Q-Based Healthcare Privacy Policy

Thanks for visiting Q-Based Healthcare and its divisions as well as reviewing our privacy policy! Our privacy policy is plain and simple.

We do collect some technical information when you visit to make your experience seamless. The section below explains how we handle and collect technical information when you visit our website.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

When you browse, read pages or download information on any Q-Based Healthcare websites, we automatically gather and store certain technical information about your visit. This information never identifies who you are. The information we collect and store about your visit is as follows:

  • The Internet domain (for example, "yourisp.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website);
  • The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) and operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access our site;
  • The date and time you access our site;
  • The pages you visit; and
  • If you linked to a Q-Based Healthcare website from another website, the address of that website.

This information is only used to help us make the site more useful for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We never track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Cookies

When you visit some websites, their webservers generate pieces of information known as cookies. Some cookies collect personal information to recognize your computer in the future. This is not the case at Q-Based Healthcare, where we only use non-persistent cookies or "per-session cookies." These cookies do not collect personal information on users and they are erased as soon as you leave our website.
Per-session cookies serve technical purposes like providing seamless navigation through Q-Based Healthcare sites. These cookies do not permanently record data and they are not stored on your computer's hard drive. Q-Based Healthcare cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active browser session. Again, once you close your browser, the cookie disappears.

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information -- like filling out a Contact Us form with personal information and submitting it to us through the website -- we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. We do not share the information you give us with anyone or any other company.

Site Security

  • For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we employ commercial software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
  • Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
  • Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Q-Based Healthcare Linking Policy

Q-Based Healthcare and its divisions link to many websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. Q-Based Healthcare and its divisions provide these links as a service to our users. When users link to an outside website, they are leaving the Q-Based Healthcare sites and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website(s).

Prohibitions

Q-Based Healthcare nor its divisions will link to any website exhibiting hate, bias or discrimination. Furthermore, we reserve the right to deny or remove any link containing misleading information or unsubstantiated claims, or determined to be in conflict with Q-Based Healthcare's mission or policies.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

The information posted on Q-Based Healthcare websites includes hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. Q-Based Healthcare and its divisions provide these links and pointers solely for our users' information and convenience. When users select a link to an outside website, they are leaving the Q-Based Healthcare domain and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website.

  • Neither Q-Based Healthcare nor its divisions control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information contained on a linked website.
  • Neither Q-Based Healthcare nor its divisions endorse the organizations sponsoring linked websites and we do not endorse the views they express or the products/services they offer.
  • Neither Q-Based Healthcare nor its divisions authorize the use of copyrighted materials contained in linked websites. Users must request such authorization from the sponsor of the linked website.
  • Neither Q-Based Healthcare nor its divisions are responsible for transmissions users receive from linked websites.
  • Neither Q-Based Healthcare nor its divisions guarantee outside websites comply with the requirements of Section 508 (Accessibility Requirements) of the Rehabilitation Act.

12/16/08 PWL