The Continuing Medical Education Department at Sacred Heart Medical Center has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and sponsorship. The Continuing Medical Education Department is the sole owner of the information collected and presented on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent your information to any third party. We collect information from our users at several different points on our website.
The Continuing Medical Education Department shall adhere to the policy framework of online internet activities or enduring material as defined by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. A full description of these policies may be found at the following web addresses:
The ACCME's Essential Areas and Their ElementsACCME Policies
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statement of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
This site has security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. There is no transmission of patient information on this website and therefore no implications to regulation by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and HIPAA are applicable.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this website so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under which circumstances, if any, that we disclose this information. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, users shall be notified by email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not to permit use of their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
The Continuing Medical Education Department does not share users' personally identifiable information with our partners. We do not share any anonymous or demographic information with any outside parties or partners.
The Continuing Medical Education Department uses opt-in email to communicate to our users major updates to the system, system outages, and any changes to our privacy policies.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact [email protected].
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our website.