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Privacy Policy

CONCERN® Privacy Statement


This Privacy Statement provides information about:

1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personallyidentifiable information is collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distributionof the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuseor alteration of information under CONCERN control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should firstcontact CONCERN, 8280 Montgomery Road, Suite 101, Cincinnati, OH 45236 by postalmail

Commitment to Confidentiality:

Confidentiality is a top priority at CONCERN. We are committed to maintainingthe highest level of confidentiality with all of the information we receivefrom our customers and clients, including the information received from thisweb site.

This Privacy Statement will assure you that the information you share withCONCERN is kept confidential and fully secure. CONCERN may change this PrivacyStatement at any time by posting revisions to our web site. You will be notifiedof any modifications in the use of Personally Identifiable Information viae-mail, mail or phone.

Links to other sites are available in order to provide you with additionaluseful information and services. Links that take you off our site are clearlylabeled. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or actions of thosethat control other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacypolicies of any site you visit.

Personal information:

At CONCERN, we are very aware of the privacy concerns of our customers andothers who visit the CONCERN web site. In fact, we share your concerns andwill not solicit personal information from you as you tour our site, thoughyou may provide that information voluntarily. If you do elect to provide personalinformation to us, in no case will we sell, license or transmit that informationoutside of CONCERN for any reason, unless you authorize us to do so.

There are instances in which CONCERN might internally use the personal informationyou voluntarily submit. These instances include identifying and registeringyou for services through our site. In addition, we may disclose your personalinformation (as described below) to our agents, affiliates and subsidiariesto enable them to perform certain functions for us. By learning a little aboutyou, CONCERN can deliver more relevant content and product offerings, henceprovide you better service.

Personally Identifiable Information is described as data that is unique toan individual, such as a name, address, telephone number, social security numberand date of birth. At times, we may request personal information from you throughour sites in order to deliver requested materials to you, respond to your questions,or deliver a product or service. Members, clients, customers and providershave the ability to register in a secured area of our web site in order forus to deliver such products or services.

Information we collect may include:

Providers
Members/Clients
User ID
User ID
PIN #
PIN #
First & Last Nam
First & Last Name
Phone
Zip Code
State
Date of Birth
Secret Prompt
Member ID
Secret Response
Group No
Federal Tax ID
Secret Prompt
License
Secret Response
State of License

By providing an e-mail address, you are indicating that publicationscan be sent to your e-mail address. You are not required at any time to submityoure-mail address for the purpose of receiving recurring informational/promotionale-mails from CONCERN and/or third parties. You may opt out of receiving publicationsvia e-mail by contacting CONCERN. We also collect information about you andyour use of our site through the use of Cookies. "Cookies" are smallcomputer files that we transfer to your computer's hard drive that grant youaccess to a secured area and are only used for session tracking. Cookies arerequired to gain access to the secured areas of our site. Access to these securedareas will not be granted if the cookie is rejected. Information that is automaticallylogged for the purpose of producing reports containing hit volumes is:
Query String, Status, Bytes Sent, User-Agent (Browser Type) and Cookie Referrer.

Internal Security Procedures

Information that you share with us is kept strictly confidential and fullysecure. Your encrypted (encoded) information is protected using "SecureSocket Layers (SSL)" as it passes between your browser and the CONCERNservers. Only authorized persons are permitted to access your personal information.All authorized persons must abide by a security and confidentiality agreement.

What you should know:

The information contained on this CONCERN web site is provided for generalinformational purposes, as a convenience to the customers and clients of CONCERNand as a public service. The material is not a substitute for obtaining professionaladvice from a qualified person, firm or corporation. Consult the appropriateprofessional advisor for more complete and up-to-the minute information. CONCERNis not engaged in rendering any legal, medical or professional services byplacing this general informational material on this web site.

In no circumstances will CONCERN be liable to any party for any direct, indirect,special or other consequential damages arising out of any use of this website, or any other hyper-linked web site. This includes, without limitation,any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or data on yourequipment, or otherwise, even if CONCERN is expressly advised of the possibilityor likelihood of such damages.

Information may be changed or updated without notice. Therefore, informationcontained on our sites may be out of date at any given time. CONCERN may alsomake improvements and/or changes to the products and/or programs describedon our sites at any time without notice.

E-mail:

Should you send us your questions, comments and job inquiry via e-mail toany mail box provided on any of our affiliated web sites, we will share yourcorrespondence with our Customer Service representatives and those employeesor agents most capable of addressing your questions and concerns. We will retainyour communication until we have done our very best to provide you with a completeand satisfactory response. Ultimately, we will either discard your communicationor, in some cases, archive it. Your e-mail address will not be retained forsecondary purposes.
All information and correspondence you share with us will be handled in thestrictest confidence. Please note that the e-mail facilities on our web site(unlike those areas that require a sign-on and are PIN- protected) do not providethe same level of security. For that reason, please do not use e-mail to communicateinformation to us that you consider confidential. If you wish, you may contactus instead via telephone at (513) 891-1627 or (800) 841-5002.

For more information:

The www.concernservices.com web site is maintained by
CONCERN Services
8280 Montgomery Road, Suite 101
Cincinnati, OH 45236.