Thank you for visiting StopPain.org. This website is sponsored by philanthropic
funding from visitors like you and organizations committed to the advancement
of pain and palliative care education. StopPain.org is operated by the
Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical
Center, New York.
Since your privacy is of utmost importance to us, and we want you to
feel comfortable viewing our healthcare information and using our interactive
services, we would you to know more about the information we gather
from visitors to our homepage. Please review this document, so you can
fully understand the terms and conditions under which we capture and
use that information.
This Privacy Policy applies only to StopPain.org and our online products.
Some of the links on our site connect to other websites. Once you exit
StopPain.org and enter another website, please be aware that any information
you disclose on or through those sites is not subject to our privacy
policy. StopPain.org does not endorse and is not responsible for the
privacy practices of third party websites to which we link. You should
always review the privacy policy for those sites to understand how they
treat your personal information.
By using StopPain.org or any of our interactive tools, listservs, email
newsletters, online conferences, web-based education, etc., you agree
to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will not share information about
individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process. It is also assuring for you to know that
StopPain.org does not sell or share any information about individual
users with third parties.
We gather two types of information about users:
- Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions,
i.e., by email and online registration forms. These are voluntary
submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, featured
manuals, CD-ROMs, slide kits, etc., to participate in our email discussion
groups, message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation
in online surveys.
- StopPain.org tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. Information we gather through aggregated tracking
is compiled from website statistical logs of page views, files and
directories accessed, and unique visitors to various sections of the
site. Sometimes we track and catalog the search terms that users enter
in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with
individual users. We do not track what individual users read but rather
the overall performance of each page. This information allows us to
better tailor our content to your needs and preferences and to help
our content providers better understand the demographics of our audience,
so they can continue to write information to meet your needs and interests.
- Cookies
If your computer allows, we may place a small text file, called a "cookie",
in your web browser’s files. We use cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our system delivers a one-time cookie
to better track pages visited and click rates. Cookies also help us
authenticate our users. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset
the browser to reject cookies.
- Electronic Newsletters and Direct Mailings
We offer free electronic newsletters to users and gather email addresses
of users who wish to subscribe. Email addresses are stored and utilized
for their intended purpose until users remove themselves from the our
mailing lists by following the links provided in each newsletter.
- Email Discussion Groups and Threaded Discussion Groups
This privacy policy does not protect you when you use any of StopPain.org’s
discussion groups. As a service, we feature online discussion groups.
Please be aware that information you post on any online discussion is
public and may be seen or collected by third parties that do not adhere
to our privacy policy. You should have no expectation of privacy when
you participate in an online discussion group.
- Interactive Products
Our slide compendium, web-based education modules, and other interactive
products may require online registration or online forms that health-care
professionals may submit to receive Continuing Medical Education units.
Beth Israel Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council
on Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical
education for physicians.
- Surveys
StopPain.org occasionally conducts user surveys to better target our
content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic
information in these surveys with our sponsors and partners. We never
share any of this information about specific individuals with any third
party, nor do we sell this information.
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental
consent.
StopPain.org uses an outside hosting company that operates secure data
networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection
systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed
and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals (Continuum
Health Partners personnel or designees of the health care system) have
access to the information provided by our customers.
If you have additional questions about our privacy policy, please email
us at StopPain@chpnet.org.
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