Marin General Hospital Notice of Privacy Practices

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED BY MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

Our Website Privacy Statement

We make the following assurances of privacy for visitors to our Web site:

The Marin General Hospital Web site is designed to provide useful information about our organization and to connect users with physicians, facilities, services and employment opportunities.

Our Web site does not promote or sell products of any kind. We do hope that the information provided encourages the visitor to consider using Marin General for medical care, or that visitors might decide to join our organization as an employee, volunteer or donor.

We keep track of visits to our Web site via an automatic monitoring program that tells us, among other things, how many visits are made to the site; the time of day and date of those visits; and the areas visited. This information is used to evaluate the effectiveness of our site and the effectiveness of any promotion of our site. It helps us answer questions such as these: Are we providing information on our Web site that is useful? Which information is most useful? How have we made you aware that our Web site exists?

The monitoring program does not provide us with any personal information about a visitor. We cannot discern the name, address or any other personal information about visitors to our site.

If we wish to gather such personal information, it will be requested via a form on the site that the user voluntarily completes and submits. The form will describe the way in which the information will be used.

If you choose to register on-line for one of our classes or events, you will be asked to provide appropriate personal information. That information will be used to register you for this class, or future classes. You will have the option to return to the site to update your information at any time. The information will not be provided to any outside organization or used for purposes other than class registration.

Who Funds our Web Site

The Marin General Web site is funded entirely by its operating income. Please visit the About Us section to learn more about our status as a non-profit health care organization.

We accept no outside funding for the creation or maintenance of our Web site, nor do we accept advertising income in exchange for promotion of any product or service via our Web site.

Who Oversees our Web Site

The Marin General Communications and Community Relations Department in Greenbrae, CA, manages the information on our Web site. Questions, concerns or suggestions can be directed to: Webmaster@maringeneral.org

Comments or questions will be routed to the appropriate individual within the organization. You can also contact us via U.S. mail at:

Marin General Hospital
Communications/Community Relations Department
PO Box 8010
San Rafael, CA 94912-8010