Notice of Privacy Practices
Summa Health System’s Notice of Privacy Practices specifies how medical information about our patients (patient’s protected health information or “PHI”) may be used and disclosed by Summa Health System to carry out treatment, payment or healthcare operations and for other purposes that are permitted or required by law. Our Notice of Privacy Practices is available here.
Website Privacy Policy
Summa Health System is committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors to our website. This statement explains how we handle information we learn from your visit to our website. THIS PRIVACY POLICY ONLY APPLIES TO INFORMATION WE COLLECT ON OUR WEBSITE.
You can access and browse our website without providing any personal information. We do not collect information that would personally identify you unless you choose to provide it.
Our website contains forms for you to request information or supply feedback to us. In some cases, telephone numbers, email addresses or return addresses are required so that we can supply requested information. In other cases, correct names and addresses are required to process credit card payments.
After you fill out a form, we may contact you with follow-up information and questions. We do not provide any information supplied on our web forms to any outside organization (other than where we may be required to by law, or as necessary to process a transaction). If your email address has been subscribed to any newsletters or marketing communications from us, you always have the option to unsubscribe by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any such emails you receive. Please note, however, that in general any clinical communication you receive from us is a direct response to your inquiry and cannot be opted out, except as may be accommodated under our Notice of Privacy Practices.
Non-personal Information
The Web server automatically collects the IP (which stands for Internet Protocol) address of the computers that access our site. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you access the Internet. It is not truly personally identifiable information. However, we use this information in aggregate form to understand how our site is being used and how we can better serve visitors.
Please note that although such information is not personally identifiable, we can determine from an IP address a visitor's Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.
We collect information about visitors to our site using a variety of tools, including but not limited to the following:
We may also employ tools provided by Google Analytics to analyze the audience of our website and to improve our content. In general, this means that third-party vendors, including Google, may show Summa Health System ads on sites across the Internet based on visits to our website. To implement these tools, Summa Health System and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on past visits to our website. The Google Analytics Privacy Policy is available at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Opt-out of receiving further information. If you change your mind about receiving information that you requested through this website you may contact us and ask to opt out of future contact. Go to www.SummaHealth.org/GeneralInformationForm to inform us of your decision to opt out of future contact.
Other services provided by Summa Health System on this Website may require you to agree to additional terms.
Security of Your Information
The use of this website may require the entry of personal information, such as name, email, address, telephone and fax numbers, and other personal or demographic data. The entry of all personal information is voluntary. Summa Health System does not sell, trade or rent personal information about its website visitors.
We employ commercially reasonable measures to safeguard the collection, transmission and storage of the information we collect. These measures vary based on the sensitivity of the information that we collect, process and store and the current state of technology. All information is collected and sent using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, which offers a high level of data protection.
We use software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or other types of malicious use. While your security and confidentiality are respected at all times, information collected from these sources may be used to help identify an individual in the event of a criminal investigation or as required by any legal process.
Beyond taking reasonable care to safeguard your information, Summa Health System does not guarantee the absolute security of electronic communications or transmissions since any transmission made over the Internet by any organization or any individual runs the risk on interception. Your visit, access or use of our website is done at your own risk. Summa Health System does not make any representations or warranties of any kind or nature to you with respect to our website or its success or performance, or with respect to any information, communications, content, features, products or services offered, sold and/or licensed on or through our website.
This privacy policy only applies to information collected by this website. 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. We do not review, control or take responsibility for the content or practices of any third-party websites, including social media websites, platforms, apps and profiles (together, “Third-Party Websites”), and we do not endorse any Third-Party Website’s service, information or products.
We maintain accounts on Third-Party Websites so that we may be more fully engaged with the public. If you have an account or profile with a Third-Party Website and choose to follow, like, friend, comment or otherwise engage with Summa Health System on the Third-Party Website, certain personal information associated with your account may be made available to us based on the privacy policies of the Third-Party Website and your privacy settings on that Third-Party Website. We do not disclose personally identifiable information that we collect with or through any Third-Party Website, unless required by law. The privacy policies of Third-Party Websites commonly used by Summa Health System include, but are not limited to, the following:
BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or our use of information gathered through our Web site, please contact our Webmaster at www.SummaHealth.org/GeneralInformationForm.
Last updated: 9/22/2021
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