Advanced Hearing Centers is determined to safeguard the information you make available to us through this Web site, as well as through other contacts. Advanced Hearing Centers will not sell any personal or health-related information about you. Advanced Hearing Centers will only share information about you as necessary for your hearing health with associated health-care providers, vendors, manufacturers and others. Advanced Hearing Centers reserves the right to use some of the information we collect about you to send you information about new products and services, and to keep you informed about the activities of our Centers and affiliated activities.

Federal law § P. L. 104-191 – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires Advanced Hearing Centers to ensure the privacy of your personal health information. The law also requires us to give you this notice about your privacy rights, our privacy practices, and our legal duties regarding your health information.

The Department of Health and Human Services set certain standards in the Rule entitled ‘Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information' (Privacy Rule'). The Privacy Rule implements the privacy requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

The purpose is to maintain strong protections for the privacy of individually identifiable health information, while limiting the unintended negative effects of the Privacy Rule on health care quality or access to health care, and relieving unintended administrative burdens created by the Privacy Rule.
The effective date of this Rule was October 15, 2002.

This document is available electronically at the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Privacy Web site at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/, as well as at the web site of the Government Printing Office at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.asp