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PDPH Health Information Portal Privacy Policy


PDPH Health Information Portal 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 PDPH Health Information Portal site and governs data collection and usage. By using the PDPH Health Information Portal site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

PDPH Health Information Portal collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. PDPH Health Information Portal 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 PDPH Health Information Portal. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by PDPH Health Information Portal for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the PDPH Health Information Portal site.

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

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

Use of your Personal Information

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

PDPH Health Information Portal does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. PDPH Health Information Portal may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering 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. In addition, PDPH Health Information Portal 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 PDPH Health Information Portal, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

PDPH Health Information Portal does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

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

PDPH Health Information Portal 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 PDPH Health Information Portal or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of PDPH Health Information Portal; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of PDPH Health Information Portal, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The PDPH Health Information Portal 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 PDPH Health Information Portal pages, or register with PDPH Health Information Portal site or services, a cookie helps PDPH Health Information Portal 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 PDPH Health Information Portal Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the PDPH Health Information Portal features that you customized.

You can 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 PDPH Health Information Portal services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

PDPH Health Information Portal secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. PDPH Health Information Portal 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 by encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

PDPH Health Information Portal will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. PDPH Health Information Portal encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how PDPH Health Information Portal is protecting your information.

Contact Information

PDPH Health Information Portal welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that PDPH Health Information Portal has not adhered to this Statement, please contact PDPH Health Information Portal at hip@phila.gov. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.