Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting NHIC. Privacy of all users of the National Health Information Collaboration is of critical importance to us.

We don’t collect any information about you when you visit NHIC, other than information automatically collected and stored, unless you choose to provide that in the process of registration or sending feedback.

Information automatically collected and stored

Like all websites, when you browse through NHIC, the following information about your visit gets automatically collected and temporarily stored:

· The Internet domain and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web) from which you access NHIC

· The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) and operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access NHIC

· The date and time you access NHIC

· The pages you visit

· If you linked to NHIC from another website, the address of that website

This information is used only to help us make the site more useful for you, we never track or record information about individuals and their visits. Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information is collected about you.

Personal Information

WHO/ICMR requests you to share information on subject of your professional interest and a method of contacting you (your e-mail ID/address/ phone no.) during the registration process and content upload. The aim of collecting this information is to contact you for verifications or corrections, if any, and enhance your ability to use our site in a more effective manner. Any personal information provided by WHO/ICMR members is maintained under strict confidentiality.

Aggregate information on site usage by area of interest may be quoted for research purposes but under no circumstance would we identify any member individually for any purpose except in cases where a member specifically requests us to do the same. WHO/ ICMR never collects information or creates individual profiles for commercial marketing.

Use of Information

Personal information that visitors submit to our website is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted unless we disclose other uses in this Internet Privacy Policy or at the time of collection. Copies of correspondence sent from the website, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only.

Links to other sites

We provide links to Web sites outside of our web site, as well as to third party Web sites. These linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of other websites linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other websites, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of use and privacy policy of those websites.

Security

We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our website, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us. In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.

Disclosure

Apart from where you have consented or disclosure is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was submitted, personal information may be disclosed in special situations where we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Also, we may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.