Privacy Policy:
Medical Management of Chicago, LLC, doing business as USA Prostate Centers, USA Vascular Centers, USA Fibroid Centers, USA Vein Clinics, and USA Oncology Centers, located at 304 Wainwright Dr., Northbrook, Illinois 60062 operates usaprostatecenters.com and may operate other websites. It is USA Prostate Centers policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. This privacy policy is also covered by our HIPAA policy. This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 1, 2019.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, USA Prostate Centers collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. USA Prostate Centers purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how USA Prostate Centers visitors use its website. From time to time, USA Prostate Centers may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
USA Prostate Centers also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on usaprostatecenters.comblogs/sites. USA Prostate Centers only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering Of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to USA Prostate Centers websites choose to interact with USA Prostate Centers in ways that require USA Prostate Centers to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that USA Prostate Centers gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at usaprostatecenters.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with USA Prostate Centers are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions such as visitor’s name, address, electronic mail address, date of birth and because USA Prostate Centers is a healthcare provider there may be questions about medical conditions including height, weight, or drugs, therapies or medical products used. All personal health information is maintained in strict compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”). In each case, USA Prostate Centers collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with USA Prostate Centers. USA Prostate Centers does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
USA Prostate Centers may collect de-identified statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. USA Prostate Centers may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, USA Prostate Centers does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection Of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
USA Prostate Centers discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on USA Prostate Centers behalf or to provide services available at USA Prostate Centers websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using USA Prostate Centers websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. USA Prostate Centers will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, USA Prostate Centers discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when USA Prostate Centers believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of USA Prostate Centers, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an USA Prostate Centers website and have supplied your email address, USA Prostate Centers may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with USA Prostate Centers and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. USA Prostate Centers takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. USA Prostate Centers uses cookies to help USA Prostate Centers identify and track visitors, their usage of USA Prostate Centers website, and their website access preferences. USA Prostate Centers visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using USA Prostate Centers websites, with the drawback that certain features of USA Prostate Centers websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If USA Prostate Centers or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that USA Prostate Centers goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of USA Prostate Centers may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by USA Prostate Centers and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, USA Prostate Centers may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in USA Prostate Centers sole discretion. USA Prostate Centers encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a usaveinclinics.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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