Last Updated on: July 20, 2018

Saint Thomas Medical Group (“STMG”) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, subscribers to our newsletters and those providing contact information. In addition, STMG is opposed to unauthorized commercial e-mail delivery, otherwise known as spam. Please read the following Privacy and Spam Policy to understand how your personal information is treated. From time to time STMG may offer new information or services that may affect this policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy and Spam Policy, please send an e-mail to [email protected]. Spam abuses can be notified at [email protected].

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
STMG only collects user-provided personally identifiable information. This information is provided when website visitors complete one of our online forms (examples include newsletter subscriptions or contact forms). The following list includes ways we collect personal information from our website visitors and the type of information collected:

HOW CAN I OPT OUT OR SEE WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT ME?
If you have opted in and later desire to opt-out from further receiving our newsletters, you can make this change at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe URL embedded in our newsletter. You may also elect out of our use of cookies on our website. The data we have collected about you is viewable, updatable, downloadable and can be removed. Please send all requests to [email protected].

ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
To register online for one of our electronic newsletters, we request certain required information. The provision of this information is mandatory in order to receive our newsletter. STMG relies on a third-party service to collect contact information and distribute our newsletter.

CONTACT FORMS
To contact STMG for the purposes of evaluating or engaging our services or to answer your questions, we utilize numerous forms throughout our site. Required information varies depending on the form and at minimum requires mandatory (i) name, and (ii) e-mail address. The provision of this information is mandatory in order to receive a response from STMG. The provision of the remaining information requested on the registration form is optional, unless noted as such.

DOES SAINT THOMAS MEDICAL GROUP SHARE MY INFORMATION?
STMG will not share, rent or sell your personally identifiable information with third parties.

HOW DOES SAINT THOMAS MEDICAL GROUP USE MY INFORMATION?
Personal information collected by STMG is used primarily for the purpose in which it is collected: to facilitate the distribution of a newsletter, document, membership or inquiry to interested recipients. In addition, STMG may use your information as follows:

Information may be used in aggregate with other subscribers to review the effectiveness of our marketing programs and analyze other general demographic trends

We may occasionally contact you to conduct surveys or to obtain feedback on our products, our website, industry trends or other aspects of our business

To notify you of new information or services that may be of interest to you
To send promotional materials

REMARKETING
STMG uses remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Google, Facebook and Instagram to present special offers to you for our products or services over the Google Content Network, Facebook and/or Instagram. This means you may see an ad for one of our products or services as a result of visiting our website. In addition, STMG uses Google, Facebook and Instagram custom audiences based on emails of subscribers and customers. This allows us to present special offers for our products and services to you via Google, Facebook and Instagram. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you special offers from us.

WHAT IF THERE ARE CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY AND SPAM POLICY?
If we change our Privacy and Spam Policy, we will post those changes on our privacy page. If at any point we decide to use personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice whether or not we use their information in this new manner. By default we will use information in accordance with the Privacy and Spam Policy under which the information was collected.

HOW CAN I OPT OUT?
If you have opted in and later desire to opt-out from further receiving our newsletters, you can make this change at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe URL embedded in our newsletter. You may also elect out of our use of cookies on our website.

SPAM POLICY
STMG is strongly opposed to spam. We will only send email to users that have explicitly requested to receive an email from STMG. Examples may include:

Opt-in subscribers to the STMG Newsletter
Users that complete a contact form
All communication will be related and relevant to what you have requested.

WEB LINKS
STMG website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that STMG is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy and spam policies of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy and Spam Policy applies solely to information collected by this web site.

HOW DO I CONTACT NATIONAL SAINT THOMAS MEDICAL GROUP?
If you have any further questions or comments regarding the STMG website or this Privacy and Spam Policy, you may contact [email protected].

LEGAL DISCLAIMER
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our site.