Notice of Privacy

St. Francis uses the statistical information gathered about you and all its users for internal statistical purposes only (e.g., to track where users go on the website). This information is not linked to specifically identifiable individuals. This type of information will be used to aid St. Francis in adding information to its website that will be useful for site users and that will improve the performance of our website.

Any personally identifiable information which you voluntarily and knowingly submit to St. Francis will be used, with your permission, to send you health information and health updates, both general information and information focused on specific health matters, such as high blood pressure. Your personally identifiable information may also be used to send you timely appointment reminders for specific health-related tests, such as Pap smears. Submission by you of any personally identifiable health information is completely voluntary.

St. Francis is the sole owner and user of all information collected on the website. St. Francis does not sell, give, or disclose the information (statistical or personal) gathered on the website to any third party.

A cookie is a small data file automatically and without notice written on your hard drive when you visit certain websites. A cookie allows the website to recognize you each time you visit the website and to personalize the website for you. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you voluntarily supply yourself on the website. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites. Cookies are often used on the Internet.

St. Francis does not use cookies on the public portion of its website. No cookies will be written to your hard drive when you visit this website. However, St. Francis does use cookies on the secure portion of its website, which can be accessed only by authorized St. Francis staff.

St. Francis takes reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information. When users submit personally identifiable information, it is protected both on-line and off-line.

All user electronic information is protected behind a firewall, and the data input on our website is also encrypted. St. Francis also protects user information off-line. Only employees who need the information to perform a task are granted access to personally identifiable information. St. Francis employees must use password-protected screensavers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, all employees are trained on St. Francis’s privacy and security practices. Finally, the servers we use to store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment behind locked doors, and only authorized individuals have access to the servers.

If, at any time, a correction needs to be made to existing personal information that you have voluntarily provided to the website, users may email the webmaster at Webmaster and request that the information be changed or deleted.

St. Francis will use the information collected from you in accordance with the privacy policy in effect when the information was collected. However, St. Francis may change its privacy policy, for example, in light of new technology or a change in applicable law. If St. Francis decides to change the type of information it collects, how we use it, or under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it, we will post these changes on our homepage so that our users will be aware of these changes. Users will have 30 days after we post the change within which to decide whether or not St. Francis may use their information in accordance with the new policy. If a user does not wish St. Francis to use his or her information in accordance with the new policy, the user may e-mail the St. Francis Webmaster and let us know. St. Francis will refrain from using the information in accordance with the new policy and will use the information only in accordance with the policy in effect at the time the information was collected. If you do not let us know within 30 days that you object to the new policy, you will be deemed to have consented and agreed to the new policy.

Our website contains links to third party websites. Once you leave our website, our privacy policy is no longer valid, and you will be subject to the privacy policies, if any, of the third-party website to which you have linked. We are not responsible for the privacy of your information once you leave our website.

Please see our Terms and Conditions of Use for other terms and conditions governing your access to and use of our website.