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Privacy is important to Strategic Business
Systems, Inc.
("SBS"), a responsible participant in the
healthcare industry. Strategic Business Systems
corporate
policy is to protect the privacy and
confidentiality of our customers and those
individuals whose healthcare information may be
identified within the transaction data services
supplied by Strategic Business Systems to our customers. This
Privacy Policy describes what information
Strategic Business Systems collects and how that information is
protected and used. Strategic Business
Systems, Inc. operates under the following set of
strict privacy principles:
- The only information Strategic Business
Systems, Inc. obtains about an
individual visitor to its web site is
information supplied voluntarily by that
visitor.
- Information supplied by a visitor that could be
used to identify or contact that visitor, such
as name, e-mail address or other similar
information ("Personal Information"), will not
be disclosed to anyone unless the visitor
indicates that Strategic Business Systems, Inc. may do so.
- Strategic Business Systems, Inc. may share statistical information
about its visitors as a group, such as usage
habits, demographics and similar information
that cannot be used to identify or contact
visitors ("Aggregate Information"), with any
partner of Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
However, Strategic Business Systems, Inc. will
not share Personal Information about a visitor
at any time without the visitor's permission.
- Personal Information about an individual
contained within e-health transactions, reports
and other summaries derived from e-health
transactions, or within administrative
information necessary to conduct e-health
transactions, that can be used to identify or
contact that individual will be protected by
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. as "Individually Identifiable Health
Information" in accordance with the requirements
and definitions of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of
1996 (Public Law 104-191) and any implementing
regulations.
- Strategic Business Systems, Inc. will also observe all other state and
federal laws relating to transmission, storage,
and access to medical records and other
healthcare data.
The following describes our information
gathering and dissemination practices for this
web site: Disclosure of Personal Information Except as set forth herein,
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. will not
disclose to unaffiliated companies any Personal
Information about our visitors and customers.
Any Personal Information provided to entities
affiliated with Strategic Business Systems, Inc. will be treated in
accordance with the terms of this Privacy
Policy.
Except as set forth in this document,
Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
will not disclose to unaffiliated companies any
Personal Information contained within payment
processing or e-health transactions. Any
Personal Information provided to entities
affiliated with Strategic Business Systems, Inc. will be treated in
accordance with the terms of this Privacy
Policy.
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. will consider, and may release,
Personal Information to third parties to comply
with law or to protect the rights, property or
safety of Strategic Business Systems, Inc. and our customers.
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. may provide to third parties Aggregate
Information that does not allow the individuals
to be identified or contacted. Registration The
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. site requires visitors to register
either before accessing the web site or as a
requirement to access specific portions of the
web site. Registration includes the collection
of contact information such as visitor name and
e-mail address. IP Addresses An IP
address is a number assigned to your computer
for accessing the Internet. All computer
identification on the Internet is conducted with
IP addresses, which allow computers and servers
to recognize and communicate with each other.
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. collects
IP addresses in order to conduct system
administration, report aggregate information to
sponsors and advertisers, and to conduct site
analysis. If a visitor requests pages from the
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. web site, the
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. servers enter
the visitor's IP address into a log. To maintain
visitor anonymity, Strategic Business Systems,
Inc. does not associate
IP addresses with records containing Personal
Information. However, Strategic Business
Systems, Inc. will use IP
addresses to identify any visitors who refuse to
comply with Strategic Business Systems, Inc. terms of service, and to
identify visitors who threaten our service,
site, or customers. Cookies The
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. site may place a text file called
a "cookie" in the browser files of your
computer. Cookies are pieces of information that
a web site transfers to an individual's hard
disk for record keeping purposes. The Strategic
Business Systems, Inc.
site uses cookies during your online session to
confirm that access to our site is authorized
and to control certain parameters of your
communication session with our site. Sponsors
and advertisers may also use cookies if you
select their advertisement; we are unable to
control their use of cookies or how they manage
the information they gather. Payment Processing and E-Health Transactions Some
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. site features may use
applications to collect data to facilitate a
payment processing or e-health transactions. We
will obtain your explicit permission to transfer
this data to the third party to facilitate this
transaction as part of the transaction
processing service agreement you voluntarily
enter into with Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. may store this information to verify
the transaction for customer service and
accounting reasons and may use this information
to help personalize your experience on the
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. site. Strategic
Business Services may also share this
information with other third parties on an
aggregate basis, but not in any manner that
would permit the third party to identify or
contact individual users of our site.
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. will maintain and protect
"Individually Identifiable Health Information"
that it receives in connection with e-health
transactions in accordance with the requirements
of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (Public Law
104-191). External Links In order to provide visitors with greater value,
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. may provide links to various third
party web sites. However, even if a third-party
affiliation exists between Strategic Business
Systems, Inc. and that
destination site, Strategic Business Systems,
Inc. EXERCISES NO
AUTHORITY OVER LINKED SITES, EACH OF WHICH
MAINTAINS INDEPENDENT PRIVACY AND DATA
COLLECTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. STRATEGIC
BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INC.
ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR THESE
INDEPENDENT METHODS OR ACTIONS AND IS NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INDEPENDENT POLICIES OR
PROCEDURES OF DESTINATION SITES. SIMILARLY,
STRATEGIC BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INC. CANNOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
PRIVACY INITIATIVES OR THE CONTENT OF SUCH WEB
SITES. THESE DESTINATION LINKS ARE PROVIDED ONLY
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, AND AS SUCH, YOU ACCESS
THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK. However, Strategic
Business Systems, Inc. wishes
to protect the integrity of the Strategic
Business Systems, Inc. web
site and its destination links, so any comments
pertaining to the Strategic Business Systems,
Inc. web site or any
sites accessed through Strategic Business
Systems, Inc. links are
greatly appreciated. Security
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. combines industry-standard technical
safeguards with employee policies to help
prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of
Personal Information under our control. Only
authorized Strategic Business Systems, Inc. employees, agents or
independent contractors are permitted to access
your Personal Information, and all such
employees, agents and independent contractors
must agree in writing to abide by Strategic
Business Systems, Inc.
Privacy Policy. Those who violate the Privacy
Policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to
and including termination. Strategic Business
Systems, Inc. employs
strict security measures to safeguard online
transactions; Personal Information is stored in
secured systems and is always encrypted when
sent via Internet channels. Despite these security measures,
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. DOES
NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT PERSONAL
INFORMATION WILL BE PROTECTED AGAINST LOSS,
MISUSE OR ALTERATION BY THIRD PARTIES. Privacy Policy Changes
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. may change this Privacy Policy at any
time by posting revisions to our web site. Your
use of the site constitutes acceptance of the
provisions of this Privacy Policy and your
continued usage after such changes are posted
constitutes acceptance of each revised Privacy
Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this
Privacy Policy or any revised policy, then
please exit the site immediately. Contacting the
Website If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, the practices of this web site, or
your interaction with this web site, contact:
Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
4919 Old Summer Road
Memphis, TN 38122
info@sbsmem.com |
