Information Golden State Physicians Medical Group gathers
Golden State Physicians Medical Group collects and uses certain information on its web site. This information includes your internet protocol address, information about your browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.) and information about your Internet Service Provider (e.g., AOL, PacBell, etc.). An IP address is a unique number that is used to represent every single computer in a network. All computers on the Internet have a unique IP address. None of the foregoing information will be used by Golden State Physicians Medical Group in any way, or in connection with any other information, to identify you personally.

Golden State Physicians Medical Group may collect information about you through various online forms that you may voluntarily complete. Completion of these forms is entirely optional. If you supply any personally identifiable information to us on these forms (e.g., name/address/email address), Golden State Physicians Medical Group will not use this information to contact you unless you have specifically stated that we may do so.

How the information is used
Golden State Physicians Medical Group uses the statistical information gathered about you and all of its users for internal statistical purposes only, e.g., to track where users go on our web site. This information is not linked to specifically identifiable individuals. This type of information will be used to aid Golden State Physicians Medical Group in adding information to its web site that will be useful for site users and that will improve the performance of our web site.

Any personally identifiable information which you voluntarily and knowingly submit to Golden State Physicians Medical Group will be used, with your permission, to send you health information and health updates, both general information and information focused on specific health matters, such as high blood pressure. Your personally identifiable information may also be used to send you timely appointment reminders for specific health-related tests, such as Pap smears. Submission by you of any personally identifiable health information is completely voluntary.

With whom information is shared
Golden State Physicians Medical Group is the sole owner and user of all information collected on the web site. Golden State Physicians Medical Group does not sell, give or disclose the information (statistical or personal) gathered on the web site to any third party.

Cookies
A cookie is a small data file automatically and without notice written on your hard drive when you visit certain web sites. A cookie allows the web site to recognize you each time you visit the web site and to personalize the web site for you. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you voluntarily supply yourself on the web site. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other web sites. Cookies are used widespread on the Internet.

Golden State Physicians Medical Group does not use cookies on the public portion of its web site. No cookies will be written to your hard drive when you visit our site. However, Golden State Physicians Medical Group does use cookies on the secure portion of its web site, which can be accessed only by authorized Golden State Physicians Medical Group providers and staff.

Security measures
Golden State Physicians Medical Group takes reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information. When users submit personally identifiable information, it is protected both online and offline.

All user electronic information is protected behind a firewall, and the data input on our web site is also encrypted. Golden State Physicians Medical Group also protects user information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a task are granted access to personally identifiable information. Golden State Physicians Medical Group employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must reenter their password to regain access to your information. Furthermore, all employees are trained on Golden State Physicians Medical Group privacy and security practices. Finally, the servers we use to store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment behind locked doors, and only authorized individuals have access to the servers.

Correcting and updating information
If, at any time, a correction needs to be made to existing personal information that you have voluntarily provided to the web site, users may email the webmaster at info@gspmg.com and request that the information be changed or deleted.

Notification of changes
Golden State Physicians Medical Group will use the information collected from you in accordance with the privacy policy in effect when the information was collected. However, Golden State Physicians Medical Group may change its privacy policy, for example, in light of new technology or a change in applicable law. If Golden State Physicians Medical Group decides to change the type of information it collects, how we use it, or under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it, we will post these changes on our homepage so that our users will be aware of these changes. Users will have 30 days after we post the change within which to decide whether or not Golden State Physicians Medical Group may use their information in accordance with the new policy. If a user does not wish Golden State Physicians Medical Group to use his or her information in accordance with the new policy, the user may email Golden State Physicians Medical Group at info@gspmg.com and let us know. Golden State Physicians Medical Group will refrain from using the information in accordance with the new policy and will use the information only in accordance with the policy in effect at the time the information was collected. If you do not let us know within 30 days that you object to the new policy, you will be deemed to have consented and agreed to the new policy.

Links to third party sites
Our web site contains links to third party web sites. Once you leave our web site, our privacy policy no longer applies, and you will be subject to the privacy policies, if any, of the third party web site to which you have linked. We are not responsible for the privacy of your information once you leave our web site.