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Policy
Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) is committed to excellence
in patient care and the education of health professionals.
We believe that thoughtful stewardship, learning and
constant reflection on experience improve all we do
as we strive to provide the highest quality healthcare.
That quality of care is extended to our web sites and
the contents provided therein.
SSOM is very interested in the privacy and safety of
our patients and visitors to our web sites. This privacy
policy is designed to assist you in understanding how
we collect, use and safeguard personal information which
you may provide to us and to assist you in making informed
decisions when using our sites. This statement will
be continuously assessed against new technologies, business
practices and our patients' and visitors' needs.
This privacy policy does not apply to the Loyola University
Medical Education Network website (LUMEN). When visiting
LUMEN at www.lumen.luc.edu/lumen,
please review the posted policies as to the use of that
site.
We will post general notices of changes to this policy,
but individual notice of changes to web site visitors
will not be provided. Please check back periodically
and review this privacy policy to ensure that you still
agree with its terms. You will be bound by any subsequent
changes in the privacy policy, even if you do not become
aware of such changes.
1. What You Should Know About Information We
Send to You
Please remember that information provided by SSOM, in
the absence of a visit with a health-care professional,
must be considered as an educational service only. The
information sent through e-mail should not be relied
upon as a medical consultation. Information we send
you by e-mail is not designed to replace your physician's
independent judgment about the appropriateness or risks
of a procedure for a given patient. We will do our best
to provide you with information that will help you make
your own health-care decisions.
While we are very interested in providing relevant personal
health-care information to patients and/or their physicians,
we will not make such information available online until
we are confident that the information is secure.
2. How We May Use Personal Information You Choose
to Provide Us
SSOMdoes not obtain personal information about you when
you visit our site, unless you provide us that information
voluntarily. Our web sites contain forms through which
users may request information or supply feedback to
us. In some cases, telephone numbers or return addresses
may be required so that we can supply the requested
information to you. Please note that our forms are NOT
encrypted unless otherwise noted. Therefore, people
who are actively attempting to intercept web transmissions
may be able to read information you send to us. However,
we have installed a number of security measures to protect
the confidentiality of your personal information. We
have a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to our
systems. Once the information is sent to our sites,
it is kept on a separate database not available to users
on the Internet and protected to the fullest extent
reasonably possible.
We will not provide, sell or distribute any personal
information received from visitors on web forms or e-mail
to any outside organization. However, we may disclose
information when legally compelled to do so.
3. Why We Track Where You Go on Our Web Sites
In order to understand how our web site is being used,
we do typical web traffic analyses through which we
track which pages are visited and in what order, where
users come from and how long users spend on our sites.
We never associate such information with the specific
identities of users or other personally identifiable
information.
This information is used in the aggregate to help us
improve our sites and make it more useful to you. We
do disclose such aggregate information that does not
identify individuals to partners, advertisers and other
third parties.
4. What Are Cookies and How Do We Use Information
Collected from Them?
SSOM web sites utilize a standard technology called
"cookies" and web server logs to collect
information about how our web sites are used. A "cookie"
is a small line of text that is stored with your web
browser when you visit a cookie-enabled web site. The
text may contain an identification code or user preferences.
Your browser has options that allow you to control whether
the browser accepts cookies, rejects cookies or notifies
you each time a cookie is sent to you.
Should any SSOM page utilize cookies, you will see a
pop-up disclaimer box that will read: "This page makes
use of special programming designed to collect and monitor
your personal browsing habits. By clicking the following
box you acknowledge your acceptance of this information."
The box will also explain what information is being
collected and how it will be used. You may choose to
accept or decline cookies. If you choose to decline
cookies, you may still access the information contained
on this site.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical
statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace
the paths followed by visitors to our web sites as they
move from one page to another. Web server logs allow
us to count how many people visit our web sites and
evaluate our web site visitor capacity. We do not use
these technologies to capture your individual e-mail
address or any personally identifying information about
you.
5. The Use and Security of E-mail
The comments form, which is submitted to the Director
of Interactive Marketing Division, is intended for comments
relating to the SSOM web sites and their design and
functionality. The information submitted is reviewed
by the webmaster and by the SSOM web site steering committee.
