1. Introduction
   East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates respects and upholds your rights to privacy protection under privacy laws in the United States of America. This policy describes how we manage any personal information we have about you.
   
   
2. What personal information about me does East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates hold?
   East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates may hold the following information about you:
   - name, address, telephone number(s);
   - date of birth;
   - email address;
   - any additional information provided to us by you;
   - any information you have provided to us through client surveys.
   East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates will destroy or de-identify personal information due to redundancy after its legal obligations to retain the information have expired.
   
   
3. What does East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates do with my personal information?
   East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates does not distribute unsolicited bulk advertising via email (spam). Also, we do not share email addresses with outside companies. Any email address(es) provided by the visitor remain strictly confidential.
   We conform to all governing laws regarding this issue.
   
   We use personal information about you:
   - to service your particular needs;
   - to assist with any calls you make to us;
   - for our internal administrative requirements;
   - to process requests or orders;
   
   And with your consent:
   - to communicate promotional offers and special events of benefit to you;
   - Fundraising;
   - Marketing;
   - Service Planning;
   - Research & Development.
   
   East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates will not disclose personal information about you to any person except on a confidential basis with your express permission to agents that we use in the ordinary operation of our business, such as for data processing, printing or mailing.
   
   You may at any time opt out of receiving any communications from us other than as required for the operation of our business, (e.g. regarding essential information regarding payment of accounts).
   
   
4. Storage
   East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates stores personal information:
   - contained in paper based and other hard copy documents in a dedicated storage facility - located in our facility;
   - contained in electronic records in a secure environment.
   
   Such records are only accessible by those persons who require access to the personal information for the purpose of carrying out their employment with East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates, or by contractors engaged by East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates for the purpose of maintaining East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates computer systems.
   
   
5. Disclosure
   You may request access to personal information we hold about you by writing to East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates at the address below. You do not have to provide a reason for requesting access. Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will endeavour to provide you with a suitable range of choices as to how you may access it.
   
   If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request amendment of it. We will consider if the information requires amendment. If we do not agree that there are grounds for amendment, then we will add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.
   
   Our contact details are as follows:
   East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates
   501 N. 17th Street Suite 107
   Allentown, PA 18104
   Phone: (610) 432-9593
   Fax: (610) 432-4887
   
   
6. HIPAA Policy
   East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates follows the HIPAA Policy strictly and is apart of our privacy policy. You can be downloaded and reviewed on our forms page by click here.
   
   
7. Miscellaneous
   In this policy "personal information" and "practice information" have the same meaning as under the Privacy Act.
   This document represents our policy as of March 31st 2007. We may change this policy from time to time. Although we intend to observe this policy at all times, it is not legally binding in any way on East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates. From time to time we may regard it as necessary or desirable to act outside the policy. East Penn Foot & Ankle Associates may do so, subject only to any other applicable contractual rights you have and any statutory rights you have under the Privacy Act or other applicable legislation.
   

Last Updated March 31st 2007