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Welcome to Private Health News. Your privacy is
important to St. Vincent Health System and
Private Health News, Inc. ("PHN"). PHN
is under contract with St. Vincent Health System
to provide to you the health information you requested
("Content"). That information is provided
to you through PHN's website even though it is
framed with St. Vincent Health System logo.
This Privacy Policy will tell you what information
we collect about you and about your use of our
Website.
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1.Information Collection and
Use
Information Collection. In order
to make your experience on our Website and through
the e-mails sent to you on the Content as valuable
as possible, you must register. During registration
you will be requested to provide certain required
and optional contact information, demographic
information and unique identifiers. We use this
information so that the Content that we send to
you via e-mails or make available to you through
our Website is only the information that you have
requested. We also collect non-personal information
from you about your use of our Website, emails
and special promotions that we send to you. Other
than the information you provide at sign up, which
you may update it from time to time, PHN receives
no information about you from St. Vincent Health System.
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Information Use. The following
are other ways that we use information about you
that we have collected. Except as specifically
mentioned in this Privacy Policy, we will not
provide you name, address, e-mail address or other
personally identifiable information to any third
party, other than St. Vincent Health System,
without your prior consent.
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Aggregate
Data. We create aggregate data about visitors
to our Website to assist us in developing and improving
our Website and the e-mails that are sent to you.
We also use aggregate data for market analysis.
We may provide information from our Website in aggregate
form, with personal identifying information removed,
to third parties. For example, we may tell a healthcare
partner what percentage of our users reside in a
particular geographical area or we may provide information
to a potential advertiser of a product that would
appeal to a diabetes patient about what percentage
of our users have indicated that they are interested
in receiving information about diabetes. Depending
on our agreement with the third parties, we may
or may not charge our partners for this information.
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Marketing and Advertising.
We may target our advertising or marketing depending
on information we have about you. For example, a
user we know is a woman may receive advertising
for products targeted at women that a male user
will not see, or a user that we know is interested
in the topic of diabetes may receive advertising
for new diabetes therapies (although in neither
case will the advertiser have access to any individually
identifiable information about you through us).
Information about users' visits to our Website,
such as number of times they have viewed an ad (but
not user name, address or other personal information),
may be provided to advertisers who serve ads to
users on our Website.
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Third Parties. In addition
to sharing aggregate data (discussed previously),
we may share some kinds of information with third
parties as described below.
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- St. Vincent Health System: Under
our agreement with St. Vincent Health System,
both St. Vincent Health System and PHN have
access to and ownership rights for all user
information on our Website that is either branded
or co-branded with St. Vincent Health System.
Additionally, St. Vincent Health System is
provided information about aggregate usage of
the Site. Users cannot opt-out of having their
information provided to St. Vincent Health System. St. Vincent Health System has agreed
to honor the applicable terms of this privacy
statement with regard to all information collected
through our Website; however, this privacy statement
does not cover information that you have directly
provided St. Vincent Health System or that
St. Vincent Health System has been provided
by any third party.
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- Promotional/Special Offers: Sometimes
we may communicate offers to selected groups
of users on behalf of other businesses. When
we do this, we do not give that business your
name and contact information. In other situations,
we may provide you an opt-in box to consent
to receiving an email from a business, and we
make clear that by opting in you consent to
submitting your data to that third party. You
can always opt-out of receiving such emails
at the time you register or at any time; see
Choices/Opt-out below for more details about
opting-out.
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- Business Transfers : If we
transfer a business unit (such as a subsidiary)
or an asset (such as our Website) to another
entity, we will transfer all or part of the
information we hold to them but will require
them to agree to honor the applicable terms
of this privacy policy.
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- Legal Requirements : We
may release personal information, if, in our
judgment after review by an attorney, the release
is compelled by law or regulation, or if the
release is necessary to prevent the death or
serious injury of an individual.
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- Subsidiaries : PHN may disclose
personal information to its corporate subsidiaries
and sister corporations. Any personal information
provided to subsidiaries or sister companies
of PHN will be treated by those subsidiaries
in accordance with the terms of this privacy
statement.
