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Privacy Statement

At Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark, your privacy is very important to us as your health information plays a vital role in our ability to provide and deliver superior services. Our most important asset is your trust, which is why we have taken measures to secure your information.

Our Commitment to Confidentiality

  • Catholic Charities applies our Health Information Privacy Principles to all types of personal information. These principles apply to all items containing information about you that could directly or indirectly identify you, whether in electronic or hard-copy format, whether original or copied, whether free-standing or networked, as well as any client record created for you. Information requested of our clients is limited to only that information essential to our delivery of superior service, to administer our business, and to fulfill any legal and regulatory requirements. We expect technology to continue to change the media upon which personal information is stored, and we intend to extend confidentiality guidelines to any changes as they might come into use.

  • Catholic Charities uses security safeguards and techniques designed to protect our client data. We limit access to data to those who specifically need this information to conduct their business tasks. We permit only authorized personnel who are trained in the proper handling of health information to access your records.

  • Catholic Charities limits the release of information. We do not share your individually identifiable health or financial information for any purpose other than for the administration, servicing, payment, or other purposes permitted by law without your prior authorization. We do not share individually identifiable information about former clients for any purpose, except as permitted by law. We do not sell individually identifiable information about current or former clients.

    • Protecting Your Individually Identifiable Information

    At Catholic Charities, we recognize the sensitive nature of our clients’ needs and we share your concerns regarding the confidentiality of your individually identifiable information:

  • Catholic Charities extends our privacy principles to all of our business relationships. We expect our business partners (i.e., entities that provide services to our clients) to honor and follow our privacy principles in the handling of all client information. We will require organizations that we hire to provide support services to meet our privacy standards and to allow us to audit for such compliance.

  • Catholic Charities holds each of our employees responsible for maintaining customer confidence in the Agency. In order to meet this goal, we provide training and communications designed to educate our employees about the meaning, importance, and requirements of the Catholic Charities Health Information Privacy Principles. We actively participate in industry associations to support strong and effective privacy guidelines and practices.


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