Intent Medical Group Site

PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy was last updated February 18, 2024.

Intent Medical Group, PLLC (“Intent Medical,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) owns and operates the Intent Medical website found at https://intentmedicalgroup.com (the “Site”). Intent Medical values and respects the privacy of its customers and visitors (“You,” “Your,” “you,” or “your”). The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you with information about Intent Medical’s policies regarding the collection, processing, use, storage, and disclosure of information when you access the Site. This Privacy Policy also describes the choices you can make about our use of your information.

We may update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the updated version including the effective date of the updated version. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates or changes. This Privacy Policy is binding on all those who access the Site, whether acting as an individual or on behalf of an entity, including you and all persons and entities that harvest, crawl, index, scrape, spider, or mine digital content by an automated or manual process or otherwise. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Your continued use of the Site is considered your acceptance of these terms, and you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the collection and use of information in accordance with this Policy. If you do not agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy or any subsequent modifications, you should not access the Site or disclose any personal information through the Site. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Use. The Site is controlled and operates from the United States and is subject to United States Law.

This Privacy Policy contains the following information, which you can access by scrolling down:

1. How to Contact Us
2. Personal Information
3. Information We Collect
4. How We Use Your Information
5. Tracking Technologies
6. Sharing Your Information
7. Acknowledgement
8. How We Safeguard Your Information
9. Policy on Children’s Information
10. Links to Other Sites
11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

1. How to Contact Us

You can update your preferences and information by contacting us at the e-mail address or phone number below. Additionally, if you have any questions or concerns about our use of your Personal Information (defined below), please do not hesitate to contact us through any of the methods below.

Phone: (847) 618-4430
Email: neurocare@nch.org

You can write to use at:

Intent Medical Group
880 West Central Rd. Suite 7200
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Attn: Information Technology

2. Personal Information

While using the Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”). Personal Information is information that identifies, relates to, describes, can reasonably be associated with, or can reasonably be linked to a particular individual or household.

We collect information from you both when you provide it voluntarily and also automatically when you access the Site. We may also collect Personal Information from other sources, as described below.

We collect Personal Information from you and any devices (including mobile devices) you use when you: use the Site, contact Intent Medical via phone, email, postal mail, or other means, connect with Intent Medical’s social media pages, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to Intent Medical’s communications to you, such as surveys or requests for feedback.

In addition, we also collect Personal Information about you from third parties in connection with the Site, including from the following sources:

• Service providers (including hosting providers, shipping partners, and payment processors)
• Data analytics service providers
• Email, chat, survey, feedback, and other communications service providers
• Customer service providers
• Advertising providers
• Social media platforms
• Promotional partners

3. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of Personal Information from you, depending on your interactions with the Site and the choices you make, as further described in the chart below:

Identifiers

Your name, email address, telephone number, country, and Internet Protocol (IP) address.

Interactions

Records of information you post or otherwise submit to the Site, including emails or other communications you provide to us.

Internet / Electronic Network Activity

• Browse history. Data about the webpages you visit, including without limitation web browser specifications, websites visited before accessing the Site, and websites visited after leaving the Site.
• Search history. Data about the search terms you enter through our search function on the Site.
• Device, connectivity, and configuration data. Data about your device and nearby networks, including internet connection information, computer equipment information, regional and language settings.
• Geolocation data. Data about your device’s location, which is inferred from your internet connection data, your IP address, and your postal address.

Protected Health Information

When accessing our Site, we may obtain and process health information, some of which may be considered Protected Health Information (“PHI”) as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), including, but not limited to, prescription and over-the-counter medications, health condition, address, healthcare coverage, pharmacy, and treating physician. PHI should only be submitted through the Site as explicitly permitted or required for use of the Site. You can learn more about our PHI data practices and obligations under our Notice of Privacy Practices.

Employment Related Information

Information you provide when applying for employment with Intent Medical, such as education information, professional certifications, work eligibility status, and current and past employment history.

Third-Party Social Networking Service(s)

If you choose to access, visit, and/or use any third-party social networking service(s) that may be integrated with our Site, we may receive your Personal Information and other information about you and your computer, mobile, or other device that you have made available to those social networking services, including information about your contacts through those services. Some social networking services will facilitate registration or enhance or personalize your experience on our Site. This includes if you “follow,” “like,” or link your social networking account to our Site. Your decision to use a social networking service in connection with our Site is voluntary. However, you should make sure you are comfortable with the information your third-party social networking services may make available by reviewing privacy policies of those providers and/or modifying your privacy settings directly with those networking services.

