All health and health-related information contained in this Mission Hospital Website is general in nature and should not be used as substitute for a visit with a health care professionalism not medical advice. Any health advice found here is intended to offer a general background for you to discuss your medical condition with your healthcare provider. Please consult your medical conditions, treatment and needs, and that of your family with a licensed physician or health care provider.
While Mission Hospital exercises every effort to ensure that the materials in its website are accurate and timely, this is not always possible. We encourage you to email us at info@missionshospital.net to verify critical information. These are provided for the convenience of the site user and should not be considered official. For complete information, we encourage you to contact the Mission Hospital
PLEASE BE AWARE that most information transmitted over the Internet is not secure and thus confidentiality cannot be guaranteed.
WEB LOG FILE DATA
When you visit our Websites, we learn much information about you. Of your information, we only store the following information about your visit: the IP address from which you access the Internet, the date and time, the Internet address of the Website from which you linked directly to our site, the name of the file or the words you searched, and the browser used to access our site. We use this information to measure the number of visitors to our site’s various sections and to identify system performance or problem areas. We also use this information to help us improve the content of our site to make it more useful for you.
You can volunteer to give us personal information by Usually, you can visit the Mission Hospital without submitting any information about yourself. If you filling out the forms on the site, sending us email, responding to a survey, signing up for our newsletter and by other means. Request for Appointment form, send us e-mail, respond to a survey, join our Online Community or otherwise subscribe to one of our online newsletters, then naturally we will have your name, e-mail address and other information you gave us voluntarily. We will use them only for replying to your message or forwarding the requested material. We do will not share this information with any other partners, affiliates or persons and organizations outside our organization.
“COOKIES” AND HOW WE USE THEM
Cookies are packets of information that any website transfers to a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. These are used to keep track of users’ preferences for content and alert them to new content areas. Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies if you do not want them tracking your preferences. However, many sites will not function well if you disable cookies.
The Mission Hospital website, and its auxiliary sites, set and access cookies. However, cookies are used only to enhance the usability of our site. We do not store any personal information from these cookies.
DATA SECURITY
Mission Hospital makes every reasonable effort to ensure that all of the transactions that occur on our website are secure.
THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
Mission Hospital engages reputable third-party vendors to help us manage our websites and allow us to provide better services to our patients and visitors. The hospital never shares with third parties any personally identifiable information you provide, except as required by law.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Mission Hospital may have links to other sites we think may be of interest to you. The purpose is to provide you with convenient access to other sites that might interest them. Linking to these sites does not imply our endorsement of the site’s content or services
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and we encourage you to be aware of that when you leave our site. Please read the privacy statements of sites linked to us.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
Mission Hospital uses the information you provide to fulfill your online request, facilitate customer service and inform you of our programs and events.
We do not rent or sell visitors’ personal information to third parties, such as marketers.
We do not share any third-party or personally identifiable information you provide with gifts in honor or memory of a loved one.
We do not share any personally identifiable information we may collect in surveys, although we may share aggregated survey results with analysts, as described above. The aggregate data cannot be used to identify individuals and participation in the survey is voluntary.
It is possible that we could be forced to disclose personally identifiable user information in response to a search warrant, subpoena, or court order. Such event can happen to any organization keeping records in the Philippines. Disclosures may also be appropriate to protect our legal rights and the security or integrity of our Web site, or to avoid liability.
WE URGE you not to provide any confidential information about your health to us via electronic communication. Discuss this information privately with your physician or health provider. If you do provide such health information electronically, you do so at your own risk.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Mission Hospital website is intended for adults and young adults age 13 and over. It is not intended for or designed to attract persons under the age of 13. We do not permit registration by, nor do we collect personally identifiable information from, any person we actually know to be under the age of 13.
DELETION AND REMOVAL OF INFORMATION
Information that is not personally identifiable will not be deleted from our aggregate database. Being a responsible Web site publisher, we maintain backup files as a protection against natural disasters, equipment failures, or other disruptions. Backup files protect you and us because they lower the risk of losing valuable data. Removing a record from our main files does not remove that record from any backup systems. It may take up to six months before all information in a backup record is completely erased through the normal recycling of backup files. But for as long as backup records exist, they receive the same privacy and security protections as our other records.
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS
Questions about our privacy policy may be directed to the Patient Relations Office