Introduction. We have
created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to
privacy and to disclose our practices in gathering, using and disclosing
personal information in connection with this Web site. Personal information
is information about a person that includes identifying information about
that person. Although there are links from this Site to other Web sites, this
Privacy Policy applies only to this Site and not to Web sites operated by
others. For example, if you click on a link to the Web site of one of our
partners or sponsors, the click takes you out of our Site. We are not
responsible for the content or privacy practices of other Web sites.
1. Openness. We follow a general policy of openness regarding
our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy sets out the fair
information practices that govern the collection, maintenance, use and
disclosure of personal information regarding visitors who use this Site.
2. Revisions to the Privacy Policy. We may revise this
Privacy Policy from time to time as we add new features or as laws change
that may affect our services. If we make material changes to this
Privacy Policy, we will post a new version number at the beginning of this
Privacy Policy, consisting of the date (year and month) the Policy was
last revised, so that you will be able to tell when the Privacy Policy was
last changed.
3. Collection of Personal Information.
Except as disclosed in this Policy or as disclosed on other pages in this
site where information may be collected, we do not sell or share your information with outside entities who
may wish to market their own products and services to you. You don't need to
take any action for this benefit.”
a. Web logs. We maintain standard Web logs
that record data about all visitors who use this Site. These logs may
contain:
i.The
Internet domain from which you access this Site (e.g., aol.com, abc.org);
ii. Your Internet Protocol (IP) address. Your computer is
automatically assigned a number which acts as its IP address when you surf
the Internet. Your IP address is either static (always stays the same)
or dynamic (changes from time to time). A static IP address may be identifiable
to you, while a dynamic address is usually not identifiable.
iii. The type of browser and operating system you use.
iv. The date and time you visited the Site.
v. The pages that you saw on this Site.
vi. The address of the Web site you linked here from.
We use Web
log information to help us design our Site, to identify popular features, and
to make the Site more useful for visitors. Web logs are recorded in
sequential files, and we do not normally try to identify individuals from Web
logs or use Web logs to gather information about individuals. However,
we may use Web logs to identify any person attempting to break into or damage
our Site, and we may share Web log information with law enforcement agencies
if we believe that we have evidence of a violation of computer security or
related laws.
b. Internet Cookies. We may place Internet cookies
on visitors computer hard drives. Internet cookies save data about
individuals, such as their name, user-name and the pages they visit on our
Site. When a visitor with one of our cookies on his or her computer revisits
our Site, we are able to recognize that computer and tailor our Site to be
more helpful and efficient for that visitor. Also, cookies help us to provide
streamlined services, and to document our transactions with visitors to this
Site. You may have software on your computer that will allow you to decline
or deactivate Internet cookies, but if you do so, some features of this Site
may not work properly for you.
c. Visitor /Customer Requests for Information.
If you ask a question or make a request through this Web site, we may store
your message and our response for a while. We may also use this information,
and any information you give to us in response to a survey on the Site, to
send you information about health-related newsletters, promotional events and
upcoming programs that we think you might be interested in; notices of
enhancements to our services; additional surveys; and to send you an e-mail
version of our physician contact information.
4. Access, Correction, Deletion and Data Integrity. Requests to access,
correct or delete personal information may be submitted using our contact
information. Please note that we do not consider Web log information to
be personal information. Also, we may not be able to delete or revise
information about you that we have relied upon to provide services to you, or
that we are legally required to maintain.
5. Use and Disclosure of Personal Information.
We do not sell or rent personal information about visitors to this
Site. We do not use or disclose personal information obtained through
this Site except as expressly described in this Policy. No patient
identifying information will be shared or transmitted on this Site.
a. Uses. We use information obtained from weblogs, cookies and visitor requests for the purposes described
in this Policy. We also use personal information obtained from this Site to
respond to requests, improve our services, demonstrate the quality of our
services to our auditors and government agencies that have authority over us,
and for the additional purposes described below.
b. Disclosures. We may disclose
personal information to any person performing audit, legal, operational or
other services for us. Whenever possible, we will require any recipient
of personal information for these purposes to agree in writing to use the
information only for the purpose for which it was disclosed and to destroy or
return it when no longer needed for that purpose. We may disclose
personal information when required to do so by a subpoena, court order, or
search warrant. Except when deemed by us to be infeasible, we will notify the
individual of a subpoena, court order or search warrant for the individual
information, by e-mail using the e-mail address (if any) that the individual
provided to us.
We may disclose personal information as we deem
appropriate to protect the safety of an individual or for an investigation
related to public safety or to report an activity that appears to be in
violation of law.
We may disclose personal information to protect the
security and reliability of this Web site, and to take precautions against
liability.
We may disclose personal information to any successor in
interest (any company or organization that purchases or otherwise takes over
our assets).
6. Public Forums. From time to time this Site
may contain message boards and/or news groups ("Forums").
Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes
publicly available. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose
your personal information in these areas. We do not maintain or routinely
monitor information posted on any message board or news group on our Site; however,
we reserve the right to remove any postings that we deem inappropriate.
7. Security. We protect the personal
information we have collected from this Site by using industry standard
security precautions against loss and unauthorized access, destruction, use,
modification or disclosure of that information. We comply with the security
safeguards detailed in our computer security policies and procedures, and
routinely monitor that compliance. When credit card or other financial
information is transmitted over the Internet we use industry standard, SSL
(secure socket layer) encryption to protect that information.
8. Children. We do not intend to collect personal
information from children under age 13 and in any event will not do so
without the permission of the child's parent or guardian. Visitors who wish
to participate on our Site and provide personal information indicating that
they are under 13 years of age are required to provide the e-mail address of
their parent or guardian. We then send an e-mail message to that parent or
guardian alerting them to the child's request to participate on our Site, and
we ask for the permission of the parent or guardian. If permission is not
promptly received, we delete all information about that visitor from our system
as quickly as possible. No information collected from users under the age of
13 is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever.
9. Questions,
Complaints or Requests to Change Information
If at any time you wish to contact us with a question or complaint or to
exercise any of the rights set out in this Privacy Policy, or if you want to
change any information collected by us, you may do so by contacting us by
e-mail, telephone, fax, or U.S. Mail, using the information set out below.
As a high quality network of healthcare providers
and healthcare information on the Web, we are continually trying to improve
our site. We want you and your family to be confident in using ehc.com as
your one-stop health resource. We encourage you to contact us with any
suggestions for improving our site so that we can better serve you in the
future. Thank you for visiting with us.
Advertising
Policy
Advertisement and Sponsorship
Identification
We believe it is important for you to be able to distinguish advertisements
from health information. For this reason, advertisements and sponsorships are
clearly identified as being separate from our consumer health
information.
Advertising Click Through
If you click on an advertisement, you will be leaving the website and
entering the advertiser's site. Be aware that we have no control over the
practices of other sites. Your computer may receive cookies from other sites
and you will not be protected by our Privacy
Policy. These sites may place a cookie on your computer for the purposes of
ad tracking and presentation. We do not share personally identifiable visitor
information with its advertising services. We may share anonymous
aggregated statistical information about uses of this Site. |
