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May 13, 2008

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PRIVACY STATMENT
(If you want to learn about Cooley Dickinson Health Care Corporation's Patient Care Privacy Policies, please click here to view our Notice of Privacy Practices.)

E-Mail
If you email us your email identifier name and email address will be stored in our database. Although we have taken steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally-identifiable information that you may provide via email, please understand that electronic transmissions via the Internet are not necessarily secure from interception and so we cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of such transmissions. Please see our "Notice of Privacy Practices" for additional information.

Please do not provide any health information, confidential or otherwise, about yourself, your family or any other person known to you, via email.

We do not share, sell or rent email identity name or email or physical address information with any other partners, vendors, affiliates or members that is not affiliates with the Cooley Dickinson Health Care Corporation.

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Cookies
A cookie is a very small text file placed on your hard drive by a Web Page server. It is essentially your identification card, and can NOT be executed as code or deliver viruses. It is uniquely yours and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. Cooley Dickinson uses cookies to store user-defined settings to allow for customizable web pages including layout options such as user-defined font size.

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Information We Collect
We collect no personal information about you when you visit this Web site, unless otherwise stated or unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically. What we collect and store automatically is:

The Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g., 123.456.789.012) whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
The date and time you access our site
The pages you peruse (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page)
Your computers Operating System
The web browser and browser version you used to access the Site
And, the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to the Site, or the search engine and search string used to find the Site.

We use the summary statistics in aggregate to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

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Contact Information
The information on our Web site is managed and coordinated by the Cooley Dickinson Hospital Public Affairs & Marketing Department, in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. Questions, concerns or suggestions about this privacy policy or the practices of this site should be directed to:
Elise_Ames@Cooley-Dickinson.org

You can also contact us via U.S. mail at:
Public Affairs & Marketing
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
30 Locust Street
Northampton, MA 01061-5001

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	E-mail
	Cookies
	Information We Collect
	Contact Information

Cooley Dickinson Hospital

30 Locust Street (Route 9) Northampton, MA, 01061-5001

(413) 582-2000