This Privacy Policy describes how DMN collects and uses the personal data you provide on our Website: https://DocsMedNotes.com.
Docs Med Notes and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, and such entities’ predecessors, successors, divisions, and groups (hereinafter “DMN”) respects the privacy and values the confidence of its customers, employees, and business partners, and strives at all times to comply with the laws of the countries in which it does business, including those countries in which it collects Sensitive Personal Health Data and other Personal Data.
This Privacy Policy covers the following:• Who we are
• What information we collect
• How we use your information
• Who may use your information
• Third party links and services
• How we protect your information
• Where your information is processed
• Marketing Communications
• How long we keep your information
• Compliance with HIPAA
• Your rights
• How you can contact us
This Privacy Policy applies to all of the personal data we collect about you, including information collected on our website and systems and any other websites (including mobile access) where this policy is linked to; all of which are referred to as the “Site” in this policy. By providing information to us, you expressly agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 1, 2019 and applies from that date.
We may occasionally amend this Privacy Policy. Any new policy will automatically be effective when it is published on the Site. You should therefore return here regularly to view our most up to date Privacy Policy. You should also print a copy for your records. We do not knowingly collect or process data from anyone under the age of thirteen (13) years old.
Who are we? The Site is owned and operated by DMN. Docs Med Notes is organized in the State of New York, United States, with a principal office in Manhattan, New York (PO BOX 1124, Yonkers, New York, 10702).
What information do we collect? Most of the personal data that DMN holds is not collected directly from individuals but is received from DMN customers who engage DMN (either directly or through a third party) to process personal data on the customer’s behalf. DMN does collect some personal data directly, including data related to DMN employees and investors and individuals who have made inquiries about using DMN’s products or services. Where personal data is supplied to DMN from a customer, that customer is responsible for ensuring that the individuals whose personal data it is are notified about the identity of the data controller or its representatives, the purposes for which it is collecting, processing and maintaining the data, and any further information that may be required by the circumstances under which the data are collected. Any questions, comments or concerns about the data practices of a DMN customer for whom DMN processes data should be addressed to that customer.
DMN also collects personal data that you provide to us on our Site, which may include:
• Contact information – [name, job title, company name, department, email address, physical mailing address and telephone number];
• Professional information – [such as your employment background, job description and related information];
• Transaction information – [your contact information, the products you are interested in, your purchasing requirements, your financial information including credit card or other payment information];
• Responses to surveys – [information you provide in responding to a survey on the website, via an app or email, on the telephone or otherwise];
We also collect information through means such as cookies – for more on this please see the next section below on how we use your information. We collect personal data from you only when you voluntarily provide it to us. You may withdraw your consent to us using your personal data at any time. Finally, we may use publicly accessible information to verify information we are provided with and to manage and expand our business.
How do we use your information?
We use information collected about you as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
General
Our primary purpose in collecting your personal data is to provide you with the services you requested and those which we believe will optimize your use of the Site. We may use your personal data for the following purposes:
• To contact you with additional information about DMN’s product offerings;
• To provide the information, services or support you request and related after-sales services;
• To identify you, and to contact you from time to time with product or service updates;
• To send other messages that are useful to the service we provide;
• To manage our relationship with you and to carry out any related administration;
• To promote our services, or the services of our partners, including by email and via social media platforms;
• To compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties;
• To detect, investigate and prevent activity we think may be potentially illegal, unlawful or harmful and to enforce our Privacy Policy and/or our Terms or any other purpose referenced herein or therein; and
• To carry out research, including market research, statistical research on Site traffic, sales and other commercial information to assist us in improving the services we provide to you and tailor the Site.
Social Media
Our Site includes social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button and widgets, such as the “Share this” button or interactive mini-programs that run on our Site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider. This number is identified and logged automatically whenever you visit the Site, along with the time(s) of your visit(s) and the page(s) that you visited. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the Privacy Policy of the company providing the feature.
Cookies
This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalize content, to provide social media features, and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
Your consent applies to the following domains: DocsMedNotes.com
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personal data.
Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our Site or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.
