Chronic Care Staffing Website Privacy Notice
Last Updated: December 15, 2017
This Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) describes how Chronic Care Staffing (“Chronic Care Staffing”), the operator of this Site, collects, protects and uses information we receive from visitors (“you” “your” “user(s)”) to this website. This Notice applies to all who visit and use our website, chroniccarestaffing.com, and online services as well as the websites and online services offered by our affiliates (collectively the “Site”). Affiliates are those entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, by Chronic Care Staffing, or that are controlled by or under common control with Chronic Care Staffing.
This Privacy Notice excludes those websites and online services operated by Chronic Care Staffing or our affiliates that have separate privacy policies and do not incorporate this Privacy Notice by reference or otherwise. Different privacy policies may also apply to other parts of Chronic Care Staffing’s web presence – for example, password protected areas or web pages for online recruitment. Please note that our Privacy Notice applies only to activities we engage in on the Site and does not apply to activities that are “offline” or unrelated to the Site (even if affiliated with Chronic Care Staffing or linked to by this Site).
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into our Terms of Use, which also apply when you use our Site. By using the Site, you agree to the terms in this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree with the practices described in this Privacy Notice, please do not provide us with your personal information or otherwise interact with the Site.
Chronic Care Staffing collects information from its users in several ways:
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the internet that allows servers to recognize your computer and lets it communicate with others. Chronic Care Staffing collects IP addresses in order to conduct system administration, report aggregate information to affiliates, subsidiaries or partners, and to conduct site analysis. Chronic Care Staffing will also use IP addresses to identify any users who refuse to comply with Chronic Care Staffing’s Terms of Use Agreement, and to identify users who misuse or threaten Chronic Care Staffing’s service, site, user, clients or others.
Cookies are pieces of data that a Web site transfers to a user’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Web beacons are transparent pixel images that are used in collecting information about website usage, e-mail response and tracking.
This Site uses cookies and web beacons to provide enhanced functionality on the site (e.g., user ID and password prompts) and aggregate traffic data (e.g., what pages are the most popular). These cookies may be delivered in a first-party or third-party context. Chronic Care Staffing may also use cookies and web beacons in association with e-mails delivered by Chronic Care Staffing. Our Site also captures limited information (HTTP referrer, last URL requested by the user, client-side and server-side clickstream) about visits to our Site; we may use this information to analyze general traffic patterns and to perform routine system maintenance. You have many choices with regards to the management of cookies on your computer. All major browsers allow you to block or delete cookies from your system. To learn more about your ability to manage cookies and web beacons, please consult the privacy features in your browser.
Chronic Care Staffing may utilize certain third-party advertising services to display or purchase advertising on its behalf. These third-party services may place a cookie on your computer for the purposes of ad tracking and presentation. Chronic Care Staffing does not share personally identifiable user information with its advertising services.
Chronic Care Staffing uses the Google Analytics Platform to analyze website traffic on the Site as well as for online form data collection. We do not share this personal information with other third parties.
Chronic Care Staffing uses Google Analytics to understand Chronic Care Staffing’s site usage. Site usage information is used to help design, develop, and support Chronic Care Staffing website. To the extent Chronic Care Staffing uses Google Analytics, Google receives and stores Chronic Care Staffing’s contributed site usage information (such as pages accessed), but it does not receive any personal or sensitive information as a part of this process. If you do not want data collected by Google Analytics, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available on Google’s website.
Chronic Care Staffing website registration systems require users to give Chronic Care Staffing contact information such as their name and e-mail address, and demographic information such as organization and/or role for certain areas of the Site. The user’s contact information is used to contact the user when necessary. Chronic Care Staffing uses this data to tailor the user’s experience on the Chronic Care Staffing website, showing the user content that reflects their stated preferences. This information may be shared with affiliates, subsidiaries, sponsors, advertisers or partners on an aggregate basis, but personal information will not be disclosed without the user’s consent.
