Privacy Statement

Privacy statement:

As an essential part of our commitment to you, Navigate Health International (Navigate) maintains the privacy of personally identifiable health information (“Health Information”) about you which is released to us (e.g., in the course of our providing services to you while in Florence), in accordance with applicable law.  For purposes of the Privacy portion of the Terms and Conditions “you” and “your” refer to an individual who has become a Navigate member.

These terms and conditions outline our privacy practices with respect to your Health Information, and also lets you know, among other things, how Navigate may use and disclose Health Information about you, and how you may request restrictions on our use and disclosure of your Health Information.

Uses and Disclosures of Health Information: Navigate may use Health Information in order to facilitate treatment by health care providers, payment, transportation, and/or and communication with you, your family, relatives, friends and other individuals involved in your care (including, for example, representatives of your educational institutions(s) if your travel to the Florence area is as a visiting student), in most cases without any further written permission.

Use and Disclosure of Health Information Without Your Authorization: Navigate may use or release Health Information without your further written authorization, or opportunity to object in certain situations, including:

• For Navigate’s use in facilitating your treatment by health care providers, payment for treatment, transportation, and/or and communication with you, your family, relatives, friends and other individuals involved in your care;
  

• To a health care provider or other entity for the treatment, health care operations or payment activities of the provider or entity that receives the information (such as a hospital or insurance company); 
  

• For health care fraud and abuse detection or for activities related to compliance with the law;
  

• To a family member, other relative, or close personal friend or other individual involved in your care (including, for example, representatives of your educational institutions(s) if your travel to the Florence area is as a visiting student); 
  

• For judicial and administrative proceedings as required by a court or administrative order, or in some cases in response to a subpoena or other legal process;
  

• For law enforcement activities in limited situations, such as when there is a warrant for the request, or when the information is needed to locate a suspect or stop a crime;
  

• For military, national defense and security and other special government functions;
  

• To avert a serious threat to the health and safety of a person or the public at large;
  

• For workers’ compensation purposes, and in compliance with workers’ compensation laws;
  

• To coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors for identifying a deceased person, determining cause of death, or carrying on their duties as authorized by law;
  

• If you are an organ donor, we may release Health Information to organizations that handle organ procurement or organ, eye or tissue transplantation or to an organ donation bank, as necessary to facilitate organ donation and transplantation;
  

• For research projects, but this will be subject to strict oversight and approvals and Health Information will be released only when there is a minimal risk to your privacy and adequate safeguards are in place in accordance with the law;
  

• We may use or disclose Health Information about you in a way that does not personally identify you or reveal who you are.
  

Any other use or disclosure of Health Information, other than those listed above will only be made with your written authorization, (the authorization must specifically identify the information we seek to use or disclose, as well as when and how we seek to use or disclose it).

Member Rights:

As a member, you have a number of rights with respect to the protection of your Health Information, including:

The right to request that we restrict how we use and disclose your Health Information that we have about you, or to restrict the information that is provided to family, friends and other individuals involved in your health care. But if you request a restriction and, in our reasonable judgment, the information you asked us to restrict is needed to provide you with emergency treatment, then we may disclose the Health Information to a health care provider to provide you with emergency treatment.

Jurisdictional issues:

Unless otherwise specified, the Materials are presented solely for the purpose of promoting Navigate's services. Navigate makes no representation that materials, products or services depicted in the site are appropriate or available in all locations. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the United States of America, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter herein and shall not be modified except by an online update, or by a writing signed by both parties.  (Last updated August 18, 2008)

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