UAB Health System is committed to respecting your privacy. We've structured our website so that, in general, you can visit the UAB Health System web site without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with UAB Health System.
This statement regarding the privacy of the information you provide online covers five main areas: Awareness, Consent, Security, and Oversight.
Awareness
UAB Health System provides this Online Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy policy and practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and from the bottom of every UAB Health System web page.
What we collect
On some UAB Health System web pages, you can make requests and register to receive materials about health care services furnished by the Health System. The types of personal information collected at these pages are name and contact information.
How we use it
UAB Health System uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to respond to your requests for materials, help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, to update you on health care services and benefits, and to personalize our web site for you.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research to find out your healthcare preferences or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. Our purpose for gathering this information is to improve your health care experience at UAB Health System. You always have a choice whether to participate.
Who we share it with
UAB Health System will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with other UAB Health System entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf to complete the activities described above.
Consent
By furnishing a personally identifiable information, you authorize the uses described above and agree to release UAB Health System and its operating entities from any liability resulting from the disclosure. UAB Health System will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without letting you know and offering you a choice. As previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us and we will do everything we can to honor such requests.
Security
UAB Health System is committed to protecting the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.
Oversight
If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please send them to this email address:
dehunter@uab.edu