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

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 websites, 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
• Your donations
• Employment history 
• Employees or for some certifications
• School transcripts for some certifications
• Credit Card information, when making a purchase

You have the option of giving permission for a third party to provide us with your personal information; for example, you may be asked to permit your university or educational institution to disclose your education history during the hiring process. Information like this is captured as part of your “Contact Profile.”

AHIMA online services use 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.