Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition General Privacy Policy

See also: PBCC HIPAA Privacy Policy

This is the web site of PA Breast Cancer Coalition.

Our postal address is
344 North Reading Road
Ephrata, PA 17522

We can be reached via e-mail at kim@pabreastcancer.org or you can reach us by telephone at 800-377-8828.

For each visitor to our website, our web server automatically recognizes only the visitor's domain name, but not the e-mail address. We collect only the domain name, but not the e-mail address of visitors to our website; the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail; aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit; and information volunteered by the consumer such as survey information and/or site registrations, name and address, telephone number, fax number, payment information (e.g., credit card number and billing address).

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our website, used to notify consumers about updates to our website, and used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes.

With respect to cookies: We use cookies to record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.

We do not share our constituents’ information with other organizations, ever.

If you supply us with your postal address you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above, e-mailing us at the above address, or writing to us at the above address.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed online.

With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes on our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our website periodically.

Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them - financial information (e.g., credit card account information), unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password), transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases), communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to our site (e.g., e-mails, customer inquiries), and contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number). Consumers can access this information by e-mailing us at the above address, writing to us at the above address, or calling us at the above number.

Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, financial information, transaction information, and communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to the site. Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.

Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition HIPAA Privacy Policy

We at the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition ("PBCC") remain dedicated to keeping the health information of you and your loved ones private. It has always been our policy, since our inception, to protect all of your personal information: we do not sell or share any of your individual data with anyone. Period.

Recently, a federal privacy law was enacted called the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"). This law has created limitations on the use, disclosure and security of individually identifiable health information, or IIHI. While this law applies directly to doctors, hospitals, medical insurers and other covered healthcare entities (known as "covered entities"), the law has been expanded to include organizations which interact with, and serve congruent purposes of, covered entities (known as "business associates"). The PBCC has elected to follow these business associate guidelines in order to fulfill the spirit and the language of the law and to continue to exceed the expectations of those we serve.

Generally

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, also known as "HIPAA," has created new standards in privacy and security as related to individuals' health information. HIPAA generally requires that all individually identifiable health information be protected by covered entities and by their business associates. Covered entities include doctors, hospitals, emergency centers, health insurance companies, health care clearinghouses, and other forms of medical providers. Business Associates are entities that perform certain types of functions and transmit and/or receive individuals' health information.

Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, this health information is known as protected health information, or PHI. PHI must be protected whether it is being used internally, within an office, or is being disclosed to other organizations. PHI must be tracked, logged and kept to a minimum of "use and disclosure," in compliance with the law.

The HIPAA Security Rule generally provides standards to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your individual identifiable health information (IIHI). The Security Rule mandates internal safeguards for storage and maintenance, transmission and access to IIHI.

Our Commitment to You

The Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition commits to the following:

• We will not use or disclose your PHI, other than as permitted or as required by law;
• We will use appropriate internal safeguards to prevent the use and disclosure of your PHI in any manner inconsistent with our stated purpose, or as required by applicable HIPAA regulations;
• We will require our agents or subcontractors, who receive PHI from us, to follow protective standards equal to our own;
• To the extent that we receive your PHI from a third party, we will keep track of that information, including when it is received and when it is disclosed; and
• We will continue to maintain our standards at or above those required by state and federal law.

If you have any questions regarding HIPAA, please visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa. If you have questions regarding our practices or your rights with respect to the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, please contact our HIPAA Privacy Coordinator, Tricia Grove, at (717) 721-2580 x 105.

Very truly,

The Staff of the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition