Effective Date: Mar 31 2024
Precision Health Informatics is committed to protecting your online privacy. We feel it is important for you to know how we handle the information we receive from you via the Precision Health Informatics website. You can visit www.precisionhealthinformatics.com and related websites without revealing any personal information. However, you are required to provide a valid e-mail address to post content to the Precision Health Informatics website, or to receive newsletters.
1. How We Collect And Use Personal Information
Precision Health Informatics website may contain links to sites operated by Third-Parties. Precision Health Informatics has no control over the privacy policies and practices of such third-party sites, and if you have any concerns, you are urged to review the terms of those sites for more information about the policies applicable to those sites.
2. IP Addresses
We collect and log the IP address of all visitors to precisionhealthinformatics.com. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. IP addresses allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with one another. We collect IP address information so that we can properly administer our system and gather aggregate information about how our site is being used, including the pages visitors are viewing. This aggregate information may be shared with advertisers, sponsors and other businesses. To maintain your anonymity, we do not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. We will use IP address information, however, to personally identify you in order to enforce our legal rights or when required to do so by law enforcement authorities.
3. Newsletters
We require you to provide a valid e-mail address to post content to the Precision Health Informatics website, such as when commenting on blogs or articles. We do not share your e-mail address.
4. How We Use Cookies
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that some web sites store on your computer’s hard drive when you visit them. Like many other web sites, precisionhealthinformatics.com uses cookies to provide us with information relating to the sources of our site traffic. Collecting this information, however, does not allow us to personally identify you.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but allow you to modify security settings so that you can approve or reject cookies on a case-by-case basis. Our site requires that both cookies and JavaScript be enabled. If you reject cookies from our site, some parts of the site may not work properly for you.
5. Health Tools Information
You may need to provide personal information in order to use some of the health tools on our site. This information may include your answers to questions about your health status. We use this information to calculate risk. We don’t store or share it.
6. Surveys
You may be asked to complete surveys when you visit precisionhealthinformatics.com. We use information from surveys to better understand the needs of our users and to gather information about health care trends and issues. We may share information from surveys with Third-Parties who perform data management services for our site. Those Third-Parties have agreed to keep all data from surveys confidential. Also, we may share information from surveys in an aggregated, de-identified form with Third-Parties with whom we have a business relationship.
7. How We Protect Your Personal Information
All data that you enter on this site are encrypted with secure server software (SSL). The encryption means that your data are protected while they are being transferred over the Internet to our servers. Once your data reach our servers, the same security software that guards our company’s essential business data protects your data as well.
In addition to using the most secure technology available, we de-identify all data before they are used in any aggregate reporting that may be done.
8. What We Provide To Third-Parties
Except as noted above for surveys, Precision Health Informatics does not provide any third-party access to your IP address and e-mail address.
We use analytics tools and other third-party technologies, such as Google Analytics and DoubleClick Cookies, to collect non-personal information in the form of various usage and user metrics when you use our website.
These tools and technologies collect and analyze certain types of information, including device and software identifiers, referring and exit URLs, onsite behavior and usage information, feature use metrics and statistics, age, gender, interests and demographics.
We use these tools to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to our website.
You may opt out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or you may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Google has additional information available about its Remarketing Privacy Guidelines, Policies and Restrictions.
9. Children’s Privacy
This site is intended for adults age 18 and older. It is not intended for or designed to attract people under the age of 18. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know to be under the age of 18.
10. E-mail Communications
E-mail communication that you send to us via the e-mail links on our site may be shared with a Precision Health Informatics Customer Service representative, employee, medical expert or other agent who is most able to address your inquiry. We make every effort to respond in a timely fashion once communications are received. Once we have responded to your communication, it is discarded or archived, depending on the nature of the inquiry.
The e-mail functionality on our site does not provide a completely secure and confidential means of communication. It’s possible that your e-mail communication may be accessed or viewed by another Internet user while in transit to us. If you wish to keep your communication private, do not use our e-mail.
11. Complaint Process
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated or if you have another complaint or problem, you may e-mail us by clicking the “Contact us” link at the bottom of any page. Our Customer Service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate Precision Health Informatics department for response or resolution. You may also write to the The US Oncology Network Privacy Officer at:
Privacy Officer
The US Oncology Network
10101 Woodloch Forest Dr.
The Woodlands, TX 77380
If you’ve contacted Precision Health Informatics about a privacy-related concern and you do not believe your problem has been addressed, you may file a complaint by calling the Precision Health Informatics general number at (800) 758-7608 and asking for the Privacy Officer.
12. Changes To Our Privacy Policy
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. You will see the word “updated” followed by the date next to the Privacy Policy link near the bottom of all pages on the site. If the “updated” date has changed since you last visited, you’re encouraged to review the policy to be informed of how this site is protecting your information.