Our Commitment to Privacy

Lenox Hill Hospital is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This Web Site Privacy Statement is intended to disclose and describe the privacy practices of our Web site so that you will be empowered to make informed decisions about submitting information online. We have provided a link to this Web Site Privacy Statement on every page of our Web site so that it will be easy for our users to find and access.

Your use of our Web site constitutes you acceptance of and agreement to be bound by the provisions of this Web Site Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to terms and conditions of this Web Site Privacy Statement, please exit our Web site immediately.

As we implement new technology and introduce new services, we may need to revise this Web Site Privacy Statement. Your continued usage of our Web site after any revision(s) to this Web Site Privacy Statement shall constitute your acceptance of the revised Web site Privacy Statement. We encourage you to refer to this Web Site Privacy Statement frequently; any revisions to this Web Site Privacy Statement will be highlighted in the space immediately below.

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The Information We Collect

The only personally identifiable information that Lenox Hill Hospital obtains about visitors to our Web site is information that you supply voluntarily. Specifically, in certain areas of our Web site, we ask that you provide your name and mailing address. Your provision of this information is necessary to allow us to provide you with certain services including sending you certain health-related mailings prepared by us, such as newsletters with articles about both general health and wellness issues, as well as specific health and medical conditions, and information about services offered at Lenox Hill Hospital, and to invite you to lectures and other events regarding general health and wellness topics offered by Lenox Hill Hospital.

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Use of the Information We Collect

By using our Web site, you grant us the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store and use your information in the manner provided in this Web Site Privacy Statement. Accordingly, for example, if you register to receive any mailings or invitations from us, we will use the information you provide us in order to provide those services to you. We also use the information you provide to analyze usage of, and conduct trend analysis with respect to, our Web Site.

In addition, we reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we reasonably believe to be unlawful, and to release to such agencies information about users of our Web site who we reasonably believe to be engaged in or involved with such activities.

Finally, in the unlikely event that Lenox Hill Hospital is (or all or substantially all of our assets are) acquired by a third party, merges with a third party, or is bankrupt or ceases operations and dissolves, you should expect that your information will be transferred to a third party.

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Removing or Changing Your Information

We offer the following options for you to remove or change the information you have provided to us: (i) send an e-mail to communityrelations@lenoxhill.net; or (ii) call (212) 434-3150.

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E-mail

We may use your e-mail address to: (i) contact you about matters related to administration of our Web site (such as confirming any changes to any personal information you provided to us); and (ii) send you information that you requested be sent to you via e-mail.

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Cookies

Unlike most Web sites, our Web site does not use "cookies." However, Web sites to which we provide links may use cookies when you visit their Web sites. We are unable to control the use of cookies by those Web sites, and thus recommend that you review their privacy statements before using them.

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IP Address Tracking

An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet/World Wide Web. All computer identification on the Internet is conducted using IP addresses, which allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. If you access a page on our Web site, we enter your IP address into a log. To protect your privacy, we do not associate IP addresses with any records we may have that contain personally identifiable information. We use your IP address to administer our Web site and to collect aggregate information about Web site usage in order to identify popular areas of our site and enhance performance planning.

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Our Commitment to Privacy and Security

Lenox Hill Hospital employs strict security measures to safeguard online communications. All personal information is stored on a secured server. However, we do not warrant or represent that information submitted to our site will be protected against loss, misuse or alteration by third parties.

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Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is very important to Lenox Hill Hospital. For that reason, we never collect or maintain personally identifiable information from anyone we actually know to be under age 13, and no part of our Web site is structured to attract anyone under age 13.

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Links to Other Websites

In order to provide our visitors with other valuable information, Lenox Hill Hospital may provide links to Web sites operated by third-parties. However, we exercise no authority over and are not responsible for any of these third-party sites, each of which maintains independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures and each of which is responsible for its own content. These destination links are provided only for your convenience and, as such, you access them at your own risk. However, we wish to assure the integrity of our site and our destination links, so any comments pertaining to our site or any sites accessed through our site's destination links would be greatly appreciated. Lenox Hill Hospital assumes no responsibility or liability for these independent methods or actions, and is not responsible for the independent policies or procedures, of destination sites.

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How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Web site Privacy Statement, please contact us by e-mail addressed to: communityrelations@lenoxhill.net.

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