McLaren Health Care Corporation Website Privacy Policy 

Last modified: 4/9/2025 7:56:14 AM

McLaren Health Care Corporation cares about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information you provide to us.

This Website Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes our policies and practices relating to the information we collect when you access our and our affiliated entities’ websites, mobile apps, and related sites and digital and online services (each a “Site” and collectively “Sites”) and sets forth your privacy rights. This Policy reflects our fundamental respect for your right to privacy and will serve to guide our relationship with you. We take privacy, security and complying with data protection and privacy laws and regulations seriously.

Protected Health Information, or PHI, that you provide or that we obtain through your use of a Site is protected in accordance with our published notice of privacy practices found here: https://www.mclaren.org/main/notice-of-privacy-practices.  

By visiting our Sites you acknowledge that we collect, use, disclose and process your personal information pursuant to the terms set out herein and for the purposes established in this Policy, and consent to such collection, use, disclosure and processing of your personal information. 

Children 

Our Sites are not intended for or directed at children under the age of 18. In addition, we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18. Children under the age of 18 should not use our Sites.

For ease of reference, this Policy contains the following sections:

How We Collect Your Information

What Information Do We Collect About You?

Other Information We May Collect

How Is Your Information Used?

Security Measures

Corrections, Unsubscribe, and Data Retention

Changes to the Privacy Policy and Terms

Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

Contact Us

  1. How We Collect Your Information:
    1. You contact us to request information by sending us an e-mail through a Site.
    2. You participate in one of our training or education events, such as a childbirth education, nutrition education, or exercise training seminar.
    3. You request one of our publications or newsletters.
    4. You participate in a service-related survey, contest, or other promotion. 
    5. You complete a questionnaire regarding the Site or our services (e.g., did you find our website helpful?).
    6. Through the use of cookies and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies help us provide better service to you, tell us which parts of our Sites people have visited, and allow us to better measure the usability of our services. You have a variety of tools to control cookies and similar technologies, including controls in your browser to block and delete cookies.
    7. We use a service from Google called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of the Sites. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit a Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our Site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit a Site, rather than your name or other identifying information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Sites is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy (located at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). We may use the information from Google Analytics for a variety of reasons including trend analysis and to make our services more useful to the communities we serve.
  1. What Information Do We Collect About You?
    1. Data that may personally identify you, including your name, postal address, billing address, shipping address, e-mail address, home, work and mobile telephone numbers, age, date of birth, social security number, insurance policy number, physical characteristics that may personally identify you, sexual orientation, IP address, bank account number, credit or debit card number (for payment purposes only), national origin, ancestry, veteran or military status, medical conditions, race, citizenship, information about any physical or mental disabilities you may have, information related to your religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, information regarding your gender at birth and how you currently express your gender identity, information related to your sex life, such as pregnancy, child birth and related medical conditions, any history of criminal convictions, biometric information (such as fingerprints, exercise data, psychological characteristics, face prints, gait patterns, genetics, behavioral characteristics, voice, sleep data, and iris/retina scans), and genetic information (including familial genetic information) (collectively, “Personal Data”).
    2. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Sites, such as appointment request forms or employment inquiry forms. It also includes information you provide when you register to use services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Sites or services.
    3. Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
    4. Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research, development, and marketing purposes.
    5. Details of transactions you carry out through our Sites, including bill payments or donations.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “Posted”) on public areas of the Sites or transmitted to other users of the Sites or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are Posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Sites with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

  1. Other Information We May Collect

We collect information about you automatically as you navigate through or use our Sites. Information collected automatically may include (1) computer or device connection information, such as browser type and version, operating system type and version, device information, and other technical identifiers; (2) information collected through cookies and other technologies; or (3) aggregated information, such as usage history and search history (collectively “Other Information”).

  1. How Is Your Information Used?
    1. To send administrative information, such as information regarding our services and changes to our terms, conditions, or policies;
    2. To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your services and other requests;
    3. To accept and record your donations;
    4. To process your bill payments;
    5. To review and respond to your employment inquiries;
    6. If you enter into a contest or similar promotion, we may use the information you provide to administer those programs;
    7. We may use survey information for research and quality improvement purposes, including helping us to improve information and services offered through the Sites;
    8. For our business purposes, such as improving or modifying our services, identifying usage trends, and operating and expanding our service and information offerings; 
    9. As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law; (ii) to comply with legal process; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce our terms and conditions; (v) to protect our operations against, for example, security threats, fraud, or other malicious activity; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others using the Sites; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain;
    10. To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Sites;
    11. To our third-party service providers that provide services such as website hosting, information technology and related infrastructure, customer service, and other similar services;
    12. 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 our business or assets; 
    13. We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are prohibited to do so under applicable law or regulation.
  1. Security Measures

We have implemented and maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to ensure a level of security appropriate to protect your information from unauthorized access and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure. We also have procedures in place to respond to data security incidents. We will notify you and applicable regulators of such incidents where we are legally required to do so. You should be aware, however, that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. 

To make our operations more efficient, we use external service providers to assist in the operation of our Sites and in some cases in connection with the delivery of our services. We contractually require our external service providers to comply with our data protection procedures and practices. Some affiliated entities use Internet donor technology provided by Blackbaud, Inc. This is encrypted technology and allows financial donations to be forwarded electronically using a secure server.

Security is not a one-way street. You should also take reasonable measures to protect your information, including, for example, securing your computer and mobile device, using an antivirus software, using a firewall, and other similar safeguards. Further, we are not responsible for the security and/or management of information shared by you with third party websites or links accessible via our Sites.

  1. Corrections, Unsubscribe, and Data Retention

You may update the information you provide to us through the Sites. To change, correct, or update your information, contact Webmaster@mclaren.org. If you are subscribed to one of our newsletters, you may unsubscribe from receiving the newsletters by clicking on the appropriate link at the bottom of the e-mail. We may, from time to time, send you administrative messages. You cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.

We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. You may request that we delete your data by contacting us as provided below. However, we may not be able to honor that request in all instances given the laws and regulations that apply to us. For example, under state and federal law, we may be required to maintain some data that is specific to you and that may identify you, such as your medical records or other information. We may also have a legal basis or obligation to maintain medical and other information about you to provide care and treatment or to comply with our professional, legal, and other obligations

  1. Changes to the Privacy Policy and Terms

We may change this Policy from time to time. Please take a look at the “Last Modified” legend at the top of this page to see when this Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Policy will become effective 7 days from when we post the revised Policy on the Sites. 

  1. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

The laws of the State of Michigan,without regard to any conflicts of laws principles,govern the construction and interpretation of this Policy and the rights of the parties hereunder. By accessing, using, or registering for the use of any Site you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by this Policy and by all applicable laws and regulations.You additionally acknowledge and agree that the exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Policy resides in a federal or state court located in Genessee County, Michigan.

  1. Contact Us 

E-mail: Webmaster@mclaren.org 

Fax: (989) 891-8185

Mail:
McLaren Health Care Corporation
Corporate WebMaster
One McLaren Parkway
Grand Blanc, MI 48439