Privacy Policy

Gathering and Use of Information:

Rx Club America collects personal information from our visitors on a voluntary basis. We do not require this information for customers to obtain access to our site. However, visitors may have to provide certain personal information in order to participate in some of our programs offered on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used solely for internal marketing purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.

Personally Identifiable Information:

This Privacy Policy covers Rx Club America's treatment of personally identifiable information that Rx Club America collects when you are on a Rx Club America site, and when you use Rx Club America's services. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Rx Club America does not own or control, or to people that Rx Club America does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use:

Rx Club America collects personally identifiable information when you register to use the Rx Club America web site, request free reports or newsletters and when you use certain Rx Club America products or services.

If you register to use the Rx Club America web site for services we offer, we may ask for your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code. Once you register with Rx Club America and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

Rx Club America also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Rx Club America cookie information and the page you requested.

Rx Club America uses information for three general purposes: to manage your registration information, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to contact you about educational opportunities, new products and share health news.

Information Sharing and Disclosure:

Rx Club America will not sell, rent or exchange your personally identifiable information to anyone.

Rx Club America may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:

We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or

We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Rx Club America Terms of Service, or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Rx Club America Terms of Service, or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

Cookies:

Rx Club America may use "cookie" technology to obtain non-personal information from its online visitors. Cookies are information files that your web browser automatically places from your computer when you visit a website. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but can be configured not to accept them or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. We do not extract personal information in this process nor do we provide this information to third parties. If your browser is configured to reject cookies, you will not be able to utilize some the features of our website.

Privacy Policy – Personal Medical Information:

This section of the Privacy Policy covers Personal Medical Information collected by Rx Club America. Rx Club America’s practices comply fully with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 that establishes national standards for privacy of health information.

Uses and Disclosures Permitted with Individual Authorization

We will only disclose your medical information to a third party with your written authorization, except under circumstances that permit otherwise under law, as listed below. Your authorization will specify the information to be disclosed, who would get the information, and when the authorization will expire. You can revoke this authorization at any time.

Disclosures Permitted Without Authorization for Health Care Treatment, Payment, and Operations:

Rx Club America could use and disclose protected health information without authorization for treatment, payment and health care operations. This would include purposes such as quality assurance, utilization review, credentialing, and other activities that are part of ensuring appropriate treatment and payment. You may ask Rx Club America to restrict further use and disclosure of protected health information for treatment, payment, or health care operations (with the exception of uses or disclosures required by law). Rx Club America would not be required to agree to such a request, but if the Rx Club America and you agree to a restriction, Rx Club America would be bound by the agreement.

Other Uses and Disclosures of Health Information Permitted Without Authorization:

Under HIPAA, Rx Club America could use and disclose protected health information without individual authorization for the following national priority activities:

• Oversight of the health care system, including quality assurance activities
• Oversight of the health care system, including quality assurance activities
• Research
• Judicial and administrative proceedings
• Law enforcement
• To provide information to next-of-kin
• For government health data systems
• For identification of the body of a deceased person, or the cause of death
• For facilities' (hospitals, etc.) directories
• To financial institutions, for processing payments for health care

In other situations where the use of disclosure is mandated by other laws.

Your rights:

As a healthcare consumer, you have the following rights under HIPAA regulations:

The right to receive a written notice of information practices from health plans and providers. The notice must describe the types of uses and disclosures that the plan or provider would make with health information (not just those uses and disclosures that could lawfully be made).

The right to obtain access to protected health information about yourself, including a right to inspect and obtain a copy of the information.

The right to request amendment or correction of protected health information that is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to receive an accounting of the instances where protected health information about them has been disclosed by a covered entity for purposes other than treatment, payment, or health care operations.

Security:

Your Rx Club America registration information is password-protected for your privacy and security.

In certain areas Rx Club America uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to Policies:

Rx Club America may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.