St. Clare's Hospital Online Privacy Policy
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on
all our main pages and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
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The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the
St. Clare's Hospital website. On some pages, you can
request information, register for events, send patient
greetings and make donations to St. Clare's Hospital
Foundation. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you
make a contribution online and want a card sent directly to the recipient
of your tribute, sympathy, honor, etc., you will need to submit the recipient's address. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
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The Way We Use Information
We use the information you
provide about yourself when a transaction needs to be
completed (online donations - credit card processing,
event registering - credit card processing). We do
not share this information with outside parties except
to the extent necessary to complete that transaction.
We use the information you provide about someone else when
we mail cards to the recipient of your tribute, sympathy,
honor, etc. (only if requested by the donor). We do not
share this information with outside parties except to the
extent necessary to process the mailing.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
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Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
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Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Consistent with the Federal
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA),
we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without
requesting parental consent.
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Usage
Tracking
We track user traffic
patterns throughout our site. However, we do not
correlate this information with data about individual
users. We do break down overall usage statistics
according to a user's domain name, browser type, and
MIME type by reading this information from the browser
string (information contained in every user's browser).
We use tracking information to determine which areas of
our site users like and don't like based on traffic to
those areas. We do not track what individual users read,
but rather how well each page performs overall. This
helps us continue to build a better service for you.
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Cookies
We may place a text file
called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer.
The cookie itself does not contain personal information,
although, it will enable us to relate your use of this
site to information that you have specifically and
knowingly provided. The only personal information a
cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A
cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie
files created by other sites. We use cookies to track
user traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your
browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before
accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message
with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned
on to use this site.
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How To Contact Us
Should you have other
questions or concerns about these privacy policies,
please call our Corporate Communications Department (518) 347-5608 or send us an email at
cmack@stclares.org.
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