Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law that affords patients rights over their health information, limits access and use of health information by providers and vendors, and requires implementation of safeguards and security measures to protect health information. The laws, and subsequent updates, require providers to notify patients when their information has been used, accessed or shared inappropriately; to the extent the data has been compromised. Failure to comply with HIPAA can result in both civil and criminal penalties as well as significant monetary fines.

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for semcorthopedics.org. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to schedule an appointment. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website: contact@semcorthopedics.org
‍Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, scheduling or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email at contact@semcorthopedics.org.