Privacy Policy
General Disclaimers
Except as otherwise noted, the content
of our Websites (our public site,
www.medcentricity.com and secure site,
https://www.medcpro.com/), including but not
limited to text, graphics and icons, are copyrighted
materials of MedCentricity Corporation
and its suppliers and affiliates, and contain
trademarks, service marks and trade names of
MedCentricity Corporation and its supplier
and affiliates. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You
may use the content ONLY to learn about, evaluate,
and/or acquire the goods or services of
MedCentricity Corporation.
We make every effort to provide accurate and timely
information; however, there may be inadvertent
technical factual inaccuracies, omissions, and
typographical errors, for which we apologize.
Our Websites and its content are delivered on an
"as-is" and "as-available" basis.
MedCentricity Corporation cannot ensure that
files you download from our Websites will be free of
viruses or contamination or destructive features.
MedCentricity Corporation reserves
the right to make changes and corrections at any time,
without notice.
Should you decide to acquire goods or services from
MedCentricity Corporation, our online
User Agreement is considered the governing
agreement between both you as a user of our Websites
and MedCentricity Corporation, and it
supersedes any other information on our Websites.
Privacy Policy Items for All Users
Definitions
"Non-Personal Information" is
information that is in no way personally identifiable
and that is obtained automatically through
your simple use of our Websites with a web
browser.
"Personally Identifiable Information" is non-public
information that is personally identifiable and
obtained in connection with providing a product or
service to you. It may include information
about your account balance and payment history with
us, and your purchase activity.
"Personal Health Information" is a special type of
Personally Identifiable Information, related
specifically to health-related information that you
may provide as part of your interaction with our
Websites and its physician members.
MedCentricity Corporation complies with the
requirements of HIPAA, the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law
104-191, which amended the Internal Revenue Service
Code of 1986 (also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum
Act).
"Member Content" is information that you have uploaded
to our Website using the services as found on our
Websites.
Information Collected
When you enter our Websites, we
collect Non-Personal Information such as your browser
type and IP address. Likewise, in order to offer
you meaningful products and services and for other
reasons, we may collect Personally Identifiable
Information or Personal Health Information about your
patients from the following sources:
- Information
you give us on Audio, Video, Image or Text Files on
our Website, OR
- Information
about your transactions with us and our affiliates
(contractors and service providers)
Use of Cookies
Our Websites may send a "cookie" to
your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data
that is sent to your browser from a web server and
stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie
cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie
files created by other sites. Cookies do not
damage your system. We use cookies to identify
which areas of our site you have visited, so the next
time you visit the site, those pages may be readily
accessible. We also may use this information to
better personalize the content that you see on our
Websites. Most browser software can be set to
reject cookies. However, if you reject our
cookies, certain functionality on our Websites may not
work correctly or at all. We do not link
Non-Personal Information from cookies to your
Personally Identifiable Information without your
permission, including, but not limited to, your name
and address, financial information, or Patient's
Identifiable health Information.
Web Beacons
MedCentricity Corporation also may use
Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about
your use of our Website and the Websites of selected
sponsors and advertisers, and your use of special
promotions or newsletter. The information
collected by Web Beacons (a) allows us to
statistically monitor how many people are using our
Websites and selected sponsors' and advertisers'
sites, (b) how many people open our emails, and (c)
for what purposes these actions are being taken.
Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity
outside of our Websites or those of our sponsors'.
We do not link Non-Personal Information from Web
Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information without
your permission and do not use Web Beacons to collect
or store Personal Health Information about you.
If you are a non-registered visitor to the site, the
only information we collect will be Non-Personal
Information through the use of cookies or Web Beacons.
Exemptions from Privacy
Policy
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to
any information you may send to the
MedCentricity Corporation by email or instant
messaging programs (i.e. AOL AIM, Yahoo Instant
Messenger, etc.), as email and instant messages are
not recognized as secure communication forms. As
such, we request that you do not send any information,
which you consider private, to us by email or
instant message. Likewise, our site may have
message board areas that are open to the general
public. As such, anything posted on such a
message board will not be private in any fashion.
As such, take special care in posting messages,
especially when you conisder information to be of a
private nature.
Use of Credit Cards
To purchase products and services from
our Websites, you may have to provide a credit card
for billing purposes. We use third party billing
services and HAVE NO CONTROL over these services.
We will use our best efforts to make sure that your
credit card number is kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL by
using only third party billing services that use the
latest security encryption technology to protect your
credit card number from unauthorized use.
However, you understand and agree that we are in no
way responsible for any misuse of your credit card
number.
Use by Minors Prohibited
MedCentricity Corporation is committed
to protecting the privacy of children. Neither
our Websites nor any of its services are designed or
intended for use by individuals under the age of 18.
We do not collect Non-Public Personally Identifiable
Information from any individual that we actually
discover is under the age of 18.
Sponsors and Advertisers
Sponsors or advertisers on
MedCentricity.com may use their own cookies,
Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in
the banner advertisements on our Websites, in emails,
special promotions or newsletter we send you.
