About Hereditary Cancer including answers to:

  • What is hereditary cancer?
  • What is genetic counseling and how can it help?

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PRIVACY POLICY

INTRODUCTION

INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS, as a provider of internet health care services, is very sensitive to privacy issues. We respect your right to privacy and feel it is important for you to know how we handle the information we receive from you via the Internet. Additionally, our online and offline business practices are in full compliance with the privacy requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

This Privacy Policy governs your interaction with the INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS website, and your registration for and use of INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS service. By using the INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS website, you agree to the collection and use of information as set forth in this Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use the INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS website. This Policy is the sole authorized statement of our practices concerning the collection, use and protection of your Personal and Family Health Information through the INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS website.

INFORMATION COLLECTED BY INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS

Non-Personal Information

If you do not use the tools, features or services offered on or through INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS website, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information (i.e., Information that is not traceable back to you and cannot be used to identify you. Non Personal Information includes information such as the web pages that you have viewed through the use of Cookies (i.e., Small data files that are stored on the hard drive of a computer used to view websites that are accessible only by the party or site that placed the Cookie on the hard drive.).

Your Online Preferences Regarding Cookies

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Personally Identifiable Information and Personal and Family Health Information

If you choose to schedule a telephone consult with an INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS genetic counselor, we require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information (such as your name, home address, telephone number and email address) as well as Personal and Family Health Information. You are responsible for providing accurate Personally Identifiable Information as well as Personal and Family Health Information to INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS. Inaccuracies in any of the information you provide will directly affect the cancer risk, genetic test, and medical management information you receive through INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS telephone genetic counseling process and may affect our ability to contact you in the future. Most importantly, your preferred contact email address should be kept current because that is the primary manner in which INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS will communicate with you.

PROTECTING YOUR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS website employs advanced technology (encryption provided through an SSL certificate) which aims to secure all of your interactions with INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS. We have taken precautionary measures to make any information received from online visitors as secure as possible against unauthorized access and use. We do not sell or share your personal identifying information.

However, it may be necessary for us to provide your information to contracted external partners in order to respond to your inquiries and to provide you with services on our behalf. They may only use the information provided for the specified use and project.

PHYSICAL STORAGE AND PROTECTION OF YOUR DATA

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our web site.

SAVING PERSONAL AND FAMILY HEALTH INFORMATION

As a service to the users of the INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS website, you may save partially-completed personal and medical history information and return to our website at a later time to complete this information. In order to save this information, you will need to provide INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS with a unique password created by you.

In order to facilitate the genetic testing process, you are required to provide Informed Medical Decisions Personally Identifiable Information including health insurance details and your preferred e-mail and telephone contact information. INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS uses this Personally Identifiable Information as well as Personal and Family Health Information provided to INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS by you in order to facilitate the test order by your health care provider and to send you the test kit that is needed to conduct a specific genetic test.

DELETING YOUR PERSONAL AND/OR FAMILY HEALTH INFORMATION

If you want to delete your Personally Identifiable Information and/or Personal Health Information from our systems or update the Personally Identifiable Information that you have provided to us you can email us at delete@informedmedicaldecisions.com. Keep in mind, however, that there will be residual information that will remain within INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS databases, access logs and other records, which may or may not contain such Personally Identifiable Information and/or Personal Health Information. INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS reserves the right, from time to time, to re-contact former customers or users of INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS.

OUR ONLINE COMMUNICATION PRACTICES

E-Mail Correspondence – INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS to you

Informed Medical Decisions sends the following types of information electronically to your preferred e-mail address:

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E-mail Correspondence – Users to INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS

This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send Personally Identifiable Information, Personal and Family Health Information, other information, feedback, suggestions, business ideas, or concepts to INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS by email. If you want to keep this information private, do not send this information to INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS in an email message. INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS makes every effort to respond to emails within 48 business hours. However, this is not a guarantee.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL AND/OR FAMILY HEALTH INFORMATION

This Privacy Policy serves as notice that INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS collects Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information in the manners described above. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on our website. INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS will only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to third parties: (a) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (b) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable 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. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who may be using our servers or services for illegal activities. We also reserve the right to report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement individuals or entities for investigation or prosecution.

SUMMARY OF INFORMED MEDICAL DECISION’S SECURITY MEASURES

  • INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS requires both a personal username (provided upon first exit from the online personal and family history tool) and a password (determined by the user) in order for users to access their Personally Identifiable Information or Personal and/or Family Health Information.
  • INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS uses firewalls to protect information held on our servers.
  • INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS utilizes Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption in transmitting Personally Identifiable Information to our servers. In order to take advantage of encryption technology, you must have an Internet browser which supports 128-bit encryption.
  • INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS closely monitors the limited number of INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS employees who have access to your Personally Identifiable Information.
  • INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS requires all INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS employees to abide by our Privacy Policy and be subject to disciplinary action if they violate it.
  • INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS regularly backs-up our systems to protect the integrity of your Personally Identifiable and Personal and/or Family Health Information.
  • When you initiate data entry of your Personal and Family Health History through INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS online family history tool, a unique identifying number (UID) is automatically generated and assigned to you. This UID must be used to gain access to any of your specific Personal and/or Family Health Information at any time in the future.

Despite INFORMED MEDICAL DECISIONS efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information and Personal and/or Family Health Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet will be intercepted.

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