Privacy Policy

Who We Are:

Our website is https://southernmostsurgeryandveins.com

Comments:

Southernmost Surgery and Veins, LLC operates this website (the “Website”) and your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy is applicable to you upon your access and use of the Website, and informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, protection, and disclosure of information we receive from users of the Website.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use this Website and note that this Privacy Policy is different from the Notice of Privacy Practices of Southernmost Surgery and Veins, LLC. Notice of Privacy Practices describe privacy practices and your privacy rights with respect to your “protected health information” (as that term is defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations, as amended and supplemented from time to time (“HIPAA”)).

How we collect personal information:

Personal Information is information that directly identifies you and includes, but is not limited to, your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number. For example, we may ask you to provide us with Personal Information that can be used to contact you when completing a form on the Website.

How We Use your personal information:

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information or services that you request from us, such as sending you certain informational materials.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • With your consent.

 

Collection and Use of Automatic Information:

We may collect automatic, anonymous information such as browser type and version, browser language, your operating system and platform, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet. This information does not identify you, but is statistical data used for analytical purposes and helps us provide more relevant services to users. We may use this information to administer and troubleshoot issues directly related to the Website, such as Website administration or to analyze certain trends in usage. The technology we use to obtain this information includes the use of cookies. Cookies are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer to identify you when you visit a website. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

Personal Information submitted through our patient portal:

Our website does provide access to a Patient Portal that will link you to an Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) , system which operates outside of the network of our website. If you choose to access our EHR system, you will be required to establish an account name, password and provide other information for security purposes. Our Patient Portal will provide further information on the privacy information of our EHR system.

Disclosures:

The practice does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors unless required for law enforcement.

Contact us:

If you have any questions about this privacy policy please contact us at info@southernmostsurgeryandveins.com