Health care clearinghouse means a public or private entity that does either of the following (Entities, including but not limited to, billing services, repricing companies, community health management information systems or community health information systems, and "value-added" networks and switches are health care clearinghouses for purposes of this subchapter if they perform these functions):

(1) Processes the information or facilitates the processing of information received from another entity in a non standard format or containing non standard data content into standard data elements or a standard transaction.

(2) Receives a standard transaction from another entity and processes or facilitates the processing of information into non standard format or non standard data content for a receiving entity.

Protecting Your Privacy
Our Privacy Policy explains how we protect the privacy of your personal information. It also explains certain situations where we release information about you to third parties, such as to maintain your account or other circumstances as required or permitted by law.

Confidentiality and Security
We restrict access to non public personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. Your privacy is very important to us. We respect your concerns about maintaining strict privacy. Any information that you divulge to us is kept in confidence.We do not collect personally identifiable information (PII) on our Web site or otherwise unless you choose to give it to us via our online inquiry form, the online donation form, an electronic mail message, a phone call, or by postal mail. The type of information you provide through our online forms may include email address, name, mailing address, city, state, zip code and phone number, as well as credit card account information for the online donation form. Even when you choose to give us information, we keep it confidential. We will only release your PII if you express your consent.

We do not sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose mailing lists or other personally identifiable information with third parties. We maintain records of individuals who contact us for aggregated statistical purposes and for noting our efforts to provide information or assistance. However, we do not provide this information to anyone else unless you give us your consent.

Information You Provide to Us
You do not have to give us personal information to visit our Web site. If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself, your information will be temporarily stored and will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it. Your information will not be shared without your consent. Communications that are considered official correspondence are maintained, as required by law, for historical purposes. These communications are archived on a regular basis, but are also protected by the Privacy Act, which restricts our use of them, yet permits certain disclosures.