Privacy Policy

Effective 04/20/2005.

Thank you for visiting Geriatric Services. Geriatric Services is committed to honoring the privacy of our members and visitors. This privacy policy, part of our overall Terms of Service covers personally identifiable information shared through the Geriatric Services' Web Site.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact the Geriatric Services, P.C. Privacy Department by sending an email to privacy@geriatricservices.net. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.

The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected through this Web site, and does not cover information that may be collected by sites linked to from the site.

 

Geriatric Services Privacy Policy

Geriatric Services takes your privacy seriously. We will not sell, lease or exchange your personal data to third parties in ways other than described in this privacy policy. This Privacy Policy is a part of the Geriatric Services Terms of Service policy. By using Geriatric Services, including services available at the geriatricservices.net domains, users are using a service provided by Geriatric Services, P.C. and they agree to be bound by the Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy. Some terms may be defined in the Terms of Service. This Privacy Policy only addresses activities from our servers.

  1. Information Collection & Use

    Registration

    When you engage in certain activities on this site, such as, but not limited to, registering for newsletters, requests for information, downloading news articles, health documents, GeriatricServices.net may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, GeriatricServices.net may ask that you provide us personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including zip code), e-mail address, employer, job title and department, telephone and facsimile numbers, and other personal identifying information. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.

    When you submit personal information to GeriatricServices.net on this site, you understand and agree that this information may be transferred across national boundaries and may be stored and processed in any of the countries in which GeriatricServices.net and its affiliates and subsidiaries maintain offices, including without limitation, the United States. You also acknowledge that in certain countries or with respect to certain activities, the collection, transferring, storage and processing of your information may be undertaken by trusted vendors of GeriatricServices.net.

    Server Logs

    When accessing web pages on the geriatricservices.net domain, Geriatric Services may log your IP address, access URL, time of access, browser type, and referral URL in order to provide us with internal information regarding site traffic statistics. This information may also be used to identify users who are using the service for spam or other activity that is deemed in conflict with our Terms of Service. This information is used in the aggregate, and is never linked back to any personally identifiable information.

  2. Uses of Information

    Geriatric Services collects the aforementioned personally identifiable information in order to provide you with a personalized service.

    Information collected through our service logs is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish statistical information regarding web site traffic. This statistical information is not aggregated in such a way that would identify any particular user of the system.

    Geriatric Services, P.C. is the sole owner of information collected on http://www.geriatricservices.net/. Your information is never shared, leased or given to any third parties in ways other than disclosed in this privacy statement.

  3. Information Security

    We store all user information in secure databases protected via a variety of industry-standard access controls. Secure passwords, SSL encryption, disk-based encryption, firewalls, and other measures are in place that help us protect your data. This data is accessed only for the purposes specified in this privacy statement.

  4. Access to Personally Identifiable Information

    Changing or Removing Information

    You have the right to access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences at any time. With respect to Registration Information, this may be accomplished by linking to your account at Edit Your Account, where you can view and make changes to your personal information. You may also access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences by writing or calling GeriatricServices.net at:

    Geriatric Services P.C.
    Personal Information Dept.
    69 South Broadway
    Yonkers, NY 10701 USA
    security@geriatricservices.net

  5. Communications from Geriatric Services, P.C.

    Service-related Announcements

    We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.

  6. Log Files

    As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

    We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

    We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

  7. Cookies

    Like most web sites, we use small bits of data called cookies stored on users' computers to simulate a continuous connection. Cookies let us 'remember' information about your preferences and passwords and allow you to move within our Service without reintroducing yourself.

    These cookies can be tied back to personally identifiable information only in the event that you are logged in to our service. If you are logged in to our service, the cookies on your computer will uniquely identify your account within our system.

  8. Links to Other Sites

    This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Geriatric Services, P.C. Please be aware that we, Geriatric Services, P.C., are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

    We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

    This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

  9. Business Transitions

    In the event Geriatric Services, P.C. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

  10. Legal Disclaimer

    We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

  11. Changes in this Privacy Statement

    If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

    We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by email.

  12. Contact Us

    Geriatric Services can be reached directly via mail at:

    Geriatric Services, P.C.
    RE: Privacy Concern
    69 South Broadway
    Yonkers, NY 10701.