Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest quality services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with visitors to our site. The Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site.

What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.

1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide

Email Information
If you choose to correspond further with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone

Newsletter Subscription
If you choose to become a subscriber to the email newsletters provided through our Web site, we will collect specific information provided by you to process your subscription form. This data that you supply as a subscriber to the newsletters will allow us to subsequently forward email newsletters to you. We will also track your relevant usage of the email newsletters sent to you, but we will use the information obtained from tracking usage only to help us learn which articles are of interest to you to provide more useful and informative newsletters. If you decide that you do not wish to receive any more newsletters from us then you may de-list or "opt-out" by emailing us at kimt@heartdoctors.net or by following the simple instructions sent with each email newsletter.

1. Web Site Use Information

Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.

What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's Web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies and Web Server Logs?
We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Web site users' browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site to better meet the needs of our visitors.

Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our Web site's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.

1. Sharing Information

As a general rule, except as disclosed herein, we will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your consent or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

What Are Your Choices Regarding Information?
You have choices regarding cookies. By changing your browser preferences, you can choose to accept all cookies, to receive notice when a cookie is set or to reject all cookies.

Email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as social security numbers to us through an unsecured email.

Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about Web site traffic patterns and related Web site information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data.

Our email newsletters will be coordinated through an outside third party that will have access to all of the information that you provide through the subscription form, as well as your usage of the newsletters. By contract, this third party has agreed that it will not use or disclose the information obtained through the subscription form or regarding your usage of the newsletters except as necessary to send you the email newsletters.

What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.

1. How Do We Protect Your Information?

Information Security. We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction. Unfortunately, however, no information is 100% secure when transmitted over the Internet. Once we receive your information, we use our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.

Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of your information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.

1. How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing acr@heartdoctors.net

1. What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

1. Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally-identifiable information from any person we know is a child under the age of 13. Our site is not intended or designed to attract children. If we discover that we have received any information from a child under age 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately.

1. Your Consent

By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.