Privacy Policy Your privacy is important to us. This is Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Radiology's privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") and it sets forth the information we collect about you and about your use of our web site, and how we use this information. We operate our web site according to this Privacy Policy.
We provide this web site to provide general information about our training programs, research and education initiatives, and diagnostic services. We strongly encourage you not to submit health information to us via email or via this web site. We do NOT require the submission of any personally identifiable information from you to use this web site or any of its features; however, if you would like us to contact you or provide you with information, we will need certain information from you. Providing this information will help us better serve you through this web site. We may collect information from you at several different points on this web site. We provide you with the opportunity to send us feedback regarding this web site, to subscribe to newsletters, and to participate in surveys or courses on this web site. Your use of any of these features is purely voluntary. If you would like us to contact you or send you information to you we will need your name, address, email and/or fax number. This web site is not intended or designed for children under the age of 13. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you cannot use this web site.
Certain non-personal information about your use of this web site is collected and stored every time you interact with the site through "cookies." Cookies are small computer files that this web site transfers to your computer's hard drive that allows us to know how often you visit this web site and the activities you conduct while using this web site, such as the date and time of your visit, the document requested, which browser you are using, and your IP address. We use this information to improve this web site by evaluating web site traffic, most popular page requests, types of errors, and the number of unique visitors. If your browser is set to reject cookies, certain features of this web site may not work properly. We do not use cookies to track personal information.
Except as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as specifically agreed to by you, we will not disclose any personal information we gather from you through this web site. We may, however, release personal information about you to third parties to comply with valid legal requirements, laws, regulations, search warrants, subpoenas or court orders. If we are legally compelled to disclose your personal information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or court order. We provide certain non-personal information about you to our affiliated entities, or to third parties such as our funding agencies. This information will be aggregated and combined with information from other users and will not be disclosed in a manner that will identify you. For example, we may notify a third party how many users visited this web site in one day. We will not sell, rent, lease or distribute any personal information that you submit to us, nor will we use it to provide unsolicited or junk mail. From time-to-time we may ask you to complete a survey. In addition, you may participate in a course on this web site. Participation in these surveys and courses is completely voluntary and you can choose whether or not you wish to disclose the requested information. This information may include your name and mailing address, demographic information (such as zip code, education level), and evaluation data (such as quiz answers and scores). Contact information and evaluation data will be used to give you feedback and award you credit for course completion. Survey information will be used for the purposes of improving your satisfaction of this web site and other services that we offer. We partner with other parties to provide specific services. When you sign up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.
This web site contains links to other web sites that we do not control, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave this web site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that you visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to use of this web site and the information collected by us on this web site.
We take the protection of your personal information seriously and we take numerous precautions to protect your information, both online and offline. From a technical standpoint, we use encryption technology in transmitting information to our servers. To take advantage of this technology, you must have a browser that supports 128 bit encryption. Further, the servers on which we store your personally identifiable information are kept in a secure locked environment. Access to your information in our offices is restricted to those employees who have a need to know the information to perform their job. Our employees are kept up to date on our security and privacy initiatives through quarterly review sessions, and are provided with additional instruction each time a new policy is implemented. Further, all of our employees are required to use passwords on their personal computers. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to radweb@dsg.harvard.edu
You can always contact us to update or delete your personal information. If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire to receive any information from us, please email us at radweb@dsg.harvard.edu. Please note that we may not be able to remove each instance of the information that you provided to us from our computers. We backup our computers to prevent the loss of information and data, which means that your information may exist in a form where it cannot be deleted. Upon receiving your request, however, we will remove your information from our active databases.
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our About BrighamRAD page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will contact you by email and ask for your consent to use your information. If we cannot contact you, we will not use the information.
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