UofL Department of Surgery Website Privacy Policy Statement

We are committed to respecting your privacy. We've structured our site so that, in general, you can visit without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with us.

Non-Personal Information Collected:

Even if you do not register with our site, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site, special promotions and newsletters. Every computer that accesses our Web site is assigned a different Cookie. The information collected by Cookies allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Website. We may use Cookie information to target our marketing messages or to determine the popularity of certain content.

Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our Web site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies to productively use our site. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Cookies to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.

Links to Other Sites:

We cannot ensure the protection of any personal information that you provide to a third-party site that links to or from this site, as these third-party sites are owned and operated independently. These third-party sites may have their own privacy and data collection practices that are beyond our control. Any personal information that you provide to these third-party sites will be regulated by their privacy policy, if any. We can assume no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the practices, actions or policies of these third-party sites, and cannot be responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.