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ABILITIES FIRST NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES In accordance with the federal law entitled the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA This notice describes how medical information about Abilities First clients may be used and disclosed and how you may get access to this information. We have summarized our responsibilities and your rights on this page. Please review it carefully. OUR RESPONSIBILITIES Abilities First is required to: Maintain the privacy of client health information. Provide clients and the public with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to information we collect and maintain on individual clients. Abide by the terms of this notice. YOUR RIGHTS As a client or parent/guardian of an Abilities First client, you have several rights with regard to your health information or that of the child you are legally responsible for, including the following: · The right to request Abilities First not to use or disclose your health information in certain ways. · The right to request to receive communications in an alternative manner or location. · The right to access and obtain a copy of your health information. · The right to request an amendment to your health information. · The right to an accounting of disclosures of your health information. Abilities First reserves the right to change our privacy practices and to make the new provisions effective for all health information we maintain. Should our privacy practices change, we will post the changes on the bulletin board in our facility. A copy of the revised notice will be available after the effective date of the changes upon request. We will not use or disclose your health information without your authorization, except as described in this notice. If you have questions and/or would like additional information, you may contact our facility’s Privacy Officer at 513-423-9496.
Web Site Privacy Statement Abilities First is committed to safeguarding the privacy of its website visitors. We make no effort to identify public users of our site. No identifying data is disclosed to a third party for any purpose. Data that we collect is used only for server administration and Web protocol research. This statement applies to interactions with the Abilities First website. It does not apply to e-mail sent to Abilities First staff or lists. Email interactions are guided by the general net-etiquette conventions. As is typical, we log http requests to our server. This means that we know the originating IP (e.g., 10>50.12.100) address of the user agent requesting a URL. We also know the Referer and User-Agent information accompanied with a http request. We do not log the specific identity of visitors. We occasionally analyze the log files to determine which files are most requested and the previous site or user agent which prompted the request. Our logging system is passive; we do not use technologies such as cookies to maintain any information on users. Logged information is kept indefinitely as administrative and research material; it is not disclosed outside of Abilities First host site personnel. Aggregate (completely non-identifying) statistics generated from these logs may be reported as part of the research results. Links to external websites included on Abilities First website are provided for the convenience of visitors. Abilities First is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites, and any information provided by visitors to external sites is not subject to this Privacy Statement. Abilities First welcomes comments or complaints about external links accessed from our site: roger.smith@abilitiesfirst.org
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