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Privacy Statement
This www.mercyhealthpartners.com Privacy Statement describes the information gathering
and dissemination practices for the www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site. Please read this
Statement carefully. This Statement may change from time to time without notice,
so please check back regularly.
Personal Information Collected by the www.mercyhealthpartners.com website
The www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site does not collect or disclose information that
identifies or that can be used to identify you personally.
The following is information about specific areas where we may ask you for
personal information:
Health Risk Assessment Surveys
and Calculators
In order to utilize services such as our health risk assessment surveys and
health calculators, you must enter information about your health. This
information is stored in a database, which is separate from our main site
registration and cannot be used to personally identify you.
E-mail and Other Services
When you register for our e-mail services, you will need to provide us with your
name and e-mail address. Other services, like registering for a class, require
additional information including an address and phone number. All personal
information collected will follow the guidelines of the Notice of Privacy
Practices.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files written by our Internet server to your hard drive.
These cookies help remind us who you are each time you log onto the
www.mercyhealthpartners.com website.
What We Do With Your Personal
Information
The www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site will collect non-personal information for
aggregate study so that we may assess the effectiveness of particular sections,
pages and features of our web site.
We may use data obtained from
cookies to tailor your experience at the www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site, showing you
content and advertising that we think you might be interested in.
The www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site allows
you to submit an online resume in response to job openings at specific Mercy
Health Partners of Northeast Pennsylvania organizations that are posted on this web
site. By using this feature to submit your resume, you are automatically
consenting to the reproduction, distribution, sharing and transmittal of your
resume to the extent necessary to facilitate the normal hiring practices of the
Mercy Health Partners of Northeast Pennsylvania organization to which you have applied.
We may share this information with any search firms we retain to help us fill
positions.
Disclosure of Personally
Identifiable Information
Ehealthconnection or any of it’s subsidiaries will not disclose information
that identifies or can be used to identify you personally (name, address, names
of relatives, birth date, telephone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses,
social security numbers, medical record numbers, healthplan beneficiary
numbers), to any third party, without your consent, except when required to do
so by law, such as to law enforcement, in emergencies, to coroners or medical
examiners, to judicial or administrative proceedings, for required health
oversight activities, or for public health activities. Patient authorization is
not required for treatment, payment, or healthcare operations.
Mailing List
The www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site offers a variety of features delivered by
e-mail. Only CHP has access to these e-mail lists; they are not shared with
anyone else. You can remove your name from any lists you have registered for by
using the opt-out process.
Links to Other Websites
The www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site contains links to other web sites. We are not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.
Contests
We run contests on the www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site in which we ask visitors for
contact information (like their email address, demographic information, zip
code, age). Users can choose to
receive follow-up contacts from these surveys. At any time, users may opt-out of
receiving future mailings.
Contacting
this Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of the www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site, or your dealings with the
www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site, you can email us at: askmercy@mhs-nepa.com.
In order to use the www.mercyhealthpartners.com web site’s “Contact Us” e-mail
form to request additional information, you will need to provide us with your
name and e-mail address. We will retain your information for a brief period of
time so that we may adequately respond to your request for more information.
Your name and e-mail address will not be provided to any third parties. We also
track the number of requests we have received for particular kinds of
information via the Contact Us feature, which guides us in determining
additional information we may want to make directly available on our web site in
the future.
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