Privacy and Security
Geriatric Services of America is committed to your
privacy.
Geriatric Services of America has created this privacy
statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment
to privacy. Geriatric Services of America does not
sell, rent, or otherwise distribute individual user
information to outside parties. The following discloses
our information gathering and dissemination practices
for this website.
Your privacy is important, so we'd like to explain
what information we collect when you visit Geriatric
Services of America, why we collect it and how it
is used. We'd also like to explain your options to
access and control your information, our data security
practices and other matters. This Policy is governed
by our Terms of Service.
What information do we collect from
you? Why?
We May Profile You Individually.
We may build a profile of your online habits, interests
and activities when you use our Site. This profile
is linked to your personal identity. We compile individual
profiles from "real world" contact information
(e.g., street address, phone/fax), e-mail addresses,
data relating to a specific purchase, demographic
information (e.g., gender, marital status, age, income,
job), the personal preferences of users (i.e., favorite
color, music, books), and we use these profiles for
the purposes described below (please scroll down to
each topic for details).
We may collect information needed
to contact you later:
If we collect personal contact information (as described
below), you may later access and modify it, but you
may not remove it from our system yourself. You may
choose simply not to provide personal contact information
by opting-out at the point of collection.
We May Collect Your Name, Address and Phone Number.
When you use our Site, we may request your name, street
address, telephone number or other "real world"
contact information. This information may reveal your
identity or be linked to you personally. We use this
information to complete and support the immediate
activity requested, customize and personalize content
to your request, tailor an instant offer to you during
your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests
or activities to treat you as an individual, build
individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis
and reporting, and to comply with any requirements
of law. This information may be aggregated with similar
data in a manner that does not reveal your personal
identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and
to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Your E-mail Address. We may request
your e-mail address or other information needed to
contact you online. This information may reveal who
you are or be linked to you personally. We use it
to complete and support the immediate activity requested,
customize and personalize content to your request,
market things to you in the future (other than by
telemarketing), build a profile of your habits, interests
or activities to treat you as an individual, build
individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis
and reporting, and to comply with any requirements
of law. This information may be aggregated with similar
data in a manner that does not reveal your personal
identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and
to our immediate agents.
We may collect other kinds of information
from you:
When you use our Site, we may collect personal information
about you described below. You may not later be able
to access, modify or remove the information. You may
choose simply not to provide actively gathered information
by opting-out at the point of collection.
We May Collect Information About Your Computer. When
you visit our Site, we may automatically collect information
about your computer configuration, such as your browser
type, operating system, IP address or ISP domain name.
In some cases, this information may reveal your identity
or be linked to you personally. We use this information
to complete and support the immediate activity requested,
improve the Site for everyone, and to comply with
any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed
only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Navigation and Clickstream Data. As
you browse our Site, we may gather navigational and
clickstream data that shows what pages are visited
and how long various features are used. This information
will not reveal your identity or be linked to you
personally. We use this information to customize and
personalize content to your request, market things
to you in the future (other than by telemarketing),
tailor an instant offer to your during your visit,
build a profile of your habits, interests or activities
to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles
for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, and
to comply with any requirements of law. This information
may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that
does not reveal your personal identity and may be
disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Interactive Data. You may decide to
input data while using certain interactive features
at our Site, such as queries submitted to a search
engine. This information will not reveal your identity
or be linked to you personally. We use this information
to customize and personalize content to your request,
market things to you in the future (other than by
telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during
your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests
or activities to treat you as an individual, build
individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis
and reporting, and to comply with any requirements
of law. This information may be disclosed only to
our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Demographic Data About You. We may
collect information about your demographic or social
characteristics, such as gender, age and income level.
This information may reveal your identity or be linked
to you personally. We use this information to customize
and personalize content to your request, market things
to you in the future (other than by telemarketing),
tailor an instant offer to you during your visit,
build a profile of your habits, interests or activities
to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles
for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, and
to comply with any requirements of law. This information
may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that
does not reveal your personal identity and may be
disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Keep Note of Your Personal Preferences. We
may gather information concerning your personal likes
and dislikes, such as your favorite color, taste in
music, books or other Site content. This information
may reveal your identity or be linked to you personally.
We use this information to market things to you in
the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an
instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile
of your habits, interests or activities to treat you
as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing
research, analysis and reporting, and to comply with
any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated
with similar data in a manner that does not reveal
your personal identity and may be disclosed only to
our staff and to our immediate agents.
Certain exceptional disclosures
We may disclose your information if necessary to
protect our legal rights or if the information relates
to actual or threatened harmful conduct. Disclosure
may be required by law or if we receive legal process.
What are cookies? Why do we use
them?
Cookies are small files stored by your browser in
your computer when you visit our Site. We use cookies
to improve our Site and make it easier to use. Cookies
permit us to recognize users and avoid repetitive
requests for the same information. We also use cookies
to help build a pseudonymous profile of your online
habits, interests and activities as you navigate our
site, which we use to individualize your visits. This
profile is not linked to your personal identity. We
also use cookies to help build a pseudonymous profile
of your online habits, interests and activities as
you navigate our site, which we use for general research,
analysis and reporting. We mostly use "session
cookies" that are automatically deleted after
each visit. Cookies from our Site can't be read by
other sites. Most browsers will accept cookies until
you change browser settings to refuse them.
How do we protect information we
collect?
We offer secure web pages to collect certain kinds
of user information and we store certain kinds of
data in encrypted form. We follow reasonable technical
and management practices to help protect the confidentiality,
security and integrity of data stored on our system.
While no computer system is completely secure, we
believe the measures implemented by our Site reduce
the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate
to the type of data involved.
How long do we keep user information?
We generally keep user data on our server or in our
archives for as long as we reasonably need it. We
may alter this practice according to changing requirements.
For example, we may delete some data if needed to
free up storage space. We may keep other data for
longer periods if the law requires it. In addition,
information posted in a public forum could stay in
the public domain indefinitely.
Data management requests are administered in an orderly
manner to the extent feasible and within our direct
control. Note: we have greater control over recently
collected data than for archived data. Once data is
removed from the system and archived, it may not be
feasible to accommodate specific requests. In those
cases, our general data retention policy applies.
Your consent to this policy
By using our Site, you agree to this Policy. This
is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it
supersedes any earlier version. Our Terms of Service
take precedence over any conflicting Policy provision.
We may change our Policy by posting a new version
on our Site.
Legal disclaimer
This Site operates AS-IS and AS-AVAILABLE, without
liability of any kind. We are not responsible for
events beyond our direct control.
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