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Privacy Policy

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.medcad.com / www.medcad.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Protection of Patient Data

In the case of Personal Health Information (PHI), data are processed on behalf of a Covered Entity under a Business Associate Agreement.  Consent for the collection and processing of personal data for a given purpose shall be attested to when completing the appropriate form published on MedCAD’s website.

MedCAD adheres to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH). MedCAD explicitly does not sell PHI for any reason.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

PHI Upload Consent

MedCAD is compliant with Health and Human Services (HHS) requirements for HIPAA / HITECH including 45 CFR Part 160 and Part 164, as well as the HITECH Act.

MedCAD is committed to employing all methodologies and technologies available to protect the PHI we are entrusted with.

For digital data transfer, a secure web portal is employed as a method of communication that prevents unauthorized parties from being able to access or read any content while it is in transmission. 

Cookies

MedCAD reserves the right to use cookies. A cookie is a group of data serving as an anonymous individual identifier that is sent to a data subject’s browser by websites. Cookies are sent when a website is accessed, they are stored on a data subject’s computer and they serve to record information about a data subject’s subsequent online visits. Therefore, after a cookie has been stored on a data subject’s computer during a data subject’s first access to the MedCAD website, every time a data subject’s return to the website it will look for its cookie in order to read the stored data.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 214-453-8864 or via email.