Notice of Privacy

This website is provided by Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital. The following notice of privacy is meant to provide you with information concerning how we handle your personal data when you access our website.

Marina del Rey Hospital respects patient privacy and is committed to earning your trust and confidence. We take the privacy of our users very seriously, which is why we are committed to protecting your personal information and providing you with a comprehensive guide concerning the data we collect while you visit our website, how we use it, as well as your rights to review, correct, and remove this information. The following statement applies exclusively to our website, marinahospital.com.

This website collects only the personal information that you choose to provide, and Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital uses the information only for its legitimate business purposes. Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information to third parties for their purposes (personally identifiable information means any information by which you can be identified, such as your name, address, telephone number etc.

Marina del Rey Hospital also complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.

Information which is collected automatically

Upon accessing our website, information concerning your device, such as your operating system, your IP address, the browser you are visiting marinahospital.com from, the date and time you access it, the time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the status of access, the transferred volume of data, your browser name and version, language settings, as well as the referring website will automatically be collected. We may also collect information regarding your activity on our website, such as the pages you visit and the links you click on.

However, while this data may be analyzed for statistics or to determine trends, you will remain anonymous and the information will be stored for a short period of time to protect our legitimate interests.

Personal information you voluntarily submit

As for personal information, also known as personally identifiable information, which refers to data such as your name, telephone number, address, or social security number, Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital never collects it without your consent. When you choose to provide your personal information, we will only use it for legitimate business purposes and will not share, sell, or distribute it to any third party unless you explicitly authorize us to do so.

There are multiple ways you can choose to submit personal information to our website, such as:

• creating a user profile which allows you to pay your bills and access your medical records via our patient portal
• applying for a job at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital by filling out the form in our careers section
• filling out a form to request a medical appointment with one of our specialists
• applying for our weight loss mentor program
• subscribing to our newsletter, which requires your e-mail address

Whether you decide to provide Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital with personal information is entirely your choice. Nevertheless, it is important to note that, if you refuse to submit your data, you will be unable to access certain services and content available on our website.

Information we receive from other sources

We may collect information from other sources in some cases. For instance, if you use a third-party software to access our website, it may transfer your data to us for fulfillment.

Cookies

Marina del Rey Hospital uses cookies, which are small data files your browser stores to provide you with a more personalized experience every time you visit our website. Both session and persistent cookies might be in use on marinahospital.com. The former expire when you close your browser, whereas the latter remain in the memory of your terminal until they are purposefully deleted. While the employment of certain cookies is necessary, as their absence would greatly hinder the functionality of our website, we also use optional cookies, for which we need your consent. Therefore, you can choose to deactivate optional cookies and navigate the website without them. For additional information regarding cookie settings, please read the section with the same name below.

It is worthy of note that cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information. Nonetheless, Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital reserves the right to change our use of cookies and our practices regarding linkage to this kind of data without any prior notification.

As mentioned above, the information we automatically collect when you access marinahospital.com has the sole purposes of developing statistics, analyzing traffic trends, and tracking visiting patters. This helps us gain a better understanding of how people use our website. Furthermore, it allows us to permanently improve our website so that it can serve visitors in a more effective and useful way. We currently use Google Analytics to keep track of the audience of our website and enhance our content, which does not collect any personal information.

The personally identifiable information you submit may be used for the following purposes, depending on the context you provide it in:

• to create your account, identify you as a user of our website, as well as personalize our website for you
• to respond to your inquiries and e-mails
• to send you promotional material such as newsletters, which you can opt out of at any time by unsubscribing
• for administrative communication, such as confirmation e-mails, technical notices, security alerts, or policy updates
• to provide user support
• to process payment for products or services you acquired through our website
• to protect against unauthorized or illegal activity

Unless we receive your explicit consent, we do not share your personally identifiable information with any third party. Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital currently uses the following third party service providers, each having their own policy with regard to handling your personal data:

• Google Analytics, which does not collect any personal information
• payment processing – by paying the cost of a product or service provided by Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital, your banking information will not go through our website and we will only receive the necessary information to fulfill your order
• YouTube, which provides video content on our website
• Google Maps – very useful for finding where exactly Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital is located

Because each of these third party service providers may have a different privacy policy, we recommend you thoroughly read it before agreeing to have your personal information processed by one. We have no control over how third party service providers collect and use your data, so we suggest you pay utmost attention to their notices of privacy.

The only exception with regard to revealing your personally identifiable information to third parties pertains to unauthorized or illegal activities. Accordingly, we will disclose such information when required by law. Finally, your personal data may be transferred to a third party in the event our business or a portion of it merges or is purchased by another one. Bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings brought by or against us may also lead to personal information disclosure.

