INDIANAPOLIS COALITION FOR PATIENT SAFETY ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: 4/28/2009
The Indianapolis Coalition for Patient Safety ("ICPS") is committed to protecting
your privacy. This Online Privacy Policy will provide information to you regarding
how we collect and use your personal information, and about choices you have concerning
our use of such information. Please read this Online Privacy Policy carefully. From
time to time, we may revise this Online Privacy Policy to address new issues or
changes to our web site or practices. These changes will be posted on this page
so that you will always know our position on privacy. Please check this Online Privacy
Policy periodically to see if there have been any revisions.
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policies, please contact
our Privacy Contact,
Carol Birk at (317) 616-1958 or
cbirk@indypatientsafety.org
Scope of Online Privacy Policy
This Online Privacy Policy applies to ICPS 's method of collection and use of information
gathered by us through your use of
http://www.indypatientsafety.org. The privacy practices of third party sites
are not covered by this Online Privacy Policy. Once you leave this web site via
a link or otherwise, this Online Privacy Policy does not apply and ICPS cannot and
is not responsible for how data and information obtained from you on other web sites
is used by the operators of such web sites. ICPS disclaims any liability for any
third party's use of your Personal Information obtained through using the third
party web site.
Types of Information Collected by ICPS
Personal information collected ("Personal Information") may include the following:
(i) name, (ii) title, (iii) address, (iv) email address, (v) telephone number, (vi)
password, (vii) credentials and (viii) affiliation.
Personal Information is collected in order to provide superior service to you. We
may also request Personal Information from you in connection with your use of, or
participation in, the web site, including registrations, requests for additional
information or in connection with other services or resources provided on or through
the web site. [Personal Information is collected on servers owned and maintained
by a third party and leased to us.] We may use your Personal Information to send
you information. We may also use your Personal Information to keep in touch with
you when necessary, for example, to send you confirmation or reminder email messages.
If you identify yourself to us by sending us an email with questions or comments,
we may use your Personal Information to respond to your questions or comments (we
may also file your comments for future reference.)
ICPS does not sell or share Personal Information collected through this web site
to any third party without your permission, unless we are legally required to do
so. We reserve the right to provide or use your Personal Information in the following
circumstances. We will release specific information about you or your account to
comply with any valid legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute
or court order. We will also release specific information in special cases, such
as if there is an attempted breach of the security of the web site, or a physical
threat to you or others.
Cookies
ICPS does not currently collect cookies (small computer files that are transferred
to a computer's hard drive and which provide knowledge about site visits).
Privacy of Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. The ICPS web site is not
intended to or designed to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect
Personal Information from any person we actually know is a child under the age of
13.
Personal Health Information
The ICPS web site is not intended to or designed to solicit personal health information.
ICPS does not collect personal health information via the ICPS web site.
Security
We believe that protecting the security of your Personal Information is critical.
Therefore, we have put strong security measures in place to protect your Personal
Information. Access to Personal Information is limited to ICPS employees or other
authorized individuals, and identities are verified by internal network access rules
and application username/password pairs. Data is physically stored through a third
party data system at private facilities on servers leased by us. Data fields that
identify individuals are separated from non-sensitive data fields. Data identifying
Personal Information is encrypted through use of industry standard SSL 128 bit encryption
methods and practices. Data decryption keys are kept physically separate from encryption
keys and encrypted data. Records are marked with tamper-proof authentication digests.
Access to Personal Information
At your request, we will use reasonable efforts to provide you with access to your
Personal Information and to revise, update or replace Personal Information that
you inform us is in error. Please contact our Privacy Contact, Carol Birk at
(317) 616-1958 or cbirk@indypatientsafety.org
to request access to any Personal Information or to request a change in your Personal
Information.
E-Mail Policy and Opt-Out
You can opt-out of use of this web site or unsubscribe from receiving emails from
us by sending your request to our Privacy Contact, Carol Birk at
cbirk@indypatientsafety.org with the subject line "unsubscribe"
or by following the instructions on any e-mails that you receive from ICPS.