The Acute Family
Medicine Clinic Online Privacy Policy has been developed as an extension
of our commitment to combine the finest quality care and service with the
highest level of integrity in dealing with our patients. This Policy
guides how we collect, store and use information obtained through our
website, and it will be periodically assessed against current business
practices and our patients' changing needs.
The Acute Family
Medicine Clinic may, from time to time, modify this Online Privacy Policy
to reflect legal, technological and other developments. In that event the
changes will appear at this location.
Our Policy
recognizes two kinds of personal data. Personally-Identifiable
Information includes, for example, e-mail addresses. The second
category, Sensitive Data, requires additional safeguards. Sensitive
Data includes, by way of example, Social Security numbers, personal
financial data, and information about a patient’s specific medical
condition.
The Acute Family
Medicine Clinic is committed to using all reasonable efforts to abide by
the following Policy Statement:
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Collection.
Personally-Identifiable Information will only be collected to the extent
that the Acute Family Medicine Clinic (AFMC) deems reasonably necessary
to serve a legitimate business purpose. Please be aware that if you
provided your email address through our Grand Opening Advisory system,
you will in the future be receiving email from us pertaining to our
grand opening, and may receive additional informational emails from time
to time thereafter. It is our strict policy that email addresses
collected through this system will never be sold or given to any party
outside of the AFMC, for any reason.
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Sensitive Data:
Data including our patients’
names, physical or mailing contact information, medical conditions and
treatments will not be stored or maintained at any time or in any
fashion on our domain web server. Patients should not include any such
Sensitive Data in any email to AFMC, as our email server does not
provide encryption for the purpose of transmitting confidential or
private correspondence.
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Visitor Tracking:
We do not have in place, nor do
we anticipate implementing any technology to track movement within or
otherwise identify visitors to the AFMC website.
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Opt Out.
If you have previously provided your email address through our Grand
Opening Advisory system, and do not now wish to receive emails or
information from AFMC, you can be permanently removed from the system at
any time by emailing our online Customer Service department at:
customerservice@acutefamilymedicine.com.
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Updates or Changes to
Personally-Identifiable Information:
You can additionally correct, update, or change the email address you
have previously provided by emailing:
customerservice@acutefamilymedicine.com. If your change request is
sent from an email address other than that you previously provided,
please include the original email address in your request.
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Links to Websites Outside of Our
Domain. The AFMC
website may contain links to websites/information outside of our domain
(www.acutefamilymedicine.com)
which we feel is pertinent and/or useful to our patients. AFMC is in no
way responsible for the content or update of information outside of our
domain and consequently outside of our control.
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Practice Privacy Policies:
Please see also our
Confidentiality and Privacy Policy
in compliance with the
AAFP Policy on
Patient Confidentiality, and the
Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA).
Questions or
Comments?
The Acute Family Medicine Clinic Online Privacy Policy has been developed
out of respect for the privacy preferences and choices of our patients and
the visitors to our site. We have established procedures to ensure that
every reasonable effort is made to address your concerns. Questions or
comments about our online privacy policy should be directed to
customerservice@acutefamilymedicine.com.
