Privacy Policy
As a health care provider,
St. Edward Mercy Health Network is both experienced and strongly committed to
protecting the right of privacy for patients. We do not share any personally
identifiable information submitted through the forms or e-mail links on this
site with any entity outside St. Edward Mercy Health Network unless you authorize
us to do so or we are required to do so by law.
Anonymous Access
You can access our Web site home page and browse our site without disclosing
your personal data.
The
services and links of our Web site
Our Web site may enable you to communicate with other visitors or to post
information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect
your data.
Log Files/Cookies
We collect and log the IP address of each visitor to gather aggregate data
on visitors to our site and how our site is being used. We do not associate
IP addresses with any personally identifiable information.
Cookies may be sent
to your computer to collect general information about how our site is viewed.
We do not use cookies to store personal data, nor do we link non-personal information
stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals.
Data Collection and
Purpose Specification
We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services.
This information will be used to fulfill user requests for information.We do
not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public
records or bodies, or private organizations.
E-mail Communication
and Newsletters
This web site provides you with the opportunity to send and receive communication
from St. Edward Mercy Health Network. We give you the option of using a secure
transmission method to send us the following types of personal data via the
forms on our site:
- primary personal data (such as
name and contact details)
- specific personal data (such as
medical data)
If you decide
you would like to stop receiving communications from this web site, you may
send an e-mail to the Internet Developer
or send mail to the following postal address:
St.
Edward Mercy Health Network
7301 Rogers Avenue
Fort Smith, AR 72901
Attn: Public Relations/Web Services
Confidentiality/Security
We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect
the personal data that we have under our control from:
- unauthorized access
- improper use or disclosure
- unauthorized modification
- unlawful destruction or accidental
loss
All our employees and
data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing
of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors'
personal data.
Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites that we believe may be valuable
to our users. St. Edward Mercy Health Network is not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of other web sites. Users should read the privacy policies
of each site they visit to determine what information is collected.
A
Special Note for Parents:
St. Edward Mercy's believes that parents should supervise
their children's online activities and consider using parental control tools
available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide
a kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from
disclosing online their name, address, and other personal information without
parental permission. For additional information about parental control tools,
please consult the "Consumer Assistance" page of the Direct Marketing
Association home page (http://www.the-dma.org).
Questions
If you have any questions about our privacy statement, please send them
to the Internet Developer.
