PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for www.hospicecollege.org. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact one of the senior managers at the end of this disclosure. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact the Chairman of the Board of Directors, also listed at the end of this statement.
The Hospice College of America ("HCA") Website is intended to serve as a means to inform users about hospice care for terminally ill persons and to educate individuals on other end-of-life issues. In the course of providing this online service, information is exchanged back and forth between HCA and online users. In some places on this site you may be asked to list your name, address and other information. Hospice College of America is sensitive to the private nature of information you provide to us over the Internet. Our Privacy Policy is designed to maximize your ability to protect your personal information while at the same time giving you the opportunity to obtain useful resources in end-of-life issues at reasonable prices.
Our policy with regards to your personal information follows:
Collecting and Disclosing Personal Information
HCA must collect certain personal information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, organization, telephone number, etc., in order to provide the products and services offered through the hospicecollege.org Web site (the "site").
HCA is the sole owner of the information collected at the site. We will not share this information with any third party. This restriction is to include selling, reselling, trading, leasing or renting any personally identifiable information about you or your organization.
Users who sign up for our e-mail lists will receive regular communications that are explained on the sign-up page. We will in no case share e-mail addresses with other organizations.
If you donate to HCA online, your name will be entered onto our database and you may receive occasional fund raising appeals via U.S. Mail. Your e-mail address will be treated as described in the paragraph above. It is the policy of HCA to not sell, trade, lease or rent the names of its donors. Neither does HCA buy the names of donors of other organizations. If you do not want to receive mailings, you can request by e-mail or in writing that we remove your name from our donor base.
Links
The HCA Site contains links to other Web sites on the Internet. HCA does not provide the operators of these sites with any of your personally identifiable information. Some links on the Site will take you directly from the Site to another Web site. The HCA privacy policy is not applicable to any other Web site, and other Web sites may have their own policies on privacy that may differ from the HCA policy. You should consult the applicable privacy policy on any other Web site before providing personal information to that site.
Web Site Usage Information
Our Web servers automatically collect Web site usage information from you when you visit the Site. Web site usage information is anonymous information about our visitors that describes how the Site is used and navigated, including the number and frequency of visitors to each Web page and the length of their stays. Web site usage information does not contain personally identifiable information about any visitor.
HCA uses Web site usage information in the aggregate to help improve the content and navigation of the Site and we may provide such non-personally identifiable information to others.
Contact Information
Questions about this statement should be made to either of the following:
David Abrams
President and CEO
dabrams@hospicefoundation.org
Amy Tucci
Vice President for Programs
atucci@hospicefoundation.org
