The HealthCare Connection

The HealthCare Connection Privacy Statement

We make no effort to identify public users of our site. No identifying data is disclosed to any third party for any purpose. Data that we collect is used only for server administration and Web protocol research.

This statement applies to interactions with the HealthCare Connection web site. It does not apply to email sent to THCC staff or lists. Email interactions are guided by general net-etiquette conventions.

As is typical, we log http requests to our server. This means that we know the originating IP (e.g., 10.50.12.100) address of a user agent requesting a URL. We also know the Referer and User-Agent information accompanied with an HTTP request. We do not log the specific identify of visitors. We occasionally analyze the log files to determine which files are most requested and the previous site or user agent which prompted the request. Our logging is passive; we do not use technologies such as cookies to maintain any information on users.

Logged information is kept indefinitely as administrative and research material; it is not disclosed outside of THCC host site personnel. Aggregate (completely non-identifying) statistics generated from these logs may be reported as part of research results.

Questions about this notice can be directed to sandyh@healthcare-connection.org.

Statement created: March 2008