law
enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have
reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or
unintentionally) our rights or property. Users should also be aware
that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, might have
the authority under certain circumstances to permit personal
information to be shared or transferred to third parties without
permission.
We may share aggregate information, which is not personally
identifiable, with others. This information may include usage and
demographic data, but it will not include personal information.
SECURITY
We use reasonable precautions to protect our users' personal
information and to store it securely. Sensitive information that is
transmitted to us online (such as credit card number) is encrypted
and is transmitted to us securely. In addition, access to all of our
users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned
above, is restricted. Only employees who need the information to
perform a specific job (for example, a billing clerk or a customer
service representative) are granted access to personally
identifiable information. Finally, the servers on which we store
personally identifiable information are kept in a secure
environment.
LINKS
Our web sites contain links to other sites. HPM is not
responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other
sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site
and to read the privacy statements of each web site to which we may
link that may collect personally identifiable information.
NOTIFICATION and CHANGES
If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on
this page so our users are aware of what information we collect, how
we use it and under which circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Users should check this policy frequently to keep abreast of any
changes.
For questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this
site or any dealings with Healthcare Provider Management, Inc.,
contact us at:
Healthcare Provider Management, Inc.
P. O. Box 66776
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70896
Telephone: 1-800-841-8240
Facsimile: 225-765-7223
E-mail:
Info@HIPAAPrivacyWorkGroups.com
