Privacy Policy Health Grades, Inc. is committed to protecting your privacy. Because your privacy is important to us, we provide you with this notice explaining our information practices. What information is collected by Health Grades, Inc., how is it used, and who has access to it? Health Grades, Inc. does not require you to provide us with any personally identifiable information about yourself prior to your accessing the Health Grades, Inc. Web Site. The only information Health Grades, Inc. obtains about visitors to our site is information supplied voluntarily by visitors. Health Grades, Inc. uses the information you voluntarily provide us to enable you to assess the quality of medical care you receive from your health provider. We compile information provided by visitors about their health care provider and care to help visitors determine the quality of their care and provider and to rate health care providers. Visitors also may post comments about a particular health care professional. Health Grades, Inc. will not disclose any personally identifiable information (i.e., information that can be used to identify you such as your name or e-mail address) you provide us without your permission. Health Grades, Inc. may disclose information you provide us in combination with others' information in a form that does not allow the recipient to relate the information directly to you (i.e., anonymous aggregated data). We monitor who among our employees accesses information provided to us by visitors to the Health Grades, Inc. Web Site, and we require the employees who may access visitor information to execute confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements prohibiting the employees from disclosing visitor information to anyone. If pursuant to a legal or administrative proceeding Health Grades, Inc. or its employees are ordered to disclose personal information about you, to the extent possible Health Grades, Inc. will promptly notify you of the order prior to disclosing any personal information you may have voluntarily provided to us. What are Cookies and How Do We Use Them? A cookie is a small data file that attaches to a user's browser when the user first visits a web site and is stored on the user's computer's hard drive. By enabling us to identify repeat visitors to the Health Grades, Inc. Web Site, cookies help us prevent "gaming" of a health care provider's performance rating by visitors who complete multiple surveys for one provider. Cookies also enable us to track the frequency with which use certain parts of the Health Grades, Inc. Web Site. We do not use cookies to relate your use of our web site to any information about you that you have provided to us. Security Health Grades, Inc. has adopted measures to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information provided to us through the Health Grades, Inc. Web Site, and stores such information in a secure database. Because visitors generally do not provide Health Grades, Inc. with personally identifiable information, Health Grades, Inc. does not transmit information via encrypted Internet channels. Close this window to return to the survey
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