Privacy Policy

Revised November 30, 2009

CarePrecise Technology, parent of CarePrecise Data Products and NPIdentify, takes the privacy of our users very seriously. The preservation of your privacy is vitally important to our business. Because the information you provide to us helps us improve our media products and increase our circulation, we work hard to earn and keep your trust. In short, we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:

• We will not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes;
• We will not share your contact information with another user without your consent;
• Any personally identifiable information or other sensitive information that you provide will be secured with the same standard protocols and technology that we use to secure our own sensitive business information and transactions.

Notice of any change that materially affects ways in which your information may be used or shared will be posted in updates to the relevant Privacy Policy. If you continue to use our website and services after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you automatically provide your consent to the changed practices. Use of web sites belonging to CarePrecise Technology constitutes your acceptance of the relevant Privacy Policy.

Information Collection

Newsletter Subscriptions
In order to subscribe to our publications or notification lists, you must give us certain information. You may be required to provide some or all of the following contact information: email address, country, ZIP/postal code, your title, type of organization, the industry you represent, and your involvement in the purchase if IT products and services. This list of requirements may change from time to time; any such changes are incorporated into this agreement by reference. By submitting this data, you agree to these terms.

Online Purchases
If you make a purchase from CarePrecise Technology you may have to provide additional information, such as your street address, telephone number, and other contact information, in order for our fulfillment process to assure that you receive your purchase. If you use your credit card with us, rest assured that CarePrecise Technology does not store or in any way share purchase information including credit card information with any third party except with your bank through the secure PayPal credit card processing system or the secure PayPal payment system. If you purchase with a credit card by phone, fax or mail, your card information is transmitted to the payment processing system via encryption, and any physical or virtaul record is destroyed immediately after processing is completed. If you purchase through our online system, none of your credit card information is stored by our system. After a purchase has been processed, we no longer have access to your PayPal billing information, and it is not stored in any database in any of our servers or digital storage media. Your online transactions are secured by encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, ensuring a high level of security. The IP address and relevant abbreviated billing information related to your purchase is stored in a secured environement accessible only to CarePrecise Technology administrative personnel.

Cookies & Log Files
Like most web sites, npidentify.com and careprecise.com and our related wholly-owned web sites may occasionally use cookies and log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows web sites you visit to recognize you as a user when you return to the site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you might not be able to use some features of our webspace. Like the information you enter when you established your account (on your My Account pages), cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site and to provide us with aggregate usage information which helps us improve the site.

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit our web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our site. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze trends to help us improve our service. There is generally no reason that the connection between your IP address and your personally identifiable information would need to be shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

Advertising
Some of our pages carry advertising links, which are served to our pages by Google AdSense and other advertisers. Any information, such as IP address, which is collected by those advertisers when you click on their ads is outside the scope of this policy. If you have questions about Google AdSense’ Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.google.com/adsense/.

Children
Children are not eligible to use our web sites or services and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the services. We do not knowingly send communications of any kind to persons under the age of 18, and are grateful to parents for informing us if this should inadvertently occur. In accordance with web best practices, any page that may be inappropriate for children to access will carry a rating tag that can be read by screening software. Parents may contact us at this email address to request that children’s email addresses be placed on our Do Not Send list.

Information Use

We use the personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site to deliver products and services to you, and may from time to time be used to offer you additional products or services; however, we value your time and trust, and we promise to strictly limit contacting you for promotional purposes. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected from our web site and publications (such as, by way of example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by CarePrecise Technology. This information can be utilized by us in such manner as we, in our sole discretion, deem appropriate. As there is no threat to your privacy from the distribution of such de-identified information, we may freely use it for commercial purposes.

Npidentify.com and careprecise.com Communications
We will communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website. Emails include but are not limited to messages which you will receive to confirm your subscription, acknowledge the completion of the confirmation process, assist you in using our services, respond to your inquiries and comments, assist you in updating your information, and/or assist you in unsubscribing. Should you ever decide you wish to stop receiving publications to which you have subscribed or for which you have received a subscription invitation, send email to this address to place your email address on our master “Do Not Send” list.

Customized Content
Information you provide when you subscribe or on your My Account pages may be used to customize your experience of our web site or publications.

Software
Information provided during the download, installation and use of CarePrecise Technology and partners' products is used to make your software work properly, and to provide us with information which we may use to improve our products. We reserve the right to use information obtained from software installation and use for reasons relating to product development, statistical analysis and marketing and promotion of products sold directly by CarePrecise Technology. No personally identifiable information collected in this way is shared with any third party in any way.

Information Sharing

Sharing Information With Third Parties
Let us stress again that CarePrecise Technology takes the privacy of our users very seriously. We will never sell or rent your personally identifiable information to any third parties for marketing purposes. We will share your personally identifiable information with third parties only to carry out your instructions and to provide services specifically requested by you. For instance, on your request, we will use a credit card processing company to bill for fees charged for products and services.

By design, our web site and publications do not offer any mechanism by which your email address or other identifiable information could possibly be shared with public internet users, EXCEPT in the event that you choose to forward an email message from us to another person. Unless you are part of an email discussion group involved in a specific activity of our company in the course of our consulting and standards development work, we send all email publications blind; that is, others receiving the message will not see your email address. However, please remember that if you forward an email message, the recipient will be able to read your email address. We think everyone pretty much understands this, but, in the interest of full disclosure, there you have it.

We may provide aggregated (de-identified) data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. We may segment our users by role (i.e. IT managers, vice presidents), industry, geographic location, and/or organization.

Partnering with Other Organizations to Offer Additional Services
NPIdentify.com and CarePrecise.com and our publications may occasionally partner with other services to offer you expanded services within the healthcare IT field. For example, we may allow an eMagazine to offer you a free subscription, or we may permit a trusted research organization to contact you regarding a survey related to healthcare information technology. However, we will not allow a partner to obtain your email address; we will perform the mailing on their behalf. Whenever such additional services are offered it will be your choice to make use of the services or not; in other words, it is up to you to respond to the offer. Should you respond to any offer or request provided by a third party, your relationship with them would be governed by any Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy as they may offer or require, and not by our Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy.

Legal Disclaimer
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information when we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Email Lists

Our email lists are, for the most part, opt-in or double-opt-in lists. CarePrecise Technology works with others in the healthcare industry to reach new customers by partnering in occasional promotions which may result in CarePrecise Technology emailing an addressee who has not explicitly opted in to an CarePrecise Technology list, but who has given our partner permission to send related promotional offers. In such cases, an email message may appear to be unsolicited email (spam), but has been sent within a permissible use agreement. If the message is unwanted, the recipient will in every case be able to be removed from future mailings by following easy instructions at the bottom of the message. If the recipient believes that any such message has been received through unauthorized use or abuse, or if the recipient suspects that CarePrecise Technology received the email address improperly, we strongly encouage them to contact us so that we may investigate and, of course, see to it that the transgression is not repeated. If a partner which represents itself as having a permissible use agreement with the addressee is found to be unable to substantiate the claim, CarePrecise Technology will remove suspect addressess, block them from future entry, and may take additional action within the partner relationship. Please report suspected abuse at this email address. Under no circumstances will we allow a partner to obtain your email address; in the event that you receive an offer from a partner, rest assured that the mailing came from us on the partner's behalf.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice to that effect on this page. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your accounts and subscriptions.

Questions or Comments

If you ever have a concern or complaint about information you have provided to us, you should contact us at this email address to explain your concern. You may also contact us at:

Attn: Privacy
CarePrecise Technology
4757 South Hudson Place
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135