The Healthcare Management Council, Inc Privacy Policy

At The Healthcare Management Council, Inc (the owners of HMC-Benchmarks.com) we are committed to ensuring the privacy of your information.

We understand that as a customer or visitor using our site, privacy and the security of your confidential information when online is very important to you. The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to outline our practices in this area.

The Information we collect
As you browse through our web site, our web server collects information about your visit, not about you personally. We gather and monitor statistics such as:

a.. The number of people who visit our site
b.. The date and time of visits
c.. The number of pages viewed
d.. The time spent on the site
e.. The most popular sections of our site

This information is anonymous and no attempt will be made to identify visitors. So, for example, on a specific day we can identify that our site has forty thousand visitors. However we know nothing about these visitors in terms of email addresses or any other personal information.

We will only ask for personal information from which you can be identified (such as your name, address, email address etc.) where the information is required for a specific purpose e.g. when you enquire about a particular product or service. This includes requests for demo acces, printed materials, return phone calls, etc.

Use of "Cookies"
A cookie is a small piece of information, which a web site stores through your web browser on your PC that it can later retrieve when you log back on to the site.

Http://www.HMC-Benchmarks.com uses cookies to better help us know what areas of our site need improvement. If you are an HMC Partner, www.HMCCentral.com also uses cookies, in order to allow you centralized login and other value-added features. These cookies simply store your username so that our different database servers know who you are when you use our systems.

Disclosure of Information
The Healthcare Management Council, Inc. will not divulge customer information to a third party unless:

a.. We have received explicit authorization from you
b.. We are required to do so by law

Security of Information
At The Healthcare Management Council, Inc. we understand how important the security and confidentiality of your information is to you. Keeping customers' information secure is a top priority for us. Our goal is to protect your information on the Internet in the same way as we would over the phone or at our offices.