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A Word from
Mike Winthrop
President/CEO |
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Collecting and Using
Personal Information |
Welcome to The Bellevue
Hospital website. We appreciate your interest in us.
When you visit and navigate our site and when you
communicate with us via our site, we will not
collect personal information about you unless you
provide us that information voluntarily. Any
non-public personal information that you may provide
via our site will be used solely for the purpose
stated on the page where it is collected. The
Bellevue Hospital will not sell, license, transmit
or disclose this information outside of The Bellevue
Hospital and its affiliated companies unless (a)
expressly authorized by you. In all cases, we will
disclose the information consistent with applicable
laws and regulations and we will require the
recipient to protect the information and use it only
for the purpose it was provided.
Your E-Mail
We welcome your comments or questions about our
website and have provided e-mail boxes for that
purpose. We will share your comments and questions
with our customer service representatives and those
employees most capable of addressing your questions
and concerns.
Please note that your e-mail, like most, if not all,
non-encrypted Internet e-mail communications, may be
accessed and viewed by other Internet users, without
your knowledge and permission, while in transit to
us. For that reason, to protect your privacy, please
do not use e-mail to communicate information to us
that you consider confidential. If you wish, you may
contact us instead via non-cellular telephone at the
numbers provided at various locations on our site.
Other Information; "Cookies" and "Tags"
You should also be aware that when you visit our
website, we collect certain information that does
not identify you personally, but provides us with
"usage data," such as the number of visitors we
receive or what pages are visited most often. This
data helps us to analyze and improve the usefulness
of the information we provide at these websites.
Like most commercial website owners, we may use what
is known as "cookie" technology. A "cookie" is an
element of data that a website can send to your
browser when you link to that website. It is not a
computer program and has no ability to read data
residing on your computer or instruct it to perform
any step or function. By assigning a unique data
element to each visitor, the website is able to
recognize repeat users, track usage patterns and
better serve you when you return to that site. The
cookie does not extract other personal information
about you, such as your name or address.
We may also use what is known as "client-side page
tagging", which uses code on each page to write
certain information about the page and the visitor
to a log when a page is rendered by your web
browser. This technique is also commonly used on
commercial websites. "Tagging" does result in a
JavaScript program running on your computer, but it
is limited to providing information about the page
that you are requesting and the configuration of
your browser. It will not read any of your data
files, or execute any additional programs. It does
not extract any personal information about you, such
as your name or address. You can prevent tagging by
disabling JavaScript in your browser, but that may
prevent you from using all of our website's
functions.
Linking to Other Sites
From time to time, The Bellevue Hospital website may
provide links to other websites, not owned or
controlled by The Bellevue Hospital, that we think
might be useful or of interest to you. We cannot,
however, be responsible for the privacy practices
used by other website owners or the content or
accuracy of those other websites. Links to various
non-Bellevue Hospital websites do not constitute or
imply endorsement by The Bellevue Hospital of these
websites, any products or services described on
these sites, or of any other material contained in
them.
Changes to This Statement
The Bellevue Hospital may change this Statement from
time to time; when updates are made. We encourage
you to periodically reread this Policy to see if
there have been any changes that may affect you.
This Statement is not intended to and does not
create any contractual or other legal rights in or
on behalf of any party.
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