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The Methodist Hospitals, Inc. is committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our Web site and is committed to adhering to federal and state privacy laws and industry guidelines in order to protect you and your identity. This policy describes how we handle information obtained from you in the course of a visit to the Methodist Hospitals, Inc. Web site.

Linking Policy:

This policy pertains only to the Methodist Hospitals, Inc. Web site. Our Web site has links to other sites. Methodist Hospitals exercises no authority over third-party sites that users may link to from our site. Each of these sites maintains its own independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. Methodist Hospitals assumes no responsibility or liability for these independent methods or actions and is not responsible for the policies or procedures of destination sites. Nor do we assume responsibility for the privacy policies or procedures of any site that links users to us. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each Web site that requests personal information from you. Methodist Hospitals is not responsible for information or advice provided by others, including those we link to from this site.

Feel free to link to the Methodist Hospitals Web site.

Methodist Hospitals reserves the right to determine sites to which it will link. Due to the volume of requests submitted, requests for reciprocal links are limited.

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Permission to use material from this Web site / Reprints / Copyright

Methodist Hospitals retains copyright on the content of this site, unless otherwise noted. Information and materials copyrighted by the Methodist Hospitals are for noncommercial use only.

Reprint or reuse of information from this site without change

Individuals or organizations may reprint or reuse information on this site, provided:

• The information is used without change.
• The following credit is included:
  Reproduced with the permission of Methodist Hospitals.
  Copyright 2004 Methodist Hospitals, www.methodisthospitals.org

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Active Information Collection:

The Methodist Hospitals, Inc. Web Site does not collect any personally identifiable information unless you voluntarily supply it as part of a request. We only collect this information if you apply for a position using the online resume feature of the web site. We only use this information to process your request and do not share this information with any third parties without your specific consent.

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Passive Information Collection:

Like most web sites, as you navigate through our web site, certain information is collected that you do not actively provide. This information is collected in Log Files and provide information on how visitors use our site. This information may include the origins of web traffic, the types of internet browsers and internet service providers our visitors use, and how users navigate through our site. We do not use these log files to collect information about the specific identity of any visitor to our Web site. This information is used to improve our site and to make it more useful for the visitors to our site.

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Cookies:

A “cookie” is a small file that a web site may transfer to a user’s hard drive. These cookies are used to make it easier for visitors to take advantage of dynamic features of a web site. The Methodist Hospitals, Inc. Web Site does not use cookies on our web site.

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Security of Information:

We work hard to protect the personal information that you provide when you submit an online resume to the Methodist Hospitals, Inc. The personally identifiable information we collect is securely stored within our databases, and we use standard, industry-wide procedures such as encryption, firewalls and SSL (Secure Socket Layers) to protect information. However, as effective as this technology is, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot totally guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information supplied by you to our web site will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

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Changes to our Privacy Policy:

Our privacy policy is subject to change. If our privacy policy changes, we will post the changes on this web site to ensure that our visitors are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Web Site, please contact us at:

webmaster@methodisthospitals.org

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