This notice describes the Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences privacy practices and your rights as an individual to protect your health information. Your information could be used to identify you, as it relates to your past and present physical and mental health care services.

Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences will abide by the terms presented within this Notice. For any uses or disclosures that are not listed below, Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences will obtain a written authorization from you for that use or disclosure, which you will have the right to revoke at any time, as explained in more detail below.

How Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences may use and disclose your personal information

Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences is permitted to use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes, by law:

Treatment

A technologist, genetic counselor, or other staff member obtains treatment or testing information about you and records it in your laboratory medical record.
During the course of your treatment, the physician determines a need to consult with another specialist and share the information with the specialist.
Payment
The minimal necessary personal information will be disclosed to obtain payment or reimbursement from insurers for your genetic testing.

Health Care Operations
The minimal necessary personal information will be disclosed to conduct quality assessments, improvement activities, and evaluate our workforce.

Required by law
Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences is required to use or disclose about you as required and as limited by law.

Public Health Activities
Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences is authorized by law to use or disclose your personal information in order to prevent or control disease, injury, or disability.

Abuse, neglect or domestic violence
We may use or disclose about you to a government authority if it is reasonably believed you are a victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence.

Health oversight activities
We may use or disclose your personal information to a health oversight agency for oversight activities which may include audits, investigations, inspections as necessary for licensure, compliance with civil laws, or other activities the health oversight agency is authorized by law to conduct.

Judicial and administrative proceedings
Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences may disclose about you in the course of

any judicial or administrative proceedings, provided that proper documentation is presented to us.

Law enforcement purposes
We may disclose your personal information to law enforcement officials for authorized purposes as required by law or in response to a court order.

The deceased
Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences may disclose about a deceased, or prior to, and in reasonable anticipation of an individual’s death, to coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors.

Cadaveric organ, eye or tissue donation purposes
We may use and disclose your personal information for the purpose of procurement, banking, or transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissues for donation purposes.

Research purposes
We may use and disclose about you for research purposes with a valid waiver of authorization approved by an institutional review board or a privacy board. Otherwise, we will request a signed authorization by the individual for all other research purposes.

Threat to health or safety
Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences may use or disclose about you, if we believe in good faith, and consistent with any applicable law and standards of ethical conduct, to avert a serious threat to health or safety.

Specialized government functions
We may use or disclose your personal information for specialized government functions including; military and veteran’s activities, national security and intelligence, protective services, department of state functions, and correctional institutions and law enforcement custodial situations.

Workers’ compensation
Eastern Biotech and Life Sciences may use personal information about you as authorized by and to the extent necessary to comply with workers’ compensation laws or programs established by law.

Disaster relief purposes
We may disclose personal information about you as authorized by law to a public or private entity to assist in disaster relief efforts.

Business associates
Your personal information may be disclosed to our business associates for services that they provide on behalf Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences to assist us to provide quality health care. To ensure the privacy of your personal information, we require all business associates to apply appropriate safeguards to any personal information they receive or create.

Other purposes
Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences may contact you for the following purposes:

Future Research
We may contact you at some future date as part of a research effort.

Fund Raising
We may contact you at some future date as part of a fund-raising effort.

Your Health Information Rights
The following are a list of your rights in respect to your personal health information:

Request restrictions
You have the right to request additional restrictions of our use and disclosure of your personal health information; however, we not required to accommodate a request. If you wish to request additional restrictions, please contact Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences for further information.

Communicate to you by alternate means or locations
You have the right to request that we communicate confidentially with you using an address or phone number other than your residence. However, state and federal laws require we have an accurate address and home phone number in case of emergencies. We will consider all reasonable requests. If you wish to request a change in your communicating address and/or phone number, please contact Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences for further information.

Inspect and/or obtain a copy your personal health information
You have the right to request access and/or obtain a copy of your personal health information that is held by Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences for the duration that we maintain personal health information about you. If you wish to inspect or obtain a copy of your PHI, please send your request to us. There may be a reasonable cost-based charge for photocopying documents. You will be notified in advance of incurring such charges, if any.

The right to amend your personal health information
You have the right to request an amendment of the personal health information that Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences maintains about you, if you feel that the information is incorrect or otherwise incomplete. Under certain circumstances we may deny your request for amendment. If we do deny the request, you will have the right to have the denial reviewed by someone we designate who was not involved in the initial review.

The right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your personal health information
You have the right to receive an accounting of certain disclosures of your personal health information made by Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences. If you wish to receive an accounting of disclosures of your personal health information, please contact Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences for further assistance. You should be aware, however, that such an accounting excludes uses and disclosures made for treatment, payment, or health care operations purposes.

The right to receive additional copies of the Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences Notice of Privacy Practices
You have the right to receive additional paper copies of this Notice, upon request, even if you initially agreed to receive the Notice electronically. If you wish to receive a paper copy of this request, please call Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences and we will provide you with a copy.

Revisions to the Notice of Privacy Practices
Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences reserves the right to change and/or revise this Notice and make the new revised version applicable to all personal health information received prior to its effective date. The revised Notice will be available, upon request, to

all individuals. Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences will also post the revised version of the Notice in the Laboratory.

Complaints
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences. If you wish to file a complaint with Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences, please contact Laboratory Privacy Officer.