NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
If you have any questions about this notice, please contact:
Front office personnel at 914-593-0300
A. OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
Our practice is dedicated to maintaining the privacy of your medical information. In conducting our business, we will create electronic records regarding your medical information for Commercial Driver Fitness Determination.
These records are our property. However, we are required by law:
To maintain the confidentiality of your medical information.
To provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices concerning your medical information.
To follow the terms of our notice of privacy practices in effect at the time.
To summarize, this notice provides you with the following important information:
∙ How we may use and disclose your medical information.
∙ Your privacy rights in your medical information.
∙ Our obligations concerning the use and disclosure of your medical information.
CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE
The terms of this notice apply to all records containing your medical information that are created or retained by us. We reserve the right to revise, change, or amend our notice of privacy practices. Any revision or amendment to this notice will be effective for all of the information that we already have about you, as well as any of your medical information that we may receive, create, or maintain in the future. Our practice will post a copy of our current notice in our offices in a prominent location, and you may request a copy of our most current notice during any visit to our offices.
B. HOW WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR MEDICAL INFORMATION
The following categories describe the different ways in which we may use and disclose your medical information. Please note that each particular use or disclosure is not listed below. However, the different ways we are permitted to use and disclose your medical information do fall within one of the categories.
Payment. Our practice may use and disclose your medical information in order to bill and collect payment for the services and items you may receive from us. For example, we may contact your union or employer to certify that you are eligible for benefits (and for what range of benefits). We also may use and disclose your medical information to obtain payment from third parties that may be responsible for such costs, such as family members. Also, we may use your medical information to bill you directly for services and items.
Required by Law. We will use or disclose medical information about you when required by applicable law.
Lawsuits and Similar Proceedings. Our practice may use and disclose your medical information in response to a court order, if you are involved in a lawsuit or similar proceeding.
Law Enforcement. We may release medical information for law enforcement purposes if served with a court order.
Coroners, Medical Examiners, and Funeral Directors. Our practice may release medical information to a coroner or medical examiner. This may be necessary, for example, to identify a deceased person or to determine the cause of death. We may also release medical information about patients to funeral directors as necessary to carry out their duties.
Organ and Tissue Donation. We may use or disclose your medical information to organizations that handle organ and tissue procurement, banking, or transplantation.
Serious Threats to Health or Safety. Our practice may use and disclose your medical information when necessary to reduce or prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of another individual or the public. Under these circumstances, we will only make disclosures to a person or practice able to help prevent the threat.
Specialized Government Functions. Our practice may disclose your medical information if you are a member of U.S. or foreign military forces (including veterans) and if required by the appropriate military command authorities. In addition, our practice may disclose your medical information to federal officials for intelligence and national security activities authorized by law. We also may disclose your medical information to federal officials in order to protect the President, other officials or foreign heads of state, or to conduct investigations.
Furthermore, our practice may disclose your medical information to correctional institutions or law enforcement officials if you are an inmate or under the custody of a law enforcement official. Disclosure for these purposes would be necessary: (i) for the institution to provide health care services to you, (ii) for the safety and security of the institution, and/or (iii) to protect your health and safety or the health and safety of other individuals.
C. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR MEDICAL INFORMATION
You have the following rights regarding the medical information that we maintain about you:
Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice. If you received this notice in electronic form (e.g., e mail), you are entitled to receive a paper copy of our notice of privacy practices. You may ask us to give you a copy of this notice at any time. To obtain a paper copy of this notice, contact Clarity Testing at (914)345-3135.
Right to File a Complaint. If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with our practice or with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. To file a complaint with our practice, contact Lauren Altholz, RN. All complaints must be submitted in writing.
You will not be penalized or retaliated against for filing a complaint.
Right to Provide an Authorization for Other Uses and Disclosures. Our practice will obtain your written authorization for uses and disclosures that are not identified by this notice or are not permitted by applicable law. Any authorization you provide to us regarding the use and disclosure of your medical information may be revoked at any time in writing. After you revoke your authorization, we will no longer use or disclose your medical information for the reasons described in the authorization. Of course, we are unable to take back any disclosures that we have already made with your permission. Please note that we are required to retain records of your care.
D. ELECTRONIC PRIVACY AND DISCLOSURE
Westchester Medical Care, PLLC dba Clarity Testing. is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our websites and in using our solutions.
This electronic privacy policy tells you about Clarity Testing’s privacy policies and practices for the collection, use, processing, storage, and disclosure of information that we collect about you through our sites and services. The collection, use, storage, and disclosure of your personal data will be strictly limited to the terms for which you provide your authorization.
Additionally, Clarity Testing is committed to full compliance with all relevant country-specific data privacy laws, which include unambiguous authorizations and consents, model contracts, privacy principles, privacy statements, privacy policies, and country-specific registrations and filings. This electronic privacy policy covers the Clarity Testing
websitehttp://www.skyboxsecurity.com/ https://www.cdlmedicals.com
Information That We Collect and Use. We collect personal information from you as submitted through the various forms on the website. Examples of personal information are name, telephone number, e-mail address, company name, social security number, and so on.
All data is encrypted “in-motion” (traveling from our website to your device, and back) using a secure sockets layer (SSL) 256-bit encrypted connection.
Unless otherwise set forth herein, Clarity Testing Services, Inc. does not share, sell, rent, or trade personal data with third parties for their promotional purposes or for any purposes without your explicit consent.
Legal Disclaimer. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
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