Online Privacy Policy

SPRENGER HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

This online privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is effective as of October 17, 2016.

Your privacy is important to Sprenger Healthcare (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, “SHCS” or “us”). This Privacy Policy discloses the information practices for SHCS’s and our affiliates’ websites, from what type of information about our websites’ users is gathered and tracked, to how the information is used, shared or otherwise processed offline. This Privacy Policy applies to SHCS websites that link to this Privacy Policy. From time to time, we may supplement this Privacy Policy with additional information relating to a particular interaction we have with you.

Collection of Personal Information

You may choose to give us personal information directly in a variety of situations. For example, you may want to give us your name and contact information to communicate with you, to order a product, to process an order, to register for a service, to provide you with a subscription, or to do business with us if you are a supplier or a business partner. You may also provide your credit card details to buy something from us or may share a description of your education and work experience in connection with a job opening at SHCS for which you wish to be considered. If you tell us that you do not want us to use your information to make further contact with you beyond fulfilling your request, we will respect your wishes.

From time to time, we may also collect information that pertains to you indirectly through other sources, such as list vendors. When we do so, we ask the vendors to confirm that the information was legally acquired by the third party and that we have the right to obtain it from them and use it. The information that we collect, either directly or indirectly, may be combined to help us improve its overall accuracy and completeness and to help us better tailor our interactions with you.

Fulfilling your Transaction Request

If you request something from SHCS, for example, a product or service, a callback, or specific marketing materials, we will use the information you provide to fulfill your request. To help us do this, we may share information with others, for instance, SHCS’s business partners, financial institutions, shipping companies, or postal or government authorities involved in fulfillment. In connection with a transaction, we may also contact you as part of our customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.

Personalizing your Experience on our Websites

We may use information we collect about you to provide you with a personalized experience on our websites, such as providing you with content in which you may be interested and making navigation on our sites easier.

Marketing

The information you provide to SHCS, as well as the information we have collected about you indirectly, may be used by SHCS for marketing purposes. You may at any time choose not to receive marketing materials from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each e-mail you may receive, by indicating so when we call you, or by contacting us directly. Some of our offerings may be co-branded, that is sponsored by both SHCS and third parties. If you sign up for these offerings, be aware that your information may also be collected by and shared with those third parties. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with their privacy policies to gain an understanding of the manner in which they will handle information about you.

Recruitment

In connection with a job application or inquiry, whether advertised on a SHCS website or otherwise, you may provide us with information about yourself, such as a resume. We may use this information throughout SHCS in order to address your inquiry or consider you for employment purposes. Unless you tell us not to do so, we may keep the information for future consideration.

Monitoring or Recording of Calls, Chats and Other Interactions

Certain online transactions may involve you calling us or us calling you. They may also involve online chats. Please be aware that it is SHCS’s general practice to monitor and in some cases record such interactions for staff training or quality assurance purposes or to retain evidence of a particular transaction or interaction.

Protect the Rights and Property of SHCS and Others

We may also use or share your information to protect the rights or property of SHCS, our business partners, suppliers, clients, or others when we have reasonable grounds to believe that such rights or property have been or could be affected. In addition, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, or the rights of others, or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our websites.

Sharing of Personal Information

From time to time, we may disclose information that identifies you at an individual level and which we collected on our websites to other non-SHCS entities that are not acting as our suppliers, such as our business partners. Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we will only do so with your prior consent. We do not sell or lease such information; however, circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons (for example if SHCS decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize businesses) where such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or the receipt of such information from sellers. It is SHCS’s practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions. Please be aware that in certain circumstances, personal information may be subject to disclosure to government agencies pursuant to judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process. We may also share your information to protect the rights or property of SHCS, our business partners, suppliers or clients, and others when we have reasonable grounds to believe that such rights or property have been or could be affected.

Information Security and Accuracy

We intend to protect your personal information and to maintain its accuracy. SHCS implements reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help us protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure. We also require that our suppliers protect such information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure.

