PRIVACY POLICY

Please review it carefully

PRIVACY POLICY

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

Your RIghts

You have the right to:

  • Get a copy of your paper or electronic medical record
  • Correct your paper or electronic medical record
  • Request confidential communication
  • Ask us to limit the information we share
  • Get a list of those with whom we’ve shared your information
  • Get a copy of this privacy notice
  • Choose someone to act for you
  • File a complaint if you believe your privacy rights have been violated

Your Choices

You have some choices in the way that we use and share information as we:

  • Tell family and friends about your condition
  • Provide disaster relief
  • Market our services and sell your information
  • Raise funds

Our Uses and Disclosures

We may use and share your information as we:

  • Treat you
  • Run our organization
  • Bill for your services
  • Help with public health and safety issues
  • Do research
  • Comply with the law
  • Respond to organ and tissue donation requests
  • Work with a medical examiner or funeral director
  • Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests
  • Respond to lawsuits and legal actions

Your Rights and Our Responsibilities

Your Choices

When it comes to your health information, you have the right to:

Get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record

  • You may ask to see or get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record and other health information we have about you.
  • We will provide a copy or a summary of your health information, usually within 30 days of your request. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.

Ask us to correct your medical record

  • You may ask us to correct health information about you that you think is incorrect or incomplete.
  • We may say “no” to your request, but we’ll tell you why in writing within 60 days.

Request confidential communications

  • You may ask us to contact you in a specific way (for example, home or office phone or to send mail to a different address).
  • We will say “yes” to all reasonable requests.

Ask us to limit what we use or share

  • You may ask us not to use or share certain health information for treatment, payment, or our operations. We are not required to agree to your request, and we may say “no” if it would affect your care.
  • If you pay for a service or health care item out-of-pocket in full, you may ask us not to share that information for the purpose of payment or our operations with your health insurer. We will say “yes” unless a law requires us to share that information.

Get a list of those with whom we’ve shared information

  • You may ask for a list (accounting) of the times we’ve shared your health information for six years prior to the date you ask, with whom we shared it with, and why.
  • We will include all the disclosures except for those about treatment, payment, and health care operations, and certain other disclosures (such as any you asked us to make). We’ll provide one accounting a year for free but will charge a reasonable, cost-based fee if you ask for another one within 12 months.

Get a copy of this privacy notice

You may ask for a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you have agreed to receive the notice electronically.

Choose someone to act for you

  • If you have given someone medical power of attorney, or if someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights and make choices about your health information.
  • We will make sure the person has this authority and acts for you before we take any action.

File a complaint if you feel your rights are violated

  • You may complain by contacting us using the information on the “Contact” page, under the WHO WE ARE menu, if you feel we have violated your rights.
  • You may file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights by sending a letter to 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, calling 1-877-696-6775, or visiting https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/.
  • We may not, and will not, retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

For certain health information, you may tell us your choices about what we share.

If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, talk to us. Tell us what you want us to do, and we will follow your instructions.

In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us to:

  • Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care
  • Share information in a disaster relief situation
  • Include your information in a hospital directory

If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may go ahead and share your information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share your information when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.

In these cases we never share your information unless you give us written permission:

  • Marketing purposes
  • Sale of your information
  • Most sharing of psychotherapy notes

In the case of fundraising:

  • We may contact you for fundraising efforts, but you may tell us not to contact you again for that purpose.

Our Uses and Disclosures

How do we typically use or share your health information?

We typically use or share your health information in the following ways.

Treat you

We may use your health information and share it with other professionals who are treating you.

Example: A doctor treating you for an injury asks another doctor about your overall health condition.

Run our organization

We may use and share your health information to run our practice, improve your care, and contact you when necessary.

Example: We use health information about you to manage your treatment and services.

Bill for your services

We may use and share your health information to bill and get payment from health plans or other entities.

Example: We give information about you to your health insurance plan so it will pay for your services.

How else can we use or share your health information?

We are allowed or required to share your information in other ways – usually in ways that contribute to the public good, such as public health and research. We have to meet many conditions in the law before we may share your information for these purposes. For more information see:
https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/index.html.

Help with public health-and-safety issues

We may share health information about you for certain situations such as:

  • Preventing disease
  • Helping with product recalls
  • Reporting adverse reactions to medications
  • Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
  • Preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety

Do research

We can use or share your information for health research.

Comply with the law

We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we’re complying with federal privacy law.

Respond to organ and tissue donation requests

We may share health information about you with organ procurement organizations.

Work with a medical examiner or funeral director

We may share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when an individual dies.

Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests

We may use or share health information about you:

  • For workers’ compensation claims
  • For law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official
  • With health oversight agencies for activities authorized by law
  • For special government functions such as military, national security, and presidential protective services

Respond to lawsuits and legal actions

We may share health information about you in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.

