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Home Staff Web Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement
The privacy, confidence, and trust of individuals who visit the Home Staff web site and web sites operated under Home Staff’s operation and control (collectively, the “Site") are important to us. No personal information is collected at this Site unless it is provided voluntarily by an individual while participating in an activity that asks for the information. The following paragraphs disclose the information gathering and usage practices for the Site.
Collection of Information
Home Staff only collects the personal information that is necessary to provide the information or services requested by an individual. "Personal information" refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual who is the subject of the information. This is the same information that an individual might provide when visiting and includes such items as an individual's name, address, or phone number. We also collect statistical information that helps us understand how people are using the Site so we can continually improve our services. Examples of this information would include, but not be limited to, the number of visitors to the Site, or to sections or pages within the Site, patterns of traffic flowing through the Site, length of time spent on the Site, or in sections or pages of the Site, the other sites that refer visitors to the Site, the pages of the Site that visitors frequently use as entry and exit points, utilization of the browser and operating systems and versions used by visitors to the Site, etc. The information collected is not associated with any specific individual and no attempt is made to profile individuals who browse the Site.
In order to compile this information, Home Staff may collect and store your IP address, your operating system version, your browser version, the pages you visit within the Site, the length of time you spend on pages within the Site, the site from which you linked to ours, search terms you used in search engines which resulted in you linking to the Site, etc. While all of this information can be associated with the IP address your computer had while you visited the Site, it will not be associated with you as an individual, or associated with any other information you may submit through the Site, or that Home Staff may store about you for any other purposes.
Home Staff may use web site “cookies” in the process of compiling the statistical information mentioned above and to tailor certain pages of the Site for your browsing convenience. You have the option of setting your browser to reject cookies, but our Site may not function correctly if you do. Refer to the Help feature of your browser for information on disabling cookies.
Use of Information
Home Staff uses the collected information to respond appropriately to requests. This may be to respond directly to you or to improve the Site. E-mail or other information requests sent to the Site may be maintained or forwarded to the appropriate agencies in order to respond to the request.
If you have any questions or comments on our Privacy Statement, please feel free to contact us at info@homestaffma.com.
HIPAA
The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires, among other things, that a notice concerning how your medical information can be used and disclosed be prominently posted on Home Staff, LLC’s website. If you would like to obtain a copy of this notice, please click on the link below to the “Home Staff, LLC Notice of Privacy Practices for Patients” [click here], or or you may obtain a paper copy by contacting Home Staff, LLC Privacy Officer, 40 Millbrook Street, Worcester, MA 01606 and request a copy.
Privacy Statement is subject to change
Home Staff is always looking to offer expanded features and functions that make health care more efficient and accessible for their users. As additional features and functions are added, the Privacy Statement will be updated to correctly represent how information and features are being used. Please check this Privacy Statement periodically as it is subject to change at any time.
Legal
This Privacy Statement is governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Massachusetts in the United States, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under or out of this Privacy Statement shall lie exclusively with the state and federal courts within the State of Massachusetts. If any provision of this Privacy Statement is found to be invalid by a court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Privacy Statement, which shall remain in full force and effect.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL HOME STAFF HAVE ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN INFORMATION ON THE SITE, OR FOR ANY DAMAGES, LOSSES, OR EXPENSES THAT MAY OCCUR WHILE ACCESSING THE SITE, OR ANY LINKED SITE, OR THE INABILITY TO ACCESS THESE SITES; OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE OR SYSTEM FAILURE; OR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE BREACH OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT, HOWEVER OCCASIONED.
WEB SITE COPYRIGHT:
All materials appearing on this web site (namely: www.homestaff.com) are protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws and are the property of the Home Staff, LLC. or the party credited as the content provider. You may not copy, reproduce, display, modify, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. However you may download such content for your own personal, non-commercial use or print pages from this web site to make care decisions. You are allowed at most one machine readable copy and one print copy. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content.
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