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Privacy Policy

Mid Valley Pediatrics and Allergy Center is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy as a visitor to our Web site. We take the issue of privacy very seriously and value the trust you place in us each time you use our services and access this Web site. This statement describes the practices and policies we have put into place to safeguard your personal and health-related personal information that may be gathered and used as you visit our Web site. The policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. If you have any questions about our privacy policies, we encourage you to contact us calling 956-969-2609. 

 

Most of the pictures on website are our patients, their parents, and our staff. We sincerely thank them for giving us permission and the rights to publish them. Any copying (in any form) of these pictures, is a violation of HIPPA. We have purchased the rights to the other stock pictures we have used. 

Who Is Collecting the Information?
MVPAC is collecting information on this Web site as outlined in this privacy policy.

What Information Do We Collect?

Automatic Collection of Information:
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site or download information, our system will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and is used in an aggregate way to help us improve our web site and tell us the number of visitors to our site each day. Our Web server automatically collects and records the following information:

  • Aggregate information on what pages are accessed

  • The name and release number of web browser software used

  • The operating system used

  • Date and time you access our site

  • The address of the Web site that linked to us (referrer URL)

 

Permission-based Collection of Information:

  • At different places on our site (such as Secure Online Appointment Request Forms and Secure Online Prescription Refill Request Form) you will be asked to provide personal and health-related information such as your name, telephone number, e-mail address, your child's name, date of birth, your child's health information and health history. This information is used to process your online request.

  • Personal information/identification information gathered through registration for educational programs


How Do We Use the Information We Collect?
The information we gather automatically and with your permission during your visit to our Web site is used in the following ways:

  • Monitor, review, measure, and analyze Web site utilization

  • Modify and enhance the Web site

  • Improve the content and design of our Web site

  • Determine the need for new programs and services

  • Respond to your requests

  • Monitor the changing health information needs of site visitors

  • Customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor

  • Monitor and improve our customer service efforts

  • Study general usage habits and demographic information for our own marketing research purposes

  • Distribute news and other health information requested by Web visitors

  • Determine the effectiveness of health promotion and marketing programs

  • Strategic Planning


With Whom Will the Information Be Shared?
The personally identifiable information gathered during your visit to this Web site is not shared with any organization for any purpose. We do not rent, sell, exchange or in some way provide personally identifiable information to any third-party organization.

Correction of and Access to Personal Information
Individuals may notify us that they wish to correct their personally identifiable information by calling us by telephone at: 956-969-2609. Site visitors may not access information we have collected and maintain about them.

Our Use of Cookies
Many Web sites now use "cookies" to provide useful features to their visitors by providing customizable and personalized services. 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. For example, a Web site may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you, your preferences, or the pages you last visited. Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies, or to ask you if you would like to accept or decline a cookie from a particular site before it is set. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the Help section of the toolbar. You should know, however, that if you reject a cookie, certain functions and conveniences of a site may not work properly. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. We do not use any cookies to store or collect information on our Web site.

Email Communication
MVPAC may use the information that we’ve collected in our database to promote health and wellness topics that may pertain to your interests. You can choose to opt-out from receiving these email communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link on the emails or call us at 956-969-2609 to request that your email address be removed from the list.

Our Children's Privacy Policy
We are especially concerned about protecting children's privacy. We hope parents and teachers are involved in children's Internet explorations. It is particularly important for parents to guide their children when children are asked to provide personal information on line. Our site may feature information and services of interest to children 13 and under.

Online Payments
Many people have become accustomed to on-line commerce as a time-saving and useful convenience. There are a number of practices that can make providing your sensitive credit card information more secure and therefore make you feel more comfortable about doing so. We do not process credit card payments on our Web site. These transactions are handled through a secure service for protection from fraud and abuse.

Advertising Servers
On-line advertising, such as banner ads, has become commonplace on many Web sites. Certain Web sites have developed relationships with third-party advertising servers to display these advertisements on their sites. By clicking on one of these banner ads, you will be taken to another site with different privacy policies. These third party ad servers may also use cookies to collect non-personal information on your preferences and interests via the advertisement you decide to view. At this time, we do not partner with or have special relationships with any advertising server companies.

Links to Other Sites
Web sites often provide a number of links that offer direct access to other useful or interesting web sites holding potential value to site visitors. Inclusion of the other sites by links does not imply any endorsement of the material or information on the other sites. This site includes links to non-affiliated external Web sites. We encourage users to review the privacy policy of each linked site, as we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. Read our full disclaimer here.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we have the following practices: We will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Web Site Contact Information
If you have questions about our privacy policy, or feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, please contact us.

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