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Privacy Policy
Sikka Software Corporation values the importance of protecting the privacy of personal
information collected and respects the privacy of everyone who visits our site.
Our Privacy Policy has been carefully crafted to protect your privacy and to make
you aware of all its intended use. We may modify our privacy policies from time
to time to better address our customer's concerns that may be appropriate.
Information collected
Sikka Software Corporation web site does not collect any information about
you (name, address, e-mail, and so on) unless you provide it to us voluntarily
and knowingly through explicit forms such as contact us, user registration, login,
product registration, downloading our program or by submitting your resume etc. Each of
these forms also explicitly mentions the intent of collecting this information.
If you do not want your personal information collected, please do not submit the
appropriate form. Anyone can visit our website without revealing any personal
information about themselves. We may collect or track other information about
your web site visit such as IP address, day or time visited, duration of visit etc.,
solely for the purpose of tracking web site effectiveness and not for identification
of an individual for solicitation or contact. Sikka Software Corporation may use rollups
and summary information about business and clinical indicators without personal identifiers
of you or your practice. This data is for benchmarking and industry research purposes and
is the property of Sikka Software Corporation. Users of specific software products of
Sikka Software Corporation are referred to the appropriate End User License Agreements
(EULA) of those products.
Use and Disclosure
Sikka Software Corporation collects personal information from you in order to
respond to your requests for information or other specific solicitation.
We may also use the information provided by you to contact you to provide you
with information about Sikka Software Corporation including but not limited to
news, events, reference and benchmarking data and our services and offering that
we believe may be of interest to you, based on the information provided to us.
If you sign up for an electronic newsletter or e–mail list, each message will
include instructions on how to “unsubscribe“ from that list. The only exception
when information sharing may be done is when such sharing is necessary so that we
can respond to your requests effectively. Sikka Software Corporation is not liable
for sharing or release of this information if that is required by applicable laws,
pursuant to some legal process or search warrant, and to protect Sikka Software
Corporation's rights and property.
HIPAA Position Statement
Sikka Software Corporation Respects US and EU Laws on Privacy
Sikka Software Corporation is committed to developing and delivering services and
products that assist and enable our customers to comply with privacy and security
regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
of August 1996 in the United States and the Privacy Directive (EU 95/46 EC) in Europe.
The goal of these regulations is to improve the efficiency of healthcare administration
while ensuring the privacy, confidentiality and security of patient-identifiable
health information. Compliance with these regulations requires providers and payers
to review operational practices, modify administrative policy and process, and apply
technology. Sikka Software Corporation is committed to delivering services and products
that assist our customers in achieving these goals. HIPAA includes among other provisions
of this law, protective guidelines for the confidentiality of healthcare information,
containing provisions that spell out the procedures for maintaining privacy and
security of this information. The law also mandated uniform standards and formats
for electronic transmission of health information and code sets in connection with
most routine types of health transactions (such as claims submission and eligibility
for benefits). We trust that the electronic standards, code sets and subsequent
objectives of HIPAA will improve the general efficiency in which healthcare is administered.
We are confident that HIPAA will provide for the security and confidentiality of
an individual’s health information and provide specific, undeniable rights to the
patient with regard to the handling and administration of that information.
Under those auspices, Sikka Software Corporation will provide products and services
that are designed to comply with the law and to help you comply in a timeframe mandated
by law. Sikka Software Corporation will submit to all required testing and certification
of its products and services covered by HIPAA. Additionally, Sikka Software Corporation
is investing significant resources to analyze and revise all company policies and
procedures to ensure complete compliance. Sikka Software Corporation customers can
rely on us to support them to this extent. However, Sikka Software Corporation cannot
give you legal advice on all your obligations under HIPAA, and software and services
alone cannot make a dental practice HIPAA compliant.
As we have done for the past year, we will continue to provide our clients and partners
with significant upgrades and enhancements, many of which will assist our customers
in their efforts to become compliant. Please note that HIPAA standards require our
customers to address internal policies and procedures and change their practices
in ways that extend beyond the scope of our products and services; it is not possible
for us or any other software package to make customers “HIPAA-compliant.” While
we will continue to provide our customers with product upgrades and information
that will assist customers in becoming compliant, we also strongly encourage our
customers to become familiar with all HIPAA regulations and how they impact their
own respective practices. For more information visit www.hipaa.org.
Do we use Cookies?
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard
drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make Internet surfing easier for you
by saving your passwords, purchases, and preferences while you're at a site. The
use of cookies is an industry standard -- you'll find them at most major websites.
By showing how and when visitors use the site, cookies help website developers see
which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the
site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. Most browsers
are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set your browser to
refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Our servers do log some
information when you access Sikka Software Corporation's Web site, but that information
doesn't lead us, or anyone else, back to you. It is information about your browser
(like Netscape or Explorer), your operating system (like Mac or PC), and your Internet
provider's name (like AOL). Our servers log how many people visited the site each
day, and which pages on the site were visited. We use this information to improve
the website content and performance. We never use cookies to retrieve information
from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. We do not use information
transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing purposes, nor is that
information shared with any third parties whatsoever. We do not use cookies to identify
specific individuals.
Sikka Software Technical Support team uses remote connection utilities/ tools to
login to maintain SikkaSoft products at optimal performance level. This permission
is granted by customer as part of Sikka Software provides remote access technical
support.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding Sikka
Software Corporation's privacy policy and/or practices, please contact us.
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