The Privacy of your personal information is important to the Fern Hill Center (“FHC”). To better protect your privacy, we provide you with our Internet Privacy Policy so that you will understand both our commitment to you and to your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes what information we may collect about you; how we use your information; how we protect it; and what choices you have on how that information is used. At FHC, we understand that you may provide us with information about you that you may consider to be sensitive, and we want you to feel as comfortable as possible visiting our various web sites and using their respective services.
We will post privacy policy changes on our Web sites in a timely manner.
The following articles make up our Privacy Policy. We hope that reading them gives you a clear idea of how we manage information regarding you. For immediate access to a particular topic, click on the title of that topic.
- Personal Information We Collect
- Use of Your Information
- Protection of Information; How FHC Handles Privacy Internally
- Your Privacy Choices
- Updating Your Personal Information and Contacting FHC
- Children’s Privacy
- Changes to the Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 5, 2020
The Fern Hill Center operates http://www.fernhillcenter.org and http://www.fernhillcenter.com (the “site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
1. Personal Information We Collect
In this section of our Privacy Policy, we discuss the different types of information we may collect about you, and the ways in which we collect information.
Information We Collect From Visitors
Visitors to each of our Web sites can access the Web site’s home page, and browse some areas of the site, without disclosing any personally identifiable information. We do track information provided to us by your browser, including the Web site you came from (known as the “referring URL”), the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you. On some of our sites, you must register with us to use portions of the site.
Information We Collect When You Register
Visitors registering for services on our Web sites are asked to provide us with identifying information, such as name, contact information, and other identifying information. On our registration screen, we clearly label which information is required for registration, and which information is optional and may be given at your discretion. You will also have the opportunity to opt-in to receive e-mail information.
Your Choice
By using this site, you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever you submit information to this site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Other Information
We also collect information that you voluntarily provide to us through responses to surveys, polling, questionnaires, and the like. When you are using a forum or message board on our Web sites, you are posting a message with your user name available for all registered users to see. When you are posting publicly, any user of our Web site can see your message. You should not post any information you want to keep private to a forum board or any other public forum on our Web sites.
In addition, like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Systems
Cookies are a technology used by the FHC Web sites to identify a user as the user moves through our Web sites. Your browser allows us to place some information on your computer’s hard drive that identifies the computer you are using. We use cookies to personalize our Web sites and to track your usage across all of our Web sites.
Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. If your browser is set to reject cookies, Web sites that are cookie enabled will not recognize you when you return to the Web site, and some Web site functionality may be lost; for example, our Web sites may not be able to authenticate you, and you may not be able to access parts of the Web sites.
The Help section of your browser will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies.
Cookies do not normally contain personally identifiable information. If you have provided us information about yourself, we may associate your registration information with cookies our Web site places on your computer’s hard drive. Associating a cookie with your registration data allows us to offer increased personalization and functionality. For example, you will be able to use all of our sites after you have signed in to one of our sites. Without cookies, this functionality is not possible.
2. Uses We Make of Information
In this section of our Privacy Policy, we identify the ways we may use information about you that we have collected.
Aggregate Data
We create aggregate data about visitors to our Web sites for the development and improvement of activities. We also use it for market analysis. We may provide information from our Web sites in aggregate form, with identifying information removed, to third parties. For example, we may tell a third party what percentage of our registered users reside in a particular geographical area. When aggregate protected information is provided, we pool it from many individual records and strip it of any data that could be used to identify an individual before it is used. Any third party that receives aggregated protected data must agree not to attempt to re-identify the people it belongs to. Depending on our agreement with the third parties, we may or may not charge for this information.
3. Protection of Information
How FHC Handles Privacy Internally
In this section of our Privacy Policy, we discuss the security measures we take to protect information that we have collected about you.
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and ensure correct use of information we collect online.
General Policies
We have implemented technology and security policies, rules, and other measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss.
FHC uses security methods to determine the identity of its registered users so that appropriate rights and restrictions can be enforced for that user. Reliable verification of user identity is called authentication. FHC uses both passwords and usernames to authenticate users. Users are responsible for maintaining their own passwords.
We regularly update our technology to help protect your personal information. However, such precautions do not guarantee that our Web site is invulnerable to all security breaches. We make no warranty, guarantee, or representation that use of our Web site is protected from all viruses, security threats or other vulnerabilities and that your information will always be secure.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
In addition to aggregate information (discussed previously), we may share some kinds of information with third parties as described below.
Companies and People Who Work for Us: We contract with other companies and individuals to help us provide services. For example, we may host some of our Web sites on another company’s computers, hire technical consultants to maintain our Web-based health sites, or work with companies to remove repetitive information from customer lists, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, and provide customer service. In order to perform their jobs, these other companies may have limited access to some of the personal information we maintain about our users. We require all such companies to comply with the terms of our privacy policies, to limit their access to any personal information to the minimum necessary to perform their obligations, and not to use the information they may access for purposes other than fulfilling their responsibilities to us. We use our best efforts to limit the use of other companies in areas where personally identifiable information may be involved.
- Legal Requirements: We may release account and other personal information when we believe release is required to comply with law. We may release protected information, if, in our judgment after review by an attorney, the release is compelled by law or regulation, or if the release may be necessary to prevent the death or serious injury of an individual.
4. Your Privacy Choices
When you complete Registration of your Profile, you will have the choice to opt-in to receiving recurring informational/promotional e-mails from FHC. You may opt-out from receiving these e-mails at any time. You can unsubscribe from such e-mails very easily by sending an email with the subject unsubscribe to admin@fernhillcenter.org. FHC will then unsubscribe you from receiving such e-mails.
5. Updating Your Personal Information and Contacting FHC
You can also contact us in order to change your preferences or delete your personal information that you have provided us by e-mailing us at admin@fernhillcenter.org.
6. Children’s Policy
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. You should be aware that this Site is not intended or designed to be used by children under the age of 13 except under the supervision of a parent. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know is a child under the age of 13 and advise all children to use the site under parental guidance.
7. Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of April 5, 2020 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.