Patient Privacy Policy
MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. THE PRIVACY OF YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT TO US. OUR LEGAL DUTY
Federal and state law requires us to maintain the privacy of your health information. That law also requires us to give you this notice about our privacy practices, our legal duties, and your rights concerning your health information. We must follow the privacy practices we describe in this notice while it is in effect. This notice takes effect April 14, 2003, and will remain in effect until we replace it. We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and the terms of this notice at any time, provided such applicable law permits the changes. We reserve the right to make the changes in our privacy practices and the new terms of our notice effective for all health information that we maintain, including health information we created or received before we made the changes. Before we make a significant change in our privacy practices, we will change this notice and make the new notice available upon request.
This privacy statement is designed to provide information about the privacy and data collection practices for the site WWW.MIAMIOMS.COM . It recognizes that respecting user privacy over the Internet is of utmost importance. The site is operated by MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our site coordinator at [email protected] or by postal mail to:
MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
8940 N. KENDALL DR. SUITE 604E
MIAMI, FL 33176
Identifying Information
In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or providing any information about yourself. In some areas of the Site, we ask you to provide information that will enable us to process an order, offer services that require registration, assist you with technical support issues or to follow up with you. Generally, MIAMI OMS requests identifying information when you:
*Register on any of our web sites.
*Place an order.
*Provide feedback to an online survey or tell us about an idea or suggestion.
*Participate in a rebate program, contest, or other promotional offer.
*Request a SPECIAL SERVICE
*Request information or files from technical support or customer service.
In these instances, MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY will ask for your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and other appropriate information needed to provide you with these services. In all instances, if you receive a newsletter or other mailing from us, you will always be able to “unsubscribe” to these mailings at any time.
What MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY Will Do With Your Information
If you choose to give us personal information for any of the purposes above, this information is retained by MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY and will only be used by MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY to support your customer relationship with us. We will not add you to a mailing list, or newsletter without your registration for this service. We will only contact you if further information is required from you to complete a service.
What Others May Do With Your Information
MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY does not share, rent, or sell any personally identifying information provided through our Site (such as your name or email address) to any outside organization for use in its marketing or solicitations. From time to time MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY may use agents or contractors who will have access to your personal information to perform services for MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY (such as DATABASE MAINTENANCE), however, they are required by us to keep the information confidential and may not use it for any purpose other than to carry out the services for MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY. In addition, MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY may also share aggregate information about its customers and its web site visitors to advertisers, business partners, and other third parties. For example, we might share that our users are x percent PCs users and y percent Macintosh users. None of this information, however, will contain personal, identifying information about our users.
Third Party Links
MIAMIOMS.COM does provide links to other sites. Other Internet sites and services have separate privacy and data collection practices. Once you leave www.miamioms.com MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY cannot control, and has no responsibility for, the privacy policies or data collection activities at another site.
Cookies
At times, we will use a feature on your web browser to send your computer a “cookie”. We do not use cookies to retrieve any personal information from your computer. We only use cookies to learn ways to enhance our Sites, and to give you better, more personalized service while in our web site. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is sent. However, some functions of the Sites will not function if you refuse cookies. These areas of our web site will have information posted about cookies, and when a cookie will be uploaded to your computer.
Children’s Privacy Protection
MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY is sensitive to the heightened need to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13. The vast majority of the material on our web site is not intended for children and is not targeted to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children and, if we learn that we have received personal data from a child, we will remove this information from our database.
Changes to this Policy
MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY may from time to time revise its privacy policy. You should therefore periodically visit this page, so you are aware of any such revisions. We will not, however, use your existing information in a manner not previously disclosed. You will be advised and have the opportunity to opt out of any new use of your information.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our privacy policy and/or the practices of our web site, you can write to:
MIAMI ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
8940 N. KENDALL DR. SUITE 604E
MIAMI, FL 33176