These pages set forth 1ST CLASS CARE’s (1CC’s) policies and means for protecting the privacy of the personal information (PI) you give us when you use our services. In these pages “we” or “us” or “our” means 1CC.
- We don’t sell, rent, or trade PI ("Personal Information"). We keep it secure and confidential.
- HIPPA - is our “Ten Commandments” and we will follow and be bound by it.
- WE keep your registration and shipping data to avoid having to re-enter it for each transaction.
- PI goes to those outside of 1CC only insofar as necessary to provide you with our agreed services and then only if they agree to use the PI only for that purpose.
- With the exceptions set forth herein, we will only share your PI with others if:
- We have your consent; as set forth in the "I agree" box at the
bottom of our New Client page.
- We consider that we are required to do so by law;
- We find that you are in breach of our terms and conditions or any of our policies or usage guidelines for specific products or services;
- It is necessary in our opinion to do so to prevent, investigate, detect or prosecute criminal offenses or attacks on the technical integrity of our site(s) or our network;
- It is necessary in our opinion to do so to protect the rights, property, or safety of 1CC and its employees, the users of our sites, or the public;
- As may be necessary for your diagnosis and treatment;
- To obtain payment for 1CC services or resulting medication;
- To support health care operations and to secure necessary licensing or approvals, to inform other health care organizations on your case, or to acquire services (e.g.,ambulance);
- As necessary for public health and safety activities (birth, death, disease data, FDA required information, product recall data, domestic abuse services; or
- Medicare/Medicaid/Worker’s Compensation.
- We protect PI by having it encrypted as we get it and we store on a secure server; plus we have in place a variety of other security measures.
- To help us understand and work with our market, we may extract statistical date from our server data base but never is that date or the statistics individually identified.
- If in 1CC site is linked to another site, 1CC is not responsible for their privacy policy and practice.
- 1CC may change the Privacy Policy and these changes will be noted on these pages.
- You should be aware that various state and federal laws protect certain highly confidential information about, for example, psychotherapy, mental health, drug and alcohol problems and treatment; HIV/AIDS data and genetic testing.
- You can inspect and have a copy of you PI and may request
other restrictions (which we are not required to agree to.
- You can revoke any authorization in writing and amend your medical or billing PI.
- For further info and/or complaints, please use the “CONTACT US” box above, or file a written complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Check with us for the address
- This notice is dated and effective September 1, 2006.
