Here are our policies concerning the privacy of your health information and information obatined through our website.

Notice of Privacy Practices

Information about privacy practices concerining health information my be found in our Notice of Privacy Practices.

Website Privacy Policy

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site.

Information gathering

Our web server software generates logfiles of the IP addresses of computers that access this web site and of what files they access.

These web server logs are retained on a temporary basis and then deleted completely from our systems. We also may ask our visitors to provide information about themselves.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Use of information

We do not provide any personally identifiable information we gather or develop about our visitors to any third parties for any purpose.

We use your IP address and files you access to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site by identifying (1) which parts of our site are most heavily used, and (2) where our audience comes from. We also use this information to tailor site content to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. At no time do we disclose site usage by individual visitors.

Children's Guidelines

• We do not collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent
• We do not collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent
• We do not distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information with out prior parental consent
• We do not give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent
• We do not entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Contacting this web site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact: Tri-State Orthopaedic's IT Department 812-477-1558

This web site may contain links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.