Website Privacy
This is a website privacy policy for ames-surgery.com. Updated 6/2024
For information about your right to privacy as a patient, please see our Patient Notice of Privacy.
Privacy Policy for Website
Ames Surgery Center understands the important role online communication plays in our patients' lives, and we look forward to using a variety of online tools to engage in conversation with our patients and the general public. Of course we want those who may use these tools to understand the role Ames Surgery Center plans to take with its sites and the general terms in which we expect our participants to follow. Please understand that by using any of our Ames Surgery Center websites in any manner, you are agreeing to abide by the terms and conditions that we have laid out in this policy.
Ames Surgery Center is devoted to protecting the privacy of our patients both in our facility and in online interactions with us. We may collect personally identifiable information when you visit our sites. We also automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information, and the page(s) you visited. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to anyone. Third parties (e.g. Google) may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. You may opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by using a tool such as https://optout.aboutads.info/.
Our sites contain links to third-party websites. Ames Surgery Center is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Most importantly, Ames Surgery Center will adhere to all state and federal laws regarding protecting patients' private health information (PHI), and we will not give out medical advice through any of our sites. Ames Surgery Center will maintain your health information in strict confidence and will not disclose it to any unaffiliated third party unless you authorize that person to receive your health information or it is permitted to be disclosed by law. Please review our Notice of Privacy Practices for a better understanding of how, when, and why we use and disclose your health information.
Security Policy
The Ames Surgery Center website has measures in place to ensure the secure transfer of your information where it is necessary. In particular, when using the Online Bill Pay form, all of your payment and personal information is encrypted so that it is always safe and cannot be read over the Internet. MyChart, our online portal allowing you to communicate with your doctor’s office, is also provided to you over a secure connection. Please see the Terms & Conditions of our MyChart tool for detailed information about the security measures in place to protect the private health information available through this portal.
