Web-related privacy policies
Collection of data for routine transactions
Children's
Memorial Hospital is committed to protecting your online privacy. In general,
you can visit our site without revealing any personal information. However, in
some cases, for example, if you purchase items from our STORE or if you enroll
for classes, you may be required to provide personal information as needed to
complete the business transaction. Be assured that, except when legally
compelled to do so, we will never disclose, sell, or release to outside parties
any information collected in this way from Website users. ( More on STORE-specific security here .)
IP addresses
We collect and log the IP
address of all visitors to www.childrensmemorial.org, for the purpose of
administering our system and gathering aggregate information about how our site
is being used, including the pages visitors are viewing. We do not associate IP
addresses with records containing personal information. We will use IP address
information, however, to personally identify you in order to enforce our legal
rights or when required to do so by law enforcement authorities.
How we use "cookies"
"Cookies" are small pieces of
information that many Web sites store on your computer's hard drive when you
visit them. As do many other sites, www.childrensmemorial.org uses cookies to
provide us with information relating to the sources of our site traffic and to
make personalization possible. Collecting this information does not allow us to
personally identify you.
E-mail communication
Visitors to our site must be aware
that any messages sent to us via normal e-mail (not encrypted) are subject to
interception by another Internet user while in transit to us. Furthermore, it is
not the policy of Children's Memorial Hospital to accept protected health
information via e-mail. In fact, routine e-mails should never be sent that
contain private or confidential information of any kind that, if intercepted,
could be damaging to the sender.