Our Responsibilities

  • We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
  • We will let you know promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
  • We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and give you a copy of it.
  • We will not use or share your information other than as described here unless you tell us we may in writing. If you tell us we may, you may change your mind at any time. Let us know in writing if you change your mind.

For more information see:

https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/noticepp.html.

Changes to the Terms of this Notice/Effective Date

  • We may change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be available upon request, in our office, and on our web site. This notice is effective as of November 25, 2013.

Contact our Privacy Officer

  • Please contact our Privacy Officer with any comments, questions, or to report an issue: Telephone:  954-730-9300 or by e-mail at: [email protected].

GDPR POLICY

For our EU Patients this GDPR notice describes how information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.

Please review it carefully.

Our designated Data Protection Officer is the General Counsel who can be contacted at:

General Counsel
REVA, Inc.
2101 W. Commercial Blvd.
Suite 5100
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309 USA

Phone: 954-730-9300

Email: [email protected]

Information That We Collect

REVA processes your personal information to meet our legal, statutory and contractual obligations and to provide you with our products and services. We will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and do not process your information in any way, other than as specified in this notice.

The personal data that we collect from is:

  • Name
  • Date of Birth
  • Home Address
  • Personal Email
  • Business Email
  • Home Telephone Number
  • Mobile Telephone Number
  • Insurance Information
  • Passport Number
  • Driver’s License Number
  • Special Category Data: Sex; and Health Records.

We collect information in the below ways:

  • From you (or your surrogates)
  • From any medical providers in the country where we pick you up
  • From any of your medical providers in your home country

How We Use Your Personal Data

REVA takes your privacy very seriously and will never disclose, share or sell your data without your consent; unless required to do so by law. We only retain your data for as long as is necessary and for the purpose(s) specified in this notice. Where you have consented to us providing you with promotional offers and marketing, you are free to withdraw this consent at any time.  The purposes and reasons for processing your personal data are detailed below: –

  • We collect your personal data in the performance of our service for you
  • We collect and store your personal data as part of our legal obligation for business accounting and tax purposes
  • To provide air ambulance and associated medical care for you before, during and after your flight

Your Rights

You have the right to access any personal information that REVA  processes about you and to request information about:

  • What personal data we hold about you
  • The purposes of the processing
  • The categories of personal data concerned
  • The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
  • How long we intend to store your personal data for
  • If we did not collect the data directly from you, information about the source

If you believe that we hold any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information and we will strive to do so as quickly as possible; unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, at which point you will be notified.

You also have the right to request erasure of your personal data or to restrict processing (where applicable) in accordance with the data protection laws; as well as to object to any direct marketing from us. Where applicable, you have the right to data portability of your information and the right to be informed about any automated decision-making we may use.

If we receive a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.

To request such information, please submit a detailed email to: [email protected]

Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information

We do not share or disclose any of your personal information without your consent, other than for the purposes specified in this notice or where there is a legal requirement.

Safeguarding Measures

REVA takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. We work hard to protect you and your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and have several layers of security measures in place, including encryption.

Transfers Outside the EU

REVA hosts and stores its (and your) data in the US, which means that we may transfer any information which is submitted by you through the website outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”).  Therefore, when you use our website/send us an email/sign up to our newsletter etc, the personal information you submit may be stored on servers which are hosted in the US.

Consequences of Not Providing Your Data

You are not obligated to provide your personal information to REVA, however, as this information is required to provide air ambulance services, and we will not be able to offer some/all our services without it.

Legitimate Interests

As noted in the ‘How We Use Your Personal Data’ section of this notice, we process your personal information under the legitimate interests’ legal basis. As such, we have carried out a thorough Legitimate Interests’ Assessment (LIA) to ensure that we have weighed your interests and any risk posed to you against our own interests; ensuring that they are proportionate and appropriate.

How Long We Keep Your Data

REVA only ever retains personal information for as long as is necessary and we have strict review and retention policies in place to meet these obligations.  Where you have consented to us using your details for direct marketing, we will keep such data until you notify us otherwise and/or withdraw your consent.

Special Categories Data

Owing to the services and/or treatments that we offer, REVA, Inc needs to process sensitive personal information (known as special category data) about you, to provide air ambulance services, and associated medical care, before, during and after the flight. We will only request and process the minimum necessary for the specified purpose and identify a compliant legal basis for doing so.

Where we rely on your consent for processing special category data, we will obtain your explicit consent through a signature.  You can modify or withdraw consent at any time, which we will act on immediately, unless there is a legitimate or legal reason for not doing so.

Questions or Lodging A Complaint

REVA  only processes your personal information in compliance with this privacy notice and in accordance with the relevant data protection laws.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact:

General Counsel
REVA, Inc.
2101 W. Commercial Blvd.
Suite 5100
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309 USA

Phone: 954-730-9300

Email: [email protected]

If, however you wish to raise a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data or are unsatisfied with how we have handled your information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Phone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate)

Fax: 01625 524 510

Email: [email protected]

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Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy and GDPR Policy.