Notice of Privacy Practices

• We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your 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 can in writing. If you tell us we can, you may change your mind at any time by letting us know in writing.

We may use and share your health information without your written authorization for the following purposes.

We may also use or share your health information without your authorization in the following situations, as federal and Utah law permit or require:

• When federal, state or local law requires it.
• To report suspected abuse or neglect of a child or of a vulnerable adult to the appropriate authorities, as Utah law requires.
• To prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public. If you communicate a serious threat of physical violence against an identifiable person, Utah law may require us to warn that person or notify law enforcement.
• For public health activities, such as preventing or controlling disease.
• To health oversight agencies, such as licensing boards, for audits, investigations and inspections.
• In response to a court or administrative order, or to a subpoena or other lawful request when the conditions the law sets for that disclosure are met.
• To law enforcement officials in limited situations the law allows.
• To coroners, medical examiners and funeral directors, and to organ and tissue donation organizations, as the law allows.
• For research, when the law allows it and appropriate privacy protections are in place.
• For military, national security and protective services for the President, as the law allows.
• To comply with workers' compensation laws.

We will ask for your written authorization before we:

• use or share psychotherapy notes, which are a clinician's separate notes about the content of your sessions, except in the limited situations the law allows;
• use or share your information for marketing;
• sell your information;
• use or share your information for any purpose not described in this notice.

You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time, except to the extent we have already acted on it.

With your agreement, or if you do not object when given the chance, we may share relevant information with a family member, friend or other person involved in your care or in paying for it. If you are not able to agree, for example in an emergency, we may share information when we believe it is in your best interest.

Parents and legal guardians generally act on behalf of a client under 18 and may exercise the rights in this notice for them. Exceptions apply where state or federal law gives the minor control over their own health information, or where we believe sharing information with a parent or guardian could endanger the minor.

We can change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all the information we have about you. The new notice will be available on request, in our office and on our website.

For questions about this notice or your privacy rights, contact: