At Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre (‘SKMCH&RC’), we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the users of our site. This privacy policy will tell you what information we collect, how it is used, and what your choices are. Please read this policy carefully.

You may use the SKMCH&RC site without providing any personal information; however, use of certain services on the site may require personal information.

Except where specifically requested, SKMCH&RC does not wish to receive personal or other confidential information from you via the Internet. Please do not provide personal information via email to the hospital unless it is through a secure channel. Remember that e-mail messages can be viewed by other internet users while in transit.

Are online transactions via this site secure?

The elective and volunteer forms are available online but cannot be completed or submitted electronically.

If you wish to make an online donation from our site, you will be asked to provide your credit card information to complete the transaction. Please note that the links present on our donations page are authorized and secure online sites for the submission of personal credit card information, and are run by the site’s transaction partners Merchant e-solutions, USA, ecxs.com and Citibank, Pakistan.

We prevent unauthorized access by a secure firewall and use of security infrastructure to protect the integrity and privacy of the personal information you provide to us. As an additional security measure, your personal information is also encrypted during transmission by Secure Socket Layer 128-bit encryption software certified by VeriSign. (Encryption is a common method used to transmit sensitive data across the internet. Encryption temporarily makes the text unreadable during the time it is being transmitted over the internet.) Please note, that for encryption to work, your browser must be Netscape or Internet Explorer version 4.0 or higher also encrypted.

Children

The parts of this Web site that permit information about a person (name, address, e-mail address, etc.) are not intended for use by children under the age of 12. If you are under the age of 12, please ask your parents to help you in using those parts of this web site, and ask your parents for permission before you send any information about yourself (name, address, etc.) to SKMCH&RC or anyone else over the internet and before making any online donations or purchases.

Registration

You do not have to register to access information on this web site.

Does the SKMCH&RC web site use cookies?

Please note that we do not use "cookies," which are small files stored on your computer's hard drive that are used to track personal information.

Often advertisers will place their own cookies on a site user's computer. However, at present SKMCH&RC does not accept third party advertisements on its site.

You do not need to have cookies enabled to visit www.shaukatkhanum.org.pk

The web server of the SKMCH&RC web site collects and saves the default information customarily logged by world wide web server software. Our logs may contain the following information for each request: date and time, originating IP address (the unique Internet address assigned to your computer by your internet service provider), domain name, referring URL, object requested, and completion status of the request. We use these logs to help improve our service by evaluating the traffic to our site in terms of the number of unique visitors, level of demand, most popular page requests, and types of errors.

Copyright

Copyright © 2004 Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Lahore.

All design, methods, structures, and material is Copyright © 2004 by SKMCH&RC. Any part or whole of this site may not be copied or reproduced in any form without written permission from Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Changes to our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer

If we ever change our privacy policy or disclaimer statement, we will post any changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information that we collect and how we use it.

We welcome your feedback. If you have questions or comments about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.