Privacy for Collection of Online Information
Updated: July 11, 2011
Thank you for your interest in the Hospital of Saint Raphael, our programs and services. All forms on our website that allow you to provide information are secured and protected. Our goal is to maintain your privacy, confidentiality, and the security of information you provide – whether you’re registering for an event, requesting information, signing up for a service, or when you communicate with us via email.
This includes protecting any private information you supply voluntarily (your name, address, email, phone number, etc.). We may allow access to our database by certain third parties with whom we contract for certain services, for example, to improve the content or security of our website, track activity and usage trends or develop new services. In these cases, such third parties will have access to user information only for the purpose and to the extent necessary to provide such services. We will not use your information for promotional purposes without your express permission. We do not share, sell, license or rent email lists to third parties.
While we make every effort to secure your email communications once they reach us, the confidentiality of electronic communications on the Internet cannot be assured. As such, we urge you not to provide any confidential health information to us by electronic communication.
The Hospital of Saint Raphael may collect and store other types of information whenever you visit our site, by the use of small text files we send to your computer known as “cookies.” Such information may include the name of your Internet service provider, the IP address of your computer, the date and time you access the site and the page or pages you visit. This information is used to facilitate your use of our website upon each subsequent visit.
Information that is requested via our forms is solely to help us deliver requested materials or information to you, respond to your questions, or efficiently meet the needs of a product or service you have inquired about.
We welcome comments or questions about our website and encourage you to use our Contact Us area on the site.
Also see:
Privacy/Security
SRHS Policy: Protection of Personal Information
Page last updated on Jul. 11, 2011