Privacy Statement - Texas Hospital Association

Texas Hospital Association (which, for purposes of this document, any reference includes all THA corporate affiliates and subsidiaries) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Texas Hospital Association Web site and any THA family of companies site, which includes THT, HOSPAC, THA Member Solutions, and other THA-affiliated entity web site, and governs data collection and usage. By using the Texas Hospital Association website, or any THA family of companies website (THT, HOSPAC, THA Member Solutions, and other THA-affiliated site), you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Your Personal Information

Texas Hospital Association collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Texas Hospital Association also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Texas Hospital Association. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Texas Hospital Association for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Texas Hospital Association Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Texas Hospital Association public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Texas Hospital Association does not read any of your private online communications.

Texas Hospital Association encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Texas Hospital Association so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Texas Hospital Association is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Texas Hospital Association and Texas Hospital Association family of companies Web sites.

Use of Your Personal Information

Texas Hospital Association collects and uses your personal information to operate the Texas Hospital Association Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Texas Hospital Association also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Texas Hospital Association and its affiliates. Texas Hospital Association may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Texas Hospital Association does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. However, the Texas Hospital Association may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of, or in conjunction with, external business partners about a particular offering by external business partners that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party without your consent. In addition, Texas Hospital Association may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Texas Hospital Association, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Texas Hospital Association does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Texas Hospital Association keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Texas Hospital Association, in order to determine what Texas Hospital Association services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Texas Hospital Association to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Texas Hospital Association Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Texas Hospital Association or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Texas Hospital Association; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Texas Hospital Association, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Texas Hospital Association Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Texas Hospital Association pages, or register with Texas Hospital Association site or services, a cookie helps Texas Hospital Association to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Texas Hospital Association Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Texas Hospital Association features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Texas Hospital Association services or Web sites you visit.

Security of Your Personal Information

Texas Hospital Association secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Texas Hospital Association secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

THA Advocacy App and Your Privacy

The THA Advocacy App collects these data types: Precise Location, Customer Support, User ID, Device ID, Product Interaction, Crash Data, Performance Data, and Other Diagnostic Data. All information collected is used for app functionality. This data is not linked to the user’s identity and is not used for tracking purposes. THA does not retain access to any data collected.

Changes to This Statement

Texas Hospital Association will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Texas Hospital Association encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Texas Hospital Association is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Texas Hospital Association welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Texas Hospital Association has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Texas Hospital Association at [email protected]. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND Texas Hospital Association

The Texas Hospital Association Web Site is comprised of various Web pages operated by Texas Hospital Association and its corporate affiliates and subsidiaries.

The Texas Hospital Association Web Site is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the Texas Hospital Association Web Site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.

MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE

Texas Hospital Association (which, for purposes of this document, includes THA corporate affiliates and subsidiaries, such as THT, HOSPAC, THA Member Solution, and others) reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Texas Hospital Association Web Site is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the Texas Hospital Association Web Site.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

The Texas Hospital Association Web Site may contain links to other Web Sites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Texas Hospital Association and Texas Hospital Association is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Texas Hospital Association is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. Texas Hospital Association is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Texas Hospital Association of the site or any association with its operators.

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

As a condition of your use of the Texas Hospital Association Web Site, you warrant to Texas Hospital Association that you will not use the Texas Hospital Association Web Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Texas Hospital Association Web Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Texas Hospital Association Web Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Texas Hospital Association Web Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Texas Hospital Association Web Sites.

USE OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES

The Texas Hospital Association Web Site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, tele- or audioconferencing services, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:

Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.
Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer.
Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages.
Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.
Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.
Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent.
Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

Texas Hospital Association has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Texas Hospital Association reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Texas Hospital Association reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

Texas Hospital Association reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Texas Hospital Association’s sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Texas Hospital Association does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, Texas Hospital Association specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized Texas Hospital Association spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Texas Hospital Association.

Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.

MATERIALS PROVIDED TO Texas Hospital Association OR POSTED AT ANY Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE

Texas Hospital Association does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Texas Hospital Association (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Texas Hospital Association Web Site or its associated services (collectively “Submissions”). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Texas Hospital Association, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Texas Hospital Association is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in Texas Hospital Association’s sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.

LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. Texas Hospital Association AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE AT ANY TIME. ADVICE OR INFORMATION RECEIVED VIA THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PERSONAL, BUSINESS, MEDICAL, LEGAL OR FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE TAILORED TO YOUR SITUATION.

Texas Hospital Association AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. Texas Hospital Association AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL Texas Hospital Association AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF Texas Hospital Association OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE Texas Hospital Association WEB SITE.

SERVICE CONTACT: [email protected]

TERMINATION/ACCESS RESTRICTION

Texas Hospital Association reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Texas Hospital Association Web Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. GENERAL To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Washington, U.S.A. and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in San Mateo County, California, U.S.A. in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Texas Hospital Association Web Site. Use of the Texas Hospital Association Web Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Texas Hospital Association, or its affiliates and subsidiaries, as a result of this agreement or use of the Texas Hospital Association Web Site. Texas Hospital Association’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Texas Hospital Association’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Texas Hospital Association Web Site or information provided to or gathered by Texas Hospital Association with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Texas Hospital Association with respect to the Texas Hospital Association Web Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Texas Hospital Association with respect to the Texas Hospital Association Web Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent an d subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be drawn up in English.

COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK NOTICES:

TRADEMARKS

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

The example companies, organizations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

NOTICES AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement under United States copyright law should be sent to Service Provider’s Designated Agent. ALL INQUIRIES NOT RELEVANT TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE WILL RECEIVE NO RESPONSE. See Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.