CMICS PRIVACY POLICY

Web Site Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

THE CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL

WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE

THE USE OF THIS SITE, AND INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU RELATED TO ALL SITES OWNED AND OPERATED BY CHILDREN'S MERCY INTEGRATED CARE SOLUTIONS, ARE SUBJECT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE. BY USING THIS SITE AND DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION TO US, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS.

Privacy Policy
Children's Mercy Integrated Care Solutions ("CMICS") recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of users and visitors to our website while permitting us to conduct legitimate business by providing information of interest users and visitors. Our privacy policy is stated below.

What this Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you are on a CMICS web site and when you use services provided by CMICS. This policy also covers our treatment of any personally identifiable information that may be provided to us from other sources. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own and/or control or to people that we do not employ or manage.

Information Collection
We collect personally identifying information from our users and visitors. We recognize two kinds of personal data that deserve different levels of protection:
• Personally identifiable information includes, for example, your name, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, billing information, your title or degree, your organization, your professional specialty and answers to survey questions
• Sensitive data includes, for example, Social Security numbers, passwords, personal financial data, information about specific medical conditions and credit card information.

CMICS collects personally identifiable information and sensitive data only when there is a legitimate need to do so. If your relationship with us includes providing us with sensitive data, we will endeavor to protect that information. Except as provided herein, we will not distribute sensitive data outside of CMICS and our affiliates.

Our servers keep track of all web site traffic.

Information Use
We use information collected on our site:
• To fulfill your requests for services or information,
• To contact you about our services and those of our affiliates, based on the preferences you have indicated,
• To customize the advertising and content you see on our pages,
• To improve our website,
• To develop new services and ideas, and
• To better administer and troubleshoot our systems.

We will give you the opportunity to "opt out" of receiving any unsolicited information from us or to limit the unsolicited information you receive from us to information regarding the service you requested information about.
Once you register with us and sign in on the CMICS site, you are not anonymous to us.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
Your personally identifiable information shared with any other person or company, we will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
• We need to share your information to provide the service you have requested,
• We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of CMICS to provide a service to you (unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us),
• We need to share your information with licensing, accreditation or regulatory agencies or entities as may be required of us,
• We find that your actions on our websites violate the Terms and Conditions of Use, any of our usage guidelines for specific services or any agreement, and
• We respond to or initiate subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.

Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses
An IP address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet. When you request an HTML page or send e-mail, the Internet Protocol part of TCP/IP includes your IP address in the message (actually, in each of the packets if more than one is required) and sends it to the IP address that is obtained by looking up the domain name in the Uniform Resource Locator you requested or in the e-mail address you're sending a note to. At the other end, the recipient can see the IP address of the Web page requestor or the e-mail sender and can respond by sending another message using the IP address it received.

Cookies
This Web Site uses transient "cookies" during a site visit but does not gather information from a user's computer. The "cookie," which is a small text file stored in temporary memory, is used by our Web application for usability purposes and to comply with subscription preferences that our visitors have given us. No personal identifying data is collected and the "cookie" is erased when the visit ends.

Ability to Review and Edit Your Information
You may review and approve the information about you collected upon registration in our database. Upon request, we will remove that information from our database or change or correct personal information that you state is erroneous. You should understand, however, that information about you in our database might come from a number of sources.

Security
We will maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of your personally identifiable information. We use the industry standard encryption technology Secured Socket Layer (SSL) Class 3 certificate, issued by a reputable Certificate authority. Anytime you submit data via https protocol that data is encrypted automatically.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change, modify or otherwise update this policy at any time. These changes or updates will be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by posting on this site, by electronic or conventional mail or by any other means by which you obtain notice of the changes or updates.

Policies of Other Sites
CMICS is not responsible for the privacy policies of websites to which this site may link. Further, due to the diverse nature of our business, our affiliates may have privacy policies that differ from this policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. You should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be collecting about you.

Terms of Use

Proprietary Rights
All material contained in this website is proprietary and is protected by law, including United States copyright law. Except as indicated, CMICS is the owner of this content. All Rights Reserved. All materials are protected by copyright and may not be republished or printed for copying or redistribution without the express written permission of Children's Mercy Integrated Care Solutions. For questions or requests for permission, please contact the Operations Department, PO Box 411596 Kansas City, MO 64141; 1-888-670-7261 or 816-559-9372.
CMICS own all trademarks and service marks appearing on the website. The unauthorized use or misuse of these trademarks and service marks is prohibited.

Your Communications to the Web Site
By forwarding any communications to CMICS through this website or by other electronic means, you thereby grant CMICS a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, redistribute, and display such communications in any form. Furthermore, CMICS may use any suggestions contained in or resulting from such communications CMICS cannot be responsible and shall not be liable for the contents of communications to the website by visitors or persons other than CMICS employees.

Collection of Data from Children
To the extent that CMICS is able to determine the age of users by their communications with the CMICS website, CMICS will not knowingly (a) collect or post information from persons under the age of sixteen ("children") without their parent's or guardian's consent, or (b) provide any personally identifying information about children, regardless of its source, to any third party. If registration is required for any services on the website, and a user submits information to the website that indicates that the user is a child, CMICS will attempt to alert the child's parent or guardian of the child's registration and will provide instructions on how the parent or guardian can delete the child's registration, if so desired. No information collected from users self-identified as children will knowingly be used for promotional purposes.

No Solicitation or Offer
This website is designed to provide general information about CMICS or CMICS products and services (e.g. Pediatric Care Network, Children's Health Network, Physician Business Partners, etc.). Information on the website is not intended to constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of any particular product or service.

Accuracy
CMICS attempts to keep the information contained within its website current and accurate, but CMICS is not responsible for any errors or omissions in the website. CMICS expressly disclaims the accuracy (including the timeliness) of the information, links, or other items contained within the website.

Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CMICS, its owners, and all of their respective directors, officers, employees, successors, and assigns from and against any and all claims, losses, and expenses (including attorney's fees and litigation expenses) relating to or arising from your use of the website and any breach by you of these Terms of Use.

No Medical Advice
This site is provided for educational purposes only and should not be viewed as a substitute for medical advice provided by your family doctor, pediatrician or specialist.

Confidentiality Cannot be Guaranteed
CMICS does not guarantee the privacy of material transmitted to CMICS via www.cmics.org, www.cmpcn.org or internet electronic mail. If this is a concern, you should communicate with CMICS by telephone at 1-888-670-7261 or write us at PO Box 411596 Kansas City, MO 64141.

Links
This website may contain links to other websites. Such third-party sites are maintained by persons or organizations over which CMICS exercises no control, and CMICS expressly disclaims any responsibility for the content thereof.

Agreement
These Terms of Use constitute an agreement between you and CMICS with respect to your use of the website. You acknowledge that, in providing you access to and use of this website, CMICS has relied on your agreement to be legally bound by these Terms of Use.

Questions
Questions regarding this policy should be directed to Brian Sweet, Manager of Technology Operations at 1-888-670-7261 or 816-399-4467.