Cookies, Web Beacons and Other Technologies

As mentioned above, we collect information from your visits to our websites to help us gather statistics about usage and effectiveness, personalize your experience, and tailor our interactions with you. We do so through the use of various technologies, including one called “cookies”. A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer as a tag that identifies your computer. While cookies are often only used to measure website usage (such as number of visitors and duration of visit) and effectiveness (such as topics visitors are most interested in) and to allow for ease of navigation or use and, as such, are not associated with any personal information, they are also used at times to personalize a known visitor’s experience to a website by being associated with profile information or user preferences. Over time this information provides valuable insight to help improve the user experience.

Cookies are typically categorized as “session” cookies or “persistent” cookies. Session cookies help you navigate through the website efficiently, keeping track of your progression from page to page so that you are not asked for information you have already provided during the current visit. Session cookies are stored in temporary memory and erased when the web browser is closed. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, store user preferences for current and successive visits. They are written on your device’s hard disk, and are still valid when you restart your browser. We use persistent cookies, for example, to record your choice of language and country location.

While SHCS websites at this time do not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, such as “do not track” instructions, you can generally express your privacy preferences regarding the use of most cookies and similar technologies though your web browser. Look under the heading “Tools” (or similar heading) in your particular browser for information about controlling cookies. You can set your browser in most instances to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or not. You can also generally set your browser to turn off cookies. Some SHCS websites may also use web beacon or other technologies to better tailor those sites to provide better customer service. These technologies may be in use on a number of pages across SHCS’s websites. When a visitor accesses these pages, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our suppliers. These web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If you don’t want your cookie information to be associated with your visits to these pages or use of these products, you can set your browser to turn off cookies or turn off cookies in the product itself, respectively. If you turn off cookies, web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages; however, they will not be associated with information otherwise stored in cookies. We may also include web beacons in marketing e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and links contained within clicked on.

Some of our business partners set web beacons and cookies on our site. In addition third-party social media buttons may log certain information such as your IP address, browser type and language, access time, and referring website addresses, and, if you are logged in to those social media sites, they may also link such collected information with your profile information on that site. We do not control these third party tracking technologies.

Online Advertising

SHCS does not deliver third party online advertisements on our websites but we may advertise our products and services on others’ websites. Please familiarize yourself with those website operators’ or network advertisers’ privacy policies to understand their practices relating to advertising, including what type of information they may collect about your Internet usage. We may also elect to engage certain third parties to manage some of our advertising on other sites. These third parties may use cookies and web beacons to collect information (such as your IP address) about your activities on SHCS’s and others’ websites to provide you targeted SHCS advertisements based upon your interests.

Links to Non-SHCS Websites and Third-Party Applications

To allow you to interact with other websites on which you may have accounts (such as Facebook and other social media sites) or join communities on such sites, we may provide links or embed third-party applications that allow you to login, post content or join communities from our websites. We may also provide you with general links to non-SHCS websites. Your use of these links and applications is subject to the third parties’ privacy policies, and you should become familiar with the third party sites’ privacy policies before using the links or applications.

SHCS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other websites. Any other content you post, such as pictures, information, opinions, or any other type of personal information that you make available to other participants on these social platforms or applications, is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Rather, such content is subject to the terms of use of those applications or platforms, and any additional guidelines and privacy information provided in relation to their use, as well as the process by which you can remove your content from such tools or get help to do so. You should be aware that the content you post on any such social computing platforms may be made broadly available to others inside and outside SHCS.

Notification of Changes

We will post a notice for 30 days at the top of this page notifying users when this Privacy Policy is updated or modified in a material way. If we are going to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we can use your personal information in such a way.

Privacy Questions and Access

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy or SHCS’s handling of your information, you can send an email to info@sprengerhealthcare.com. You can also contact us at (440) 989-5200.

SHCS’s Privacy Officer

Sprenger Healthcare
c/o Privacy Officer
3885 Oberlin Ave
Lorain, OH 44053

In certain cases, you may have the ability to view or edit your personal information online. In the event your information is not accessible online, and you wish to obtain a copy of particular information you provided to SHCS, or if you become aware the information is incorrect and you would like us to correct, please contact us at info@sprengerhealthcare.com.

Before SHCS is able to provide you with any information or correct any inaccuracies, however, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us to respond to your request. We will contact you within 30 days of your request. If you no longer wish to receive marketing e-mails from SHCS, please send an e-mail to sprengermarketing@sprengerhealthcare.com or follow the unsubscribe instructions included in each marketing email.