NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. 

We understand the importance of privacy and are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your health information. This notice describes how H2H Media Group, Inc. (the “Group,” “we,” or “us”) may use and disclose your medical information.  It also describes your rights and our legal obligations with respect to your medical information.  If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact our Privacy Officer listed above. 

How We May Use or Disclose Your Health Information Without Your Authorization 

The record is the property of the Group, but the information regarding your medical history in the health record belongs to you.  Nonetheless, we may use or disclose your health information for the following purposes: 

Required by Law. As required by law, we will use and disclose your health information, but we will limit our use or disclosure to the relevant requirements of the law. When the law requires us to report abuse, neglect or domestic violence, or respond to judicial or administrative proceedings, or to law enforcement officials, we will further comply with the requirement set forth below concerning those activities. 

Public Health. We may, and are sometimes required by law to disclose your health information to public health authorities for purposes related to certain situations such as: preventing or controlling disease; health with product recalls; reporting adverse reactions to medications; reporting suspect abuse, neglect, or domestic violence; preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety. 

Judicial and Administrative Proceedings.  We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health information in the course of any administrative or judicial proceeding to the extent expressly authorized by a court or administrative order. We may also disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process after we exhaust reasonable efforts to notify you of the request and you fail to object, or if your objections are resolved by a court or administrative order. 

Law Enforcement. We may be required by law to disclose your health information to a law enforcement official for purposes such as identifying of locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person, complying with a court order, warrant, grand jury subpoena and other law enforcement purposes. 

Coroners. We may be required by law to disclose your health information to coroners in connection with their investigations of deaths. 

Public Safety. We may, and are sometimes required by law, to disclose your health information to appropriate persons in order to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a particular person or the general public. 

Specialized Government Functions.  We may disclose your health information for military or national security purposes or to correctional institutions or law enforcement officers that have you in their lawful custody. 

Change of Ownership. In the event that the Group is sold or merged with another organization, your health information/record will become the property of the new owner, although you will maintain the right to request that copies of your health information be transferred to another Group. 

Breach Notification. In the case of a breach of unsecured protected health information, we will notify you as required by law. If you have provided us with a current email address, we may use email to communicate information related to the breach. In some circumstances, our business associate may provide the notification. We may also provide notification by other methods as appropriate. 

Research. We may disclose your health information to researchers conducting research with respect to which your written authorization is not required as approved by an Institutional Review Board or privacy board, in compliance with governing law.  

De-identified Information.  We may use your health information for the purpose of creating de-identified information, in compliance with governing law.  De-identified information is information that does not identify you and that we reasonably believe cannot be used to identify you.  De-identified information may be used by Group for research or other operational purposes.

When We May Not Use or Disclose Your Health Information 

Except as described in this Notice of Privacy Practices, we will, consistent with our legal obligations, not use or disclose health information which identifies you without your written authorization. If you do authorize us to use or disclose your health information for another purpose, you may revoke your authorization in writing at any time. 

Your Health Information Rights 

Right to Request Special Privacy Protections. You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your health information by a written request specifying what information you want to limit, and what limitations on our use or disclosure of that information you wish to have imposed. We reserve the right to accept or reject any other request, and will notify you of our decision. 

Right to Request Confidential Communications. You have the right to request that you receive your health information in a specific way or at a specific location. For example, you may ask that we send information to a particular email account or to your work address. We will comply with all reasonable requests submitted in writing which specify how or where you wish to receive these communications. 

Right to Inspect and Copy. You have the right to inspect and copy your health information, with limited exceptions. To access your health information, you must submit a written request detailing what information you want access to, whether you want to inspect it or get a copy of it, and if you want a copy, your preferred form and format. We will provide copies in your requested form and format if it is readily producible, or we will provide you with an alternative format you find acceptable, or if we cannot agree, and we maintain the record in an electronic format, we will provide your health information in your choice of a readable electronic or hardcopy format. We will also send a copy to any other person you designate in writing. We will charge a reasonable fee, which covers our costs for labor, supplies, postage, and if requested and agreed to in advance, the cost of preparing an explanation or summary, as allowed by federal and California law. We may deny your request under limited circumstances. If we deny your request to access your child’s records or the records of an incapacitated adult you are representing because we believe allowing access would be reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to the patient, you will have a right to appeal our decision. 

Right to an Accounting of Disclosures. You have a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your health information made by Group, except that we do not have to account for certain disclosures including, but not limited to, disclosures provided to you or pursuant to your written authorization, disclosures for purposes of research or public health which exclude direct patient identifiers, disclosures which are incident to a use or disclosure otherwise permitted or authorized by law, or disclosures to a health oversight agency or law enforcement official to the extent this Group has received notice from that agency or official that providing this accounting would be reasonably likely to impede their activities. 

Notice.  You have a right to notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information, including a right to a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices. If you would like to have a more detailed explanation of these rights or if you would like to exercise one or more of these rights, contact our Privacy Officer listed at the top of this Notice of Privacy Practices. 

Changes to this Notice of Privacy Practices 

We reserve the right to amend our privacy practices and the terms of this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time in the future. Until such amendment is made, we are required by law to comply with this Notice. After an amendment is made, the revised Notice of Privacy Protections will apply to all protected health information that we maintain, regardless of when it was created or received. When changes are made, we will promptly update this notice and post the updated information accordingly.