Privacy Policy
What Personal Information We Collect
Douglas Young, M.D., Internal Medicine and Northern California Research Corp will collect information that helps us identifiy you ("personal information") online only when you voluntarily provide it to us through our site. We may ask you to provide some personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address, telephone number and/or e-mail address. In addition, we may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us through responses to questionnaires.
How We Use Personal Information We Collect On-Line
A) Internal Uses
We may use your personal information within Douglas Young, M.D., Internal
Medicine and/or Northern California Research Corp to provide you with the services
and products you request, (2) to assist with your questions about our services,
billing, payment methods or use of our web site, (3) to process or collect
payments made in connection with our services to you, and (4) to evaluate
our services and products and to conduct customer surveys.
We also may use your information within Douglas Young, M.D., Internal Medicine and/or Northern California Research Corp with your consent, to send you information that may be of interest to you.
Privacy Choices
When you register on line for one of our services, you may be given the option of receiving periodic informational/promotional mail or email from Douglas Young, M.D., Internal Medicine and Northern California Research Corp . You choose whether or not to receive correspondence when you provide this information or by changing your preferences within your registration profile at any time.
B) Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
We will not give, sell, rent, loan or otherwise disclose any personal information
to any third party, unless (1) you have authorized us to do so, (2) we are
legally required to do so, for example, in response to a subpoena, court order
or other legal process, and/or (3) it is necessary to do so in order to protect
and defend the rights or property of this web site. For example, if you participate in a research study, with your
consent, we may disclose your personal information to a third-party vendor
that we engage to mail your test results to you. We contractually require
such third-party vendors and contractors to comply with strict standards regarding
security and confidentiality.
Please exercise caution when sending sensitive information by email as email is not a secure means of communication.
We also may share aggregate, non-personal information about web site usage with unaffiliated third parties. This aggregate information does not contain any personal information about our users.
How We Protect Information Online
It is our policy to protect your account information against unauthorized access or release. We use the services of VeriSign and ICSA.net to verify and assist in our security measures. All the information you provide to us is handled through a Secure Socket Layer ("SSL"). SSL is a leading Web technology that encrypts your account information. If you register on line with Douglas Young, M.D., Internal Medicine and/or Northern California Research Corp services, we use 128-bit encryption when we ask for or provide personal or confidential information. . As noted above, please exercise caution when sending sensitive information via e-mail, as e-mail messages do not have the security features that are built into our website.
In addition, we have procedures that limit employees and contractors' access to Douglas Young, M.D., Internal Medicine and Northern California Research Corp personal information. Only those employees and contractors with a business reason to know have access to such information. We educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy through standard operating procedures, mandatory training programs, and internal policies on data privacy and corporate integrity. We take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce employee privacy responsibilities.
Your Consent
By using our web site, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of information as described in this policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time, so please check back often. We will let you know that the policy has been changed by changing the effective date at the bottom of this page. We will always let you know the information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances under which such information may be disclosed by us.
Additional Privacy Policy Information
Douglas Young, M.D., Internal Medicine and Northern California Research Corp are also governed by the HIPPAA Privacy Rule—Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The Act was published on August 24, 2002 and compliance became mandatory on April 14, 2003. For the first time in the U.S., the Act creates a national minimum standard for privacy protection of health information.
For further information on the HIPPAA Privacy Rule:
The HIPPAA Privacy Rule and HHS comments:
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa
The HHS guidance document “Protecting Personal Health Information In
Research”: Understanding The HIPPAA Privacy Rule:
http://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_02.asp
The HHS guidance document “Clinical Research And The HIPAA Privacy
Rule:
http://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/clin_research.asp