Practical Healthcare Technologies LLC ("PHTech") has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the MedConsents.com Medical Consent Form web site owned and operated by PHTech.

What Information Does PHTech Collect on this Web Site?

MedConsents.com uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie tracks the areas on our site that you visit. You can adjust your browser settings to reject all cookies or to require your consent to any cookies, but this may prevent you from enjoying all of the features of our site.

Our site's registration and other forms require you to give us contact information (i.e. name, e-mail and postal addresses). We may use your contact information to e-mail registration information and transaction-related correspondence.

From time to time, we may also use Members' registration information to make special offers and promotions to Members. If member contacts us by e-mail or otherwise, we may keep a record of that correspondence. Our online surveys may ask you for contact information (i.e. your email address) and demographic information. We use the data from our surveys to help us develop or enhance the Services we provide to you.

You may provide us with personally identifiable information. Any such personally identifiable Patient Information provided by you will not be shared with third parties, except that PHTech may (1) outsource administrative services to parties soley to assist PHTech in the maintenance of the Services and (2) release such personally identifiable Patient Information to public or private health care payors with whom you participate, or to public regulatory agencies, to the extent that they require such information to carry out their health care operations.

We may use outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by the ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

This site may contain links to other sites. PHTech is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

What Does PHTech Do With the Information Collected on this Web Site?

PHTech's goal in collecting personal information about you or your business is to provide you with the best possible PHTech services and to generally improve your experience on our site. The information that PHTech collects about you and your use of our web site and other services is also specifically used for the following purposes:

• To collect information that helps us to identify information needs that helps us to provide you and your patients the best possible information regarding risks, benefit and alternatives to proposed medical interventions. This is important because much of health care depends upon good communication between you and your health care providers. This information also improves patient understanding and promotes quality healthcare. In addition, these documents help to minimize malpractice risk for clinicians.
• To help comply with HIPAA and other State or Federal rules that require recording and keeping information about who recorded or looked at a given piece of medical information, and when.

Please note that MedConsents.com Medical Informed Consents are only one aspect of patient health care, and the information available here may not be complete. If your patients or their families have any questions or concerns about their health care or information, you should encourage them to contact you or your clinic directly to make sure that they know and understand what is going on.

PHTech may do research on the users of our services based on information provided to us upon registration, from our server log files, and volunteered by our Members. We do this to better understand you and provide you with a higher level of service. We may do this research ourselves or have a third party do it. If a third party performs any of this research, it will not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information about you or your patients for any secondary purposes. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated, anonymous basis, and may only then be shared with advertisers or with our business partners.

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, PHTech does not disclose any personally identifiable information about you, your business, or your patients without permission, except when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. An example might be where disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating PHTech's Terms of Use or may be causing injury to PHTech's or another's rights or property. You acknowledge that in the event that PHTech is acquired by or merged into another company all information collected will be transferred to the other company, subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

Security

PHTech understands the importance of security to you, your practice, and your patients and clients. It is our priority to ensure that personal information about you, your business, and your patients and clients is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, we at PHTech cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us online, and you do so at your own risk.

Please be aware that when accessing other web sites that have links on our site, personal information may be collected about you or your business. The information practices of those web sites linked to PHTech are not covered by this privacy statement.

Policy Change Statement

If you are concerned about your privacy with PHTech, please check this site often. Our privacy policy may change at any time. However, we will not change our information practices or practice related to our Privacy Policy without first giving you prior notice of such changes.

Contacting MedConsents.com and Practical Healthcare Technologies LLC

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with PHTech, you may contact:

Customer Service Department
Practical Healthcare Technologies LLC
4702 SW Scholls Ferry Road #214
Portland, OR 97225
Telephone: (503) 806-4483
Facsimile: (503) 853-8625
Email: douglas.perednia@MedConsents.com