LaPeerHealth.org Website Privacy StatementThe success of the La Peer Surgery Center and LaPeer Health Systems* in achieving its mission is critically dependent on maintaining the trust of our patients and all those with whom we interact. This trust is achieved by honoring our commitment to respect you and your privacy. LaPeer Surgery Center has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: www.LaPeerHealth.org. Our commitment to youLaPeer Surgery Center is committed to protecting your personal privacy. We do not disclose your personal information or identify you to unaffiliated third parties. SecurityThis web site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Firewalls have been implemented to prevent the unauthorized access to our systems. This firewall controls traffic between the Internet and our internal network which protects you and your information stored within our systems from outsiders. Our systems are monitored for suspicious activity to prevent any holes and infiltration in security. Any data provided by you is behind the firewall. We collect and use information in the following way: You are not required to submit any personal information to use the unsecured areas of the www.LaPeerHealth.org web site. Our site uses web-based forms that allow customers to communicate and conduct business with us. Examples include request for appointment, request for information and services. Data collected will vary based on the business need. Information such as email address, mailing address, account or credit card information is collected when needed to respond to a specific user inquiry, e.g., to mail requested health materials. Your e-mail address is used to contact you when needed in the normal course of business, such as an appointment reminder. Individual data is collected and used to assist us in providing healthcare service to you and to help us design and improve our products and services. LaPeer Surgery Center uses a registration/login process for access to secured, private areas of our web site. Individual access to this information is password protected. You are the only one who has access to your password. You can change your password at anytime. You should always log out and close your browser when you’re done with your session to ensure that others cannot access your personal information. We gather technical information such as your personal computer's IP (Internet Protocol) address or browser type to help diagnose problems with our server, derive site usage statistics like Google analytics, and to administer our web site. You will not be personally identified. Traffic between LaPeer Surgery Center and the Internet will at times be recorded for analysis (technical and physical). LaPeer Surgery Center's Notice of Privacy Practices would apply to this recorded information. LaPeer Surgery Center utilizes cookies in conjunction with certain applications, for example with our web security application to allow you to easily move through secured pages once you have logged on. At times we may use cookies to know that you have accessed an online course or to administer certain surveys, for example, to allow a user to reply to a survey only once. Links & Other VendorsThis site contains links to other sites. LaPeer Surgery Center is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. You should read and understand the privacy statement of any web site you access. LaPeer Surgery Center contracts with other vendors to provide services and information to our web site users. We may disclose information to such affiliated third parties that perform services for us in the processing of this site or servicing of your transaction. These vendors are contractually obligated to keep your information secure and private. System Privacy Officer * Throughout this document, the acronym "LAPEER SURGERY CENTER" or the terms www.LaPeerHealth.org, “www.LaPeerHealth.com "LaPeer Surgery Center" or "LaPeer Surgery Center Health Systems" or "LaPeer Health Systems" shall refer to the entire Health Care System comprised of the LaPeer Surgery Center (the "") as parent and all subsidiary corporate entities comprising of our Health Care System and surgery center. |
