PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY; IT DESCRIBES HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED.

The following is the Notice of Privacy Practices of Order My Own Lab as described in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly known as HIPAA. HIPAA requires Order My Own Lab by law to maintain the privacy of your personal health information. The primary purpose of HIPAA’s privacy and security regulations is to protect the confidentiality of health information which is generated or maintained in the course of providing health related services.

Your privacy is one of our top priorities. We empower you to take control of your health, and that includes having control of certain aspects of your Personal Information.

• We limit the information we collect and retain. We collect Personal Information to provide you with our products and services. We retain your information for the period of time necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including delivering requested products and services.
• We limit the manners in which we share your test results with third parties. In order to deliver our product and services to you, it may be necessary for us to provide certain information to the lab and provider partners.
• Your identity is not for sale. We do not disclose your Personal Information to third parties in exchange for money. The Personal Information you provide is used by Order My Own Lab to provide the services and products you have requested and for which you have provided payment for.

PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy governs how Order My Own lab collects, stores, and uses your Personal Information, as well as other data and information arising out of and/or relating to you and/or your use of our Services – which include without limitation your use of the website and any other technologies, features, websites, mobile applications, content, and other services we offer.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, applications, products, services, or other properties, even if they may link to our site or our site may link to them. It is important that you read and understand the entire Privacy Policy before using our Services.

Our Commitment

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy and confidentiality of your personal health information. We utilize secure technologies to protect your information. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee that the information submitted to, maintained on, or transmitted from its systems will be completely secure. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our website by any users or third parties.

Your Personal Health Information

We collect personal health information from you through testing, payment and related operations. Your personal health information that is protected by law broadly includes any information, oral, written or recorded, that is created or received. The law specifically protects health information that contains data, such as your name, address, and other items, that could be used to identify you as the individual who is associated with that health information.

Uses or Disclosures of Your Personal Health Information

Generally, we may not use or disclose your personal health information without your permission. Further, once your permission has been obtained, we must use or disclose your personal health information in accordance with the specific terms of that permission.

Without Your Consent

In each of the areas described as follows, we are not required to, and will not, ask for your consent to use or disclose your protected health information in order to provide you with services you request, to collect payment for those services, to pay third-parties involved in providing those services, and to conduct other related health care operations otherwise permitted or required by law. Also, we are permitted to disclose your personal health information within and among our workforce and affiliated providers in order to accomplish these same purposes. However, even with your permission, we are still required to limit such uses or disclosures to the minimal amount of personal health information that is reasonably required to provide those services or complete those activities.

We may contact you with information about health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.

We may collect customer data so that we can evaluate and develop new or existing testing programs, monitor quality, and perform other activities related to the overall operations of Order My Own Lab. Further, your information may be used by Order My Own Lab in connection with the professional services we obtain, such as legal services, audit functions, legal compliance, and detection of fraud or abuse.

As Required by Law

The HIPAA rules permit Order My Own Lab to disclose your private health information under certain circumstances when the disclosure is required by other laws or in furtherance of law. We may use or disclose your personal health information to the extent that such use or disclosure is required by law and the use or disclosure complies with and is limited to the relevant requirements of such law.

Other Permitted Disclosures

We may use your protected health information for marketing in limited circumstances permitted by law. For example, we may use your name, email and address to communicate with you about a health-related product or service that we provide. We may also send you newsletters or promotional items.