Privacy Policy

Vertical Media has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: HospitalNews.com.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your membership and to gather broad demographic information.

Our site uses cookies to keep track of your membership tools and to make sure you don’t see the same ad repeatedly. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your password so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We also provide an option to log out should you be using an insecure or publicly shared computer. Our site’s registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address) and demographic information (like their postal code, age, or income level). We use the customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information that they have requested from the member tools area of the site. The customer’s contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the visitor’s experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

This site contains links to other sites. HospitalNews.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Our site uses an ad form for customers to place online ads. We collect visitor’s financial information (like their account or credit card numbers). Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services. In addition, we do not store this information beyond the immediate transaction. Further ensuring your privacy and protection. Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information (like their postal code, age, or income level). We use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about our company. The customer’s contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor’s experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request information about the visitor. This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.

You can send email to Webmaster@www.hospitalnews.com
You can call the following telephone number: 905-532-2600 ext. 2235

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact

HN Webmaster
Vertical Media
610 Applewood Crescent
Vaughan, ON L4K 0E3
CANADA
info@hospitalnews.com