Quality Healthcare, Inc.





Privacy Statement Quality Healthcare, Inc. is concerned with your privacy when you visit our sites within the Quality Healthcare, Inc. domain and in all of your dealings with us. We are committed to the protection of personal data and the appropriate use of all data that we manage. "Quality Healthcare, Inc." refers to Quality Healthcare, Inc. Corporation and/or any of its subsidiaries. Insurance products and services or other products and services are provided only by insurance company and other subsidiaries of Quality Healthcare, Inc. Corporation which employ most "Quality Healthcare, Inc. employees." We will display a prominent notice on the Quality Healthcare, Inc. home page whenever this Privacy Statement is updated or changed. Overview While visiting the Quality Healthcare, Inc. site, you have the opportunity to volunteer personal information and visitor information while interacting with the many features of our site. In addition, visitor information may be collected automatically as you navigate through our sites. Personal information can be anything that identifies you or your accounts. It may be volunteered by you in a form submitted through our site, sent by you via e-mail or entered in response to an interactive function. The "cookies" accessed or stored by our site may retain the following personal information, but you have the choice to opt-out of keeping personal information in cookies: name, e-mail address, postal address and telephone number. Any cookie used by our site is set up to be inaccessible to other sites. Visitor information includes any information gathered by our Internet web software. Some areas of the Quality Healthcare, Inc. site are facilitated by third party service providers. Our service providers promise to protect visitor and personal information just as Quality Healthcare, Inc. protects your information. The Quality Healthcare, Inc. site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. Your continued use of Quality Healthcare, Inc. from within the European Union (EU) means that you are giving your consent to have any personal information you volunteer processed outside the EU in accordance with the protections described in this statement. How Quality Healthcare, Inc. Makes Use of Your Information Quality Healthcare, Inc. uses visitor information, including your IP address, the software version and domain reported by your browser and cookies, to help us manage the site and provide functionality to you. We do not use this information for direct marketing or solicitation of business from Quality Healthcare, Inc. visitors. Some areas of Quality Healthcare, Inc. require the use of personal information in order to perform the services you request. For example, customers who have established accounts may access their investment accounts on-line after identifying themselves to the site. The terms and conditions for the use of such services and personal information are contained in the agreements between us and our customers that create our relationship. We do not share personal information gathered at Quality Healthcare, Inc. among affiliated companies unless there is a legitimate business need. Quality Healthcare, Inc. does not release personal information to any other party unless we are required to do so by government authorities or we are authorized to do so by you or your authorized representative. Security Quality Healthcare, Inc. protects your privacy related to Quality Healthcare, Inc. using the following measures. All personal information in our computers is protected from unauthorized access by a secure firewall and database architecture. Information may only be accessed within Quality Healthcare, Inc. by personnel who have a legitimate business reason to access it. Some areas of Quality Healthcare, Inc. use secure methods of Internet communication to exchange personal information with you. We look forward to communicating with you and have provided many places on this site for you to contact us. However, please remember that, unless the specific access location says otherwise, all messages sent to or from this site can be accessed by other Internet users. To protect your privacy, please do not use e-mail to communicate information that you want kept confidential.

Copyright © 2001 Quality Healthcare, Inc. See Privacy Statement (7/16/2000).