If we combine or associate information from other sources with Personal Information that we collect through the Site, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We generally process your information when we need to do so to provide services to you, fulfill a contractual obligation, or where we or someone we work with needs to use your personal information for a reason related to their business. These legitimate interests are further detailed in the “How We Use Your Information” section below. We only process Personal Information for these interests after considering the potential risks to your privacy.

4. How We Use Your Information

For more information about the types of Personal Information that we may use and how we use your Personal Information, please see the detailed description below:

Newsletter Subscription Information

You may provide your email address in order to receive our newsletter via email.

To contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you.

Customer Service Information

This includes any information that you choose to provide, whether by phone, email, or mail, to our customer service representatives or other Intent Medical employees.

• To provide, maintain, operate, personalize and improve the Site and Intent Medical services.
• To evaluate and improve the content of the Site.
• To respond to your questions and requests.
• To provide customer support.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of the Site when you choose to do so.

Health Information and Protected Health Information

This includes any health information that you provide when you use the Site.

• To provide, maintain, operate, personalize and improve our Site.
• To respond to your questions and requests.
• To provide customer support.
• To send you information relevant to your message and any related follow-up information.
• As otherwise permitted by law.

Employment Information

This includes any information that you choose to provide when applying for employment with Intent Medical, including information you may provide to our third party employment service providers.

• To enforce our agreements, terms, conditions, and policies.
• To prevent or investigate fraud.
• To evaluate eligibility for employment.
• To determine employment decisions.

Third Party Data

This includes both Personal Information and non-personally identifiable data from our affiliates, customers, partners or vendors, data brokers or public sources.

• To provide, maintain, operate, personalize, and improve the Site.
• To monitor the usage of the Site.
• To gather analysis and assess trends and interests.
• To work with our service providers who perform certain business functions or services on our behalf.
• To provide you with advertising content in which we think you will be interested. As part of this customization, we may observe your behaviors on the Site or on other websites.

Usage Information

This can be Personal Information and non-Personal Information that is collected about you when you are using the Site, and this may include:

• Information about your interactions with the Site, which includes the date and time of any information you enter into the Site and your interactions with other users of the Site and what content or features you interacted with.
• Technical data which may include URL information, cookie data, web beacons, web pixels, clickstream information collection, and other tracking technology information, your IP address, the types of devices you are using to access or connect to the Site, unique device IDs, device attributes, network connection type (e.g., WiFi, 3G, LTE, Bluetooth) and provider, network and device performance, browser type, language, and operating system. Further details about the technical data that is processed by us can be found below.

The Site uses cookies, unique identifiers and similar technologies to collect information over time and across different websites when you use or visit the Site. We or our third-party partners use common tracking tools to collect information about the pages you view, the Site functions that you access, the buttons and icons you click, and to remember your login information and Site settings to make it easier and more efficient for you to use the Site, and to provide advertising content that we think may be of interest to you. For more information about our use of cookies, pixels, and web beacons, please see the “Tracking Technologies” section below.

• To improve our content and the products, services, materials, and other content we make available through the Site.
• To optimize the display of the Site on your device. To create, maintain and personalize your account with us.
• To provide, maintain, personalize, and improve the Site.
• To provide customer support.
• To monitor the usage of the Site.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of the Site when you choose to do so.
• To gather analysis and assess trends and interests.
• To enforce our agreements, terms, conditions, and policies.
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
• To prevent or investigate fraud.
• To provide you with advertising content in which we think you will be interested. As part of this customization, we may observe your behaviors on the Site or on other websites.
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of the Site and technology assets.
• To investigate complaints and potential violations of our policies.

Location Data

We may collect general location information if you use features on the Site that provide location-based services.

• To provide you with location-based services.
• To monitor the usage of the Site.
• To gather analysis and assess trends and interests.
• To customize the Site to your preferences and location.

Anonymized Information

We use anonymized and aggregated information that may be created or derived from your Personal Information or usage of the Site for purposes that include data analysis, improving the Site, advertising, and developing new features and functionality within the Site.

• To provide, maintain, personalize, and improve the Site.
• To monitor the usage of the Site.
• To prevent or investigate fraud.
• To gather analysis and assess trends and interests.
• To conduct aggregate or research analysis to enhance, protect, and make informed decisions on the Site.
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
• To enforce our agreements, terms, conditions, and policies.
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of the Site and technology assets.

5. Tracking Technologies

Cookies.

Cookies are small data files that are downloaded onto your computer or mobile device when you use the Site, which are unique to your device or account. Cookies make it easier for you to use the Site by saving your preferences so that we can use these to improve your next and subsequent visits to the Site. Cookies help us learn which areas of the Site are useful and which areas need improvement.

