Board of Registration in Medicine
Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting our website.
As the state agency charged with
licensing, regulating, and disciplining physicians, we have the
highest regard for consumer privacy and we want you to be aware
of our policy regarding privacy.
Your privacy with respect to the
use of this website results from a partnership between the Board
of Registration in Medicine and you, the user. At this website,
we attempt to protect your privacy to the maximum extent possible.
However, because some of the information that we receive through
this website is subject to the Public
Records Law , Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, Section
10, we cannot ensure absolute privacy. Information that you provide
to us through this site may be made available to members of the
public under that law. This policy informs you of the information
that we collect from you at this site, what we do with it, to whom
it may be disseminated, and how you can access it. Based on this
information, you can make an informed choice about your use of this
site. You can maximize the benefits of your privacy partnership
with the Board by making informed choices about whether to share
personally identifiable information with us through this site.
Personally identifiable information
is any information that could reasonably be used to identify you
personally, including your name, address, e-mail address, Social
Security number, birth date, bank account information, credit card
information, or any combination of information that could be used
to identify you.
Information Collected and Stored
Automatically:
We do not automatically collect
any personally identifiable information at this site, only statistical
information. This site does not generate or use “cookies.” Cookies
are files that a website can place on your computer. A cookie file
contains unique information that a website can use to track such
things as your password, lists of Web pages you have visited, and
the date when you last looked at a specific Web page, or to identify
your session at a particular website. A cookie file allows the website
to recognize you as you click through pages on the site and when
you later revisit the site. A website can use cookies to "remember"
your preferences, and to record your browsing behavior on the Web.
Although you can prevent websites from placing cookies on your computer
by using your browser's preference menu, disabling cookies may affect
your ability to view or interact with some websites.
Our server logs track the Internet
Protocol (“IP”) addresses of individuals that view our web pages,
the names of pages viewed, the date and time of access, the referring
site, and the type of browser. This detailed information is reviewed
to assess the frequency of visits to this site and the popularity
of its various pages and functions. The information is purged monthly,
after aggregate statistics for hit counts are generated. An "Internet
Protocol Address" or "IP Address" is a series of numbers that identifies
each computer and machine connected to the Internet. An IP address
enables a server on a computer network to send you the file that
you have requested on the Internet. The IP address disclosed to
us may identify the computer from which you are accessing the Internet,
or a server owned by your Internet Service Provider. Because it
is machine-specific, rather than person-specific, an IP address
is not, in and of itself, personally identifiable information.
If You Send Us Personal Information
via E-mail:
- We do not sell any personally identifiable information collected
through this website. However, once you voluntarily submit personally
identifiable information to us through an e-mail, its dissemination
is governed by the Public
Records Law, Massachusetts
General Laws Chapter 66A (Fair Information Practices Act)
, Executive
Order 412, as well as Massachusetts
General Laws Chapter 111, Section 205 and Massachusetts
General Laws Chapter 112, Section 5. For this reason,
part or all of the information you send us may be provided to
a member of the public in response to a public records request
.
- If you submit a complaint over our website that results in
the opening of an investigation, in most cases your complaint
will remain confidential until the investigation is closed.
Certain statutory reports remain confidential indefinitely.
- The information that you voluntarily submit will be disclosed
only to Board employees or officials with a "need to know" for
purposes of fulfilling their job responsibilities. They will
only use the information to answer your questions, respond to
any requests for assistance, and fulfill the Board's legal obligations.
- A copy of your communication may be transmitted to the agency
with jurisdiction over the matter. This copy would contain all
personal information you submit. In addition, that agency may
send a copy of your communication, if it constitutes a complaint,
to the party about whom you are complaining. This copy also
may contain your personal information.
- Your Access and Opportunity to Correct. The
Public Records Law and the Fair
Information Practices Act provide you certain rights
to get information about you that is in our records. To learn
more about the circumstances under which you can get and correct
this information, please click on the above references to these
laws.
- Security. Because this site does not encrypt incoming e-mail,
you should not send information that you consider highly sensitive
through this website. We use standard security measures to ensure
that your personally identifiable information is not lost, misused,
altered, or unintentionally destroyed. We also use software
programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized
attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause
damage. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations,
no attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage
habits.
Links to Other Sites: Our website
has a number of links to external sites. Upon following these links,
you are subject to the privacy policies of other sites, over which
we have no control. You can tell when you are still on our site
by our distinctive "Board of Registration in Medicine" logo. Also,
while you are at our site, the address in your browser's location
box will begin with http://www.massmedboard.org
Policy changes. We will post changes
to this policy at least 30 days before they take effect. Any information
we collect under the current privacy policy will remain subject
to the terms of this policy. After any changes take effect, all
new information we collect, if any, will be subject to the new policy.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Board of Registration in Medicine
560 Harrison Avenue, Suite G-4
Boston, MA 02118
Consumer Hotline: 800-377-0550
If you have any questions or complaints,
please contact: webmaster@massmedboard.org
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