Demean Family Medicine Privacy Statement

Demean Family Medicine
1331 G Street
Lewiston, ID 83501
208=743-9616
demeanfamilystaff@gmail.com

Our website address is: https://demeanfamilymed.com.

How We Collect Information About You

Demean Family Medicine (DFM) and its employees and volunteers collect data through a variety of means including but not necessarily limited to letters, phone calls, emails, voicemails, and from the submission of applications that are either required by law or necessary to process applications or other requests for assistance through our organization.

What We Do Not Do With Your Information: 

Information about your financial situation and medical conditions and care that you provide to us in writing, via email, on the phone (including information left on voicemails), contained in or attached to applications, or directly or indirectly given to us, is held in strictest confidence.

We do not give out, exchange, barter, rent, sell, lend, or disseminate any information about applicants or clients who apply for or actually receive our services that are considered patient confidential, restricted by law, or specifically restricted by a patient/client in a signed HIPAA consent form. 
You can download our HIPPA Privacy Agreement by clicking HERE.

How We Do Use Your Information: 

Information is only used as is reasonably necessary to process your application or to provide you with health or counseling services which may require communication between DFM and health care providers, medical product or service providers, pharmacies, insurance companies, and other providers necessary to verify your medical information is accurate and determine the type of medical supplies or health care services you need. This is including, but not limited to, or to obtain or purchase any type of medical supplies, devices, medications, or insurance.

If you apply or attempt to apply to receive assistance through us and provide information with the intent or purpose of fraud or that results in either an actual crime of fraud for any reason including willful or un-willful acts of negligence whether intended or not, or in any way demonstrates or indicates attempted fraud, your non-medical information can be given to legal authorities including police, investigators, courts, and/or attorneys or other legal professionals, as well as any other information as permitted by law.

Information We Collect from Website Visitors: 

We use Google Analytics to count our website visitors and to make sure our website is working correctly. We also use this information to improve our website for our visitors. We do not collect or store personally identifiable information in this process.

These are the types of information that gets collected:
Internet Protocol address of the computer you are using;
type of browser software and operating system you are using;
date and time you access our site; and
the Internet address of the site from which you linked directly to our site.

We will use this information as aggregate data to help us maintain this site, e.g., to determine the number of visitors to different sections of our site, to ensure the site is working properly, and to help us make our site more accessible and useful.

We will not use this information to identify individuals.
We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information.

Limited Right to Use Non-Identifying Personal Information From Letters, Notes, and Other Sources: 

Any pictures, stories, letters, correspondence, or thank you notes sent to us become the exclusive property of DFM. We reserve the right to use non-identifying information about our clients (those who receive services or goods from or through us) for promotional purposes that are directly related to our mission.

Clients will not be compensated for use of this information and no identifying information (photos, addresses, phone numbers, contact information, last names or uniquely identifiable names) will be used without the client’s express advance permission.

You may specifically request that NO information be used whatsoever for promotional purposes, but you must identify any requested restrictions in writing. We respect your right to privacy and assure you no identifying information or photos that you send to us will ever be publicly used without your direct or indirect consent.