We partner with a third party ad network to either display advertising on our Site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and web beacons to collect non-personal data about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by sending notification to help@docsmednotes.com. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
We may provide your personal data to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as offering customer service (Live Chat). These companies are authorized to use your personal data only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Cookie consent
In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website. Exceptions to this apply such as where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested (e.g. to enable you to put items in your shopping basket and use our check-out process). If you visit our website when your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret this as an indication that you consent to our use of cookies and other similar technologies as described in this policy. If you change your mind in the future about letting us use cookies, you can modify the settings of your browser to reject cookies or disable cookies completely. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.
Applying to work with us
If you apply to work with us, we will use the information you supply to process your application and to monitor recruitment statistics. As a global business we may transfer your details outside of your home country and to other companies in our group. We will ask you to sign up to additional privacy terms if you apply for a job with us. Once a person has taken up employment with us, we will compile a file relating to their employment. At that stage we will give more details about how we hold employee data and we will expect the employee to sign up to additional privacy terms as part of their employment.
We may retain details of candidates who may be of interest to us, either now or in the future, for up to one year. If you would not like us to do that please let us know. Additionally, if your circumstances change – for example you no longer wish to be considered by us for employment – please let us know that too.
We may use third parties to consider potential hires.
Who may use your information?
We may disclose your personal data to enforce our policies, to comply with our legal obligations or in the interests of security, public interest or law enforcement in any country where we have entities or affiliates. For example, we may respond to a request by a law enforcement agency or regulatory or governmental authority. We may also disclose data in connection with actual or proposed litigation, or to protect our property, security, people and other rights or interests.
We share your information with third parties who help deliver our products and services to you. Examples include hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not use that data for any other purpose.
We may also share your personal data:
• With companies in our group and/or our affiliates; or• With any third party you have asked us to share your personal data with – such as Facebook or any other social media site if you have asked us to connect with your account.
You may have accessed our website through a hyperlink from the website of one of our trading partners. If so, you consent to your personal details and purchase information, including behavioural patterns, being shared with that trading partner in accordance with our contractual relationship with them.
If we or any part of our group is sold, or some of its assets transferred to a third party, your personal information, as a valuable asset, may also be transferred to the acquirer, even if they are not in the same line of business as us. Our customer database could be sold separately from the rest of the business, in whole or in a number of parts. Potential purchasers and their advisers may have limited access to data as part of the sale process. However, use of your personal information will remain subject to this Privacy Policy.
Similarly, your personal information may be passed on to a successor in interest in the unlikely event of a liquidation, bankruptcy or administration.
Please remember that when you share information publicly on the Site, for example a comment on a blog post, it may be indexable by search engines, including Google, which may mean that the information is made public.
Third party links and services
The Site may contain links to third parties’ websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those websites. Therefore, please read carefully any privacy policies on those links or websites before either agreeing to their terms or using those websites.
We may also use Google Analytics to gather statistics on site usage. This may involve the use of cookies. We have explained about cookies above – however, you should also look at Google’s own privacy policy for details of their data collection practices. Google may aggregate data they collect from their various services including Google Analytics, Google Translate, Google Maps and YouTube. You acknowledge and accept that we have no control over Google’s data collection.
If you have asked us to share data with third party websites (such as social media sites), their servers may not be secure. Note that, despite the measures taken by us and the third parties we engage, the internet is not secure. As a result, others may nevertheless unlawfully intercept or access private transmissions or data.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
We take what we consider to be appropriate technical and organizational measures to guard against unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal data. While no system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by the Site reduce our vulnerability to security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. We have security measures in place to protect our user database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains your responsibility:
• Where you have a user account for the Site:
o To log off or exit from the Site when not using it;
o To ensure no-one else uses the Site while your device is logged on to the Site (including by logging on to your device through a mobile, Wi-Fi or shared access connection you are using);
o To keep your password or other access information secret. Your password and log in details are personal to you and should not be given to anyone else or used to provide shared access for example over a network. You should use a password which is unique to your use of the Site – do not use the same password as you use for another website or email account; and,
• To maintain good internet security. For example if your email account or Facebook account is compromised this could allow access to your account with us if you have given us those details and/or permitted access through those accounts. If your email account is compromised it could be used to ask us to reset a password and gain access to your account with us. You should keep all of your account details secure. If you think that any of your accounts have been compromised you should change your account credentials with us, and in particular make sure any compromised account does not allow access to your account with us. You should also tell us as soon as you can so that we can try to help you keep your account secure and if necessary warn anyone else who could be affected.
