Centennial Heart Cardiovascular Consultants Privacy Policy
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 collect personal information about visitors to this Site.
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 awhile. 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 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 or link, you will be leaving the site and entering
another site. Be aware that HCA has no control over the practices of other sites.
Your computer may receive cookies from other sites and you will not be protected
by HCA's Privacy Policy. These sites may place a cookie on your computer for the
purposes of ad tracking and presentation. HCA does not share personally identifiable
visitor information with its advertising services. HCA may share anonymous
aggregated statistical information about uses of this Site.