Privacy Statement

Dr. Chehade’s practice recognizes that trust between patients and their health care provider is essential to the delivery of optimal care. His practice is guided by its principles of:

• Mutual respect
• Privacy
• Promoting open communication
• Preservation of confidentiality
• Informed care and treatment decisions
• Providing care in a compassionate, responsible manner
• Access to health information

We are committed to protecting the personal privacy of individuals who visit our website. In most cases you can access our website without providing any personal information about yourself. We do not automatically collect personal information by using cookies or other technologies to track identifiable information about individuals browsing our web site. We receive personal details such as your name, address and phone number only when you voluntarily provide this information. We do not share any personal data with individuals or organizations outside of Dr. Chehade’s practice unless patients specifically authorize us to do so.

We offer secure transmission of the information you send us by e-mail on the on-line registration. Any personal information you provide to us is kept confidential and stored in a secure location. Only authorized staff is able to access it.

Your confidential information is protected under the federal Privacy Act and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act

Our website does receive and record Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of computers that connect to our website. We do not attempt to identify the users unless efforts to damage the site are detected. Our website does gather information about visits to the various pages and maintain statistics on the number of visitors to our site.

This website contains links that may direct you to other sites whose privacy policies may be different from ours.