You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser or device. Each browser has its own methods for doing this. For detailed instructions on how to disable, block or delete cookies in your browser, consult your browser’s help files or visit How to Manage Cookies. Please bear in mind that if you choose to disable this function, your experience with the Site may be impaired and some features may not work as they were intended. When we use cookies or other similar technologies, we may set the cookies ourselves or ask third parties to do so to help us.

Please note that the Site is not set up to respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals, but it does respond to browser cookies settings. You may opt-out from receiving personalized advertising from some third parties by visiting here. Please note that these choices will not opt you out of receiving advertisements. You will continue to receive generic advertisements. Like many websites, we use analytics, including Google Analytics. You may find out more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data by visiting “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” found here. Further, you can elect to directly opt out of Google Analytics using your information by using the opt-out browser add-on, which you can learn about here.

Pixels, Web Beacons.

We or our third-party partners may use invisible pixels or beacons on the Site to count how many users access or use certain pages, features or content. This information is collected and reported in the aggregate. We may use this information to improve our current Site offerings, develop new products or services, and target information to you that may be helpful and useful to you based upon your use of the Site.

6. Sharing Your Information

We share non-Personal Information with third parties as set forth below. We do not sell your Personal Information. In connection with the Site, we may share your Personal Information with certain third parties who we engage to help us run our business and perform the Site, including under the following circumstances:

1. Service providers that help us to administer and provide the Site (for example, a web hosting company whose services we use to host our platform).
2. Software and service providers we use to manage and process your information, for example, customer service providers.
3. Corporate affiliates, including corporate parents, subsidiaries, other affiliated entities and associated entities, and customers.
4. Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, Inc., to gather information about how you and other users engage with the Site and to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Site through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the Site, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit google.com/policies/partners.
5. Marketing service providers we use to communicate with you.
6. Advertising service providers we use to assist us in providing personalized advertising on third-party websites.
7. Business partners, including promotional partners who are helping us run a joint promotion or who provide a product or service in partnership or collaboration with us in participating regions.
8. Third parties in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
9. Other third parties that you expressly request or authorize us to share your Personal Information with.

Additionally, we will share your Personal Information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary in connection with the Site or products, where it is necessary to respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, where necessary to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others, where necessary to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.

Most of the third parties with whom we share your Personal Information are located and store your information in the United States, although some may be located or store your information outside of the United States.

7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

To the extent that you provide or transmit any information, including, but not limited to, any Personal Information and any information that identifies any other individual (including without limitation name, email address and/or telephone number), to Intent Medical or our third-party service or data providers, licensors, or distributors (“Representatives”) through the Site, you warrant that (a) you are providing or obtaining only your own information or the information of others which you are authorized to provide to third parties and/or obtain from third parties on their behalf; and (b) the use of such information by Intent Medical and its Representatives will not infringe upon or misappropriate the intellectual property rights or otherwise violate the rights of any third parties.

8. How We Safeguard Your Information

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. By using the Site, you acknowledge and accept these risks. As a result, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us or that are otherwise provided to us and we cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of information. Any transmission of information is at your own risk.

9. Policy on Children’s Information

The Site is not created for anyone under the age of 13 (“Children” or “Child”). By using the Site, you represent that you are at least 13 years old. If you do not meet this age requirement, then you must not access or use the Site.

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone age 13 and under, and we do not target the Site to Children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us though one of the methods listed under “How to Contact Us” above. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from Children without verification of parental consent, we take reasonable steps to remove that information from our servers.

For more information about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), which applies to websites that direct their services to children under the age of thirteen (13), please visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website at https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/complying-coppa-frequently-asked-questions.

10. Links to Other Sites

The Site may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated or maintained by Intent Medical. If you click on one of those links, you will be taken to websites we do not control. By providing a link to a third-party website, we are not endorsing or attempting to associate with any other entity, their content or services, or the persons or entities associated with those websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information practices of those third-party websites. You should read the privacy policies of third-party websites carefully. We are not responsible for the content, privacy policies, actions or security of third-party websites.

11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Privacy Policy shall be construed and governed under the laws of the United States and State of Illinois (without regard to rules governing conflicts of laws provisions). You agree that venue for all actions, arising out of or relating in any way to your use of the Site, shall be in a state or federal court sitting in Cook County, Illinois. Each party waives any objections based on forum non convenience and waives any objection to venue of any action instituted hereunder to the extent that an action is brought in the courts identified above. Each party consents to personal jurisdiction in the courts identified above.