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Copyright and Disclaimers for Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare
Copyright © 2009 Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
All materials posted on this site are subject to copyrights owned by the Joint Commission ("the Joint Commission"). The Joint Commission hereby provides limited permission for the user of this site to reproduce, retransmit, or reprint for such user's own personal use (and for such personal use only) part or all of any document on this site as long as the copyright notice and permission notice contained in such document or portion thereof is included in such reproduction, retransmission, or reprinting. All other reproduction, retransmission, or reprinting of all or part of any document found on this site is expressly prohibited, unless The Joint Commission has expressly granted its prior written consent to so reproduce, retransmit, or reprint the material. All other rights reserved. See Permissions/Reprints Policy.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare is providing information and services on the Internet as a benefit and service in furtherance of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare's mission. The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare makes no representations about the suitability of this information and these services for any purpose.
Although this site includes links providing direct access to other Internet sites, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has not participated in their development and does not monitor or exert any editorial control over these sites. Further, any such linkages do not constitute any Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare endorsement of products and services appearing on other websites.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare is a not-for-profit organization exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare is a publicly-supported, charitable organization and is seeking donations to its endowment fund from organizations or individuals whose mission and interests are aligned with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Center.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare does not accept advertising on its website.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Web site contains links to other websites. The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. Please be aware that the information you provide on any of those linked sites will not be governed by this Privacy Policy.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has prepared this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following are our information gathering and dissemination practices for this site.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare will not collect any information about you, other than information automatically collected and stored (see below) when you visit this site unless you provide additional information to us.
When you browse through any website, certain information about you can be collected.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare automatically collects and temporarily stores the following information about your visit:
- The name of the domain you use to access the Internet. (For example, aol.com if you are using an America Online account.
- The date, time and length of your visit.
- The pages you visited.
- The address of the website you came from when you came to visit.
We collect this information for statistical purposes and to make our site more useful to visitors. The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare does not collect personal information about individual visitors. The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare does not supply personal or financial information about individual visitors to third parties. The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare uses cookies to maintain web session information to assist in site navigation. The web session cookies are deleted when the web session ends. Unless specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected from you.
We detect and use the IP address of visitors to the site in order to assist us with diagnosing and solving problems with our server and to assist with the administration of our Web site.
This site has security policies and technology in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare control. This includes User Personal Information. We cannot however protect against User misuse, loss, or alteration of User's own information. Although The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare makes every reasonable attempt to secure your information, there is always some risk in transmitting information across the internet. We cannot guarantee that the personal information we collect will never be disclosed in some manner not consistent with this Privacy Policy. We also cannot protect against User misuse, loss, or alteration of any User editable content.
Browsers
The Center for Transforming Healthcare Web site has been tested to display and function similarly on the following browsers:
• Windows: Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 2.0+
• Mac OS X: Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0+
JavaScript must also be enabled to utilize certain features of the site. For guidance on how to enable JavaScript in your browser, view these instructions.
Plug-ins
A plug-in is software that is added to the Web browser and adds additional features or services. If you don't have the appropriate plug-in, you must download and install the plug-in.
Adobe Acrobat: In some sections of The Center for Transforming Healthcare web site, you will need the FREE Adobe® Acrobat® Reader plug-in. The Acrobat plug-in allows you to print forms or documents exactly as created.