What are cookies?

This Website uses so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the memory of your terminal via your browser. They store certain information (e.g. your preferred language or site settings) which your browser may (depending on the lifespan of the cookie) retransmit to us upon your next visit to our Website.

What cookies do we use?

We differentiate between two categories of cookies: (1) functional cookies, without which the functionality of our Website would be reduced, and (2) optional cookies used for website analysis and marketing purposes. The following tables contain a detailed description of the optional cookies we use:

Subject to your consent

We only use optional cookies if we have obtained your prior consent (Art. 6(1)(a) General Data Protection Regulation). Upon your first access to our Website, a banner will appear, asking you to give us your consent to the setting of optional cookies. If your consent is given, we will place a cookie on your computer and the banner will not appear again as long as the cookie is active. After expiration of the cookie’s lifespan, or if you actively delete the cookie, the banner will reappear upon your next visit to our Website and again ask for your consent.

How to prevent the setting of cookies

Of course you may use our Website without any cookies being set. In your browser, you can at any time configure or completely deactivate the use of cookies. This may, however, lead to a restriction of the functions or have adverse effects on the user-friendliness of our Website. You may at any time object to the setting of optional cookies by using the respective objection option indicated.

Google Analytics

On our Website we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
Google will analyze your use of our Website on our behalf. To this purpose we use, among others, the cookies described in more detail in the above table. The information collected by Google in connection with your use of our Website (e.g. the referring URL, our webpages visited by you, your browser type, your language settings, your operating system, your screen resolution) will be transmitted to a server of Google in the US, where it will be stored and analyzed. The respective results will then be made available to us in anonymized form. Your usage data will not be connected to your full IP address during this process. We have activated on our Website the IP anonymizing function offered by Google, which will delete the last 8 digits (type IPv4) or the last 80 bits (type IPv6) of your IP address. Moreover, Google is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield, which ensures that an adequate level of data protection is maintained with respect to the processing of data by Google in the US.

You may revoke your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Google Browser Plugin or by administrating your consents in the above table, in which case an opt-out cookie will be placed. Both options will prevent the application of web analysis only as long as you use the browser on which you installed the plugin and do not delete the opt-out cookie.

Further information on Google Analytics is available in the Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Privacy and Data Protection Guidelines of Google Analytics and in the Google Privacy Policy.

We take reasonable precautions to ensure that any personally identifiable information you provide on this website is kept confidential and stored in a secure environment and that only those personnel with legitimate business purposes will have access to this information. Even so, we cannot guarantee that data provided to us will not be subject to loss, alteration, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or destruction. It is important to be aware that all Internet transmissions are subject to security breaches and errors. You should take precautions in choosing the information you send to Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital via email and safeguard any passwords or special types of identification you use to access this website.

Marina del Rey Hospital directly funds the operation and hosting of http://www.marinahospital.com/. It does not currently accept or display advertising.

Depending on the service you are seeking, you can contact us directly by filling out the various contact forms available on our website. In general, you will be asked to provide the following information:

• full name
• contact data (phone number, e-mail address etc.)
• message

We process and use the information you provide exclusively for the purpose you request.

You have the option to subscribe to our newsletter, which keeps you up-to-date with regard to new content on our website. To be able to send you the newsletter, we will need your e-mail address. We will use the address you provide exclusively for sending you e-mails related to our website. It is important to know that you can choose to stop receiving our newsletter at any time. You can easily do this either by following the link provided in each newsletter or by contacting us using the information in the Contact Us section below.

We strongly advise against submitting sensitive personal information such as your social security number, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, or criminal background to our website. Should you decide to provide such information, it will be subject to this privacy policy.

We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian who believes marinahospital.com has the personal data of a child under the age of 16, please contact us to remove it and we will strive to promptly fulfill your request.

According to the effective data privacy laws, you have the following rights when it comes to collecting and processing your personally identifiable information by our website:

• the right to know what personal data are stored by Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital
• the right to request the correction, amendment, deletion, or restricted processing of your personal information
• the right to access the personal data we have collected from you
• the right to refuse your personally identifiable information being collected and processed by us
• the right to data portability
• the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority

We reserve the right to update our privacy policy at any time without notifying users. Any change becomes effective upon publication. Therefore, we recommend you to periodically visit this page so as to stay informed in this respect.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, you can contact us via:

Phone at 310.823.8911

Mail at: [email protected]

Marina del Rey Hospital
4650 Lincoln Blvd.,
Marina del Rey, CA 90202

Last updated: 21th May 2018