The Stores @ Park Nicollet information privacy statement

The Stores @ Park Nicollet respects your right to know how it uses the information you provide to us. Using this Web site indicates your acceptance of the practices and policies listed below.

Collection and use of personal information

The Stores @ Park Nicollet Web site collects personal information concerning you. Some of it is related to the orders or purchases you request through our Web site. Other information relates to how you use the Web site, although some of that is not gathered in a way that connects it to your personal identity. The following explains the type of information gathered, why it is gathered and how it is used.

Order information

The Stores @ Park Nicollet Web site is a service operated by Park Nicollet Health Care Products, a subsidiary of Park Nicollet Health Services. When you give this Web site a request for a purchase, the Web site will gather nonmedical information, including your name, shipping, billing and e-mail addresses, phone number, and payment preferences, including credit card numbers and expiration dates, as well as the identity of the items you request to purchase. The Web site in turn will pass that information to Park Nicollet Health Care Products as a request to process your order.

This Web site does not gather, store nor transmit any of your health-related or clinical information, such as prescriptions, diagnoses or other medical condition information. Sometimes, Park Nicollet Health Care Products will need to independently determine whether other health-related information or medical orders may need to be obtained or confirmed before your order can be fulfilled (for example, by verifying a contact lens prescription). If you do not have a medical record on file at Park Nicollet Health Services, Park Nicollet Health Care Products may first need to contact you and ask you to acknowledge its privacy practices and policies, or ask for consent to obtain and use your medical information, as a prerequisite to your order being fulfilled (just as is done by most businesses that use health-related information, such as pharmacies). Any health-related or clinical information that you disclose to, or which is shared with, Park Nicollet Health Care Products is subject to Park Nicollet Health Services Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF) rather than this Privacy Statement. The Park Nicollet Health Care Services Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF) is available here.

Information on How You Use Our Web Site

Some information is automatically captured when you interact with our Web site.

For example, we use "cookies" to store and track an ID number assigned to you. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser, which lets our systems recognize your browser. We use cookies to simplify the order process, to minimize errors and to improve your shopping experience on our site. Because our use of cookies is intended to benefit you, we recommend that you leave them turned on as you browse the site. However, our site does require you to use cookies to place or request orders through the stores. Most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have your browser alert you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable them. Browser information can typically be found using your computer system's "help" function.

Automatic information also is used to ensure that future technological and navigational enhancements on our site address the needs of our customers. The information collected includes the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection information, such as browser type and version, operating system and platform; plus the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our Web site. None of the automatic information is gathered in a way that will be matched or stored together with your primary identity information we may know (including your name and e-mail address).

Sharing information

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below.

To fulfill your orders, Park Nicollet Health Care Products may share some of your personal information with third-party service providers, such as credit card processors, order fulfillment agencies and shipping companies. Park Nicollet Health Care Products will obtain promises from those third parties to maintain the confidentiality of your financial information, and also will protect your health-related or clinical information as described in the Park Nicollet Health Services Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF).

As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets, but remains subject to the promises made in this Information Privacy Statement and the Park Nicollet Health Services Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF) (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that The Stores @ Park Nicollet or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information held by the The Stores @ Park Nicollet Web site will of course be one of the transferred assets, but the transfer of that information will continue to be subject to the terms of the Park Nicollet Health Services Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF).

We release account and other personal information when we believe release is required to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements you are subject to; or protect the rights, property or safety of Park Nicollet Health Services or its affiliates and their employees, our users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Information Privacy Statement or the Park Nicollet Health Services Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF).

Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Securing information

The Stores @ Park Nicollet Web site uses industry standard information and data security practices. Additional levels of security are used with your credit card information, such as encryption. The operators of this Web site also will comply with any laws (whether federal, state or local) that require certain types of data protection, or to disclose to you breaches of security of your information. Remember that no information can be completely secure, and that the operators of this Web site cannot be held responsible for criminal acts that are designed to overcome commercially reasonable information protection practices. You also need to be active in protecting your information as well. You should use good password and encryption practices. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your computer, particularly if it may be shared with others. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Conditions of use, notices and revisions

Any people may view the information and catalogs available for viewing on our Web site. However, the order capability is only offered to individuals who are:

• residents of the United States
• ordering for shipment within the United States
• at least 18 years of age

If you are not such an individual, you should not (and may not) use the order placement functions of the Web site. Also, certain stores in The Stores @ Park Nicollet Web site may be subject to additional legal restrictions on where they may do business. You will be notified if those restrictions affect your requests for orders.

Your visit to this Web site, and any orders you place or request through this Web site, and any dispute over privacy, are subject to this Information Privacy Statement and any additional Terms of Use that may be posted on this Web site, as well as the Park Nicollet Health Services Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF). If you have concerns about privacy on our site, please send us a thorough description of your concerns to stores@parknicollet.com. As our business changes, this notice and conditions of use also may change. The use of information that we collect now is subject to the Information Privacy Statement in effect at the time of your use. Check our Web site frequently for revisions.