Other than the cases described above, we will
not release personally identifiable information
about you to a third party without your consent.
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2. Profile
We store information that we collect through log
files and/or third parties to create a profile of
our users. A profile is stored information that
we keep on individual users that details their viewing
preferences. Consequently, collected information
is tied to the user's personally identifiable information
to provide offers and improve the content of our
Website for users. This profile is used to tailor
a user's visit to our Website, and to direct pertinent
marketing promotions to the user.
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3. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's
computer tied to information about the user. We
use cookies on this Website to recognize you for
simplified log in, to ease your navigating the
Website and to chronicle utilization of our Website.
If users reject our cookies, they may still use
our Website. These persistent cookies can be removed
by following Internet browser help directions.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies
by this Website. Please be aware that PHN and
St. Vincent Health System are not responsible
for the use of cookies by any advertisers or other
third parties who are linked to this Website.
We encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our Website and to read the privacy statements
of each and every website that that they visit
from our Website.
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4. Communications from our Website
Confirmation. We send all new users a
welcoming email to verify passwords and usernames
as well as to confirm the information that the
user has chosen to receive.
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Website
and Service Announcements. We communicate
with our users for Website and service announcement
updates. We may send you an announcement of the
introduction of a new service through our Website
that may be of interest to you. On rare occasions
it also may be necessary to send out a strictly
service related announcement. For instance, if
our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance
we might send users an email. Generally, users
may not opt-out of these communications, though
they can deactivate their account. However, these
communications are not promotional in nature.
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Customer
Service. We communicate with users on
a regular basis to provide the requested Content
and in regards to issues relating to their account
we reply via email or phone, in accordance with
the users wishes.
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5.Choice/Opt Out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out'
of having their information used for purposes
not directly related to our Website at the point
where we ask for information.
Users who no longer wish to receive the additional
information and special offers may opt-out of
receiving these communications by emailing us
at optout@privatehealthnews.com.
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6.Links
Our Website contains links to other websites.
Please be aware that PHN and St. Vincent Health System are not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other websites. We encourage our users
to be aware when they leave our Website and to
read the privacy statements of each and every
website that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely
to information collected by PHN's Website.
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7. Security
Protecting your privacy and personal information
is a top priority. We have taken careful measures
to secure both your information and the physical
location of our servers. All of our users' information
is restricted in our offices. Only our associates
who need the information to perform a specific
job are granted access to personally identifiable
information. Furthermore, all associates are kept
up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.
Every quarter, as well as any time new policies
are added, our associates are notified and/or
reminded about the importance we place on privacy,
and what they can do to ensure our users' information
is protected.
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8. Correcting/Updating/Deactivating Personal
Information
If a user's personally identifiable information
changes or if a user no longer desires to receive
the Content, we provide a way to correct, update
or deactivate a user's personally identifiable information.
This can usually be done at the member information
page or by emailing our Customer Support at support@privatehealthnews.com.
By indicting that you no longer want to receive
the Content, you will continue to receive additional
information and special offers. If a user also no
longer wish to receive the additional information
and special offers, see Choices/Opt-out above for
more details about opting-out.
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9. Notification of Changes to Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes to this privacy statement, the
homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so
our users are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. We will use information
in accordance with the privacy policy under which
the information was collected.
If, however, we are going to use users' personally
identifiable information in a manner different
from that stated at the time of collection we
will notify users via email. Users will have a
choice as to whether or not we use their information
in this different manner. However, if users have
opted out of all communication with our Website,
then they will not be contacted, nor will their
personal information be used in this new manner.
In addition, if we make any material changes in
our privacy practices that do not affect user
information already stored in our database, we
will post a prominent notice on our Website notifying
users of the change. In some cases where we post
a notice we will also email users, who have opted
to receive communications from us, notifying them
of the changes in our privacy practices.
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Contact Information
If users have any questions or suggestions
regarding our privacy policy, please contact us
at:
Phone: (513) 731-6700
Toll Free: (800) 399-0109
Fax: (513) 731-6705
Email: support@privatehealthnews.com
Postal Address:
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1776 Mentor Avenue Suite 210 |
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Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. 45212 |
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