Privacy - Optimum Healthcare Solutions

Your privacy is important to Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC. We understand that healthcare is a very personal, private subject and we want you to feel as comfortable as possible visiting our web site and using its services. Perhaps you are visiting Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC to learn about health for yourself, perhaps on behalf of someone else. This Privacy Policy and Agreement ("Privacy Policy") will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of our website. It will explain how we protect that information and what choices you have about how it is used. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you will understand clearly both our commitment to you and your privacy, and how we may collect and use information. By using the Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information

Please remember that any information (including personal and medical information) that you reveal in a Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC public forum (such as a bulletin board, mail list, chat room/event) is not protected by this Privacy Policy. Such postings will be seen by third parties not related to Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC. What you've written could be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. Also, if you access a third party site from a link on Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC, any information you reveal on that site is not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should consult the privacy policies of each site you visit.

You may use our website without registering or submitting any Personal Information. In that case, the only information we collect will be non-personal information collected through the use of cookies (see details below). However, in order to have access to certain services and content available on our site, you may be required to complete a registration form. Personal Information is information that can be used to identify or contact you. Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC collects only the personal information you provide to us. We use the personal information that you provide through registration to respond to questions from you and/or inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy. We may also use this information to send you emails with special promotions or newsletters with content that we think may be of interest to you. You can always notify us that you do not wish to receive such emails or unsubscribe to newsletters at the time you register or at any time.

We also collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of our site through the use of "Cookies?. Cookies are small computer files that we transfer to your computer's hard drive that allow us to know how often someone visits our site and the activities they conduct while on our site (such as the chat rooms you visited, etc.). Every computer is assigned a different cookie by Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC. The information collected by cookies helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on web pages specifically designed for you and also allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our site and for what purpose. We may use cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content.

Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookie, certain functions and conveniences of our site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our cookie in order to productively use our site. While it may be possible to link non-personal cookie information to Personal Information collected in other ways, we want you to know that if you accept our cookie we will not, without your consent, link the cookie information we collect to Personal Information you provide to us on our site.

Advertising

Sponsors, partners or advertisers on Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC may use their own cookies when you click on their advertisement or link to their site or service, or even if the advertisement simply appears on a page that you are viewing. Some advertisers use companies other than Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC to serve their ads and these companies ("Ad Servers") may also collect non-personal information through the use of cookies on our website. We do not control these third parties' use of Cookies, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. However, we do require sponsors, advertisers and Ad Servers who collect cookie information through our website to agree that they will not collect any Personal Information from our site without your consent. They have promised us they will not link any non-personal cookie information collected by them on our site to Personal Information they or others collect in other ways or from other sites. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies on their own sites. In addition, Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC?s Advertising Policy is posted on our website and will provide additional detail about our relationship with advertisers and the companies that serve ads.

Children

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. This website is not designed or intended to attract children. We do not collect Personal Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 18.

Public Forums

This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you use Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC public forums. As a service to our users, Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC features chat rooms and bulletin boards where users with similar medical conditions can share information and support one another. In addition, we offer online discussions on a variety of topics moderated by medical experts. You should be aware that any information shared in a chat room, bulletin board or online discussion is public information and may be seen or collected by third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. You should think carefully before disclosing any personal information in any public forum. Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC will not disclose any Personal Information it gathers from you on our website. We may release Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personal Information to a third party, we will notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order.

Disclosure to Linked Sites

In addition to the Third Party Contractor Websites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there are links to websites operated by companies other than Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC ("Third Party Websites") that are not contractors who provide content or services through our website. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites and Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third party Websites, you should review the privacy policy posted on this other site to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your Personal Information.

Disclosure of Aggregate Information

Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC may provide to third parties non-personal information about you that does not allow you to be identified or contacted and that is combined with the non-personal information of other users. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our site and the activities they conduct while on our site. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We also may not limit the third parties? use of the Aggregate Information, except that we do require third parties to whom we disclose Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable by combining it with other databases or otherwise.

Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC wants your Personal Information to remain as secure as possible. That is why we have a two-tier security system at Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC that combines leading technical safeguards and a code of conduct for those employees that are permitted to access our customers' Personal Information. As an additional security measure, your Personal Information is also kept physically separate on a separate server where your password is encrypted and stored on a database. On the employee side, only a limited number of Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC employees are authorized to access your Personal Information. All Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC employees must abide by our Privacy Policy and those who violate our Privacy Policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Although we will make every reasonable effort to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over the Internet. There is also some risk that thieves could find a way to thwart our security systems.

Updating Your Personal Information and Contacting Optimum Healthcare Solutions

You can always contact us in order to (1) delete your Personal Information from our systems, (2) update the Personal Information that you have provided to us, and (3) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts or other activities, by emailing us at info@optimumhealthcare.net. Such changes will not have any effect on other information that Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC maintains. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to Optimum Healthcare Solutions, LLC from our servers. The need to back-up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your personal information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Nevertheless, we promise that upon receiving your request, all personal information stored in the databases we actively use for research and daily business activities, and other readily searchable media, will be deleted.

Privacy as it applies to the Internet is a dynamic, rapidly developing area. In the future, we may make significant changes to our privacy policy affecting the use of the Personal Information we collect. We will notify you by email of any significant changes and obtain your "opt-in" consent to any significant new uses of your Personal Information, if it was collected from you prior to a significant change in this policy. We may also make non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that generally will not affect our use of your Personal Information. You should also check this posted Privacy Policy for any future changes. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy, please exit the site immediately.

Revised May, 2003