Privacy Policy

LHM Hospice & Social Services Foundation Privacy Policy
Last modified: October 4, 2023
Introduction

LHM Hospice & Social Services Foundation (the “Foundation,” “Company,” “We”)
respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide
when you visit the website http://www.lhm-foundation.org/ (“Website”) and our practices for
collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Us or
    any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
  • Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any
    application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or
    through the Website.

This privacy policy also does not apply to the collection of protected health information
(“PHI”). This website is not used for the collection or communication of PHI, and visitors to
the website must refrain from entering PHI in any part of the Website.

NOTE: The “Contact Us” form included on this website is not to be used for your
submission of PHI. It does not include appropriate security protections for doing so.
You agree that you will not submit PHI through the Contact Us form.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your
information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your
choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy
policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your
continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those
changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including
information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address,
    telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or
    offline (“personal information”); and
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage
    details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may
    include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web
    beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

    • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes
      information you provide when contacting us or requesting that we contact you. We may
      also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
    • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact
      us.
    • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
    • Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection
technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns,
including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other
    communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address,
    operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal
information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other
ways. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service,
including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website
    according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your
    computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting
    on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain
    parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse
    cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files
    known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that
    permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened
    an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of
    certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  • Google Analytics. We may use Google Analytics to optimize our Website based on the
    traffic we receive and assist with marketing. To learn more about Google Analytics,
    including options for opting out and/or managing the ads you may see online please visit:
    google.com/policies/privacy/partners. Additional information regarding online
    advertising is available at: https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-
    advertising/what-are-my-options. To learn more about targeted advertising and the
    choices available to you, visit Webchoices: Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer
    Choice Tool for Web US and NAI Consumer Opt Out.

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to
personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad
networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use
cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect
information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be
associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal
information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online
services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral)
advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have
any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the
responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted
advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your
Information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal
information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into
    between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or
    provide though it.
  • To contact you, when you request to be contacted by us.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify
any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy
policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring,
    reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of LHM Hospice &
    Social Services Foundation’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy,
    liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Foundation
    about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any
    government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or
    safety of the Foundation, our clients/patients, or others.

The categories of personal information we may disclose include:

  • Personal identifiers, including name, phone number, email address, and postal address.

The Foundation may “sell” your personal information, as that term is defined under certain state
consumer privacy laws in effect around the country. The third parties to whom we may “sell”
personal information include advertising networks and data analytics providers.

The categories of personal information we may “sell” include:

  • Website analytics data.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We
have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or
    some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
    If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some
    parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based
advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your
information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from
members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may send us an email at info@lhm-foundation.org or call us at 717-723-3996 to request
access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot
delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not
accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or
legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental
loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to
us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or
where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with
anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.
Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security
of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal
information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings
or security measures contained on the Website.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may
provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal
information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information
on this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address,
telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we
have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of
parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information
from or about a child under 18, please contact us at info@lhm-foundation.org.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that
the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to
how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website
home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You
are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you,
and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
info@lhm-foundation.org.
or

via 717-723-3996

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