Nu Diagnostics’ websites use “cookies” to help personalize the online experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer or mobile device. Cookies allow us, among other things, to store your preferences and settings, enable you to sign in to your patient portal, and analyze how our websites and services are performing. They allow us to identify those devices when they return to a site, in order to provide you with a more seamless experience, facilitating your use of Nu Diagnostics’ websites, and/or to aid Nu Diagnostics in improving the user experience. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the option of whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, areas of some sites may not function properly.
Types of Cookies Used
Essential Cookies
These are cookies that are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through Nu Diagnostics’ sites and to use some of its features, and they cannot be switched off in our systems. These cookies may gather certain pieces of information, such as Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), and browser setting information. This information is not stored after you end your session.
You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work if they are blocked. Essential cookies are particularly important for:
- Maintaining your session security when logged into the patient portal
- Ensuring proper functionality of test scheduling features
- Protecting sensitive medical information during transmission
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to measure and understand how our sites are used by visitors by identifying which pages are the most and least popular and where we can improve the performance of our site.
All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Functionality Cookies
These are cookies that are placed on your machine in response to a specific activity or request by you, such as logging in to the patient portal, in order to ensure the site provides you with the experience you have requested. These cookies may be persistent, meaning they will continue to function when you’ve started a new session, so that you don’t have to log in repeatedly. These cookies also enable Nu Diagnostics to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on the site.
These cookies may also collect the user’s location-based information for the purposes of finding the nearest diagnostic facility. This information is only shared with the mapping provider for the sole purpose of providing you with location-based services. The user may turn off any geo-locating tracking at the device level. By turning off the location tracking, any geographically based services will no longer be available to you.
Third-Party Cookies
Nu Diagnostics and our partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer this site, track users’ movements around this site, and to gather information about our user base as a whole. Third-party cookies are also used to provide certain information from partner websites at the request of the user.
Our partners and service providers may use session cookies to anonymously track page interactions, which improves your site experience. Our third-party partners employ images and scripts that help them better manage content on our site.
Third Parties, with whom we partner to provide certain features on our sites or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity, use Flash cookies to collect and store information. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies.
Our third-party partners do not tie the information gathered to our user’s personally identifiable information.
Users can control the use of third-party cookies as follows:
- Portal Integration: If you choose to access your medical records through our integrated patient portal, third-party cookies may be used to maintain your secure session.
- Google Drive: If you select to upload any medical documents via a Google Drive account, Google Drive will use a third-party cookie on the site. Google Drive policies are governed by a wholly separate privacy policy.
- Google Maps: Our sites provide geographical information for finding the nearest diagnostic facility. You can deny the use of this permission by declining the browser prompt to access your location information.
Nu Diagnostics’ site also uses a third-party tracking service called Google Analytics that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our sites in the aggregate (browser version, geographic region, click path, and bounce rates) to improve the end-user experience.
Note: For links to non-Nu Diagnostics organizations, Nu Diagnostics is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We recommend you review the terms and conditions of use and privacy policies in place on such websites.
Declining and Controlling Cookies
If you decline consent to cookies, you may still use our sites, but your ability to use some areas of the sites will be limited. You are able to control cookies from your browser-level settings. Each browser typically allows a user to enable, disable, block, allow, or remove cookies by visiting the settings, tools, or preferences tab that can be located within the browser itself. For additional questions regarding any specific browser, please contact your browser support directly.
Disclaimer
The information provided on this website does not, and is not intended to, constitute medical or legal advice; instead, all information, content, and materials available on this site are for general informational purposes only. Information on this website may not constitute the most up-to-date medical, legal, or other information.