Privacy Statement
At Houston Medical Clinic (HMC), a division of Universal Med-Health
Services, Inc., we know how important your privacy is to you. Whether
you are a current customer or just visiting our web site, we are
committed to attempting to protect the information you provide in the
same way that we protect it when you provide it to us over the phone,
in person or through the mail.
Because we value your relationship with us, we have detailed below
our privacy objectives for our web site:
Security Practices
We recognize and respect your desire for privacy when it comes to
your personal and health care affairs. We attempt to protect online
information according to established company security standards and
practices, and we continually evaluate new technologies for
safeguarding information.
Surveys and Forms
You may have had the opportunity to provide information to us
through online surveys and forms. We use this information to better
understand health care need and to provide quality products,
services and other opportunities.
HMC wants your visit to our web site to be informative and enjoyable.
We use information obtained from you to help us continually improve
the content, functionality, and overall usefulness of our web site.
Use of e-mail
Please use your own best judgment when sending information via the
Internet to an e-mail address. E-mail via the Internet may pass
through private and public networks with varying levels of security.
Some networks may have taken steps to secure e-mail transmissions
while others have not, thereby compromising the privacy and integrity
of an e-mail transmission. An e-mail transmission may be stored,
copied, altered or destroyed at any point during transmissions.
If you have personal or confidential information to relay to our
company, please contact us via phone.
We preserve the content of your e-mail, your e-mail address and our
response so that we can efficiently respond to questions you might
have. We also do this in an effort to meet legal and regulatory
requirements.
We will not contact you by e-mail regarding any claims or other
confidential information. In the future, we may contact you by e-mail
using the e-mail address you provided in your profile, or using the
e-mail address that was the source of an e-mail requesting other than
confidential or claims-related information. At such time, we will also
provide an opt-out procedure for those users who do not wish to be
contacted by e-mail for any reason.
Confidentiality
Again, please use your own best judgment when sending information
via the Internet to an e-mail address. E-mail via the Internet may pass
through private and public networks with varying levels of security.
Some networks may have taken steps to secure e-mail transmissions
while others have not, thereby compromising the privacy and integrity
of an e-mail transmission. An e-mail transmission may be stored,
copied, altered or destroyed at any point during transmissions.
If you have personal or confidential information to relay to our
company, please contact us via phone.
If you do provide personal information, such as e-mail, telephone or
fax number, or other identifying information, we will not disclose it
without your consent. We will maintain this information, as well as any
other transactions, according to our standard security and
confidentiality procedures and practices.
Updates to the Statement
Evolving technology will continue to provide us with new and better
ways to collect and use information so that we may better serve your
health coverage needs. We may revise or update the HMC Privacy
Statement in the future to better reflect these technological advances,
and we encourage you to return to this page from time to time to
review any updates.
