Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED — 5/31/19
At Northwestern Medicine Health & Fitness Center Crystal Lake and Northwestern Medicine Health & Fitness Center Huntley  (hereafter as the Health & Fitness Centers), we respect concerns about privacy and safeguarding personal information. This policy is intended to help users of the Health & Fitness Centers services understand how the Health & Fitness Centers gathers and uses information, as well as the precautions the Health & Fitness Centers takes to handle the information users provide in a safe and responsible manner. This policy does not apply to personal information collected from you in other ways, or through websites or other electronic or digital means that the Health & Fitness Centers does not own or control. the Health & Fitness Centers reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy as appropriate. Please review this policy on an ongoing basis to keep informed about present Privacy Policy practices.

PRIVACY POLICY SCOPE 
This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through electronic or digital means including our website located at:
https://www.nmhfc.com/
https://www.facebook.com/CentegraHealthBridge/

and other electronic and digital means of communications (collectively referred within this Policy as our “Digital Properties”). Unless disclosed otherwise, our affiliated sites are governed by this Privacy Policy.

THE INFORMATION THE HEALTH & FITNESS CENTERS COLLECT
the Health & Fitness Centers collect information directly from the user (such as name, e-mail address, contact numbers, address, age, gender) only when the user voluntarily accesses our Digital Properties and enters the information voluntarily and in connection with user requests for information. the Health & Fitness Centers also may collect information following a promotional campaign or if a membership is purchased.

HOW THE HEALTH & FITNESS CENTERS USES THE INFORMATION USERS PROVIDE
The Health & Fitness Centers may use the information voluntarily provided to communicate promotions, newsletters, updates, special programs and information about the Health & Fitness Centers through emails, social media, mailings using the post office and possibly telephone contacts. If you do not wish to be contacted by the Health & Fitness Centers, you have the option to opt-out by requesting that you not be contacted. Click the unsubscribe link on the bottom of any e-mail communication you receive from us to be removed from the list. The Health & Fitness Centers also may use your information generally to evaluate the effectiveness of our website services and digital communications as part of overall demographic data and statistics.

The Health & Fitness Centers will not share, lease, rent or sell your information to outside third parties that are not affiliated with the Health & Fitness Centers. The Health & Fitness Centers may share information you provide with our business partners and affiliates as part of combined statistical data that does not include individually identifiable data about any user. Because the Health & Fitness Centers is part of a group of fitness and wellness centers that are managed collectively, the Health & Fitness Centers reserve the right to share any collective data, statistics and analysis with third parties. Any information shared, however, will not contain any users’ identifiable personal information.

HOW COOKIES ARE USED
A “Cookie” is text information stored on your computer’s hard drive by an internet web server. When you visit or use the Health & Fitness Center’s Digital Properties, Cookies automatically store certain information related to your internet use. The Cookies the Health & Fitness Centers uses help the Health & Fitness Centers improve and streamline your use of our Digital Properties each time you return. If you want to avoid the use of Cookies, you will need to personally reconfigure your computer to do so. This is not something the Health & Fitness Centers can do at its end.

YOUR PERSONAL ACCOUNT
You will be required to set up a personal account to access features within the Health & Fitness Center’s Digital Properties. This may require that you create a user name and password. You also may be required, as part of the account creation process, to share personally identifiable information as discussed above and herein. The Health & Fitness Centers strongly encourages you not to share your user name or password with others to help safeguard your account and information. The Health & Fitness Centers staff will not ask you for your user name or password in connection with any general communication to you. If you experience any problems accessing and using any of our Digital Properties, please contact the Health & Fitness Center’s home office at the phone number listed on our web page.  A representative from the Health & Fitness Centers will help solve your problem or will put you in touch with someone else affiliated with the Health & Fitness Centers to help you.

Please be aware that the Health & Fitness Center’s Digital Properties may contain links to other websites and resources that are owned, operated and maintained by third parties. If you click on one of the available links, you may be navigated away from the Health & Fitness Centers Digital Properties and taken to the site of a third party. The Health & Fitness Centers is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any resources or internet sites owned, operated or maintained by any third party. The Health & Fitness Centers encourages you to read and familiarize yourself with the privacy statements available on any third party site that you access before providing data or personally identifiable information to any third party.

USE BY THE HEALTH & FITNESS CENTERS AFFILIATES
The Health & Fitness Centers is part of a group of fitness and wellness centers that share centralized corporate management, operations and support team. That team of people provides services to the Health & Fitness Centers and helps the Health & Fitness Centers operate more efficiently and effectively. The services the team may provide include marketing, maintaining and updating the Digital Properties, sending e-mail and mail through the post office, collecting and analyzing data, preparing statistics, and enhancing user and/or member service. A team member may have access to the personal information you provide to enable him or her to perform these necessary tasks and further to better serve the Health & Fitness Centers members and Digital Property users. The Health & Fitness Centers are located at:

Northwestern Medicine Health & Fitness Center Crystal Lake – 10450 Algonquin Rd – Huntley, Illinois – 60142

Northwestern Medicine Health & Fitness Center Huntley – 200 Congress Parkway – Crystal Lake, IL 60014

OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
To prevent unauthorized access, to maintain data accuracy and to ensure the correct use of information, the Health & Fitness Centers has in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.  You are solely responsible for protecting your password and not sharing it or inadvertently disclosing it.

OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The Health & Fitness Centers is committed to protecting the privacy of young children.  The Health & Fitness Centers does not knowingly attempt to collect or maintain through its website information from children who are under the age of 13.  The Health & Fitness Center’s website does not contain information structured to attract children under the age of 13. The Health & Fitness Centers website is not appropriate for that age group.

LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
The Health & Fitness Centers reserve the right to disclose the information you provide if the Health & Fitness Centers reasonably believes disclosure is necessary to comply with a court order, a subpoena, a judicial proceeding, public health obligations or as may be required through any valid legal process.

By accessing our Digital Properties, you agree to assume any risk of use and you assume full responsibility for any potential problems that may arise to your personal property or information following that use. You acknowledge that the Health & Fitness Centers and all of its affiliates shall not be liable for any damages relating to your use of this site. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the Health & Fitness Centers at 815.444.2900.

CHANGES TO THE HEALTH & FITNESS CENTERS PRIVACY POLICY
If the Health & Fitness Centers decides to change the Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to the Privacy Policy on our homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our Digital Properties. Your use of the Digital Properties following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.