Acute Care Common Stem is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology
that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy
applies to the Acute Care Common Stem site and governs data collection and usage.
By using the Acute Care Common Stem site, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Acute Care Common Stem collects personally identifiable information, such as your email
address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Acute Care Common Stem also
collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as
your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by Acute Care Common Stem. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This
information is used by Acute Care Common Stem for the operation of the service, to
maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the Acute Care Common Stem site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Acute Care Common Stem public message boards,
this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Acute Care Common Stem
does not read any of your private online communications.
Acute Care Common Stem encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Acute Care Common Stem so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information. Acute Care Common Stem is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Acute Care Common Stem
and Acute Care Common Stem family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Acute Care Common Stem collects and uses your personal information to operate the Acute Care Common Stem
Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Acute Care Common Stem also uses
your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services
available from Acute Care Common Stem and its affiliates. Acute Care Common Stem may also
contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services
or of potential new services that may be offered.
Acute Care Common Stem does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Acute Care Common Stem may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business
partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases,
your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone
number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Acute Care Common Stem
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send
you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to
provide these services to Acute Care Common Stem, and they are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information.
Acute Care Common Stem does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such
as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Acute Care Common Stem keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within
Acute Care Common Stem, in order to determine what Acute Care Common Stem services are
the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising
within Acute Care Common Stem to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Acute Care Common Stem Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice,
only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on Acute Care Common Stem or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Acute Care Common Stem; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect
the personal safety of users of Acute Care Common Stem, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Acute Care Common Stem Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online
experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page
server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save
you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Acute Care Common Stem pages, or
register with Acute Care Common Stem site or services, a cookie helps Acute Care Common Stem
to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process
of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses,
and so on. When you return to the same Acute Care Common Stem Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Acute Care Common Stem
features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the Acute Care Common Stem services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Acute Care Common Stem secures your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. Acute Care Common Stem secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use
of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Acute Care Common Stem will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Acute Care Common Stem encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Acute Care Common Stem is protecting your
information.
Contact Information
Acute Care Common Stem welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Acute Care Common Stem has not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Acute Care Common Stem at websupport@hee.nhs.uk.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.