Privacy Policy
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Easter Seals Online Network Privacy Policy Last Updated April 3, 2006Notification of Change Welcome to the Easter Seals Online Network, the Web site of Easter Seals, Inc. (Easter Seals headquarters) and participating Easter Seals affiliates across the country. Because Easter Seals values the privacy of constituents visiting the Easter Seals Online Network, users of the Easter Seals Online Network have the right to manage their own personal information. You can contact Easter Seals for more information related to the privacy of the information you provide online:
Notification of Change The Information We Collect Easter Seals has partnered with Convio, Inc. to power the Web content, email and transaction processing capabilities to serve our constituents and fulfill our mission on the Internet. Convio, Inc. is an Internet software and services company that provides online electronic Constituent Relationship Management (eCRM) solutions for nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions. Convio will not disclose your name or other personally identifiable information (such as your e-mail address or phone number) to any party other than Easter Seals. Neither Easter Seals nor Convio store sensitive information such as credit card numbers. When an online transaction is completed through the Easter Seals Online Network, such as a charitable contribution, credit card information is used solely for the purpose of completing that specific transaction and is not retained in the Easter Seals or Convio database. Easter Seals will not sell, share or exchange personal contact information collected from this Web site with other organizations. If a user has a previous relationship with Easter Seals through another channel (i.e., mail, phone), Easter Seals will occasionally rent or exchange those names and addresses with other organizations as a way of providing extra funds to help support services. If you do not want to participate in this program, please let us know. Visitors to the Easter Seals Online Network are not required to share any personally identifiable information. Users who do not wish to share personal information when visiting the Easter Seals Online Network can still access the Network's Web pages and the valuable information provided. Opting Out If you would like to opt-out of receiving email communications please update your user profile. Email unsubscribe requests are processed immediately. To discontinue the receipt of postal mail, please contact Easter Seals. Shortly, Easter Seals will be adding the capability to remove your name from our postal mailing list online. You'll need to register as user of the Easter Seals Online Network. Please note: there is a 8-12 week lapse period due to the fact that a subsequent mailing may already be in production. If you do receive another mailing, please disregard it. Your California Privacy Rights Correct/Update Your Profile Easter Seals reserves the right to maintain information on users who have had their access to the Easter Seals Online Network blocked. Aggregate Information Cookies Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. If you would like to turn this feature off, you will need to change the settings of your Internet browser. Security of Your Information Easter Seals also protects account information by placing it on a secure portion of the Easter Seals Online Network that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of Easter Seals. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Easter Seals strives to protect your information, however cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information. Tell-A-Friend, Ecards and Personal Fundraising Pages Links to Other Web Sites In addition, please be aware that Easter Seals is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other Web sites. Easter Seals encourages you to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that requests personal information from you. Information from Children Transmission of Health-Related Data |
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU* MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. *The use of "you" or "your" throughout this notice and all of this agency's HIPAA documentation can also be understood to mean your child when your child is the consumer and you are the legal guardian. Please review it carefully. If you have any questions about this notice, please contact: Our Pledge Regarding Health Information We are required by law to:
How We May Use and Disclose Information About You For Treatment: We may use health information about you to provide you with health care treatment or services. We may disclose health information about you to therapists, doctors, nurses, technicians, health students or other personnel who are involved in taking care of you. They may work at our agency or at a doctor's office, lab, pharmacy or other health care provider to whom we may refer you for consultation, to take x-rays, to perform lab tests, to have prescriptions filled, or for other treatment purposes. For Payment: We may use and disclose health information about you so that the treatment and services you receive from us may be billed to and payment collected from you, an insurance company or a third party. For example, we may need to give your health plan information about your office visit so your health plan will pay us or reimburse you for the visit. We may also tell your health plan about a treatment you are going to receive to obtain prior approval or to determine whether your plan will cover the treatment. For Health Care Operations: We may use and disclose health information about you for operations of our health care practice. These uses and disclosures are necessary to run our practice and make sure that all of our consumers receive quality care. For example, we may use health information to review our treatment and services and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you. We may also combine health information about many consumers to decide what additional services we should offer, what services are not needed, whether certain new treatments are effective, or to compare how we are doing with others and to see where we can make improvements. We may remove information that identifies you from this set of health information so others may use it to study health care delivery without learning who our specific consumers are. Fundraising Activities: We may use health information about you to contact you in an effort to raise money for our not-for-profit operations. We may disclose health information to a foundation related to our practice so that the foundation may contact you in raising money for our practice. We only will release contact information such as your name, address and phone number and the dates you received treatment or services from us. Please let us know if you do not want us to contact you for such fundraising efforts. As Required By Law. We will disclose health information about you when required to do so by federal, state or local law. To Avert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety. We may use and disclose health information about you when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person. Any disclosure, however, would only be to someone able to help prevent the threat. Public Health Risks. We may disclose health information about you for public health activities. These activities generally include the following:
