Privacy Policy
Thank you for your interest in Retina Institute of Illinois ("Retina Institute of Illinois," "we," "us," or "our"). This Privacy Policy ("Policy") applies to the following websites owned and operated by Retina Institute of Illinois, and our other websites where we post this document as the applicable Privacy Policy, along with any related websites, networks, applications, and representative services, and communication channels (including texting and telephone calling), and other services provided by us.
You can learn about our commitment to privacy with this Policy describing how we collect, use, share and secure the personal information you provide. It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information.
Data Collection
Retina Institute of Illinois, we are strongly committed to protecting your privacy. We will ask you to provide us with personal information about you. We use your personal information to help us with billing and health care insurance and for medical refers, if you choose to do so, for more eye medical services. We only use and disclose your personal information in accordance with our Policy. Additionally, we use industry-leading technologies to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal information you provide us. Throughout this Policy, we refer to information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, phone number, mobile number, texting, email address, Social Security number or credit card number, as "personal information".
Data Usage
Further, personal information includes any information about your health or medical history that you may provide us in a health insurance application or any financial or other sensitive personal information that you may provide us in an application to obtain an advanced premium tax credit (or "subsidy") determination from the government. If you provide information directly to one of our partners or any other third party, then your information would be governed by such other party's privacy policy.
SMS Terms and Conditions
- Data Collection & Data Usage: Please see data colleciton/li>
- Data Protection: Retina Institude only uses top HIPAA approved application to protect your information and phone number you provide us.
- Policy Updates: Any changes or updated to policy a letter of communication will be mailled with the updated and changed informations and als will be available on our home page retinaii.com
- Accessibility: Ensure the policy is easily accessible.
- Retina Instituted will never share your SMS consent and phone with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes.
- Consent for SMS Communications
- Upon providing consent to receive SMS communications from us, we want to assure you that your phone number and consent will never be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes. Your information is used solely for communication with you.
- SMS Communications will only used for appointment reminder or change of appointment.
- After you consent, we will send messages regarding appointments, cases, or deliveries you have requested. Examples of these messages include:
- Your appointment date and time and information to contact us if a cancelation needed.
- Standard Messaging Disclosures
- Message and data rates may apply.
- To opt out at any time, text STOP.
- For assistance, text HELP or visit our website at (retinaii.com)
If you have questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us 847-297-8900 or send your concern to following email to info@retinaii.com
1. We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, unless one of the following limited exceptions applies.
Service Providers
We may disclose your personal information to other companies that help us to process or service any application you begin, process or submit through us, or to correspond with you. For example, we may provide your personal information to a service provider to verify the validity or credit limit of your credit card. Please be assured that the companies we hire to process or service your insurance application or correspond with you are not allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes and are contractually obligated to maintain strict confidentiality.
Legal Obligations
In certain situations, Retina Institute of Illinois may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.)
We may also disclose your personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process. We may disclose or report your personal information when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required or permitted under law, for example, to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to resolve consumer disputes, to protect our rights, to protect your safety or the safety of others, to investigate fraud, or to otherwise respond to a government request.
Business Transition
If Retina Institute of Illinois is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
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