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ILC respects its legal obligation to keep health information that identifies you as private. ILC is obligated by law to give you notice of its privacy practices. This Notice describes how ILC protects your health information and what rights you have regarding it.<\/p>\n
The most common reason why ILC uses or discloses your health information is for treatment, payment or health care operations. Examples of how ILC uses or discloses information for treatment purposes are: setting up an appointment for you; testing or examining your eyes; prescribing glasses, contact lenses, or eye medications and faxing them to be filled; showing you low vision aids; referring you to another doctor or clinic for eye care or low vision aids or services, or getting copies of your health information from another professional that you may have seen before us. Examples of how ILC uses or discloses your health information for payment purposes are: asking you about your health care plans, or other sources of payment; preparing and sending bills or claims, or collecting unpaid amounts (either ourselves or through a collection agency or attorney). \u201cHealth care operations\u201d mean those administrative and managerial functions that ILC has to do in order to run its office. Examples of how ILC uses or discloses your health information for health care operations are: financial or billing audits; internal quality assurance; personnel decisions; participation in managed care plans; defense of legal matters; business planning; and outside storage of our records.
\nILC routinely uses your health information inside its office for these purposes without any special permission. If ILC needs to disclose your health information outside of its office for these reasons, it usually will not ask you for special written permission.\n<\/p>\n
ILC will ask for special written permission in the following situations; contact lens prescriptions; access to medical records by the patient, access to medical records of a minor, mental health records, communicable diseases records, alcohol and drug abuse records, and health records to accident and sickness insurance companies.<\/p>\n
In some limited situations, the law allows or requires ILC to use or disclose your health information without your permission. Not all of these situations will apply to ILC; some may never come up at ILC at all. Such uses or disclosures are:<\/p>\n
Unless you object, ILC will also share relevant information about your care with your family or friends who are helping you with your eye care.<\/p>\n
ILC may call or write to remind you of scheduled appointments, or that it is time to make a routine appointment. ILC may also call or write to notify you of other treatments or services available at its office that may help you. Unless you tell ILC otherwise, ILC will mail you an appointment reminder on a post card, and\/or leave you a reminder message on your home answering machine or with someone who answers your phone if you are not home.<\/p>\n
ILC may use or disclose to a business associate or to an institutionally related foundation, demographic information and dates of care relating to you without your authorization. Upon receiving any written fundraising communication, you may elect to \u201copt out\u201d of any further such communication. Any such elect shall be treated as a revocation of authorization. To make such election send a written request to the ILC privacy officer at the address shown above. Your authorization will be obtained prior to ILC sending any marketing material to you that will result in financial remuneration to ILC.<\/p>\n
ILC will not make any other uses or disclosures of your health information unless you sign a written authorization. The content of the authorization is determined by federal law. Sometimes, ILC may initiate the authorization process if the use or disclosure is its idea. Sometimes, you may initiate the process if it is your idea for ILC to send your information to someone else. Typically, in this situation you will give ILC a properly completed authorization.<\/p>\n
If ILC initiates the process and asks you to sign an authorization form, you do not have to sign it. If you do not sign the authorization, ILC cannot make the use or disclosure. If you do sign an authorization, you may revoke it at any time unless ILC has already acted in reliance upon it. Revocations must be in writing. Send them to the ILC privacy officer at the address shown above.<\/p>\n
The law gives you many rights regarding your health information. You can:<\/p>\n
ILC uses all features of Google Analytics for display advertisers that include obtaining user specific cookie data. This includes the source, medium and keyword used to visit our website. Google Analytics nor ILC will use visitor specific data in any way related to Google Analytics, Google Adwords or remarketing. ILC uses remarketing with Google Analytics and Google Adwords to display content specific banner advertisements to visitors who have previously visited our website when those visitors are on Google Display Network websites.<\/p>\n
ILC uses first-party (Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on a visitor\u2019s past visits to our website. As Adwords advertisers, we will not:<\/p>\n
Visitors can opt out of Google Analytics for display advertisers and other Google Display Network ads by visiting the Ads Preferences Manager<\/a>. Google does not allow another advertiser to use remarketing lists without consent. Google reserves the right to display to users which remarketing lists they are on, along with the corresponding domain name.<\/p>\n