If you sign up for a particular service, including the ability to submit and receive electronic payments and remittances through Chronic Care Staffing’s ePayment service (the “ePayment Service”), Chronic Care Staffing may collect personal information such as contact information (e.g., name, address, telephone number and e-mail address), demographic information (e.g., zip code, organization and/or role), billing information (e.g., credit or debit card numbers or banking information), or sensitive information (e.g. healthcare information). We use this information to verify that only authorized users are accessing the respective application; to provide you with the services you have selected; and to contact you when necessary, to communicate helpful tips and advice during your participation in this service.
Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature. This feature allows you to tell websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked over time and across websites. These features are not yet uniform across browsers. Our website does not respond to web browser “Do No Track” signals.
Information collected by Chronic Care Staffing may be used by Chronic Care Staffing and its third party providers for general business purposes, including the following:
We may also share your personal information, with or without notice:
You will be given the right to opt-out of receiving any promotional materials about Chronic Care Staffing or its partners whenever you receive a marketing communication or when you are asked to provide Personal information on this Site. If you do not opt-out at that time, but later decide that you do not wish to receive future communications of this nature you can contact us at billing@ccmstaff.com or at the postal address provided below, indicating that you no longer want to receive information relating to this Site or marketing communications from Chronic Care Staffing.
Security of information communicated by or to us over the Internet is of utmost concern to us, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. To help protect the privacy of data and personal information you transmit through use of this Site, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know that information to provide benefits or services to you. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. We commit to taking appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees’ privacy responsibilities.
This website is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13.
There are a number of places on our Site where you may click on a link to access other web sites that do not operate under this Privacy Notice. We are not responsible for the nature, quality or accuracy of the content or opinions expressed on such websites, or of the services provided through such websites. Even if an affiliation exists between our Site and a third-party website, we exercise no control over linked sites. Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. While Chronic Care Staffing expects its partners and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users, Chronic Care Staffing cannot be responsible for the actions of third parties. We recommend that you consult the privacy notices of all web sites you visit by clicking on the “privacy” link typically located at the bottom of the web page before providing any personal information.
This Site is controlled, operated and administered within the United States, and your personal information is stored by Chronic Care Staffing on its servers, and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services Chronic Care Staffing engages. Chronic Care Staffing retains data for the duration of our customer’s business relationship with the Chronic Care Staffing, unless as otherwise agreed with our customer. For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact Chronic Care Staffing at billing@ccmstaff.com.
By using this Site, you signify your agreement to the terms of this Notice. If you do not agree with this Notice, please do not disclose any personal information through this Site. This Notice and the use of this Site are governed by South Carolina law. Any claim related to the Site or this Notice shall be brought in a federal or state court in Columbia, South Carolina, within one year after the claim arises. Users of the Site consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts as the most convenient and appropriate for the resolution of disputes concerning this Notice. This Notice and the notices outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any third party.
As a provider of services and technology to the health care industry, Chronic Care Staffing has implemented programs to address the privacy and security requirements established under HIPAA. Under HIPAA, each covered entity (health care provider, health plan or health care clearinghouse) is required to provide or make available to you a Notice of Privacy Practices (NoPP), depending on your interaction with the covered entity. To the extent a Chronic Care Staffing affiliate or subsidiary is a covered entity, a NoPP will be provided to you or made available to you. The NoPP is not related to the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 gives California residents that have provided Personal Information to Chronic Care Staffing pursuant an established business relationship, the right to request certain information with respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third parties for direct marketing purposes by such third party, and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding year. To request a copy of this information disclosure, if any, from Chronic Care Staffing, please send a request to billing@ccmstaff.com with a preference on how our response to your request should be sent.
Chronic Care Staffing may modify this Notice at any time, at its discretion, and modifications are effective upon being posted on this Site. You are responsible for reviewing this Notice periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to it.
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Notice, please contact us via email at billing@ccmstaff.com (please include “Chronic Care Staffing Web Site Privacy Notice” in the subject line), or via US Mail at: Chronic Care Staffing, (Attn: Chronic Care Staffing Web Site Privacy Notice), 790 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, Suite 110, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464.
