Little Company of Mary respects the privacy of your personal health information. This Privacy Policy is intended to specify how information you supply through our Website is collected, safeguarded, transmitted and used by Little Company of Mary.

This Privacy Policy describes how we protect your privacy as a user of this Website; not as a patient. If you are a patient of a Little Company of Mary facility, you may have other rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). For a more complete description of a patient’s rights under HIPAA, please refer to the Joint Notice of Privacy Practices.

Information Collection

Little Company of Mary collects information in several ways from different parts of our Website. Little Company of Mary collects some personal information when you initially access our site. When you browse our Website, you do so anonymously. Personal information — including your e-mail address is not collected. Your IP address (the Internet address of your computer) is logged to give us an idea of which parts of our website you are visiting and how long you are spending there. We may also use the information to estimate the size of our audience and measure certain traffic patterns. The only other information automatically provided to us is the type of computer and operating system you are using. This information is supplied to us by your browser. We do not use persistent “cookies” or tracking mechanisms that collect personally identifying information on our site.

Data Collected Through Forms on Our Site

All information submitted to our Website using our forms is encrypted for transmission using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol and 128-bit encryption. If your Web browser does not currently support this security protocol, you will be prompted to update your security and presented with a link to a site where you may obtain the necessary plug-in at no charge. SSL is used for transmitting personal demographic information, health plans member account information and claims information, personal health information and credit card information.

We recognize the particular importance of protecting privacy where children are involved. We are committed to protecting children’s privacy on the Internet and we comply fully with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a child has provided us with personally identifiable information, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us and we will delete the information about the child from our files.

E-Mail

Personal health information transmitted across the Internet via e-mail is not secure and will not be requested or accepted by Little Company of Mary. Secure customer service forms are available for all member and patient communications.

Storage of and Access to Information

Personal information collected through our site is secured within the Providence Health System data network. The information is subject to applicable access restrictions and protocols that are maintained by our Data Management and Security office and are in compliance with applicable state and federal regulations.

How Data is Used

Our site’s registration system requires users to give us contact information such as their name and e-mail address, and demographic information such as a insurance, ZIP code, sex, or age. Your contact information is used to contact you only when necessary. For example, we may send you a confirmation letter of the referral that was made or a class that you registered for. We have proper security measures in place to combat against inadvertent disclosures of personal information to third parties.

Little Company of Mary may use aggregate data for internal analysis to better serve the health needs of our communities, to improve the usefulness of the Website and to provide better customer service.

Safeguards

During linking from the Little Company of Mary site to any external site not under our control, no data, including URL query strings, will contain identifiable information to allow a third party to ascertain user identification or any other uniquely identifiable user information from our Website.

Caution

Users of our Website who do link to a third-party Website must be aware that our Privacy Policy does not extend beyond the borders of the Little Company of Mary Website. Other standards may apply outside our site. We will disclose certain information to local, state, federal, national or international law enforcement authorities if required by law to do so.