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Welcome to Private Health News. Your privacy is important
to Good Samaritan Health Systems and Private Health News, Inc. ("PHN").
PHN is under contract with Good Samaritan Health Systems 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 Good Samaritan Health Systems 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 Good Samaritan Health Systems.
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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 Good Samaritan Health Systems, 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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- Good Samaritan Health Systems: Under our agreement with
Good Samaritan Health Systems, both Good Samaritan Health Systems and PHN have access to and ownership
rights for all user information on our Website that is
either branded or co-branded with Good Samaritan Health Systems. Additionally,
Good Samaritan Health Systems is provided information about aggregate usage
of the Site. Users cannot opt-out of having their information
provided to Good Samaritan Health Systems. Good Samaritan Health Systems 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 Good Samaritan Health Systems or that Good Samaritan Health Systems
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 Good Samaritan Health Systems 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 Good Samaritan Health Systems
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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