Preferred Healthcare Staffing is committed to safeguarding your online privacy,
whether you are a nurse, technologist, administrator or general visitor to our
Web site. As a result, we have made the commitment not to disclose any of your
personal information to third parties without your consent (subject to the
limited circumstances set forth below). Please read the following policy to
understand how we collect personal information from you, use the information,
and protect the information. Since this policy may change from time to time, we
recommend that you refer to it regularly.
The Preferred Healthcare Staffing site is an information/career site on the
World Wide Web. The site is owned and operated by Preferred Healthcare
Staffing, located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Preferred Healthcare Staffing
provides comprehensive staffing solutions to health care facilities across the
nation. Specializing in placing health care professionals in temporary or travel
positions, Preferred Healthcare Staffing currently has thousands of health care
professionals working in all 50 states. Preferred Healthcare Staffing is an
established leader in the travel nursing industry.
Our general mailing address is:
Preferred Healthcare Staffing
100 West Cypress Creek Road, Suite 750
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Voice: (800) 735-4774
Fax: (888) 329-2411
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Although we may collect certain information from you as discussed below, please
be reassured in knowing the following:
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We will not disclose any of your personal information unless you authorize us
to do so, except where needed to deliver a service or product ordered by you or
under the limited circumstances set forth below.
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We will always give you the opportunity to access and correct your personal
information at any time.
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We will not disclose your application status without your authorization.
There are various areas on our Web site where we either require or permit you
to transfer personal information voluntarily. We use this personal information
only for the specific purpose specified at the time you input such information.
For example, by using various features of our Web site we may collect your
name, address, social security number, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses,
licensure, certifications, education, and/or employment history, dates
available to travel, eligibility to work in the United States, legal history,
other occupations and any comments related to this data. In addition, employees
and applicants may use the secure Traveler Service Center section of this site
to submit additional information in furtherance of employment.
Aside from any information you may actively disclose to us, there is other,
less obvious, information which we might obtain from you. We may use such
information for internal purposes such as to improve the content of our Web
pages and/or to customize the layout of our pages for each individual according
to their preferences. In addition, we may track your account history regarding
your participation on the Web site.
Our system automatically collects information about the areas visitors frequent
on our Web site. We may use this aggregate information to understand how our
members as a group use the services we provide so that we can improve our Web
site. Furthermore, we may share such aggregate statistical information with our
partners, affiliates or other outside companies, but in doing so, it is not our
practice to disclose individual names or other personal information. Some
examples of how we aggregate such information are as follows:
A Cookie is a small amount of data
that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's
hard drive. Cookies are widely used on the Internet and have become an industry
standard. Cookies enable user registration and login and personalization, among
other things. Although a cookie cannot, in and of itself, identify you, it can
identify your computer. Your browser is most likely set up to accept cookies
automatically. If you would like to disable this feature you may do so by
adjusting the options or preferences in your browser. However, by doing so, you
will lose some of the conveniences of our Web pages.
An IP address is a number
that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you begin service with
an Internet Service Provider. We collect IP addresses for the purposes of
system administration and to audit the use of our site. Each time you log onto
our site and each time you request one of our pages, our server logs your IP
address. Although we log your session with us, we will not normally link your
IP address to anything that can enable us to identify you. However, we can and
will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to
enforce compliance with our rules or terms of service or to protect our
service, site, users or others.
We query your
computer automatically for information about the computer or operating system
you are using such as the baud rate of your modem or error messages you may
have received. We may do so in order to fit our services to your individual
needs and to diagnose problems you may be having with our Web site. We use a
unique identifier in the form of a user ID to give you access to special areas
of our Web site intended for registered users.
We may gather
information about your geographical location by determining where your computer
is located. We do this in order to provide either localized service or to
provide faster service by sending your server localized content.
We may require other
information for tracking or verifying compliance with our policies, abiding by
federal, state and local laws and for editorial and feedback solicitation
purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may use your information for new,
unanticipated uses, such as notification of new services, announcements and
general communications. If our information practices materially change at some
time in the future, we will post such change to the site before we use your
data for these new purposes. If you are concerned about how your information is
used, please periodically check this privacy policy.
We encourage you to correct and update information related to your application
by sending an e-mail to us at privacy@preferredhealthcare.com.
Upon your request, we will provide you with any unique identifying or personal
information that we maintain about you and will make any appropriate changes
you provide us.
We may disclose user information in special cases when we believe in good faith
that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action
against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either
intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property or the rights or
property of our users or others. We also may disclose user information when we
believe in good faith that the law requires it. Finally, in the event of a
merger, sale of all or substantially all of Preferred Healthcare Staffing's
assets or a consolidation we reserve the right to transfer such personal
information to a third party who agrees to abide by this Privacy Policy and use
such personal information only for the purposes it was original provided.
If at any time you object to our use of your personal information, including
use of your e-mail address, you may stop that use by e-mail request to
travel@preferredhealthcare.com.
Linking to other sites is an integral part of the functionality of the Internet
and therefore of our site. Any link to a page which displays a URL of a
non-Preferred Healthcare Staffing site in the address window of your browser or
which indicates that it is "powered by" an entity other than Preferred
Healthcare Staffing, is a link to a site outside of our service. This includes
links to any partners that may link to Preferred Healthcare Staffing or are
part of a co-branding or partnership agreement, as well as other suggested
links or links our users may post. These other sites may send their own cookies
to you, collect data or solicit personal information. Please note that we
cannot guarantee and are not responsible for the content of outside sites.
Specifically, we provide links to third party Web sites that offer continuing
education courses on nursing and other health care related topics. Enrollment
for such courses is completely optional and at your discretion. You should be
aware that such third parties may request and record registration information
about you. We cannot guarantee your privacy on such other Web sites and do not
have control over their privacy policies or content. We urge you to review
carefully the privacy policy of any such third party provider prior to
registering for a continuing education course to determine how your personal
information will be used. Your correspondence or business dealings with any
third party providers, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and
any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such
dealings, are solely between you and such providers.
The importance of security is a top priority for us. We exercise great care in
providing secure transmission of your information from your Internet connection
to our servers. We also take great care to protect user-information off-line.
All of your data is handled only by authorized personnel and our database
servers have a backup system to prevent loss of data. Unfortunately, no data
transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure and we will
not be held liable should a third party illegally obtain your personal
information. While we have made a great effort to protect your personal
information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Our policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the
Internet, and therefore beyond our control, and is not to be applied in any
manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.
By using this site, you signify your assent to the Preferred Healthcare
Staffing privacy policy and the terms of use. If you do not agree with this
policy and these terms, please refrain from using our site. Notice of any
changes to our privacy policy will be posted on this site. Your continued use
of the Preferred Healthcare Staffing site following a reasonable notice of
changes to our privacy policy or terms of use will mean you accept the changes.
Prefeered Healthcare Staffing privacy policy was effective as of March 12, 2004. It was last updated Sept. 15, 2005.
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