Privacy Policies
Welcome to Nebraska Slim Clinic. We are committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your Protected Health Information (PHI) in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you use our services, particularly regarding Tirzepatide medication consultations, treatments, and follow-up care.
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1. Information We Collect
When you become a patient at our clinic or interact with us for medical services, we may collect the following types of information:
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Personal identifiers (name, date of birth, phone number, address, email)
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Medical history, including conditions, medications, and treatment plans
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Billing information
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Laboratory and diagnostic results
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Communications between you and our clinic
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Any other information you provide to help us deliver medical services
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2. How We Use Your Information
We use your health and personal information for:
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Evaluating your eligibility for Tirzepatide treatment
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Creating and maintaining your medical records
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Coordinating care with pharmacies and other healthcare professionals
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Communicating with you about appointments and follow-up care
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Improving our clinical services and patient experience
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Meeting legal and regulatory obligations
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3. Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your information with:
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Healthcare providers and pharmacists involved in your treatment
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Third-party service providers under Business Associate Agreements
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Government agencies when required by law (e.g., for public health or reporting purposes)
We do not sell or rent your personal or health information to any third parties.
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4. Your Rights Under HIPAA
You have the right to:
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Request a copy of your medical records
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Ask for corrections to inaccurate information
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Receive an accounting of disclosures
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Request confidential communications
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Limit who can see your information
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File a complaint if you believe your privacy rights have been violated
To exercise these rights, please contact Brad Ewerth at his office (402) 486-3077 or cell (402) 525-4090. You can also email him at brad@ewerthcpa.com.
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5. Security of Your Information
We take appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative steps to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. This includes encryption, secure communication platforms, and access control protocols.
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6. Communication Preferences
By providing your contact information, you consent to receive appointment reminders, treatment updates, and health-related information via phone, text, or email. You may opt out at any time by contacting us.
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7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will take effect immediately upon posting to our website. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for any updates.
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Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your information, please reach out to us at:
237 S 70th St. Lincoln, NE 68510
(402) 858-9077
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This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for Nebraska Slim Clinic. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
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1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared?
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data?
3. The security procedures in place to protect against the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
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Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies under the terms of this policy.
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Information Collection, Use, and Sharing.
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site.
We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:
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1. Information about your computer and your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation).
2. Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or concerning this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services.
3. Information that you provide to us to register with us.
4. Information that you provide to us to subscribe to our website services, email notifications, and/or newsletters; and any other information that you choose to send to us.
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Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information per the terms of this privacy policy.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We may share your information with another third party outside of our organization, if necessary to fulfill your request (e.g. to ship an order) or to facilitate our organization in managing our website.
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Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, or new products or services. Your Access to and Control Over Information you may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:
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1. See what data we have about you, if any.
2. Change/correct any data we have about you.
3. Have us delete any data we have about you.
4. Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
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Security
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall-protected) servers.
Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
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Orders
We may accept orders, and if we do, we request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders.
If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.
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Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in with a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance
the experience on our site. Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
We do not honor the Do Not Track (DNT) web browser privacy preference at this time.
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Sharing
We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store, or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order.
We may partner with another party to provide specific services. We will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except to provide these services.
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Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.
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In addition, we may disclose your personal information:
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1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
4. To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
5. To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
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Surveys and Contests
From time to time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, and age level).
Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used to monitor or improve this site’s use and satisfaction.
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Updates
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.
Effective: No, 2024
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via the email address or phone number given on our website (https://nebraskaslimclinic.com/).