Privacy & Terms

This Notice of Medical Information Privacy is Effective 2/25/15. Publication Date: 2/25/15

Website Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting Mankato Clinic’s website. We are concerned about your privacy while visiting our site and we want you to feel comfortable about any personal information that you might furnish while accessing this site. Mankato Clinic has created this statement to demonstrate our commitment to online privacy. It discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

You may visit our website without submitting any information about yourself. If you send us an email, enroll in a class, subscribe to a publication or request information, you will be asked to submit information about yourself. We will use this information for replying to your message or forwarding the requested material. We do not share this information with any other partners, affiliates or other organizations.

Upon any visit to our site, we can only determine information regarding the frequency of visitors to the site. We collect data regarding the total visits to the site and to the specific pages of our site. This information is collected and used to determine the nature of the information that is of interest to our customers.

This site may include links providing direct access to other Internet sites. Mankato Clinic takes no responsibility for the content or information contained on those others sites, and does not exert any editorial or other control over those other sites. Inclusion of the other sites by links does not imply any endorsement of the material or information on the other sites. This site contains links to other sites and we are not responsible for their privacy practices or content.

Please note that Mankato Climic will not respond to any questions concerning a specific medical or health condition submitted via our website. If you submit such a request, you will receive a standard response that you should consult with your own healthcare professional. Of course, we will not intentionally share the contents of this type of an email with any third party. However, due to the nature of electronic communications, we cannot and do not provide any assurances that the contents of your email will not become known or accessible to third parties. We urge you not to provide any confidential information about you or your health to us via electronic communication. If you do so, it is at your own risk.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, you can contact Heidi Zachow at heidiz@mankatoclinic.com

The website for Mankato Clinic, its contents and programs, is provided for informational and educational purposes and is not intended as medical advice nor is it intended to create any physician-patient relationship. Please remember that this information should not substitute for a visit or a consultation with a healthcare provider. The views or opinions expressed in the resources provided do not necessarily reflect those of Mankato Clinic or its staff. By using this website, you accept these terms of use.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.mankatoclinic.com

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.