Privacy Policy

EFFECTIVE: February 1, 2007.

Thank you for visiting The Arbors of Bedford's web site, www.arborsofbedford.com, and reviewing it's privacy policy.

Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information to us.

We recognize the importance of protecting your personal information and comply with laws and regulations designed to secure that privacy.

We encourage you to take the time to read this privacy policy and those of any web site you visit.

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our web site:

Information Collected and Stored Automatically:

Our web site does not use cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive.

In general, when you visit our web sites and access information you remain anonymous. If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, read pages or download information, we only will gather and store general information (not personal) about your visit automatically. We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits. This information does not identify you personally.

We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
3. The date and time you access our site;
4. The pages you visit; and
5. If you linked to the our web site from another web site, the address of that web site and/or search engine/directory keyword search terms.

If You Send Us Personal Information:
If you choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it to us through our web site, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. We do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to you. We do not create individual profiles with the information you provide or to give it to any private organizations. We maintain a strict "No-Spam" policy, which means that we do not intend to sell, rent, or otherwise give your e-mail address or other personal information to a third-party.

Links To Other Web Sites:
Our web site has links to many other sites. Once you link to another web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Limiting Employee Access To Information:
Information that we have about you is available to our employees on a need to know basis so they can do their jobs. Our employees are prohibited from giving information about you to anyone in a manner that would violate any applicable law or our privacy policy. Employees are instructed to understand the importance of confidentiality and will not discuss or disclose any information about you unless specifically required to transact business with you.

Children:
None of the web sites covered by this policy knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under age 13. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with any personally identifiable information, we will delete that information from our systems.

www.arborsofbedford.com encourages parents to go online with their children. Parents should understand the sites their kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate. There are parental control tools available such as browsers and filtering software that prevent children from accessing inappropriate sites. Children should never give out personal information on the Internet, such as name, address, phone number, or name of school, unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult. Look for a privacy policy on a web site and find out how information collected from children is treated. Parents should teach their children to look for sites that display a privacy policy.

Questions?
www.arborsofbedford.com welcomes comments and questions on this policy. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information, and will make every reasonable effort to keep that information secure. Due to the rapidly evolving technologies on the Internet, we may occasionally update this policy. All revisions will be posted to this web site.

Questions regarding this policy should be directed to: The Arbors of Bedford, 70 Hawthorne Drive, Bedford, New Hampshire 03110.

Disclosure Of Privacy Principles To Users:
Users may obtain a copy of this policy by 1) printing a copy of this policy from our web site, or (2) requesting a copy via mail at: The Arbors of Bedford, 70 Hawthorne Drive, Bedford, New Hampshire 03110.

The Arbors of Bedford is a member of the Merrimack Health Group family of skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facilities.