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Privacy
Statement for Eastern Maine Healthcare, its member organizations
Acadia Hospital, Acadia Healthcare, Affiliated Healthcare Systems,
Bangor Area Visiting Nurses, Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital
and Nursing Home, Eastern Maine Charities, Eastern Maine Medical
Center, Inland Hospital, Norumbega Medical, Rosscare, and The
Aroostook Medical Center, and strategic affiliates, Blue Hill
Memorial Hospital and Sebasticook Valley Hospital.
Eastern
Maine Healthcare, its member organizations, and strategic affiliates
have created this policy in order to implement our firm commitment
to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering
and dissemination practices for this website for the organizations:
Eastern Maine Healthcare; member organizations: Acadia Hospital,
Acadia Healthcare, Affiliated Healthcare Systems, Bangor Area
Visiting Nurses, Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital and Nursing
Home, Eastern Maine Charities, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Inland
Hospital, Norumbega Medical, Rosscare, and The Aroostook Medical
Center; and strategic affiliates: Blue Hill Memorial Hospital
and Sebasticook Valley Hospital.
It
is Eastern Maine Healthcare's policy to not disclose private information
received through the MyOnlineHealth website or any other of its
websites to outside unauthorized
parties.
IP
Address
We use your IP address
to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our
website. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information.
Contacting
Us
Our
site's contact form requires users to give us contact information
(like their name and email address), and demographic information
(like their zip code, age, or income level). The user's contact
information is used to contact the user when necessary and/or
forward information to the appropriate person and/or department
and/or organization.
Class
Registration
Our
site also offers on-line registration for educational classes.
The registration form requires users to give us contact information
(like their name and email address), unique identifiers (like
their social security number), financial information (like their
account or credit card numbers), and demographic information (like
their zip code, age, or income level). The user's contact information
is used to contact the user when necessary and to register them
for a class or classes.
- Users
may decide whether or not to receive future mailings; see
the choice/opt-out section below.
- Financial
information that is collected is used to bill the user for
products and services.
- Unique
identifiers (such as social security numbers) are collected
for registration and educational event enrollment.
- Demographic
and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this
data to help tailor the user's experience at our site, showing
them content that we think they might be interested in, and
displaying the content according to their preferences.
Additional
Links
This
site contains links to other sites. Eastern Maine Healthcare,
its members, and strategic affiliates are not responsible for
the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Online
Survey
Our
online surveys ask users for contact information (like their email
address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age,
or income level). The user's contact information is used to contact
the user when necessary.
- Users
may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out
section below.
- Demographic
and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this
data to help tailor our users experience at our site, showing
them content that we think they might be interested in, and
displaying the content according to their preferences.
Cookies
Eastern Maine Healthcare
web sites do not use cookies except in the following areas: We
have contracted with an independent contractor to conduct a web
site usability study of the EMH web site. The vendor (cPulse,)
does use cookies for the study. Eastern Maine Healthcare has put
the (cPulse) tracking system on the following pages: www.emh.org,
www.emmc.org, www.acdiahospital.org, www.emh.org/hr/, www.emh.org/services/,
and www.emh.org/hll/. No personal information is gathered in the
cookie.
Children's
Guidelines
Some
sections of MyOnlineHealth.com may be designed specifically for
use by children under the age of 16. Contact information such
as name and e-mail address, and demographic information such as
ZIP code or age may be requested in those sections. In such cases,
children will be notified that they should obtain permission from
their parents before providing such information.
Eastern
Maine Healthcare does not disclose personally identifiable information
about users under 16, whether or not an approval is obtained.
Information about users under the age of 16 may be shared with
third parties on an aggregate basis. Parents and those permitting
minors to use the MyOnlineHealth.com website should be aware that
any information voluntarily given by children in chat sessions,
e-mail exchanges, BBS's, forums, etc., may be viewable by all
Internet users and may be used by third parties without our permission
to generate unsolicited mail or other contact with children.
Security
This
site has security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control. MyOnlineHealth.com
employs strict security measures to safeguard online transactions.
All personal information is sent encrypted, using high-level encryption
software.
Choice/Opt-Out
This
site gives users the following options to remove their information
from our database, not to receive future communications, and no
longer to receive our service.
EMH
MyOnlineHealth Privacy
PO Box 404
Bangor, Maine 04402-0404
Contacting
the Web Site
If
you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact:
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