The Heart Center Online Privacy Policy
The Heart Center Online Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes the information gathering and dissemination practices for The Heart Center Online Website. Please read this Policy carefully. This Policy may change from time to time without notice, so please check back regularly.
Personal Information Collected by The Heart Center Online Website
In general, when you access The Heart Center Online Website, personal information is not requested or collected. However, some features of The Heart Center Online Website require users to set up a personal account by registering and providing certain personal information.
When you access particular areas of The Heart Center Online Website, you will need to provide additional personal information. When the information is requested from you, we clearly indicate which information is required for the particular feature, and which information is optional. We will use this information to create your user profile.
The following is information about specific areas where we may ask you for personal information:
- Health Risk Assessment Surveys and Calculators
- E-mail and Other Services
- Cookies
- What The Heart Center Online Does With Your Personal Information
- Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
- Mailing Lists
- Links to Other Websites
- Contests
- Children's Guidelines
- Contacting this Web Site
Health Risk Assessment Surveys and Calculators
In order to utilize services such as our health risk assessment surveys and health calculators, you must enter information about your health. This information is stored in a database, which is separate from our main site registration and cannot be used to personally identify you.
E-mail and Other Services
When you register for our e-mail services, you will need to provide us with your name and e-mail address. Other services, like registering for a class, require additional information including an address and phone number. All personal information collected will follow the guidelines of the Notice of Privacy Practices.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files written by our Internet server to your hard drive. These cookies help remind us who you are each time you log on to The Heart Center Online Website. These cookies also help us identify you between page views so that we do not have to keep prompting you to reenter your user name and password.
What We Do With Your Personal Information
The Heart Center Online website will collect non-personal information for aggregate study so that we may assess the effectiveness of particular sections, pages and features of our website. We may use data collected from cookies to tailor your experience at The Heart Center Online website, showing you content and advertising that we think you might be interested in.
Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
CHP/MHP will not disclose information that identifies or can be used to identify you personally (name, address, names of relatives, birthdate, telephone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, medical record numbers, healthplan beneficiary numbers,) to any third party, without your consent, except when required to do so by law, such as law enforcement, urgent circumstances, coroners and medical examiners, judicial and administrative proceedings, health over-site activities, public health activities.
Patient authorization is not required for treatment, payment or healthcare operations.
Mailing List
The Heart Center Online Website offers a variety of features delivered by e-mail. Only CHP has access to these e-mail lists; they are not shared with anyone else. You can remove your name from any lists you have registered for by using the opt-out process.
Links to Other Websites
The Heart Center Online Website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites.
Contests
We run contests on The Heart Center Online Website in which we ask visitors for contact information (like their email address, demographic information, zip code or age). Users can choose to receive follow-up contacts from these surveys. At any time users may opt-out of receiving future mailings.
Children's Guidelines
The Heart Center Online Website does not currently offer any content directed at children under the age of 13. We do not collect any information from users whom we know are under the age of 13.
Contacting this Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of The Heart Center Online Website, or your dealings with The Heart Center Online Website, you can email us at mhpwebmaster@mhsnr.org. In order to use the mercyweb.org website’s “Contact Us” e-mail form to request additional information, you will need to provide us with your name and e-mail address. We will retain your information for a brief period of time so that we may adequately respond to your request for more information. Your name and e-mail address will not be provided to any third parties. We also track the number of requests we have received for particular kinds of information via the Contact Us feature, which guides us in determining additional information we may want to make directly available on our website in the future.
