Privacy Policy

PathAdvantage Associated is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to inform you of the privacy and security standards PathAdvantage has implemented to protect the confidentiality of your information.
 

What Personal Information Does PathAdvantage Collect?

PathAdvantage does not ask you to provide personal health care information through our website.

Identifying Information: PathAdvantage will collect information that identifies you if you voluntarily choose to provide such information. If you choose to register with our site, we may ask you to provide some personal information such as your first and last name and contact information (including mailing address, telephone number, and email address). We may also collect information that will allow you to create a username and password.

Payment Information: If you choose to monitor and pay PathAdvantage invoices electronically by clicking on the PathAdvantage Bill Payment Link, you will be asked to provide personal financial information (including credit card number and billing address). Clicking on the PathAdvantage Bill Payment link does not display or transmit any of your personal health care information.

How Does PathAdvantage Use the Personal Information We Collect Online?

We may use your personal information within PathAdvantage to (1) provide you access to the services and products you request; (2) process or collect payments made in connection with the services we provide to you; (3) assist you with questions about our services, billing, payment methods, or use of our website; and (4) evaluate our services and products and conduct customer surveys.

We may also use your personal information within PathAdvantage, with your consent, to send you information concerning PathAdvantage products and services that might be of interest to you. When you register online with PathAdvantage, you have the option to choose whether or not to receive correspondence from us; you have the ability to change your preference on your registration profile at any time.

We will not give, sell, rent, loan or otherwise disclose any personal information to any third party unless (1) you have authorized the disclosure; (2) we are legally required to make the disclosure (e.g. in response to a subpoena, court order or other legal process); or (3) it is necessary to do so in order for us to defend the rights or property of this website.

We may also share aggregate non-personal information about website usage with unaffiliated third parties; this information does not contain any personal information about our users.

How Does PathAdvantage Protect the Security of Your Information?

PathAdvantage uses the services of HealthIT, to assist us in the implementation and maintenance of our security measures. All of the information you provide to us is encrypted through a Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) which employs a 128 bit encryption system.

We limit PathAdvantage employees’ and contractors’ access to personal information. Only those employees and contractors who have a business reason for accessing the information will have such access. We educate our employees on the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy through internal training programs and policies on data privacy and security. Further, we take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our privacy rules and regulations.

PathAdvantage maintains all personal health information within the PathAdvantage information system firewalls that operate on separate PathAdvantage mainframes/servers. The general public does not have access to these mainframes/servers.

Please use caution when sending personal information via email; email messages do not have the security features that are built into our website.

Cookies

PathAdvantage tracks visitors to our website by collecting data files called “cookies”. Cookies collected from the PathAdvantage website are used to: 1) let us know that you are a prior customer and retrieve information previously provided by you; 2) identify which computer you are using; 3) monitor website traffic; and 4) help us gather feedback in order to improve our website and better serve our customers.

Cookies are not permanently maintained by our tracking system. You can prevent your computer from accepting cookies by modifying the settings on your web browser; however, changing your computer settings might impair your browser’s functionality on the PathAdvantage website.

Links to Other Websites

The PathAdvantage website contains links to other websites that may contain useful information for our customers. We are not responsible for the information contained on websites linked to or from our website.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from the PathAdvantage website to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Before browsing or proceeding with a transaction on a website linked to our site, it is important to review the rules and policies of that website.

Changes to Privacy Policy

PathAdvantage may revise or alter this privacy policy from time to time, so please check back periodically. We will always let you know what personal information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances under which we may disclose your information. We will inform you of changes to our privacy policy by updating the effective date at the bottom of this page.

Your consent

By using the PathAdvantage website you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.