Privacy Statement for the Texas Health Guide

 
We at Health IT, Inc., (the folks who created and maintain the Dallas Health Guide) have a great respect for your privacy. As such, we have posted this page to inform you on what information might be collected about you as you use this website.

What information does Health IT receive and why do you collect it?
Our website, www.dallashealthguide.com, has a statistics package associated with it which enables us to know, for example, the number of visitors to our site without having a counter appear on each page. (An aside: it is our experience that web page counters can be manipulated more often than odometers in cars at any given unscrupulous used car lot, but we digress.)

We use our statistic package to learn about how folks who visit our site are getting there. This allows us to know how to make a site with images and text that all web browsers can use. To that extent, we learn the following about our visitors: from which state their Internet Service Provider is from (this may not reveal much: everyone using AOL appears to come from West Virginia!), which web browser they use, and from what previous website did they come to ours.

The information we collect would not be able to identify anyone by their name, nor their address or other personal information. We do not look at any "cookies*" stored on computers from our visitors.

What information DO you collect from the website's visitors?
The only other information that we collect from you is when you willingly (and knowingly) offer it when you fill out one of our forms. That is the only time when we will know your name (or telephone or address): when you submit it to us.

How do you use the information?
As we said, the basic information tells us how to make a site that is geared towards our future visitors.

What about sharing the information you collect with third parties (for example, with other companies)?
It's this simple: this doesn’t happen. Any information we collect stays with us. 

We have a way for visitors to sign up to join our e-mail list. When they do, we keep their name and e-mail address so we can send out notices to them. To further protect their privacy we send e-mails out to those on our list in such a way that folks cannot see who else is on the list.

What about advertisements?
We do not post banner ads on our site for a simple reason -- we don't want them to get in your way of maneuvering around our site. We have our advertising rate available for companies who are interested in having their sites and/or logos mentioned. (See our Facilities and Vendors pages for examples.)

Other questions? Please direct them to our Editor-in-Chief.

Thank you for visiting Dallas Health Guide!

*”Cookies” are information that is stored on your computer to let other sites "remember" information about your preferences and passwords; basically it allows you to get into a website that needs a password without having to give it again.