SMPHS Website Privacy Policy

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Sisters of Mary of the Presentation Health System (“SMPHS”) website address https://smphealth.org/. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website and notifies you of the following:

• What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
• What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
• The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.  We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request for services.  Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about facility updates and newsletters, services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.  Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data or health or resident information), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.  While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or health care personnel) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Contact Us/Send A Message/Employment Applications

To contact us for an answer to a question or to request information about one of our health care facilities, you may provide contact information (name, email, phone number, message).  This information is only used for us to respond to your question or request for more information.

Our website allows you to send a message to a resident.  This is not a private communication directly to the resident.  Designated staff access and share the message with the requested resident.

To apply online for employment with us, you must provide contact, background, and other personal information.  This information is used for employment purposes and shared with staff and third parties involved in the employment hiring process.

Cookies & Google Analytics

We use “cookies” and Google Analytics on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers, and third party vendors). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

We use Google Analytics to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/ (as amended for government websites) and the Google Privacy Policy https://policies.google.com/privacy.  You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Our Hospital sites may also contain links for patient portals and online bill pay.  The links are to third party vendors.  We have no control or access over these links. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 701-237-9290.