The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) gives PPD the right to use and disclose your medical information for treatment, payment and certain health care operations purposes without specific authorization from you. Our notice of privacy practices describes how we may use and disclose the medical information that we maintain. We encourage you to read our full Notice.

You will be offered a copy of our Notice of Privacy Practices the first time you register or present for membership through Protected Personal Data services. You may also request a copy of the Notice at any time by request on our PPD contacts page.

You also have these specific rights regarding your medical information:

Right to request access to or a copy of your medical information. We will ask that you make your request specific and in writing using the contact submission form on the website. We may charge a reasonable fee for the cost of producing and mailing the copies. In certain situations, we may deny your request and will tell you why we are denying it. In some cases, you may have the right to ask for a review of our denial.

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Right to request an amendment to your medical information if you believe our records are incomplete or inaccurate. Your request for amendment must be in writing and provide the reason for your request. In certain cases, we may deny your request. If so, we will notify you in writing. You may respond by filing a written statement of disagreement with us and ask that the statement be included with your medical information.

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Right to request restrictions by asking that we limit the way we use or disclose your medical information for treatment, payment, or health care operations. You may also ask that we limit the information that we give to someone who is involved in your care, such as a family member or friend. We are not required to agree to your request. If we do agree, we will honor your restriction unless it is an emergency. We may ask you to make your request in writing.

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Right to identify individuals other than your health care providers who are involved in your care (family, friends, or others). We may verbally share your medical information to an individual you have identified as involved in your medical care. We may also give information to someone who helps pay for your care. PPD will only share your health information with the individuals you designate, except as required or permitted by law. You may add or change this list at any time.

Right to request that we communicate with you by another means to preserve confidentiality. For example, if you want us to communicate with you at a different address, email address or telephone number we can usually accommodate your request if it is reasonable.

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Right to seek an accounting of certain disclosures by asking us in writing for a list of the disclosures we have made of your medical information, except for disclosures for treatment, payment, health care operations, information provided to you, facility directory listings, certain government functions, and disclosures made prior to April 14, 2003.

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OTHER USES OF MEDICAL INFORMATION Other uses and disclosures of medical information not covered by this notice or the laws that apply to us will be made only with your written permission. If you provide us permission to use or disclose medical information about you, you may revoke that permission, in writing, at any time. If you revoke your permission, we will no longer use or disclose medical information about you for the reasons covered by your written authorization. You understand that we are unable to take back any disclosures we have already made with your permission prior to a revocation, and that in any event we are required to retain our records of the care that we provided to you.

COMPLAINTS If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may contact our PPD Security Officer  and submit your complaint to protectedpersonaldata@outlook.com. If we cannot resolve your concern, you may also contact the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

NONDISCRIMINATION Protected Personal Data complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.

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