Some advertisers use companies other than
MedCentricity.com to serve their ads and to
monitor users' responses to ads, and these companies
("Ad Servers") may also collect Non-Personal
Information through the use of cookies or Web Beacons
on our Websites. In certain situations,
information collection may be facilitated by
momentarily directing your browser to the Websites of
an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of
the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before
re-directing your browser to its selected destination
(e.g., back to our Websites to show the ad, or to the
advertiser's Websites); this re-direction process will
not be apparent to you.
We do not control these third parties' use of cookies
or Web Beacons, or how they manage the Non-Personal
Information they gather through them. However,
we do require sponsors, advertisers and Ad Servers who
collect cookie or Web Beacon information through our
Websites to agree that they will not collect any
Personally Identifiable Information from our Websites
without your consent. They must agree that they
will not link any cookie or Web Beacon information
collected by them on our Websites to Personally
Identifiable Information that they or others have
collected in other ways or from other sites except as
may be described in connection with a particular
program.
Links to Other Websites
Our Websites contains links to other
Websites. MedCentricity Corporation
is not responsible for the actions, practices, or
content of such websites linked to or from our
Websites.
Use of Your Information
Other than as permitted under this
Privacy Policy and as necessary to provide you with
requested goods and/or services, MedCentricity
Corporation will not disclose your
Personally-Identifiable Information to any third party
without your prior permission. We require
parties with whom we share information to agree that
they will also you're your Personally
Identifiable Information.
When We May Disclose Your
Information
Except as set forth below or as
specifically agreed to by you, MedCentricity
Corporation will not disclose any Personally
Identifiable Information, including Personal Health
Information, as gathered from you on our Website.
To operate our Website, to meet your needs for a wide
choice of quality products and services, and for other
reasons, MedCentricity Corporation
may share Personally Identifiable Information with
members of our corporate family of companies and
others as described below:
A. We may share Personally
Identifiable Information in limited fashion to our
contractors and service providers that perform
services on our behalf, including, but not limited to,
operation of our website technology, development of
our website, and payment processors. Access to
your Personally Identifiable Information by such
contractors and service providers is limited to the
information reasonably necessary for the contractor to
perform its limited function for
MedcCentricity Coorporation. We also
contractually require that such contractors and
service providers: 1) protect the privacy of your
Personally Identifiable Information consistent with
this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose any
(this can be client or their patients) Personally
Identifiable Information for any purpose other than
providing their services to MedCentricity
Corporation.
B. We may share Personally
Identifiable Information we collect, as permitted by
law, in response to a valid legal requirement to
release this information such as a state or federal
law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, or court
order; or in special cases, such as in response to a
physical threat to you or others, to protect property,
or defend or assert legal rights. In the event
that we are legally compelled to disclose your
Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information
or Personal Health Information to a third party, we
will attempt to notify you unless doing so would
violate the law or court order.
Security Policy & User
ID/Password
Our site utilizes
various information security measures such as a secure
site, Internet firewalls, an intrusion detection
system, encrypted data transmission, and operating
procedures to protect your personal data, accounts,
passwords, etc. This information is kept
completely separate and confidential; there is no
chance of any other user seeing your information
unless you have given them your user ID and password.
As such, you should protect your user ID and password
and NOT share it with anyone. If you
believe your user ID and password have been
compromised, please contact our technical support
department so they can issue you a new user
ID/password
(support@medcentricity.com or 1-800-996-9976).
CAN-SPAM Compliance Notice
MedCentricity Corporation and its
affiliates fully comply with the federal CAN-SPAM Act.
You can always opt out of receipt of further email
correspondence from us.
Transfer of Ownership
If the entire or substantial ownership
of our Websites were to change, your user information
may be transferred to the new owner so the service can
continue operations. In any such transfer of
information, your user information would remain
subject to the promises of our then current Privacy
Policy.
Your Acceptance of this
Privacy Policy
This is our entire Privacy Policy and
it supersedes any earlier version. You agree to
it every time you use our Websites.
Questions About This
Privacy Policy
Should you have a privacy question about our website,
please email our customer service department
(privacy@medcentricity.com).
Additional Privacy Policy Items for Members
General
As a Member, when you register with our
websites, we require you to submit Personally
Identifiable Information, such as your name, your
email address, your telephone number, your address,
your company, and any other personal or preference
information that you provide to us. We may
retain the content of your email messages together
with your email address and our responses.
Members post Member content on our secure website
using industry standard technologies to protect the
privacy of content you post. However, you
understand that while we will take every reasonable
means needed to protect your content, we cannot
necessarily prevent all hackers from gaining access to
your content, especially during transmission from your
computer to our Websites. As such, we are not
responsible for the circumvention of any privacy
settings or security measures contained on our
Websites. You understand and agree that even
after their removal, copies of Member content may
remain on our Websites for a period of time. Any
improper collection or misuse of information on our
Websites is a violation of online
User Agreement and should be reported to
privacy@medcenricity.com
Use of Member Information
We mostly use your information to
provide you services through our Websites. We
may also occasionally use your name and email address
to send you notifications regarding new services
offered by MedCentricity Corporation
that we think you may find valuable as well as
service-related announcements from time to time
through the general operation of the service.
You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the
Personally Identifiable Information you submit to
MedCentricity Corporation.
Inaccurate information will affect the information you
receive when using our site and tools and our ability
to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy
(i.e. your email address should be kept current).