PRIVACY STATEMENT
At Conscious Care Dental, we are committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most efficient and safe online experience. Your privacy and maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information is important to Us. This Statement of Privacy applies to our Practice’s Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using this website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
We will only collect information that is necessary for providing our services to You. We will only collect information that is necessary for the purposes for which it will be used. The amount and type of personal information We collect from You and hold about You will vary depending on whether you are an existing patient or customer at Conscious Dental Care.
We use Your personal information primarily to provide, manage and administer our services and products to You and operate an efficient and sustainable business.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
This Practice encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from the website so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. This Practice is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on any other Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
We may use and disclose health information about you in connection with health care operations necessary to run our practice, including review of our treatment and services, training, evaluating the performance of our staff and health care professionals, quality assurance, financial or billing audits, legal matters, and business planning and development.
In addition, We may use Your personal information for a number of purposes, including:
* to provide dental and related services to You;
* to maintain and administer Your patient file(s);
* to contact you in relation to any matter relating to You or the dental services or products provided to you;
* to answer your enquiries and deliver customer services to you;
* to carry out internal functions such as administration, accounting, quality assurance and information technology;
* to resolve complaints;
* to monitor price and evaluate products and services;
* to fulfil marketing promotions;
* to administer Your invoicing for dental services, credit card payments, or to collect unpaid invoices;
* to process your health insurance claims;
* To contact you to remind you of a dental appointment. We may contact you by using a postcard, letter, voicemail, or email.;
* to comply with any laws or regulations.
This Practice does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. This Practice may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
This Practice does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
We may use or disclose patient health information to the extent we are required by law to do so. For example, we are required to disclose patient health information to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services so that it can investigate complaints or determine our compliance with HIPAA.
We may disclose patient health information to a health oversight agency for activities necessary for the government to provide appropriate oversight of the health care system, certain government benefit programs, and compliance with certain civil rights laws.
We will make other uses and disclosures of health information not discussed in this Notice only with your written authorization. You may revoke that authorization at any time in writing. Upon receipt of the written revocation, we will stop using or disclosing your health information for the reasons covered by the authorization going forward.
Security of your Personal Information
This Practice secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. This Practice secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
We reserve the right to change the terms of this Notice at any time. Any change will apply to the health information we have about you or create or receive in the future. We will promptly revise the Notice when there is a material change to the uses or disclosures, individual’s rights, our legal duties, or other privacy practices discussed in this Notice. We will post the revised Notice on our website (if applicable) and in our office and will provide a copy of it to you on request. The effective date of this Notice (including any updates) is in the top right-hand corner of the Notice.
Contact Information
Please contact us by phone at (561)798-0825 or email to info@drcrane.com.
Monday:Â 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Tuesday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Wednesday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursday: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Friday: By Appt. Only
Saturday: closed
Sunday: Closed