Griffin Hospital Medical Education is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology
that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy
applies to the Griffin Hospital Medical Education site and governs data collection and usage.
By using the Griffin Hospital Medical Education site, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Griffin Hospital Medical Education collects personally identifiable information, such as your email
address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Griffin Hospital Medical Education also
collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as
your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by Griffin Hospital Medical Education. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This
information is used by Griffin Hospital Medical Education for the operation of the service, to
maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the Griffin Hospital Medical Education site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Griffin Hospital Medical Education public message boards,
this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Griffin Hospital Medical Education
does not read any of your private online communications.
Griffin Hospital Medical Education encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Griffin Hospital Medical Education so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information. Griffin Hospital Medical Education is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Griffin Hospital Medical Education
and Griffin Hospital Medical Education family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Griffin Hospital Medical Education collects and uses your personal information to operate the Griffin Hospital Medical Education
Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Griffin Hospital Medical Education also uses
your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services
available from Griffin Hospital Medical Education and its affiliates. Griffin Hospital Medical Education may also
contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services
or of potential new services that may be offered.
Griffin Hospital Medical Education does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Griffin Hospital Medical Education may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business
partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases,
your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone
number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Griffin Hospital Medical Education
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send
you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to
provide these services to Griffin Hospital Medical Education, and they are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information.
Griffin Hospital Medical Education does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such
as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Griffin Hospital Medical Education keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within
Griffin Hospital Medical Education, in order to determine what Griffin Hospital Medical Education services are
the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising
within Griffin Hospital Medical Education to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Griffin Hospital Medical Education Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice,
only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on Griffin Hospital Medical Education or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Griffin Hospital Medical Education; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect
the personal safety of users of Griffin Hospital Medical Education, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Griffin Hospital Medical Education Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online
experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page
server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save
you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Griffin Hospital Medical Education pages, or
register with Griffin Hospital Medical Education site or services, a cookie helps Griffin Hospital Medical Education
to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process
of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses,
and so on. When you return to the same Griffin Hospital Medical Education Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Griffin Hospital Medical Education
features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the Griffin Hospital Medical Education services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Griffin Hospital Medical Education secures your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. Griffin Hospital Medical Education secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use
of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Griffin Hospital Medical Education will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Griffin Hospital Medical Education encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Griffin Hospital Medical Education is protecting your
information.
Contact Information
Griffin Hospital Medical Education welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Griffin Hospital Medical Education has not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Griffin Hospital Medical Education at griffin@griffinhealth.org.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.