Where is your information processed?
DMN does not sell, distribute or otherwise transfer Personal Data to third parties, except that DMN may, on occasion, rely on third parties for information technology and data center management purposes, assistance with maintenance and support of computing infrastructure, and to provide additional data processing, storage, or remote recognition resources or systems. In such cases, DMN will only transfer Personal Data to an agent, such as a service provider, vendor or other third party acting as a processor of Personal Data for DMN where such agent has provided assurances that it provides at least the same material level of privacy protection as is required by this Privacy Policy. Where DMN has knowledge that one of its agents is using or sharing Personal Data in a way that is contrary to this Privacy Policy, DMN will take reasonable and appropriate steps to prevent or stop such processing.
Marketing communications
If you have given permission, we may share your personal data with organizations who are our business partners and we or they may contact you (unless you have asked us or them not to do so) by mail, telephone, SMS, text/picture/video message, fax, email, other about products, services, promotions, and special offers that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive any further direct marketing communications from us or our business partners, you can opt out at any time. See further ‘Your rights’, below.
How long do we keep your information?
We will retain your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, to deliver services to the relevant DMN customer, in addition to retaining and using personal data as is necessary to comply with DMN’s legal obligations, to resolve customer disputes, and to enforce DMN’s agreements with its customers, after which we will delete it.
Compliance with HIPAA
DMN provides technical controls and safeguards that support its customers’ compliance policies and procedures. Although compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) is the responsibility of every healthcare organization, DMN is dedicated to ensuring that its products and services make it easier for them to reach that goal.
DMN has also established a corporate HIPAA Privacy Officer to facilitate and manage the privacy needs of its customers, as well as to protect the security of customer and internal data. These roles include the following responsibilities:
• Validate that current operational and technical business practices ensure the privacy and security of protected health information;
• Develop, implement and monitor a privacy and security awareness, education and training program, as well as a compliance program;
• Assist our customers in the ongoing process of negotiating and finalizing the required Business Associate Agreements.
Other
DMN has put in place mechanisms to verify its ongoing compliance with this Privacy Policy. Any DMN employee found to have violated the privacy principles in this Privacy Policy will be subject to appropriate corrective actions.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about employment opportunities with DMN, we will ask you for your friend’s name, email address and contact number. We will send your friend an email or call him or her, inviting him or her to visit the site or otherwise gauging his or her interest in one or more open positions. DMN stores this information for the sole purpose of contacting your friend and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at HELP@DocsMedNotes.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
We post customer testimonials, comments and reviews on our Site which may contain personal data. We obtain the customer’s consent via email to post such customer’s name along with the testimonial, prior to posting the testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at HELP@DocsMedNotes.
Your rights
Although DMN receives, handles and in some cases, stores personal data, DMN’s customers are typically the custodians of the permanent copies of such personal data and the permanent official copies of dictation audio are managed by DMN’s customers. In the case of health records, all requests by individuals concerned for access to such records, such as to correct, update or delete it, should be directed to the relevant DMN customer to ensure that the individuals concerned receives access to his or her official, final health record. In the event that the relevant DMN customer does not respond to your request in a reasonably adequate or timely manner, please contact us at HELP@DocsMedNotes and we will escalate your request with such DMN customer. In such cases, we will respond to your request within 30 days.
As explained above, you have the right to opt-out of receiving communications from us. In addition, to the extent permitted by the laws of your country, you may have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If your objection is not to direct marketing in general, but to direct marketing by a particular channel e.g. email or telephone, please specify the channel you are objecting to.
How to contact us?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, we encourage you to contact us at:
Docs Med Notes
PO Box 1124
Yonkers, New York 10702
USA
Phone: +1 661-636-6837
HELP@DocsMedNotes.com