Your Information. Your Rights. Our Responsibilities.

Effective date: August 1, 2021

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. It is our legal requirement, as a medical cannabis dispensary, to craft and share this notice with you. Please review it carefully.

How We May Use and Disclose Your Personal Health Information

We may use and disclose your Personal Health Information (PHI) without your express authorization for the following purposes:

Your Rights

When it comes to your health information, you have certain rights. This section explains your rights and some of our responsibilities to help you.

Get an electronic or paper copy of your purchase history

Request confidential communications

Ask us to limit what we use or share

Choose someone to act for you

Your Choices

For certain health information, you can tell us your choices about what we share. If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, talk to us. Tell us what you want us to do, and we will follow your instructions.

In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us to:

How do we typically use or share your health information?

We can use and share your health information to run our dispensary, improve your care, and contact you when necessary.

Example: We use health information about you to discuss among our staff the best products to help you.

Q: How often does this happen?

A: All the time. We’re constantly trying to share knowledge to get better at what we do.

How else can we use or share your health information?

We are allowed or required to share your information in other ways – usually in ways that contribute to the public good, such as public health and research. We have to meet many conditions in the law before we can share your information for these purposes. We never market or sell personal information. For more information, see https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials-for-consumers/index.html

Help with public health and safety issues

We can share health information about you for certain situations such as:

Do research

We can use or share your information for health research.

Comply with the law

We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we’re complying with federal privacy law.

Help with your treatment

We can use your health information and share it with other professionals who are treating you if they specifically request information from us.

Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests

We can use or share health information about you:

We can share health information about you in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.

Bill for your services

We can use and share your health information to bill and get payment from health plans or other entities. However, our activities are illegal under federal law, so billing and payment from health insurance providers will only occur with a change in federal statute or when a certain mythic, exceedingly warm place freezes over.

Our Responsibilities

For more information, see https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/notice-privacy-practices/index.html.

Changes to the Terms of this Notice

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