CAL HIPAA is committed to providing its customers with clear and accurate information about its privacy policies safeguarding consumer privacy on our Web site. We operate under a strict set of privacy principles:

· The only information CAL HIPAA obtains about individual visitors is information supplied voluntarily by visitors who register to become users of the site.

· In cases when CAL HIPAA may need personal information to provide users with services tailored especially for them, or to inform them about new features or services, users are asked explicitly for that information.

· No personally identifiable information provided by web site users will be sold to third parties unless the user specifically authorizes CAL HIPAA to do or CAL HIPAA is sold to a third party.

· Only statistical information related to our users as a group (occupation, demographics for example) may be shared with any partner of CAL HIPAA.

CAL HIPAA employs strict security measures to safeguard online transactions. All financial transactions are done on our secured server(s) and all personal information is stored in carefully secured databases and always sent in encrypted format.

Delete/DeActivate Policy
Users may unsubscribe to any of our newsletters and mailing lists at any time by following the instructions contained at the end of every newsletter and throughout our web site. While we try to ensure that this information is viewable in all reasonably current email browsers, there may be cases where certain e-mail programs and web browsers do not display the unsubscribe information correctly. If you are having problems unsubscribing please forward the entire newsletter to calhipaainfo@calhipaa.com and you will be removed.

Spam
CAL HIPAA maintains a strict "no-spam" policy. Your information, including your e-mail address will not be sold to any third party if you sign up for one of our newsletters or mailing lists. You can unsubscribe from them at any time.

Advertising and Special Offers
CAL HIPAA newsletters may contain special offers and 3rd party advertising. As part of your subscription, we may send out occasional special newsletter issues featuring special offers. Such issues will generally feature a HIPAA seminar or a product or service that we believe will be of interest to our subscribers. Instructions for unsubscribing from these issues will be included with each mailing. You may decline from receiving these special mailings and still continue to receive our regular issues.

Polling
Occassionally CAL HIPAA offers interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. CAL HIPAA uses a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

Surveys
Occasionally, CAL HIPAA conducts user surveys to better serve our users. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our partners. We never share any survey information about specific individuals with any third party.

Web Site Access License Agreement
Registration is required to access our web site and Site Materials. Registrants must read and agree to our Web Site Access License Agreement. at the time they register.

Tracking .Gif’s For Site Statistics
CAL HIPAA may use tracking or single-pixel gif images to count Web page accesses and gather some general statistical information for web site evaluation and trending purposes. CAL HIPAA does not gather personal information through the use of these images.

Consent
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of information by CAL HIPAA as specified above. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it, and your continued use of our site is your consent to the new policies.

Cookies
CAL HIPAA may employ the use of "cookies" to provide better service to our users and for security purposes and to prevent abuse. CAL HIPAA does not use cookies to collect any personally identifying information from users or to track user activities beyond our web site. CAL HIPAA does not maintain copies of cookies on our web site after you leave our web site.

Cookies are small pieces of temporary data that are exchanged between a web site and a user's computer which enable a "session", or "dialog," to be established between a user's computer and our database. With the session established, CAL HIPAA is able to tailor its responses (i.e., identify and provide you with the information you want) and help you traverse our web pages in the most efficient and effective manner possible. The session is often broken when the CAL HIPAA server does not receive further requests from your computer or you simply exit your browser. We limit our use of cookies to "session cookies." These are the types of cookies that are temporarily stored in a user's computer's memory and which are normally deleted from a user's computer when the user logs off the computer or the user exits the browser.

How to Reach Us
If you ever feel uncertain about whether this site is following the privacy policy we have described here, please notify us by e-mail to calhipaainfo@calhipaa.com. We will make every reasonable effort to find and correct the problem promptly.