Privacy Policy

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.

Please review it carefully.

Web Privacy Statement
The Duluth Family Medicine Clinic is committed to protecting the privacy of those who visit our website. This Privacy Statement explains how we handle information obtained from visitors to our website. Your use of this site indicates that you understand and agree to be bound by this Privacy Statement. The Duluth Family Medicine Clinic reserves the right to modify the Privacy Statement, in whole or in part at any time. Changes will be effective upon posting to this website. Your continued use of Duluth Family Medicine Clinic’s website following any change to this Privacy Statement indicates that you agree to be bound by that change.

Collection and Use of Information
The Duluth Family Medicine Clinic is the sole owner of the information collected on its website. The Duluth Family Medicine Clinic does not commercially sell any customer lists or e-mail addresses.

We do not collect personally identifiable information via the website unless a website user voluntarily supplies it as part of a request for service or information. In those cases, the personally identifiable information will only be used to perform the requested service or to provide the requested information, except that on rare occasion, the Duluth Family Medicine Clinic may contact registered users of the website by email to inquire about potential interest in new web services.

We may also collect non-personally identifiable demographic data on our web users to improve the site and enhance services. These demographic trends will not be traceable to any individual web user’s personal information.

The Duluth Family Medicine Clinic may disclose personal information if permitted or required to do so by law, or when doing so is based on a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a court order or legal process served on the Duluth Family Medicine Clinic.

Internet Cookies
Cookies are small files that are placed on a website user’s computer hard drive and which are used to distinguish each website visitor. We do not use cookies to keep track of personally identifiable information about website users, nor do we use cookies to retrieve information from your computer which was not originally sent in a cookie. While the use of cookies is a standard practice among websites, a user can, depending upon the capabilities of his or her computer, reject the use of cookie and still use our website. Except as described in this Privacy Statement, we do not use information transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing purposes, nor is that information shared with any third parties except when those third parties are performing services for the Duluth Family Medicine Clinic.

Links to Third Party Web Sites
The Duluth Family Medicine Clinic website may contain links to other websites. This Privacy Statement only applies to our website. The Duluth Family Medicine Clinic is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of these websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each website that collects personally identifiable information..

Security Policy
We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our website. Personal information collected by the Duluth Family Medicine Clinic website is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public. Only those employees who need access to your information in order to do their jobs are allowed access, each having signed a confidentiality agreement.

Notice of Privacy Practices
Full policy can be located here: DFMC NOPP FINAL