Privacy Overview |
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Commitment
Provena
Health recognizes our patients, residents, and visitors right to privacy and
safety when visiting our websites. This privacy overview is intended to
assist our web visitors in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard
personal information provided to us. Our goal is to adhere to the highest
standards of privacy so web visitors may safely use the site as desired for
their health and wellness needs. Information gathered on our website is
used to monitor our effectiveness in providing relevant and credible health
information, in answering questions, and in improving our website.
Information
Collected
This site recognizes and collects, when possible, the domain
name of a visitor's server (for example, provena.org or aol.com). We do not
automatically collect the full e-mail address of visitors to our website. The
only way we obtain your name or e-mail address is when you choose to provide
that information to us. Examples of how you might provide us with such personal
information include:
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Completing a survey or feedback form;
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E-mailing us with a comment or question;
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Subscribing to our e-mail newsletter
service
Cookies and Other
Technologies
We collect the anonymous information mentioned above
through the use of various technologies, such as "cookies" and web server logs.
A "cookie" is a small line of text that is stored with
your web browser when you visit a cookie-enabled web site. The text may contain
an identification code or user preferences. Your browser has options that allow
you to control whether the browser accepts cookies, rejects cookies or notifies
you each time a cookie is sent to you. Cookies may last for only a single
session or may span multiple sessions. Finally, cookies are employed in other
applications that require the storage of user data from one screen to the
next.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical
statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by
visitors to our web sites as they move from one page to another. Web
server logs allow us to count how many people visit our web sites and evaluate
our web site visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your
individual e-mail address or any personally identifying information about
you.
Data Collection
We
do not obtain any personal information about you during your visit to our
website, unless you voluntarily provide that information. You may browse
many areas of our web site, including our home page, without disclosing any
personal information. Within these areas we only collect and store the
information that is automatically recognized by the web server, such as your IP
address and files you request from the server. We collect the personal
data that you volunteer on registration, survey, or other forms, or by
email. Please note that our forms are NOT encrypted unless otherwise
noted.
Use of the information
Collected
Our system routinely collects information about origin and
site navigation of web site visitors. Provena Health does not sell, trade or
rent personal information about its web site visitors. The information
collected about the domain name of the server from which you are visiting is
aggregated and used only to help us continually modify the site based on use
patterns and is not linked to any personal identifying information. We do not
collect any identifying or personal data on site users unless that information
is submitted as part of a request for service or information.
E-mail addresses provided by visitors are used to
respond to comments submitted through our feedback and surveys forms, when
indicated. E-mail addresses provided when subscribing to e-mail newsletters are
used to distribute the newsletters and requested information via email to
subscribers.
We will not provide, sell or distribute any personal information
received from visitors on web forms or e-mail to any outside organization. We
may use your personal information, with the assistance of third parties, to
track the effectiveness of our web site efforts and to generate health-care
related materials. Additionally, we may disclose information when legally
compelled to do so.
Information about web site use patterns will be utilized
by the web & Media Services team and other appropriate Provena Health staff
to modify and enhance the web sites. Identifying individual information such as
name, e-mail and address will be used only as requested by the visitor.
Information We Send to
You
Please remember that information provided by Provena Health, in
the absence of a visit with a health-care professional, must be considered as an
educational service only. The information sent through e-mail should not be
relied upon as a medical consultation. Information we send you by e-mail
is not designed to replace your physician's independent judgment about the
appropriateness or risks of a procedure for a given patient. We will do our best
to provide you with information that will help you make your own health-care
decisions.
Consent
By using
our website, you consent to the collection and use of the information discussed
above by Provena Health. Changes in this policy will be posted on this page so
that you may always be aware of what information is being collected, how it is
being used, and under what circumstances it is being disclosed.
Contacting the
Website
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the
practices of the Provena Health web sites, or your interaction with the Provena
Health web sites, contact: webmaster@provenahealth.com
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