Terms of Use — HIPAA Pulse

Scope. These Terms govern your access to and use of HIPAA Pulse at hipaapulse.com, including its editorial content, breach intelligence tracker, RSS feed, and any licensed embeds. HIPAA Pulse is a publication of Patient Protect LLC. The Patient Protect compliance platform at patient-protect.com and the platform at hipaa-port.com are governed by their own separate terms.

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) apply to all visitors and users of the HIPAA Pulse website operated by Patient Protect LLC (“Patient Protect,” “HIPAA Pulse,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing or continuing to use this website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, discontinue use of the website immediately.

1. Use of the Publication

1.1 Permitted use

You may access and read HIPAA Pulse for personal, non-commercial, informational purposes. This includes:

Reading articles, breach analyses, pattern analyses, and regulatory coverage
Browsing the breach intelligence tracker
Subscribing to the RSS feed at /feed.xml
Quoting limited portions of articles with proper attribution under fair use
Sharing links to articles on social media, in newsletters, or in academic citations
Citing the breach tracker in journalism or research with attribution

1.2 Prohibited use

You may not:

Scrape, crawl, harvest, or otherwise programmatically extract content, data, methodology, or analytical work from this website, except as a public search engine following our robots.txt protocol.
Use any content, data, methodology, or analytical framework from this website to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or develop artificial intelligence or machine-learning models, in whole or in part, without express prior written authorization from Patient Protect LLC. This prohibition applies regardless of whether the content is publicly accessible.
Use any content, data compilation, or analytical work from this website to build competing publications, breach trackers, or commercial intelligence products.
Reproduce, republish, or redistribute editorial articles in whole or in substantial part without written permission. Verbatim quotation beyond fair-use limits requires a license.
Embed, frame, or iframe any HIPAA Pulse page or component on a third-party site without an executed embed license. Email editor@hipaapulse.com for licensed-embed inquiries.
Attempt to access, probe, or test the security of our systems or circumvent any technical safeguards (including rate limits, IP blocks, or authentication measures).
Introduce malware, viruses, or any code designed to disrupt our services.
Misrepresent your identity or affiliation with HIPAA Pulse or Patient Protect.
Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, byline, or proprietary notice on any content.
Use the publication, the breach tracker, or our editorial methodology for competitive intelligence, benchmarking, or derivative commercial products.

1.3 Geographic scope

HIPAA Pulse covers United States healthcare regulation. The publication is intended for readers in the United States, and we reserve the right to restrict access from any jurisdiction at our discretion.

2. Editorial Content

2.1 Sources and AI assistance

HIPAA Pulse covers publicly-filed breach reports, regulatory actions, and adjacent industry developments. Aggregator briefs at the URL pattern hipaapulse.com/{slug}-{id} may be co-written with editorial AI assistance from publicly available source material and reviewed against our editorial standards before publication. Long-form pattern analyses and coverage hub pieces are hand-authored. Our methodology, sources, and editorial standards are documented at /about and at /tracker.

2.2 No professional advice

Nothing on this website constitutes legal advice, medical advice, regulatory guidance, or professional compliance consultation. Articles describe vendor-agnostic control categories, not specific products or implementations. Always consult qualified counsel and security professionals for advice specific to your practice. No attorney–client, consultant–client, or professional relationship is created by your use of this website.

2.3 Editorial accuracy and corrections

We take editorial accuracy seriously. When we identify or are notified of factual errors, we correct the article at the top in plain language with the date of correction, and we log the correction at /corrections. We do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any article; readers should verify against primary sources.

3. Breach Intelligence Tracker

The HIPAA Pulse breach intelligence tracker aggregates data from the HHS OCR Breach Portal, State Attorney General notifications, OCR enforcement records, FTC Health Breach Notification Rule filings, and CISA medical-device advisories into a unified analytical interface. Individual data points may originate from public government sources, but the data compilation, classification, severity scoring, analytical views, and methodology are proprietary to Patient Protect LLC and protected as a copyrightable compilation.

You may cite the tracker in journalism, research, or academic work with proper attribution. You may not reproduce the tracker interface, bulk-extract the data compilation, embed the tracker on a third-party site without a license, or use the classification methodology in derivative analytical tools without written authorization. See Section 5 (Intellectual Property).

4. Newsletter

Newsletter subscriptions are operated by Patient Protect LLC at patient-protect.com. By subscribing, you agree to Patient Protect’s privacy policy and terms governing the newsletter list. The newsletter covers HIPAA Pulse editorial content and may include occasional information about Patient Protect’s products and services.

5. Intellectual Property

5.1 Ownership

All content on this website — editorial articles, pattern analyses, breach tracker data compilations, severity scoring, analytical methodology, AI system prompts, RSS feed contents, design, and code — is the exclusive property of Patient Protect LLC and is protected by United States and international copyright law. The publication name “HIPAA Pulse” and the publication design are protected as trademarks and trade dress.

5.2 Citation and fair use

Limited quotation of articles for purposes of news reporting, academic research, criticism, comment, teaching, or scholarship is permitted under fair use, provided you (a) do not reproduce the article in substantial part, (b) attribute HIPAA Pulse with a hyperlink to the original article, and (c) do not use the excerpt to imply endorsement of any product, service, or position not stated in the original article.

Suggested attribution format: HIPAA Pulse, “[Article title],” hipaapulse.com, [date].

5.3 AI-training prohibition

No content, data, tool output, methodology, or editorial work from this website may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or develop artificial intelligence or machine-learning models without express prior written authorization from Patient Protect LLC. This prohibition is asserted regardless of whether the content is publicly accessible, and applies to all reproductions of the content in datasets, training corpora, evaluation suites, and derivative model outputs. Our robots.txt policy reflects this; failure to follow it does not waive our rights.

5.4 Trademarks

HIPAA Pulse™, Patient Protect™, and PIPAA™ are trademarks of Patient Protect LLC. You may not use these marks without prior written permission. Other trademarks referenced in articles belong to their respective owners.

5.5 DMCA

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. See our Intellectual Property & DMCA Policy for the takedown procedure and designated agent.

6. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

THIS WEBSITE AND ALL CONTENT, DATA, AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND TITLE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE BREACH TRACKER WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE.

PATIENT PROTECT LLC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR RELIANCE ON ANY EDITORIAL CONTENT OR DATA, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE WEBSITE.

7. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Patient Protect LLC, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) arising from your use of this website, violation of these Terms, or infringement of any third-party rights.

8. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois without regard to conflict-of-laws provisions. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois. You waive any right to a jury trial. In any dispute, the prevailing party is entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees and costs.

9. General Provisions

9.1 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect. The unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.

9.2 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Intellectual Property & DMCA Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Patient Protect LLC regarding HIPAA Pulse.

9.3 Assignment

We may assign these Terms without notice in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law. You may not assign your rights under these Terms without our written consent.

9.4 No waiver

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms does not waive that right or provision.

10. Changes

We may update these Terms at any time. The “Last revised” date reflects the most recent version. Continued use of the website after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

11. Contact

Editorial questions, embed licensing, content permissions, and corrections: editor@hipaapulse.com.

Formal legal notices, IP enforcement, and corporate contact:HIPAA Pulse is published by Patient Protect LLC. For the registered business address, designated agents, and formal notice procedure, see Patient Protect’s Terms of Use and Intellectual Property & DMCA Policy.