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This Privacy Policy provides important information about
our practices regarding collection, use and disclosure of
information you may provide by using this site.
Welcome to FollowMe™. This site is owned by Access
Strategies, Inc. (ASI), a California-based healthcare consulting
and patient advocacy company established in 1990.
FollowMe is a Personal Health Record (PHR) created so that
individuals can store and access their important health care
information at any time and anywhere Internet Access is available.
Your Agreement
By using this site you agree with the terms of this Privacy
Policy.
Information Collection and Use
FollowMe does not collect, rent or sell your personally identifiable
information. This includes, but is not limited to, mailing
addresses, telephone or fax numbers and email addresses. Your
contact information is stored by FollowMe in a safe and secure
manner at remote servers that are protected 24/7.
FollowMe may offer users, from time to time, the opportunity
to register for surveys and clinical trials and other research
related activities. We will do this by requesting that users,
at the time of registration, complete a form authorizing the
release of contact information.
FollowMe adheres to the principles and guidelines of the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
The privacy provisions of the federal law, the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 apply to health
information created or maintained by health care providers
who engage in certain electronic transactions, health plans
and health care clearinghouses. The Department of Health &
Human Services (DHHS) has issued the regulation, Standards
for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information”
applicable to entities covered by HIPAA. The Office for Civil
Rights (OCR) is the Department component responsible for implementing
and enforcing the privacy regulation. FollowMe strives to
maintain and exceed the federal guidelines regarding the privacy
and security of Personally Identifiable Information.
The information stored on FollowMe belongs to the individual
subscriber. Only by permission of the user/subscriber may
information, including passwords, be shared with other parties.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that FollowMe and its parent company Access Strategies, Inc.
are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
sites. We encourage our users and subscribers to be aware
when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements
of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to the
information collected by this Web site.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site;
track user’s movement and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
Sharing
We may share aggregate demographic information with our partners
and sponsors. This is not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual person. (For example, we
might collect the number of users in a particular state or
the most common types of Internet Service Providers. But this
information is not tracked to individual users.)
Security
FollowMe takes every precaution to protect users’ information.
When users submit sensitive information via the website, your
information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration form asks users to enter sensitive
information (such as a credit card number and/or social security
number) that information is encrypted and is protected with
the best encryption software in the industry – SSL.
While on a secure page, such as our order form or your medical
record forms, the lock icon on the bottom of Web Browsers
such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
becomes “locked”, as opposed to un-locked, or
open, when you are just surfing. While we use SSL encryption
to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything
in our power to protect user-information off-line. The servers
we use to store personally identifiable information are located
in a professionally managed co-location facility with state
of the art security measures.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on our homepage so that our users are always aware
of what information we collect and how we use it.
If you have any questions about the security of our website
please contact us at 800-300-4400
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