Website Introduction
Quincy Medical Center (QMC) recognizes how important privacy protection is, especially regarding the healthcare information you receive both at your physician's office, and on the Internet. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully, so that you will understand both our commitment to your privacy and how you can contribute to that commitment. If you become a user of the QMC website, you agree to and accept the provisions of this Privacy Policy.
Changes and Questions
QMC may periodically update this policy based on its need to address issues raised by new technologies, by the development of new websites, or by changes in applicable laws. QMC reserves the right to modify, add or remove portions of this privacy policy at its discretion. If we decide to change this policy, we will post those changes at this site so you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Please be sure to review this policy periodically so that you are apprised of any changes. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us at: webmaster@quincymc.org
Security of your Information
QMC takes reasonable precautions to protect personal information in its possession from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
To reduce the risk of any unauthorized viewing of your personally identifiable information, the amount and type of information we transmit to your browser when you are at our web site and using our applications is limited. QMC utilizes Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encrypted transmission technology to transmit data while users are logged in and viewing the site.
Personally Identifiable Information
What is personally identifiable information? Personally identifiable information is any collection of data elements that alone or in combination could be used by or on behalf of QMC to identify an individual. Examples of such data elements include, but are not limited to, your name, postal address, e-mail address, personal ID number, telephone number, or your individually identifiable health information.
What is non-personally identifiable information? Any information that, by itself, cannot be directly associated with you. This may include gender, age, ZIP code, anonymous voting or selection of a choice within a survey or poll, IP addresses (when they are unassociated with any personal information), and the data stored in our cookie files.
Cookies
QMC writes a "cookie" to the hard drive of your computer. Cookies are small computer files that we transfer to your computer's hard drive that allow us to keep track of your individual visit, registration information, and preferences on QMC. No other Web site has access to the QMC cookie on your computer through your browser. If a user refuses to accept a cookie, or has cookies disabled, then the user will not be able to login to QMC.
If you are using Internet Explorer, you should also make sure you install the latest security measures recently released by Microsoft to enhance the security of cookies in this browser.
Provision of Personal Information
The only information that QMC will collect from users of this website is from those who provide an email address, name, and mailing address in order to receive printed brochures.
Should the type of data collected by QMC change, QMC will promptly post this change within this Privacy Policy.
Adherence to Industry Standards
QMC complies with select industry standards for protecting Internet users' privacy. QMC internally reviews our compliance with these standards on a periodic basis.
QMC Staff Training and Discipline
To ensure that all QMC privacy mandates are met, all QMC employees are versed in the importance of privacy in all aspects of their work.
Security Technology
QMC utilizes leading-edge technology to protect our website users. We continually test and update these technical safeguards to ensure maximum protection.
Links
The QMC Web Site includes links to other websites (the "Linked Sites"). QMC, in providing access to these Linked Sites, is by no means endorsing the products or services on these Linked Sites. QMC may provide aggregate information regarding users to the operators of such Linked Sites. QMC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the Linked Sites, and hereby expressly disclaims all responsibility and liability which may arise therefrom.
Privacy of Children
QMC does not collect, maintain, store, use, or disclose personal information about children under the age of 18 and will not do so without first providing parental notification, obtaining verifiable parental consent, and otherwise complying with applicable law.
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