Lawsuits and Disputes. If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may disclose health information about you in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose health information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested. Law Enforcement. We may release health information if asked to do so by a law enforcement official:
Coroners, Health Examiners and Funeral Directors. We may release health information to a coroner or health examiner. This may be necessary, for example, to identify a deceased person or determine the cause of death. We may also release health information about consumers to funeral directors as necessary to carry out their duties. Your Rights Regarding Health Information About You Right to Inspect and Copy: You have the right to inspect and copy health information that may be used to make decisions about your care. Usually, this includes health and billing records. To inspect and copy health information that may be used to make decisions about you, you must submit your request in writing to Deborah Hill, CFO, Easter Seals Eastern PA, 1501 Lehigh Street, Suite 201, Allentown, PA 18103. If you request a copy of the information, we may charge a fee for the costs of copying, mailing or other supplies and services associated with your request. We may deny your request to inspect and copy in certain very limited circumstances. If you are denied access to health information, you may request that the denial be reviewed. Another professional chosen by our agency will review your request and the denial. The person conducting the review will not be the person who denied your request. We will comply with the outcome of the review. Right to Amend. If you feel that health information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend the information. You have the right to request an amendment for as long as we keep the information. To request an amendment, your request must be made in writing, submitted to Deborah Hill, CFO, Easter Seals Eastern PA, 1501 Lehigh Street, Suite 201, Allentown, Pa 18103, and must be contained on one page of paper legibly handwritten or typed in at least 10 point font size. In addition, you must provide a reason that supports your request for an amendment. We may deny your request for an amendment if it is not in writing or does not include a reason to support the request. In addition, we may deny your request if you ask us to amend information that:
Any amendment we make to your health information will be disclosed to those with whom we disclose information as previously specified. Right to an Accounting of Disclosures. You have the right to request a list accounting for any disclosures of your health information we have made, except for uses and disclosures for treatment, payment, and health care operations, as previously described. To request this list of disclosures, you must submit your request in writing to Deborah Hill, CFO, Easter Seals Eastern PA, 1501 Lehigh Street, Suite 201, Allentown, PA 18103. Your request must state a time period which may not be longer than six years and may not include dates before April 14, 2003. The first list you request within a 12 month period will be free. For additional lists, we may charge you for the costs of providing the list. We will notify you of the cost involved and you may choose to withdraw or modify your request at that time before any costs are incurred. We will mail you a list of disclosures in paper form within 30 days of your request, or notify you if we are unable to supply the list within that time period and by what date we can supply the list; but this date will not exceed a total of 60 days from the date you made the request. Right to Request Restrictions. You have the right to request a restriction or limitation on the health information we use or disclose about you for treatment, payment, or health care operations. You also have the right to request a limit on the health information we disclose about you to someone who is involved in your care or the payment for your care, such as a family member or friend. For example, you could ask that we restrict a specified therapist or teacher from use of your information. We are not required to agree to your request for restrictions if it is not feasible for us to ensure our compliance or believe it will negatively impact the care we may provide you. If we do agree, we will comply with your request unless the information is needed to provide you emergency treatment. To request a restriction, you must make your request in writing to Deborah Hill,CFO, Easter Seals Eastern PA, 1501 Lehigh Street, Suite 201, Allentown, PA 18103. In your request, you must tell us what information you want to limit and to whom you want the limits to apply. Right to Request Confidential Communications. You have the right to request that we communicate with you about health matters in a certain way or at a certain location. For example, you can ask that we only contact you at work or by mail to a post office box. To request confidential communications, you must make your request in writing to Deborah Hill, CFO, Easter Seals Eastern PA, 1501 Lehigh Street, Suite 201, Allentown, PA 18103. We will not ask you the reason for your request. We will accommodate all reasonable requests. Your request must specify how or where you wish to be contacted. Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice. You have the right to obtain a paper copy of this notice at any time. To obtain a copy, please request it from Deborah Hill, CFO, Easter Seals Eastern PA, 1501 Lehigh Street, Suite 201, Allentown, PA 18103, deborah.hill@easterseals-easternpa.org. If we know that the electronic message has failed to be delivered, a paper copy of the notice will be provided. Even if you have received a notice electronically, you still retain the right to receive a paper copy upon request. Changes To This Notice Complaints Other Uses of Health Information Acknowledgement of Receipt of This Notice
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