The comments are used to determine areas of the SSOM
web sites that need improvement or correction, or to
determine new content that should be added. When submitting
an e-mail comment to the webmaster, users are asked
to provide their name, e-mail address and organization/institution.
This information is voluntary and is not required to
submit a comment.
If you ask us a question or would like a response to
a comment, the inclusion of an accurate, viable e-mail
address is necessary in order for us to respond. On
some forms, where you may be asked to provide your e-mail
address, we may tell you that we will add your name
to a health information and distribution list unless
you ask us not to do so. These forms will contain an
opt-out check box labeled "please do not sent me any
health information." We will occasionally send health
information or other notices regarding important changes
to our web sites and new services which we think valuable
to those people who do not opt-out. In addition to or
in place of checking the opt-out check box, you may
contact the SSOM webmaster at luhswebmaster@lumc.edu
and indicate your desire not to receive
any health information or other unsolicited e-mails
from SSOM.
Please be aware that normal e-mail is not encrypted.
Active snoopers may be able to read e-mail that we send
you or that you send us. If you ask us a question and
supply your e-mail address, you are authorizing us to
respond to you with an unencrypted e-mail message that
may contain private information about you or your question.
While we are responsible for the privacy of messages
that we store on the network, we cannot be responsible
for the privacy of those messages once we have transmitted
them to you or to your e-mail provider.
6. Children's Privacy
Naturally, the safety of children is very important
to us. While some sections of the SSOM web site are
designed for use by children under the age of 13, SSOM
does not request, seek or intentionally collect personal
information from children under the age of 13. Should
a child under the age of 13 wish to submit a comment
or send an e-mail to SSOM without expectation of a response,
that child should not fill in any information on the
comment form except the comment box. Children under
the age of 13 who submit such e-mails or comments should
not include their e-mail address, name or other personal
information. In the event that SSOM has actual knowledge
that it has received an e-mail from a child under the
age of 13 that contains personal information provided
solely so that SSOM may respond to the e-mail, such
information will be discarded 60 days after it is received.
In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act, SSOM will make reasonable efforts to obtain parental
consent via an original e-mail submission in advance
of any child under the age of 13 submitting a comment
that includes personal information before it will be
stored for more than 60
days.
Any personal information gathered from the children's
area of SSOM web sites (Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital
of Loyola University Medical Center, rmch.lumc.edu)
either before or after parental consent is obtained,
is not disclosed to any third-parties nor is that information
used to generate promotions or send unsolicited e-mails
to children.
Parents can review any personal information sent by
their child to SSOM, ask to have it deleted, or refuse
to allow any further collection or use of the child's
information by sending an e-mail requesting same to
the SSOM webmaster at luhswebmaster@lumc.edu.
7. Links to Other Web Sites
In order to provide visitors with greater value, SSOM
may provide links to various third-party web sites.
We are not responsible for the practices employed by
web sites linked to or from our web sites nor the information
or content contained therein.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from
SSOM web sites to another web site, our privacy policy
is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction
on any other web site, including web sites that have
a link on our web site, is subject to that web site's
own rules and policies. Please read over those rules
and policies before proceeding. These destination links
are provided only for your convenience, and as such,
you access them at your own risk.
8. Employee Access, Training and Expectations
All SSOM employees involved in web development or who
otherwise access the data collected on the web sites
have been fully educated about the SSOM privacy policy,
terms and conditions of use and disclaimer. In general,
our business practices limit employee access to confidential
information, and limit the use and disclosure of such
information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
All said employees must abide by our privacy policy,
and those who violate said policies are subject to disciplinary
action, up to and including termination.
9. Threaded Discussions/Web Board
SSOM provides specified users with the opportunity to
utilize threaded of discussion boards, also known as
Web Board. Please remember that information that you
voluntarily disclose in these areas becomes public information
that can be collected and used by others. If you post
personal information on the Web Board that is accessible
to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages
from other parties in return. As such, you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal information
on the Web Board. For further terms and conditions regarding
the use of the SSOM threaded discussion boards, please
see the Threaded Discussion Guidelines.
10. Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy,
the practices of the SSOM web sites, or your interaction
with the SSOM web sites, contact:
Manager, Web Development
Stritch School of Medicine
2160 South First Avenue
Building 120-420
Maywood, IL 60153
gklitz@lumc.edu
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