Smarter Healthcare Partners Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit and/or submit forms via smarterhcpartners.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy also applies when you apply for a job at Smarter Healthcare Partners, and when you provide information to Smarter Healthcare Partners via text or email with written permission to use that information for Smarter Healthcare Partners marketing purposes. 

 

WHO WE ARE

Smarter Healthcare Partners is a travel and local assignment registered nurse and allied health professional staffing agency. Our website is http://smarterhcpartners.com. We are located at 2 Park Central, Southborough, MA, 01772.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

-“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally we may collect personally identifiable information about/from you in a variety of other ways, including when you submit forms through the Site (including but not limited to application forms, reviews, referrals, and newsletter subscription forms), interact with staffing specialists or other Smarter Healthcare Partners employees via email, phone, or text, or in connections with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on the Site. The information we collect from you can include your name, address, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “User Information.”

If you engage with a staffing specialist or fill out an application, you may be asked for, as appropriate, your name, email address, mailing address, phone number or other information as needed by any job application. We will collect personally identifiable information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information, except that it may prevent you from engaging in certain recruitment related activities.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and User Information.

 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the User Information that we collect generally to process applications placed through the Site (including inputting you into our database).
Additionally, we use this User Information to:

Communicate with you;

Screen website interactions for potential risk or fraud; and

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our services.

With your permission, we may use certain types of User Information, including your name, profession and specialty, and reviews, comments, and images you provide, for marketing purposes. Marketing includes publication on the Smarter Healthcare Partners website, social media accounts, newsletters, and print and digital advertisements. Your permission is provided when you submit information via a form on the Site and check the box that indicates you agree with our Privacy Policy. Your permission is also provided when you give it to Smarter Healthcare Partners via text or email.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We also use the Device Information that we collect for the purposes of advertising and re-targeting.

 

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

When we use your Personal Information in accordance with the above, we may share your Personal Information with third parties.

We may share information about you to third parties as indicated below:

  • Service Providers: Other companies sometimes provide certain services to us or on our behalf (e.g. website maintenance/hosting, IT support, analysis, development, security). For example, we use WordPress to build and maintain the Site and our website is hosted by GoDaddy. Please review the privacy policy for third party service providers on their website.
 

 

 

 

  • To provide you with Service:Including customer service, processing requests to be contacted, verifying information, communicating with you about our services, and recruitment activities.
 

 

  • Compliance with Legal Obligations:We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
 

 

  • Changes in Business Structure/Ownership, Transactions:We may disclose or transfer your personal information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of the Company’s business, assets, or ownership interest (including any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
 
 

 

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.

 

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

 

COOKIES

We use “cookies” to enhance your experience and to collect information about how our Site is used. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer relating to information about you. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

 

DATA RETENTION

When you interact with the Site, we will maintain your User Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

 

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

 

CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION

In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act we do not knowingly collect or store any Personal Information for children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not provide us any personally identifying information.

 

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@smarterhcpartners.com or by mail using the details provided below:

2 Park Central Drive, Suite 210

Southborough, MA, 01772, United States

 

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE

Your Rights and Choices: For all Personal Information that we collect about you, you may have the following rights or choices that we will accommodate where your requests meet legal and regulatory requirements and do not risk making our other data less secure or changing our other data. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.

Access, Erase: You may have the right to know what information is being collected about you, to access your personal information, to receive a copy of your information, and to know whether your personal information is disclosed and to whom. You also may request that we erase your information. If you have questions about your information or want to ask us to erase your information, please contact us using the methods in the Contact Us section above.

Data Portability: If you would like to request that we provide a copy of your information to you, please contact us using the methods in the Contact Us section above.

Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by the Company because you exercise your privacy rights. If you have any questions, please contact us using the methods in the Contact Us section above.

How to Make a Request: If you would like to make a request, please use the Contact Us section on this page. Please provide your name, email address, and phone number.

Responding to Requests: Your request will be evaluated to determine whether the requested change meets legal regulatory requirements and does not risk making our other data less secure or changing our other data.

Verifying Your Identity: To protect you and your information, we may ask you to confirm certain information before we honor your request. For example, if you make a request, we will ask you to confirm your name, email address, and/or phone number to verify your identity, so that we can help protect your information. If you designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, we may require you to verify your identity and provide the authorized agent’s identity and contact information to us.

 

 

 

Smarter Healthcare Partners Application