Privacy Policy
The Tridas Center for Child
Development (“The Center”) understands that the information you provide
to us is in many cases not only personal, but sensitive information. We
are committed to ensuring that this information stays secure at all
times. We provide this Privacy Policy to inform you of the process by
which we obtain information and of our security practices. This Privacy
Policy only applies to information collected from you via our website or
from questionnaires that you complete on paper and we input into our
software program. By using this website, you consent to our collection
and use of information, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We
reserve the right to change this statement at any time. If we decide to
change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this page, so
that you may always be aware of what information we collect, how we use
it and the circumstances under which we disclose it. Any changes to our
Privacy Policy will only affect information you provide after the
changed policy becomes effective.
The Center uses the information we gather
from you to produce the Educational Evaluation for your child. Patients,
their teachers and families will be using a secure link to The Center’s
website to provide the information required by our professional staff
to accurately evaluate the needs of your child. We will disclose your
Personal Information when you direct or give us permission to do so,
when we are required by law to do so, or when we reasonably believe that
disclosure is necessary to protect The Center or you or third parties
from a threat of imminent harm, such as through suspected fraudulent or
criminal activities. We also may disclose your Personal Information when
otherwise permitted by applicable privacy laws such as, for example,
when disclosure is needed to enforce our rights arising out of any
agreement, transaction or relationship with you.
We may collect the following types of
Personal Information from you when you visit the website: e-mail
address. The website also allows you to complete evaluative
questionnaires regarding your child. Personal Information collection
may take place through our Internet Web Site or through paper
forms/applications provided to you by a staff member of The Tridas
Center. Personal information is only shared with those individuals whose
professional responsibilities require such information. Each of those
individuals is required to abide by our Privacy Policy.
To measure our visitors' interest in and
use of various areas of our website, we will rely upon aggregate
information, which is information that does not identify you or your
child, such as statistical and navigational information. With this
aggregate information, we may undertake statistical and other summary
analyses of our visitors' behavior and characteristics. In addition, we
may share aggregate information concerning questionnaire responses with
third parties for research purposes, for example, how many respondents
complained of impulsive behavior. Although we may share this aggregate
information with third parties, please rest assured that no information
we provide to third parties will allow anyone to identify you or your
child, or to determine anything else personal about you or your child.
Any information gathered through our
website is done so over a Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) connection. HTTPS
is the industry standard, agreed upon security protocol for passing
personal or sensitive data through an Internet website. We fully comply
with all required HIPAA Security rules for protecting the privacy of
personal health information. For a complete list of HIPAA Security Rules
please consult the HIPAA Evaluation Standard, Title 45 of the Code of
Federal Regulations implementing the HIPAA Act.
Unless you have chosen to disable it, your
Internet web browser has a feature called a "cookie." Cookies are small
text files that a website can use to recognize repeat users, to
facilitate the users' ongoing access to and use of the website, and to
compile aggregate data to improve the website. Cookies work as follows:
a website will send a cookie to your browser that uniquely associates
your computer with information the website can store for you. Your
browser places the cookie in its cookie file. When you next access that
website on your computer, the website recognizes the cookie and makes
the stored information available to you. We use cookies to provide you
with certain features at our website and to better understand and
respond to our visitors' interests and preferences. If you do not want
us to use cookies to collect this information, most browsers allow you
to disable the cookie feature. Please keep in mind, though, that
cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features at the
website. Just as with other information, we do not share with any third
parties any Personal Information provided through the use of cookies.
For your convenience, we may include on
our website certain links to other websites. We provide these links as a
convenience only and we do not endorse the content or services offered
by, or the privacy policies in place at, these other websites. Our
Privacy Policy covers only information we collect through our website,
and other websites to which we link may have privacy policies that
differ considerably from our Privacy Policy. We have structured our
website to make it reasonably clear when you leave our website and enter
another website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of
each website you visit through our links, to ensure you are comfortable
with their policies. We are not responsible for the conduct or policies
of these third parties.
If a situation arises, as allowed by state
law, where you need to gain access to your Personal Information, or be
made aware of whom your Personal Information has been disclosed to, a
written request must be submitted to The Center. Furthermore, if a
situation arises in which you need to modify or remove your Personal
Information, a separate written request must be submitted to The Center.
Please send all such requests to the following address:
The Tridas Center for Child Development
4144 North Armenia Avenue
Suite 375
Tampa, FL 33607
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