PRIVACY POLICY FOR BALANCE DIABETES WELLNESS
1. Introduction
Balance Diabetes Wellness respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), protects you.
2. Data Collection
We collect and manage patient health information in accordance with state and federal laws, including HIPAA. The types of personal health information we collect may include your name, contact information, medical history related to diabetes, and lifestyle information. We utilize the Healthie Practice management platform to collect and manage this information. Healthie is a HIPAA-compliant platform designed to ensure the secure handling of your personal health information.
3. Use of Data
We use your data to provide, maintain, and improve our services, to develop new services, and to protect Balance Diabetes Wellness and our users. We also use this data to offer you tailored content like personalized health and wellness tips and recommendations. All uses of this information are done in compliance with HIPAA regulations.
4. Sharing of Data
We do not share your personal data with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Balance Diabetes Wellness unless one of the following circumstances applies: for external processing (we provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures), for legal reasons (we will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Balance Diabetes Wellness if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request), or with your explicit consent.
5. User Rights
As a user, you have the right to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal data. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data, or request portability of your personal data. All these rights are in alignment with HIPAA’s Privacy Rule.
6. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
7. Security Measures
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server and all supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our database. All these measures are designed to ensure compliance with the Security Rule under HIPAA.
8. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at: contact@