Privacy Policy

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") covers how Hospital Engineering Society of Greater New York (hereinafter, "HESGNY") treats personal information that it collects and receives from you during your use of the https://hesgny.org/ website ("site”). TERMS. Personal information is information about you or your clients that is personally identifiable like name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. Such information can include information related to your past use of HESGNY products and services. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that HESGNY does not own or control. HESGNY is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on website outside of the hesgny.org site.

Use of your Personal Information

HESGNY collects and uses your personal information to operate the HESGNY Site and deliver the services you have requested. HESGNY also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from HESGNY and its affiliates.  HESGNY does not sell, rent or lease its member lists to third parties. The HESGNY Site will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on HESGNY or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of HESGNY ; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of HESGNY or the public.

Use of Cookies

The HESGNY site uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. When you visit this Site, you can surf the Site anonymously and access information without revealing your identity.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles or pages 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.

Security of your Personal Information

HESGNY secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. HESGNY secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Policy

HESGNY will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. HESGNY encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how HESGNY is protecting your information.

Contact Information

HESGNY welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that HESGNY has not adhered to this Statement, please contact HESGNY at info@hesgny.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem. 

Last updated: August 23, 2024