Privacy Policy

The Site provides this privacy policy because your right to privacy is highly valued. This policy governs the collection and use of personal information through this Site. In particular, this policy describes the types of information the Site collects from its users and how that information is used.

Please read this policy carefully before providing us with any personal information. By using this Site, you agree to The Site's use of your personal information in accordance with the here stated policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not use this Site.

Information collected from unregistered users

In this case, the information the Site collects from you is limited. The Site logs your IP address in order to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site and track usage statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same, depending on whether you access our Site through an always-on type of Internet connection. It is extremely difficult for The Site to specifically identify you through your IP address, and The Site makes no attempt to do so. If you reached The Site by clicking on a link or advertisement on another site, then The Site also logs that information. This helps The Site to maximize its Internet exposure, and to understand the interests of users. All of this information is collected and used only in the aggregate; that is, it is entered into our database, where The Site can use it to generate overall reports on visitors, but not reports about individual visitors.

The Site also places a small file known as a "cookie" on your computer's hard drive. A cookie may contain information that allows The Site to track your path through the Site and to determine whether you have visited The Site before. However, unless you register, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow identifying you. Cookies cannot be used to read data off of your hard drive, and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other Web sites. The Site uses cookies in this manner to help understand how visitors use the Site, and to help improve the Site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from The Site by following the procedures specific to your Web browser. Although you may do so, you may find that your browser doesn't properly react when visiting not only The Site, but other Web sites as well. Please note that since cookies don't provide The Site with any information from which you are identifiable, The Site.com suggests you allow placing one on your computer so you can fully enjoy the Site's features.

Information collected from registered users

If you choose to register with The Site, you will be able to add content to the Site. For example, you may post your own hospital review. If you register with The Site, The Site will collect personal information from you in addition to the non-personal information described above. That personal information may include the information you manually enter into our forms such as your name, email address, user name and password. The Site may store all or some of that information in a cookie file on your hard drive, so that the system will recognize you each time you visit The Site. In that way, The Site can save your preferences from visit to visit and present you with a customized Web site, without requiring you to log into our Site every time you visit.

How the personal information is used

The Site may use your personal information to periodically contact you with news or important information from The Site, with communications from other members, and/or to request your feedback on the Site. In addition to these periodic updates, The Site may email you additional materials, but only if you specifically request them. These might include opt-in newsletters and other materials that you proactively request from The Site. The Site may also use certain information that you provide in order to present you with advertising that you may find interesting. 

Disclosure of your personal information

The Site does not sell or rent any personal information to any third party. The Site may aggregate personal information from all users and provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, including advertisers, for marketing and promotional purposes. However, if The Site does so, that information will not be in a form that will allow any third party to identify you personally.

The Site may also share your personal information with third-parties specifically engaged by The Site to provide services to The Site (such as market research firms, marketing services providers and advertising agencies), in which case The Site will require those parties to agree to use any such personally-identifiable data solely for the purpose of providing the specified services to The Site. As you might expect, The Site must cooperate with legal authorities, and may in some circumstances be required to disclose personally identifiable information in response to requests from law enforcement authorities, or in response to legal proceedings. The Site does not expect this to happen, but if it does, The Site will provide only the information required. The Site can also turn over information about you if thought to do so in order to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting this policy, the User consents to The Site doing so, at The Site’s sole discretion. The User also consents to The Site disclosing personal information in the course of legal proceedings if the Site.com is legally required to do so. The Site.com also may share your information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, and in the unlikely event of insolvency.

Your profile and contributions on The Site will be publicly viewable and identifiable via your screen name. The Site encourages its members to create screen names that are not visibly connected to their first and last names. The Site will share neither your email address nor first and last names with other members, nor will these be displayed in any public manner, unless you expressly choose to have this done.

Steps taken by The Site to protect your personal information

 The Site has implemented security procedures to help protect the personal information stored in its systems. For example, accesses to personal information about you to employees who are believed reasonably need to come into contact with that information is limited. While The Site implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect against unauthorized or unlawful processing of personal information and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to personal information there is no way for The Site to guarantee the absolute security of your personal information.

 Changes to this Privacy Policy

The Site reserves the right to change this policy if it is considered advisable to do so. If material changes that will affect personal information are made by The Site, The Site will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity to amend or cancel your registration.