Website Security Statement

Welcome, and thank you for using the Independent Health Foundation’s  website. We value the relationship we have with our members and are committed to protecting your information using industry best practices. This notice describes the information we collect from you when you visit our website and how we use and protect this information.

Information we collect

While using our website, we may collect the following information:

  • Information you give us
    For example, when you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

  • Computer and location information
    This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

    • Information about your browser, network and device

    • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

    • Web pages you view while on this website

    • Your IP address and network provider you use to access the Internet

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

  • Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

    • Information about your browser, network, or device

    • Your IP address

  • Cookies and Ad tracking
    This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.

    • These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

    • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

  • Analytics

    • Squarespace Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

      • Information about your browser, network, and device

      • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

      • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

·        Clicks

·        Internal links

·        Pages visited

·        Scrolling

·        Searches

·        Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

·        Google Analytics

Our website utilizes Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. This feature captures demographic and interest information, like age, gender and affinity, about our website visitors using a cookie. We use the information collected by Google Analytics to help us understand the type of visitors to our website and to help improve our content. To opt out of this service, please visit:

o   Google users – Ads Settings

o   Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Consumer Opt-out

o   Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

How we use information we collect

We use the information we collect from our website to provide, maintain, protect and improve our website, to develop new websites, and to protect our patients and our users. We do not share or sell your personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of WNY CMC.

How we protect your information

We have a security team dedicated to keeping personal information safe. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards that are intended to appropriately protect against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse and any other unlawful form of processing, of the personal information in our possession. We employ security measures such as using firewalls to protect against intruders, building redundancies throughout our network (so that if one server goes down, another can cover for it) and testing for and protecting against network vulnerabilities.

Changes

Our website security statement may change from time to time. We will post any security statement changes on this page, and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice.

Contact

If you have any questions about this notice or the data we collect, please contact The Independent Health Foundation at 511 Farber Lakes Drive, Buffalo, NY, 14221 or (716) 635-4959. Our office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can also submit a contact form on this site or send us questions by e-mail to foundation@independenthealth.com.

Revised: 1/21/2022