Privacy Statement
Your privacy as a visitor to houstonmedcenter.com is important to us. Information that you supply to us will not be sold or distributed to third parties. This information will never be sold, rented or given to any advertiser, direct marketer or other external party. No third parties will have access to any information you supply and you will not receive any unsolicited e-mail from us.
Please review our policy statement, which has been developed to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of our visitors.
Website Purpose and Overview of Policy
The mission of houstonmedcenter.com is to provide quality and relevant information to both the public and medical services personnel. We seek to provide information on:
- Health care topics.
- Health care news.
- Research programs in the Texas Medical Center.
- Information about Texas Medical Center facilities.
- Information and services to those employed in the medical services field.
Our purpose is to present news and information on these topics and more so that our visitors can better educate themselves and improve their physician-patient relationship.
Information provided at houstonmedcenter.com is for information purposes only. The information presented is not a diagnosis nor is intended to replace or substitute that of a licensed physician or medical personnel.
Houstonmedcenter.com only stores and maintains data about individual visitors based upon information voluntarily supplied by such visitors. Personally identifiable information provided by visitors (e-mail, name, address, etc.) is never disclosed or sold to third parties and is not internally used to send unsolicited content unless the expressly indicated by the user.
Private e-mail
Private e-mail sent to houstonmedcenter.com will not be posted on the site. Email received by houstonmedcenter.com will remain private. However, we reserve the right to reply to a popular topic by removing all identifying clues from a received message so that question can be answered publicly.
Cookies
We prefer the Chocolate Chip Espresso Cookies from Whole Foods, but alas they have stopped carrying them. If you have a good recipe please let us know.
Seriously, cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual's browser cache for confirmation and personalization purposes. Houstonmedcenter.com does not use cookies for the collection of any personal information.
External Links
In order to provide visitors with greater value, houstonmedcenter.com may provide links to various third party Web sites. Houstonmedcenter.com holds no authority over externally linked sites even if a third-party affiliation exists between houstonmedcenter.com and the external site. Each external site will have a privacy policy impendent of houstonmedcenter.com.
Houstonmedcenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for external and independent sites and is not responsible for the independent policies or procedures of externally linked sites.
Houstonmedcenter.com cannot take responsibility for the privacy policies or the content of such external web sites. External links are provided only for our visitors' convenience, and visitors use them at their own risk.
Any comments or feedback pertaining to external links accessed through houstonmedcenter.com can be submitted to our site via email.
Third Party Affiliations and Partnerships
We may develop partnerships and affiliations with third parties that offer products or services we believe are pertinent to the interest of houstonmedcenter.com visitors. These relationships may or may not result in compensation for these products or services.
We never provide internally registered user information about houstonmedcenter.com users to any third party affiliates or companies with which we have a partnership agreement.
Site Funding
Houstonmedcenter.com is independent and self-supporting and does not reflect any particular institutional or educational viewpoint.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of houstonmedcenter.com, or your interaction with our Web service, please contact us by E-mail. hmcinfo – at – houstonmedcenter.com. (Please replace the hyphenation with the @ sign)
Thank you,
HMC Staff
