Privacy Policy

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191, was enacted on August 21, 1996. Sections 261 through 264 of HIPAA require the Secretary of HHS to publicize standards for the electronic exchange, privacy, and security of health information. The Privacy Rule standards address the use and disclosure of individuals' health information-called "protected health information," by organizations subject to the Privacy Rule-called "covered entities," as well as standards for individuals' privacy rights to understand and control how their health information is used. Within HHS, the Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") has responsibility for implementing and enforcing the Privacy Rule concerning voluntary compliance activities and civil money penalties. 

Long Life Care of Vermont abides by HIPAA regulations. The company is strictly prohibited from sharing clients' personally identifiable information with a third party. No employee of Long Life Care of Vermont is permitted to share clients' personally identifiable information on or off duty unless authorized by the clients to help us understand how we can better serve them. 

Information you give us

We may collect personal information when you register for an account, use any of our online services, book an appointment, make a donation on our website, or submit documentation using forms (such as order forms) by other electronic and paper methods. All information is captured and stored as part of your “Contact Profile”. Your profile may include information like the following:

• Identifiers such as name, address, and email address
• Phone number
• Date of birth
• Social security 
• Health diagnosis
• Your donations
• Employment history 
• Employees, or for some certifications
• School transcripts for some certifications
• Credit Card information is required when paying for services online. 

MOBILE PRIVACY

Long Life Care of Vermont does not share mobile information with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties. The End User's mobile information will not be shared or sold to third parties for the purpose of marketing. 

INFORMATION FROM OPEN SOURCES

Clients have the option to permit a third party, like a physician, insurance company, family member, hospital, or caregiver, to provide us with their personal information. Once collected, Long Life Care of Vermont keeps this information strictly confidential. Long Life Care of Vermont does not sell your information but uses all information furnished to us to define the client's care plan. For job applicants, we may also collect information such as your university or educational institution to disclose your educational history during the hiring process. Information like this is captured as part of your “Contact Profile.” 

Client's rights:

• Clients have the right:
• To refuse to release their health information to some people, including caregivers, family members, and healthcare professionals
• Request to review the information shared with Long Life Care of Vermont when determining their care plan
• Terminate access to health information provided to us at the term of service 
• Ask to be notified of any change to policies on sharing personally identifiable information

Information collected automatically online

Long Life Care of Vermont uses cookies, which are small text files stored either temporarily or long-term on a user’s computer hard drive, which allow our websites to recognize you, permit you to log in, and track usage of the sites, preferences, IP addresses, geographic information and pages visited, and to gather other data and marketing information. Cookies do not contain identifying information such as your name, but they can contain other identifiers that can be used to recognize you.

Cookies may improve and/or simplify the use of our online services, such as using your account identifier to recognize you when you log in and keeping your login active while you browse our site. In other cases, such as with advertising cookies, we will not be able to identify you, as the identifiers are not Long Life Care of Vermont's identifiers but belong to the third party associated with the cookie.