Hurley Medical Center is the owner of this social media network. Unless stated otherwise, “We” in this Privacy Policy refers to Hurley Medical Center. We understand the importance and sensitivity of personal information and therefore we have created this statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following explains our information gathering and dissemination practices:

• We will not disclose your personal information or any information you have posted on this Website to any third party without your permission. However, information you choose to post in public forums, including any health information you choose to share or any comments you make on our sites, can be reviewed by other members of the site and the general public and can be viewed and displayed on search engines. 
• We do not share any information about where, when or how you personally navigate our site with third parties.
• We use secure technology, privacy protection controls, and restrictions on employee access in an effort to safeguard your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee its security, even with best efforts.
• We will advise you if and when changes to this policy are made. 
• We do not share, sell, rent, or trade our members’ personal information with third parties.

By clicking the “Accept” button during registration or by using this site, you give us permission to collect, use, and disclose your personal information provided by you in the manner described in this policy. Please read this policy carefully as it affects your rights and liabilities under law. If you disagree with the way we collect and process personal information collected on the Website or other social media site, we recommend that you do not use it.

Collection and Use of Information

You are not required to disclose any personal information in order to browse and read the content in the public portions of this site. You must register with the site in order to post comments or interact on the site. Our registration process collects contact information (such as name, email address, phone number, and mailing address) and demographic information (such as gender and age). We use this data to customize your site experience on the Website, to display relevant content we think you might be interested in, and to display content according to your preferences. You control which (if any) of the details of your contact and demographic information can be viewed by other members of the site.

When you use the site, you can set up your personal profile, form relationships with other members, send messages, perform searches and queries, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can connect you with various personalized services offered on the site such as discussions, ratings and reviews, and blog postings. In most cases, this information is retained so that you can return to view earlier messages that you have sent or can easily see your friend list. When you update information, a backup copy of the prior version is kept for a reasonable period of time so that you can refer back to it should the need arise.

Personal information is information that can be used to identify you or any other individual whom the information may apply to. We do not collect personal information unless you choose to provide it to use. Some examples of personal information that we collect in some areas of our site are:

• Your name
• Address
• Email address
• Telephone number 
• Contact information

Demographic information is information that is not unique to you. It refers to selected population characteristics such as ZIP code or postal code, age, preferences, gender, race or ethnicity, occupation, career history, interests and favorites.

We also collect aggregate behavioral information regarding how visitors use our sites, the areas of our site that are visited, what services are accessed, and information about your computer hardware and software including your IP address, geolocation, browser and operating system type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is necessary for analyzing the use of resources, troubleshooting problems, preventing fraud and improving our services.

By registering with this site, managing your profile, or engaging when presented with choices, you have given us permission to use your information, subject to local law, in the following ways: 

• to allow you to create an account;
• to create a profile for you based on information you have provided to us;
• to contact you about site updates, informational and service-related communications, including important security updates;
• to contact you with additional communications, information, and promotions such as newsletters and treatment advice;
• to inform you of other services or websites available from Hurley Medical Center or its affiliates;
• to enable you to provide feedback, to contact us, and for us to respond to you; 
• to conduct surveys, questionnaires, promotions and contests, and to provide the results thereof such as success stories and contest winners; and
• to generate internal reports about the use of our site.

If Hurley provides the option to subscribe to a newsletter or other email information, you may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by “opting out” on the community site. You may post User Content on the site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Information you post in public areas of the site can, in some instances, be edited. However, this does not apply to everything that is posted. We ask that you provide references for any medical information that you post which is not your own personal experience. User Content that you post will be accessed, used, and stored by others around the world, including countries that might not have legislation that guarantees adequate protection with respect to your country of residence. By providing your personal information for inclusion in our database, you acknowledge that you consent to your information being used as described here. While we take measures to safeguard your information from unauthorized access or inappropriate use by third parties, Hurley Medical Center does not control other users of the site and we are not responsible for their use of information that you post or otherwise make available in public areas of this site.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on the site is a violation of the terms of use and should be reported to info@hurleymc.com

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information relevant to the invitation process, such as your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. The Website stores this one-time invitation information in order to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your invited friend may contact us at hurleymc.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

From time to time, we share aggregated data regarding the users of our services (for example, the percentage of our users who have a specific condition, or what percentage of our users who choose one type of service request a related service). Some of this data may include data obtained as described in the “cookies” section, but no personally identifiable individual information is included in these types of shared statistics.

We may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the site’s terms of use.

This same policy also applies in those cases where we believe an individual may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or property of Hurley Medical Center, other site users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.

We may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or for administrative and other purposes deemed necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services, and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.

Updating Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, or delete/remove it by logging in and editing your profile’s information in the “About Me” tab.

Service Providers

We use third party email service provider to send out emails on our behalf. This provider is prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes.

Cookies and IP Address Information

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information.

We use cookies for application functions, login purposes and to deliver content on our Web site that is specific to your interests.

The cookie does not track any personal information about you, provide us with any way to contact you, or extract any information from your computer.

We hope you will want the better service that cookies provide, but you may set your browser to refuse them. By doing so, however, you will not be able to successfully use this service.

Some of our business partners (advertisers, for example) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by hurleymc.com only. It does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Hurley Medical Center and Relationships With Other Companies

The site may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Each and every Hurley Medical Center employee servicing the website is obligated to abide by this privacy policy. Employees who violate our privacy policies are subject to disciplinary action, leading up to and including termination.

Only authorized Hurley Medical Center employees servicing the website are permitted to have access to your personal information, and such access is limited by need.

Securing Information Entered by Visitors

We use industry-standard technology to keep your personal information and information that you have entered into our site as secure as possible. We also have put in place privacy protection control systems designed to ensure that your personal data remains safe and private.

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information, such as private or personal health information, on our registration forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). 

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

A Note to Parents About Our Privacy Policy

Hurley Medical Center is very sensitive to privacy issues. We are especially careful regarding any communications with children and families. We do not collect personal information from children 14 and under. We do not associate cookie data with personal information about children.

Hurley Medical Center
One Hurley Plaza
Flint, MI  48503