Website and Scheduling Site Privacy Policies
We understand the importance of privacy to our patients and web site visitors and are committed to helping them address those concerns. This policy is intended to advise you of the types of information that may be collected or you may choose to provide when accessing and using our website and scheduling site, what we do with that information and steps you can take to protect your privacy.
Generally, you are not required to provide personally identifiable information in order to access our website or view its publicly available contents. When you visit our website and scheduling site, we may use automated technology to collect and track aggregated data from our site's server regarding each website user’s experience. Information collected, in this way, such as how long you spend on our site, the pages you visit, your browser and operating system types and the name of your Internet service provider may be shared with third parties. It does not include your personally identifiable information. It is intended to helps us to improve website content and user experience. Our website may also set a piece of data called a “cookie” on your computer in order to personalize your experience with the website during your visit and in future visits. You can use your browser to control whether to accept cookies. If you elect to disable cookies, certain conveniences and services on the website may not be available.
Our web site provides the capability to request information on-line and may provide other interactive features. To process your request, we may require that you provide us with personal identifying information. All personally identifying information collected is held in complete confidence. It is our policy not to share the information with third parties for any reason, unless legally required to do so or as necessary to process your requests.
Our website may also provide secure access for our patients to perform such tasks as accessing the patient portal, reviewing their accounts, paying bills, etc. and other matters which require you to provide personally identifying information. In order to access these secure services, you will be required to establish an account and password.
We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the security of our website and to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your information. Those steps include limiting the nature of the information that we collect through the website and enabling appropriate technological protection. We may, in certain circumstances, employ third party vendors to assist us, such as a credit card processing vendor to securely process your payments.
However, you are in the best position to protect your personally identifiable information. Please take appropriate steps to ensure that your information is safe. Please do not post or publicly share your private information on our website or elsewhere and if you choose to share your private information, do so only with individuals or entities that have a legitimate purpose for the information and to the extent necessary.
Under no circumstance should you send your credit cardholder data to us via email or in any other manner other than through the secure payment portal that we have provided on our website. Cardholder data includes your primary account number, with or without your name, address, expiration date and security code. Email is not a secure way to share this information nor will we retrieve your credit cardholder data for purposes of processing your payment. If you wish to make an online payment, please click on the website’s Patient Resources and then Online Payments to do so.
It is recommended that you explore and implement practices and technology that may protect your private information that may reside on your personal computer, in your cloud based or other shared resource accounts and/or while that information is in transit.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or our use of information gathered through our website, please contact us by mail at:
Cornerstone Pediatrics, LLC
405 N 1st Street, Suite 109
Hermiston, OR 97838