Privacy Policy
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Notice of Privacy Practices
Summa Health System’s Notice of Privacy Practices specifies how
medical information about our patients (patient’s protected health information
or PHI
) may be used and disclosed by Summa Health System to carry out
treatment, payment or healthcare operations and for other purposes that are
permitted or required by law. Our
Notice of Privacy Practices is available here.
Website Privacy Policy
Summa Health System is committed to protecting the privacy and
security of visitors to our website. This statement explains how we handle
information we learn from your visit to our website. THIS PRIVACY POLICY ONLY
APPLIES TO INFORMATION WE COLLECT ON OUR WEBSITE.
You can access and browse our website without providing any
personal information. We do not collect information that would personally
identify you unless you choose to provide it.
Eligibility to Use Our
Website
Our website is not intended
for users under thirteen (13) years of age. By visiting, accessing or using our
website, you represent and warrant that you are at least thirteen (13) years of
age. You agree to comply with all applicable laws when using our website, and
you may only use our website for lawful purposes.
As a condition of visiting,
accessing or using our website, you acknowledge your understanding and agree
that such visit, access or use is done at your own risk. Furthermore, by
visiting, accessing or using our website, you acknowledge your understanding and
agree that your visit, access or use of this website does not create a
healthcare provider-patient relationship or any duty on the part of Summa
Health System. Summa Health System does not make any representations or
warranties of any kind or nature to you with respect to our website or its
success or performance, or with respect to any information, communications,
content, features, products or services offered, sold and/or licensed on or
through our website.
Information You
Provide
Our website contains forms for you to request information or
supply feedback to us. In some cases, telephone numbers, email addresses or
return addresses are required so that we can supply requested information. In
other cases, correct names and addresses are required to process credit card
payments.
After you fill out a form, we may contact you with follow-up
information and questions. We do not provide any information supplied on our
web forms to any outside organization (other than where we may be required to
by law, or as necessary to process a transaction). If your email address has
been subscribed to any newsletters or marketing communications from us, you
always have the option to unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe
link at the
bottom of any such emails you receive. Please note, however, that in general
any clinical communication you receive from us is a direct response to your
inquiry and cannot be opted out, except as may be accommodated under our Notice
of Privacy Practices.
Occasionally, we
survey visitors to our site to help us understand the needs of our visitors, so
that we can improve our site. We generally do not ask for information that
would personally identify you. If we do request contact information for
follow-up, you may decline to provide it.
"Phishing" is a
scam designed to steal your personal information. If you receive an email that
looks like it is from Summa Health System asking you for your personal
information, do not respond. We will never request your password, username,
credit card information or other personal information through email.
In the event you access any
service requiring a username and password, you are solely responsible for
keeping such username and password strictly confidential.
Non-personal Information
The Web server automatically collects the IP (which stands for
Internet Protocol) address of the computers that access our site. An IP address
is a number that is assigned to your computer when you access the Internet. It
is not truly personally identifiable information. However, we use this
information in aggregate form to understand how our site is being used and how
we can better serve visitors.
Please note that although such information is not personally
identifiable, we can determine from an IP address a visitor's Internet Service
Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.
We collect information about visitors to our site using a
variety of tools, including but not limited to the following:
- Cookies: Cookies are
alphanumeric identifiers that are stored on your computer or device
through your web browser. Cookies are never associated with specific
personal identities. You can delete our cookies at any time. The
"help" section, located on the toolbar of most browsers, will
tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to
have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or how to
disable cookies altogether. Since cookies allow you to take full advantage
of some of our website's best features, we recommend that you leave them
turned on.
- Web Beacons: Web beacons
are pieces of code embedded in a website or email to monitor your activity
on the website or your opening of the email, and which can pass along
information such as the IP address of the computer or device you use to
view the website or open the e-mail, the URL page on which the web beacon
is located, the type of web browser that was used to access the website
and previously set cookie values. Web beacons are sometimes used to
collect advertising data, such as counting page views, promotion views or
advertising responses. Disabling your computer’s, device’s or web
browser’s web beacons may prevent some web beacons from tracking or
recording certain information about your activities, but if you disable
all such web beacons, then certain areas of our website might not function
properly.
- Scripts: Scripts are
pieces of code embedded in a website to define how the website behaves in
response to certain key or click requests sent by the user. Scripts are
sometimes used to collect information about the user’s interactions with
the website, such as the links the user clicks on. Scripts are often
temporarily downloaded to the user’s computer or device from the website
server, active only while the user is connected to the Site and
deactivated or deleted when the user disconnects from the website. Please
be advised that if you disable any scripts through your web browser or
other means, then certain areas of our website might not function
properly.
We may also employ tools provided by Google Analytics to analyze
the audience of our website and to improve our content. In general, this means
that third-party vendors, including Google, may show Summa Health System ads on
sites across the Internet based on visits to our website. To implement these
tools, Summa Health System and third-party vendors, including Google, use
first-party cookies and third-party cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads
based on past visits to our website. The Google Analytics Privacy Policy is
available at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Opting-out
Opt-out of receiving further information. If you change your
mind about receiving information that you requested through this website you
may contact us and ask to opt out of future contact. Go to www.SummaHealth.org/GeneralInformationForm to
inform us of your decision to opt out of future contact.
Other services provided by Summa Health System on this Website
may require you to agree to additional terms.
Security of Your Information
The use of this
website may require the entry of personal information, such as name, email,
address, telephone and fax numbers, and other personal or demographic data. The
entry of all personal information is voluntary. Summa Health System does not
sell, trade or rent personal information about its website visitors.
We employ commercially reasonable measures to safeguard the collection,
transmission and storage of the information we collect. These measures vary
based on the sensitivity of the information that we collect, process and store
and the current state of technology. All information is collected and sent
using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, which offers a high level of data
protection.
We use software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts
to upload or change information or other types of malicious use. While your
security and confidentiality are respected at all times, information collected
from these sources may be used to help identify an individual in the event of a
criminal investigation or as required by any legal process.
Beyond taking reasonable care to safeguard your information, Summa Health
System does not guarantee the absolute security of electronic communications or
transmissions since any transmission made over the Internet by any organization
or any individual runs the risk on interception. Your visit, access or use of
our website is done at your own risk. Summa Health System does not make any
representations or warranties of any kind or nature to you with respect to our
website or its success or performance, or with respect to any information,
communications, content, features, products or services offered, sold and/or
licensed on or through our website.
Links to Other Sites
This privacy policy only applies to
information collected by this website. We encourage our
users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements
of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. We
do not review, control or take responsibility for the content or practices of
any third-party websites, including social media websites, platforms, apps and
profiles (together, Third-Party Websites
), and we do not endorse any
Third-Party Website’s service, information or products.
We maintain accounts on Third-Party Websites so that we may be
more fully engaged with the public. If you have an account or profile with a
Third-Party Website and choose to follow, like, friend, comment or otherwise
engage with Summa Health System on the Third-Party Website, certain personal
information associated with your account may be made available to us based on
the privacy policies of the Third-Party Website and your privacy settings on
that Third-Party Website. We do not disclose personally identifiable
information that we collect with or through any Third-Party Website, unless
required by law. The privacy policies of Third-Party Websites commonly used by
Summa Health System include, but are not limited to, the following:
BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU ACCEPT THESE
TERMS.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or our use of
information gathered through our Web site, please contact our Webmaster
at www.SummaHealth.org/GeneralInformationForm.
Last updated: 9/22/2021
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