Please remember that medical information provided by Sleep Insights, in the absence of a visit with a health care professional, must be considered as an educational service only.

Please be aware that confidentiality cannot be guaranteed for all correspondence via email without login.

The information sent through e-mail without login should not be relied upon as a medical consultation. This mechanism is not designed to replace a physician's independent judgement about the appropriateness or risks of a procedure for a given patient. We will do our best to provide you with information that will help you make your own health care decisions.

Privacy Statement

Sleep Insights is very interested in the privacy and safety of our visitors. Our Web site contains forms through which users may request information or supply feedback to us. In some cases, telephone numbers or return addresses are required so that we can supply requested information to you. Once the information is sent to our site, it is kept in secure databases where it is not available to users on the Internet. In some cases, third parties assist us in maintaining these databases.

After you fill out a form, we might contact you ourselves with follow-up information, but we do not provide any information supplied on Web form to any outside organization for any reason (other than where we may be required to by law). We also do typical web traffic analyses through which we track statistics such as which pages are visited in what order, where users come from, and how long users spend on our site. But we never associate such information with specific identities.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or our use of information gathered through our Web site, please contact our Webmaster at info@sleepinsights.com

Identifying Purposes: Why We Collect Information

We ask you for information to establish a relationship and serve your medical needs.  We obtain most of our information about you directly from you, or from other health practitioners whom you have seen and authorized to disclose to us. We will limit the information we collect to what we need for those purposes, and we will use it only for those purposes.  We will obtain your consent if we wish to use your information for any other purpose.

Consent

You have the right to determine how your personal health information is used and disclosed.  For most health care purposes, your consent is implied as a result of your consent to treatment, however, in some circumstances your express, sometimes written, consent may be required.

Limiting Collection

We collect information by fair and lawful means and collect only that information which may be necessary for purposes related to the provision of your medical care.

Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention

The information we request from you is used for the purposes defined.  We will seek your consent before using the information for purposes beyond the scope of the posted Privacy Statement. 

Under no circumstances do we sell patient lists or other personal information to third parties.  There are some types of disclosure of your personal health information that may occur as part of this Practice fulfilling its routine obligations and/or practice management.  This includes consultants and suppliers to the Practice, on the understanding that they abide by our Privacy Policy, and only to the extent necessary to allow them to provide business services or support to this Practice. 

We will retain your information only for the time it is required for the purposes we describe and once your personal information is no longer required, it will be destroyed.  However, due to our on-going exposure to potential claims, some information is kept for a longer period.

Accuracy

We endeavour to ensure that all decisions involving your personal information are based upon accurate and timely information.  While we will do our best to base our decisions on accurate information, we rely on you to disclose all material information and to inform us of any relevant changes.

Safeguards: Protecting Your Information

We protect your information with appropriate safeguards and security measures. The Practice maintains personal information in a combination of paper and electronic files.  Recent paper records concerning individualsí personal information are stored in files kept onsite at our office.  Older records may be stored offsite.   

Access to personal information will be authorized only for the physicians and employees associated with the Practice, and other agents who require access in the performance of their duties, and to those otherwise authorized by law. 

We provide information to health care providers acting on your behalf, on the understanding that they are also bound by law and ethics to safeguard your privacy.  Other organizations and agents must agree to abide by our Privacy Policy and may be asked to sign contracts to that effect.  We will give them only the information necessary to perform the services for which they are engaged, and will require that they not store, use or disclose the information for purposes other than to carry out those services. 

Our computer systems are password-secured and constructed in such a way that only authorized individuals can access secure systems and databases.   

If you send us an e-mail message that includes personal information, such as your name included in the "address", we will use that information to respond to your inquiry.  Please remember that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception.  If your communication is very sensitive, you should not send it electronically unless the e-mail is encrypted or your browser indicates that the access is secure.

Links To Other Web Sites

Links to third-party Web sites may be provided solely for your information and convenience, or to provide additional information for various other goods and services. If you use these links, you will leave our Site. This Privacy Statement does not cover the information practices of those Web sites linked to our Site, nor do we control their content or privacy policies. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each site you visit.

Changes To This Statement

Any updates or changes to the terms of this Privacy Statement will be posted here on our Site and the date of the newest version posted below.

By using our Site, you acknowledge acceptance of this Privacy Statement in effect at the time of use.

Contact Us

If you have any concerns about our use of your information or about this Privacy Statement, please send an e-mail to info@sleepinsights.com. We will make every reasonable effort to address your concerns and remedy any problems you bring to our attention.

This Privacy Statement was last revised on March 25, 2005.