Our website address is: https://bradshamis.com
Dr Brad Shamis & Associates (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
The privacy and security of Patients’ individually identifiable health information provided to Company in connection with Services may be protected by federal law (HIPAA, the HITECH Act, and their regulations) and state privacy laws, because Company provides Services to health care providers. This health information is “protected health information” (“PHI”). PHI may be used and disclosed by Company as necessary to provide Services, for our own management and operations, to meet our legal obligations, and for any other purpose for which Patients have given consent. We may share PHI with third parties for these purposes in compliance with applicable law. We may de-identify PHI and aggregate it for purposes of monitoring and improving our Education Content or access to Telemedicine Services, for benchmarking purposes, and to provide customized services or technologies our customers.
We use the information that we gather about you for the following purposes:
We have implemented reasonable technical, physical, administrative, and organizational safeguards to protect the information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your log-in and password private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.
You may modify registration information that you have submitted by logging into your account and updating your profile information. Please note that copies of information that you have updated, modified or deleted may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Website for a period of time.
We may send periodic promotional or informational emails to you. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the e-mail. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you e-mails about your account or any Telemedicine Services you have requested or received from us.
All information we collect on this Website is subject to our Privacy Policy. By using the Website, you consent to all actions taken by us with respect to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy.
Protected health information (PHI) is information that includes, but is not limited to, identifying data such as name, social security number, address, contact information, as well as information about personal health issues submitted through the Telemedicine Services. Personally identifiable information may include all such types of information, except for health- or health-care-specific information. This is the information we work our best to protect.
We will only collect information that is voluntarily submitted by you. Your privacy is important to us and we believe in keeping confidential any and all personally identifiable information that identifies an individual whether or not it relates to an individual’s past, present, or future physical or mental health condition.
Company is permitted to use and disclose your PHI for purposes of treatment, payment and healthcare operations.
We may share Protected Health Information (PHI) as it is allowed by the law and as it is authorized by you. In certain cases, we employ other third parties to perform Telemedicine Services on our behalf and they will have access to your PHI as needed to perform these Telemedicine Services.
We may invite you to post content on our Website though Interactive Services, including your comments Company cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy. As a result, you should never post any sensitive information to our Website that you are not comfortable sharing publicly (e.g., personal medical details). Company is not liable to you or any other person for any content or information you post to our Website or the use or disclosure of such content or information by other users or third parties.
Our Website and Telemedicine Services may contain links to third-party websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which Dr Brad Shamis & Associates collects and uses your information described below, your choices and rights regarding such use, please do not hesitate to contact us at: