INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for visiting International Hospital Management Corporation’s (“IHMC”, or “we”) website. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, this Web Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect and use your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through any websites, mobile applications, and/or online or mobile-enabled technology, and/or digital tools that display or link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, our “website”). This Privacy Policy also applies to information shared with us by our approved partners and other third-party sources. This Privacy Policy does not apply to (i) information collected from you either offline or through websites and other online services that do not display or link to this privacy statement, including third-party websites to which our online services may link, or (ii) information that would be considered protected information under applicable laws and regulations.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
IHMC understands that security and privacy are important issues for visitors to our website and recognizes our obligation to keep the information secure and confidential. Our website provides you with the opportunity to voluntarily submit forms to request additional information about IHMC. In the course of these transactions, you may provide us with personal demographic information We use the information you provide solely to help us respond to your request. We will not collect personally identifiable information from you, other than what you supply to us on a voluntary basis.
As part of researching or fulfilling your request, your information may be shared with other IHMC employees. All employees of IHMC strictly follow our confidentiality policies and abide by local rules and regulations to ensure that any private information encountered through the course of their work is treated with the utmost respect.
At no time will IHMC sell, rent, loan, trade or lease any information collected on our site. However, please note that we may need to use this information within the IHMC group of companies or with a third-party vendor to perform administrative, technical or other functions that help us provide service to you. We seek to hold third party vendors to the same privacy practices as IHMC. Except as noted above, IHMC will not release individualized information to another party unless required to do so by government authorities, legal processes, or otherwise required by law.
Personally-identifiable information collected through the website is not stored on the website but will go to back office systems in the same manner that information from paper forms is currently handled. To help us provide better service to you, we collect general statistical information on the content viewed.
You have the right and ability to exit the IHMC website at any time and not remain in active session. If you choose to remain in session on our site, you implicitly consent to our privacy and security policies.
IHMC encourages parents and guardians to be aware of and participate in their children’s online activities. We strictly adhere to applicable laws and regulations and will not knowingly register or otherwise collect personally identifiable information from any child under the age of 13 without the prior verifiable consent of that person’s parent or guardian.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions
This Privacy Policy supplements our general Terms of Use Agreement, which we urge you to read. By using this website, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy and by the Terms of Use Agreement. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use the site. In an effort to make our site more accessible to end users, IHMC may add expanded features and functions. As additional features and functions are added, this Privacy Policy will be updated to correctly represent how information and features are being used. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically since it may change at any time. Your continued use of this site following the posting of any changes to these terms means you accepted those changes.
Links to Third-Party Websites
This website may contain links to other sites operated by our business affiliates or nonaffiliated third parties. Once you leave our website, you may or may not see a new web address in the location bar of your web browser. Please review the linked site’s privacy policies, and if you do not agree to be bound by the terms of the policies governing that site, we recommend that you terminate your visit to that site. We are not responsible for the privacy or other policies and practices of third-party websites.
Collection and Use of Other Information: Cookies
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file that a website transfers to your computer to allow it to remember specific information about your session while you are connected. Your computer will only share the information in the cookie with the website that provided it, and no other website can request it. There are two types of cookies, session and persistent. Session cookies last only as long as your web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for longer periods of time.
IHMC’s website may use session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through the site, or to allow you to customize your preferences for interacting with the site.
The information is not collected for commercial purposes and IHMC does not sell or otherwise distribute the information collected from the website for commercial purposes. IHMC may also utilize persistent cookies to remember you between visits. If you choose, you may block or delete our cookies from your hard drive; however, blocking or deleting cookies will require reentry of information.
There are 3 types of cookies we use on our website:
- Essential cookies are used by websites to perform their basic functions, such enabling access to secure areas of the website.
- Functionality cookies provide visitors with a more personalized experience, including remembering a user’s name, selected language, email preferences, etc.
- Analytical cookies monitor traffic on the website to see, for example, what pages people are viewing, for how long and what pages they visit before and after a particular page.
Your Choices
Browser Cookies
Your browser may provide you with the option to refuse some or all browser cookies. You may also be able to remove cookies from your browser. For more information about how to manage browser cookies, please follow the instructions provided by your browser.
Change Your Settings
You can also block certain cookies by adjusting your settings on our sites.
To opt out of these cookies you will need to change the settings on your browser cookie preferences. If you choose to block these cookies our website may not work as it should and any preferences you have may be lost.
Mobile Device Identifiers
Your mobile operating system may let you opt-out from having certain device identifiers used for interest-based advertising. You should refer to the instructions provided by your mobile device’s manufacturer; this information is typically available under the “settings” function of your mobile device.
Third-Party Cookies:
- Google analytics will create the following cookies:
_ga
used to distinguish users
expiration: 2 years
_gid
used to distinguish users
expiration: 24 hours
_gat
Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>
expiration: 1 minute
- Hubspot will create the following cookies:__hs_opt_out
This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. This cookie is set when you give visitors the choice to opt out of cookies.
(Expires: 13 months)
_hs_do_not_track
This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. Setting this cookie is different from opting out of cookies, as it still allows anonymized information to be sent to HubSpot.
(Expires: 13 months)
hs_ab_test
This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before.
(Expires: end of session)
<id>_key
When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again. The cookie name is unique for each password-protected page.
hs-messages-is-open
This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. It resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity.
(Expires: 30 minutes)
hs-messages-hide-welcome-message
This cookie is used to prevent the welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed.
(Expires: 1 day)
_hstc
The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
(Expires: 13 months)
hubspotutk
This cookie is used to keep track of a visitor’s identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.
(Expires: 13 months)
_hssc
This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp.
(Expires: 30 min)
_hssrc
Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session.
(Expires: end of session)
messagesUtk
This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the messages tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they’re added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. If you chat with a visitor who later returns to your site in the same cookied browser, the messages tool will load their conversation history.
(Expires: 13 months)
Security
Any unauthorized use of this website may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution. We have policies and procedures in place to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your information that we collect and maintain. All personal information is stored on our secured servers behind a firewall, and access to data is strictly controlled. IHMC uses physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect any personally identifiable data stored on its computers. Only authorized employees have access to the information you provide to IHMC.
Visiting our website from outside the United States of America:
We are located in the United States of America. The services described within our website are directed only at customers in the United States of America. If you are visiting our website, or any part thereof, from outside the United States of America, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, or processed in Costa Rica and maintained on computers or servers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located in the European Economic Area, you may have additional rights, including the right to access, correct, erase, restrict processing of, and object to processing and profiling of your information, and to complain to a supervisory authority within your jurisdiction. By using any portion of our website, you understand and consent to the transfer of your information to the United States of America and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this privacy statement.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, IHMC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through email). Your further use of the website after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions and concerns about IHMC’s privacy procedures or wish to access or modify your personal information collected at this website, please email us at legal@ihcorp.com. Please make any communications as complete and descriptive as possible, and we will attempt to respond promptly to your concerns.
Please note that individualized information transmitted via e-mail correspondence between you and IHMC, as opposed to transmission over IHMC’s website, is not encrypted. As a result, such e-mail correspondence may be accessed and viewed by other Internet users without your knowledge and permission while in transit.
Electronic copies of e-mails are retained in the system once the issue has been resolved. However, hard copies of the information may be retained in IHMC. Information from e-mails may be transcribed into other IHMC systems or databases.