The Las Colinas Cancer Center respects
your privacy and is committed to protecting it. We provide this
statement to inform you of our privacy policy and practices.
This privacy statement covers personally identifiable information and
anonymous data collection through aggregate reporting. Personally identifiable
information is any information that is associated with your name or personal
identity (such as your name, address, email address, social security number,
credit card number, etc.). Anonymous (non-personal) data is information
about usage and service operation, reported in aggregate, which is not
associated with a specific personal identity (such as browser type, IP
addresses, etc.).
From time to time, we may ask you to provide us with personally identifiable
information about you through our website. We use this information to
better understand your needs and interests, and to provide you with better
service. Once you choose to provide us with personal information, it will
only be used to support your relationship with the Las Colinas Cancer Center.
Only the Las Colinas Cancer Center and its authorized agents have access
to the personally identifiable information you provide us through our
website. We will not sell, rent or lease your personally identifiable
information to others, nor will we share, trade or exchange your personally
identifiable information with anyone outside of the Las Colinas Cancer Center
without your permission, except under requirement by law or judgment or
when we explicitly notify you at the time we ask for your personally identifiable
information.
Anonymous (non-personal) data is collected in aggregate for reporting
about our website usability, performance, and effectiveness. It is used
to improve the customer experience, usability and site content.
This site contains links to other websites. The Las Colinas Cancer Center
is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these other
sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and
to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely
to information collected by this website.
What We Collect
On the Las Colinas Cancer Center website, you can make information requests,
or sign up to receive news and information from us. The types of personal
information you provide to us on these pages may include name, address,
phone, email address, user IDs and passwords and contact preferences.
Anonymous (non-personal) data we collect may include the pages visited
on www.prostateseedinstitute.org, unique URLs visited within our website,
browser type and IP address. Most anonymous data is collected via cookies
(see below) or other analysis technologies.
To help us improve the quality of our website, the Las Colinas Cancer Center
uses an external service that provides real-time reporting on the use
of our website, including page views, unique views, unique visitors, repeat
visitors, frequency of visits, and peak-volume traffic periods. We do
not use this service to gather, request, record, require, collect or track
a user's personally identifying information.
Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA
and its accompanying FTC regulation establish United States federal law
that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. We do not knowingly
collect personal information from children under 13 and our products and
services do not target information to children under 13. Our sites are
not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13,
and we have designed our sites to block our knowing acceptance of information
from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested.
It is possible that by fraud or deception by others, we may receive information
pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as
we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent
or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify
us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by
contacting us. The Las Colinas Cancer Center
is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we encourage
parents to take an active role in their children's online activities and
interests.
How We Use the Information We Collect
The Las Colinas Cancer Center uses your information to help us understand
your needs and interests and provide you with better services. Specifically,
we use your information to help communicate with you, to provide service
and support and to update you on services and benefits.
Access & Accuracy
The Las Colinas Cancer Center strives to keep your personally identifiable
information accurate. We have put in place managerial data standards review
processes and technological tools to maintain customer data accuracy.
We will provide you with access to view and change your information. To
protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps
to verify your identity before granting access to your data. Certain areas
of the Las Colinas Cancer Center's website may limit access to specific
individuals through the use of passwords and other personal identifiers.
If your personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip
code), or if you no longer desire our service, we will endeavor to provide
a way to correct, update or remove the personally identifiable information
you provided to us. The most effective way to view and change your personal
information is to contact us.
Security
The Las Colinas Cancer Center is committed to ensuring the security of your
information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data
accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of the information, we have in
place appropriate physical, managerial procedures to safeguard the information
we collect.
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control. This includes a firewall
and 24-hour monitoring of site activities by our hosting service provider
as well as 128-bit SSL encryption (where allowable by law) on all transaction-oriented
operations between you and PCF via our transaction service provider.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online,
we also do everything in our power to protect user information off-line.
All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned
above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information
to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer
service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable
information. Our employees must use password-protected screen savers when
they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password
to regain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept
up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well
as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or
reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do
to ensure our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers
that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure
environment, behind a locked cage.
Cookies
Our website uses "cookies." A "cookie" is a small
data file transferred by our website to your computer's hard drive containing
information that helps us make your experience of using our website more
individualized and convenient. We send cookies when you surf our site,
make purchases, request information, or register yourself or for certain
services. Accepting the cookies used on our site does not give us access
to your personally identifiable information, but we may use the cookies
to identify your computer. Some cookies are "session" cookies,
meaning the cookie is removed from your computer after you leave our website
or quit your browser. The aggregate information collected by cookies also
helps us to analyze traffic patterns at our site. This can enable us over
time to provide a better experience on our site by improving content or
personalization and make it easier to use. Cookies that remain on your
computer are often called "permanent" cookies. These types of
cookies are used to facilitate shopping, personalization and registration
services.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually adjust
the preferences on your browser to refuse cookies, selectively accept
certain cookies or notify you each time a website attempts to place a
cookie on your computer. If you refuse to accept cookies, there may be
certain features of our site that will not be available to you and some
web pages may not display properly. You can find information on how to
adjust your cookie preferences on two of the most popular web browsers
by visiting the following websites:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.html
Mozilla Firefox:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Enabling+and+disabling+cookies
The cookies we place on your computer are not shared with or revealed
to other sites, nor do we look at the cookies that have been placed on
your machine by other websites.
The Las Colinas Cancer Center - Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about
our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. The Las Colinas Cancer Center will automatically send the friend a one time email inviting
them to visit the site. The Las Colinas Cancer Center stores this information
for the sole purpose of sending this one time email. The friend may contact
the Las Colinas Cancer Center to request the removal of this information
from our database.
Conditions of Use, Notices and Revisions
We will always use information in accordance with the privacy policy under
which the information was collected. However, our business changes constantly,
and our privacy policy may change as well. If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post the changes here so our users are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we may disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the
time it was collected, we will notify users by email. Users will then
have a choice as to whether or not we may use their information in this
different manner. We may email periodic reminders of our notices and conditions,
unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our website
frequently to see recent changes.
Contacting Us
We value your comments and opinions. If you have comments or questions
about our privacy policy or need help please contact
us.
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