Welcome to the Wound Care Centers, Inc. Web site.  We appreciate your interest in our nationwide network of wound management programs.  When you visit and navigate our site and when you use the links within our site, from time to time we may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us.  We have implemented technological safeguards to protect non-public information received from you against theft or unauthorized disclosure.  Wound Care Centers, Inc. will not sell, license, transmit or disclose information received from you to any person or entity outside of WCC or its affiliated companies, except and unless necessary to enable WCC contractors or vendors to perform work or render service for WCC, or unless required or permitted by law.  In cases where we disclose information consistent with applicable laws and regulations, we will require the recipient to protect the information and use it only for the purpose it was provided. 

For purposes of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly referred to as "HIPAA," we do not intend to use this site to collect Protected Health Information, as defined under HIPAA, or personally identifiable health information.  You should not use this site to transmit personal health questions or information regarding identified individuals, or to address specific health issues pertaining to an identified or identifiable person. 

Security

Wound Care Centers has implemented stringent security measures to protect non-public personal information at WCC against accidental or unauthorized access or disclosure. The safeguards developed for this site include encryption software and other administrative, physical and technical barriers that together form a protective firewall around the information stored at this site. 

Using E-Mail to Communicate With Us.

Please do not transmit personally identifiable health information to us using e-mail.  Of course, we welcome your non-confidential comments and questions about our Web site and about the Wound Care Centers Nationwide Network.  We will share your comments and inquiries with our customer service representatives and those employees most capable of addressing your questions and concerns.  Your e-mail, like most non-encrypted Internet e-mail, may be accessed and viewed by other Internet users, without your knowledge and permission, while in transit to us.  For that reason, to protect your privacy, do not use e-mail to communicate personally identifiable health information to us, or to deliver information to us that you would otherwise consider confidential. If you wish, you may contact us instead via non-cellular telephone at any one of the wound care centers described within this site.

"Cookies"

When you visit our Web site, we collect certain information that does not identify you personally, but provides us with "usage data," which includes the number of visitors we receive or what pages are visited most often. Information of this sort helps us to analyze and improve the efficiency of our site.  We may also use what is known as "cookie" technology.  "Cookies" are intended to make your visit to the Wound Care Centers, Inc. Web site convenient and efficient.  Cookies are elements of data sent to your browser.  Cookies are not programs and have no ability to read data stored on your hard drive or perform any such function. Your browser typically will provide a simple procedure that will enable you to control whether you want to receive cookies, and enable you to remove cookie files.

Links to Non-Wound Care Centers, Inc. Sites

The Wound Care Centers, Inc. site contains links to other Web sites, which are not owned or controlled by us, but which may be useful or of interest to you. Naturally we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices used by other Web site operators or the content or accuracy of their sites. Links to various non-WCC sites do not constitute or imply endorsement by Wound Care Centers of those sites, any products or services described there, or of any other material contained in them.

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