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Who we are

Our website address is: www.northspringspsychiatry.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

HIPPA NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES

A federal law, known as the “HIPAA Privacy Rule” requires that we tell you how we may use and give out personal health information about you to others. This summary will tell you what out Privacy Notice contains.

HOW WE MAY USE AND SHARE YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION

We may use and share personal health information that is protected (PHI) to you or your personal representative. We may use and share this information:

For healthcare treatment that doctors, nurses and other clinicians give you

For certain business activities called “health care operations” and For payment.

Some examples of how we may use and share PHI about you without your written permission including sharing information:

To report abuse, neglect, or domestic violence

To prevent a serious threat to your other’s health or safety

To prevent public health problems

To agencies that audit, investigate and inspect health programs for the public’s health

For lawsuits and other legal proceedings

For research

To the Government for specialized purposes, such as military or national security; and

For worker’s compensation.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the following rights as described in our Notice:

The right to ask us if we will put more limits on the way we use and share PHI about you

The right to share confidential communications from us

The right to see and get a copy of PHI about you

The right to ask us for a report that describes how and with whom we share PHI about you.

If you have any questions regarding your rights or privacy, please inquire with our office or reference http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy.