Introduction
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.empressems.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
- Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone without your consent.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via phone or email about changes to this privacy policy.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 1-888-965-5040 or via our contact form on the website.
Insurance and Personal Health Information (PHI)
Users of this website may submit their personal, insurance, and/or payment information as part of the services offered by Empress Ambulance Service Inc or Emergacare NY. We have a separate policy for such interactions which can be found here: Empress Privacy Practices Statement.
You can contact our HIPAA Compliance Officer here: Hanan Cohen, Empress Ambulance Service Inc, 722 Nepperhan Ave, Yonkers, New York, 10703, 888-965-5040, hcohen@empressems.com.
eSchedule Services
Employees and other designated individuals may use the 3rd party eSchedule software as part of their job function. eSchedule is used to sign-up for shifts, track training hours, and other information relevant to your employment with Empress Ambulance Service Inc.
eSchedule may use any information submitted through their systems differently than Empress Ambulance Service Inc. Please visit their website and review their privacy policy regarding any questions about how this information is handled. (https://www.goeschedule.com)
Student Rotations
This website has a password protected section for medical and EMS students that perform clinical rotations with Empress EMS. Each education site will have a unique username and password which allows students to access this section. In order to coordinate student rotations, we use a 3rd party web service, Appointy Software Inc (https://www.appointy.com.) If you opt to use this service, you will need to review their privacy policy as to how your information is handled (https://www.appointy.com/privacypolicy/). Information submitted through the Appointy service is used by Empress EMS in the following ways:
- To reserve student rotation slots.
- To contact you regarding any reserved rotation slots.
- To contact you or your education site regarding any problems pertaining to your rotations.
Information obtained by Empress EMS through Appointy Software Inc is not shared or released outside of these purposes. Use of Appointy is entirely voluntary.
You can contact our Rotation Coordinator here: Sheri Baia, Empress Ambulance Service Inc, 722 Nepperhan Ave, Yonkers, New York, 10703, 888-965-5040, sbaia@empressems.com.
Cookies
We may use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Apache Server Logs
Our server runs Apache software (www.apache.org.) This software collects basic information about those visiting our website such as:
- Visitor’s IP address.
- Which pages the visitor loaded.
- How long the visitor stayed on our website.
- If the visitor came to our website through a search engine or external link.
- What web browser and operating system the visitor used.
Any information collected this way is used to analyze traffic patterns to our website and for no other purpose. It is not shared outside of our company in any way.
Surveys
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site or our other services. It will not be shared or sold outside of our company.