Your right to privacy is important to us at SOUTH CENTRAL Preferred and, therefore, we are committed to helping you maintain control over your personal information. For that reason, we have implemented the following Privacy Policy to govern our site.

    Please see our Terms and Conditions of Use for terms governing the use of our web site.

Privacy Policy
What information do we collect?
    If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site or download information, our system will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and is used in an aggregate way to help us improve our web site and tell us the number of visitors to our site each day.

    Our Web server automatically collects and records the following information:

    * Aggregate information on what pages are accessed

    * Date and time you accessed our site

How do we use the information we collect?
    The information we gather during your visit to our web site is used in the following ways:

    * Monitor, review, measure and analyze web site utilization

    * Modify and enhance the web site

    * Improve the content and design of our web site

    * Determine the need for new programs and services

    * Respond to your requests

    * Monitor and improve our customer service efforts

Our use of Cookies
    Many web sites now use cookies to provide useful features to their visitors by providing customizable and personalized services.

    A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. For example, a web site may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you, your preferences, or the pages you last visited.

    Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies, or to ask you if you would like to accept or decline a cookie from a particular site before it is set.

    Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the Help section of the toolbar. Your should know, however, that if you reject a cookie, certain functions and conveniences of a site may not work properly.

    SOUTH CENTRAL Preferred does not use any cookies to store or collect information on our web site.

E-mail
    We recognize that many people are concerned about the privacy and protection of information as it is transmitted over the Internet. You should keep in mind that the possibility exists for unauthorized individuals to intercept any email message you send over the Internet. In some cases, information can be encrypted (scrambled or encoded) to make it more difficult to read if it is intercepted during communication. Certain technology and practices allow web sites to provide an increased level of security for your personal and health-related information when appropriate.

    We use the following practices on our Web site to enhance the level of security for communication and the transmission of personal information:

    * We use e-mail forms to allow our customers to ask questions about our services and programs. These are not hosted on a secure server. The possibility exists that unauthorized individuals may intercept email messages.

    * We are not responsible for the privacy of e-mail messages except those stored in our system.

    * We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Advertising Servers
    On-line advertising, such as banner ads, has become commonplace on may web sites. Certain web sites have developed relationships with third party advertising servers to display these advertisements on their sites. By clicking on one of these banner ads, you will be taken to another site with different privacy policies. These third party ad severs may also use cookies to collect non-personal information on your preferences and interest via the advertisement you decide to view.

    At this time, we do not partner with or have special relationships with any advertising server companies.

Links to Other Sites
    Web sites often provide a number of links that offer direct access to other useful or interesting web sites holding potential value to site visitors. Inclusion of the other sites by links does not imply any endorsement of the material or information on the other sites. Users are encouraged to review the privacy policy of each linked site before sharing personal and health-related information.

    This site includes links to non-affiliated external web sites. We have the following practices:

    * We encourage users to review the privacy policy of each linked site, as we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites.

Changes in our privacy policy
    From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we have the following practices:

    * We will post the policy changes to our web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Web Site Contact Information
    If you have questions about our privacy policy, or feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, please contact us.
Modification Date
    This privacy statement was last modified on September 26, 2002.

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