Cookie Policy

VIRTUA HEALTH, INC.
Cookie Policy

Last Updated: January 15, 2025

Thank you for your interest in Virtua Health Inc., and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Virtua” or “we”). This Cookie Policy explains our use of “cookies” and other tracking technologies, including, but not limited to, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”). This Cookie Policy applies to websites described below (each, a “Site”).

PLEASE READ THIS COOKIE POLICY CAREFULLY AS IT DESCRIBES YOUR RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND LIABILITIES. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THIS COOKIE POLICY AND VIRTUA’S TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE COOKIE MANAGEMENT ON THE FOOTER OF THE WEBSITE TO SET YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES AND TO OPT OUT WITH RESPECT TO HOW OUR SITE USES NON-ESSENTIAL COOKIES, PIXELS, AND TAGS FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING, MARKETING, ANALYTICS, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES.

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES AND OTHER ONLINE TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. The cookie then sends information back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Other types of tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Site. Accordingly, Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies allow our Site to recognize your device and track your activities and preferences, thereby allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently and to generally improve the user experience. The information provided below about cookies also applies to the other tracking technologies referenced above (i.e., web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies). You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies are often categorized by function. We use four types of cookies by function on our Site:

 

Name

 

 

Description/Examples

 

Essential Cookies

These are cookies that are strictly Essential for the functioning of a website or for performing services that an individual user has requested. For instance, these cookies are Essential to allow us to operate our Site so you may access them as you have requested. These cookies let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access the Site. They also include cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing Session.

Analytical/Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information and statistics about how individuals use the Site (e.g., which webpages or other portions of the Site visitors go to most often). These cookies are used to improve how the Site function.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the Site to remember choices users make and to provide enhanced, personalized features. For example, within our Site, these cookies remember users’ language preferences.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements relevant to a specific user of the Site. They remember that a user has visited a website and share this information with other organizations such as advertising vendors.

 

Cookies can also be categorized by how long they remain on your device and by who puts the cookie there. There are four broad categories of duration and placement cookies that we use on the Site:

 

Name

 

 

Description/Examples

 

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically.

Session Cookies

Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser, at which time they are automatically deleted.

First-Party Cookies

These cookies are placed by the party operating the website or service. For example, any cookies we place on your computer from our Site are first-party cookies.

Third-Party Cookies

These cookies are placed on a website or service by a party that does not own or operate the website or service.

 

2. HOW DO OUR SITES USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

We use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, to facilitate our marketing, and to track your use of our Site. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Site, to protect the integrity and security of the Site, to process any requests that you make of us, and as otherwise set forth herein and in Virtua’s Privacy Policy. To administer our Site and for research purposes, Virtua may, from time to time, contract with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Site. These third-party service providers use persistent cookies to help us improve the user experience, manage the content on our Site, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Site.

Site Monitoring. Please be aware that we use cookies and other tracking technologies within the Site to monitor and record any and all activities and communications to, from, and on, the Site in order to safeguard, improve, and analyze usage of, the Site, and for the other purposes listed in this Privacy Policy. For the avoidance of doubt, you hereby acknowledge, agree, and consent to, such monitoring and recording.

The Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies we may use on the Site are as follows:

 

Virtua.org

 

Cookie Name

 

Source

 

Description/Purpose

 

 

Category

 

AEC

Google

Used by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge.

Functional

NID

Google

This cookie is used by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences.

Advertising

OGPC

Google

This cookie stores user preferences and information when viewing pages that includes Google maps.

Analytics

_GRECAPTCHA

Google

reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis.

Functional

_ga

Google

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report.

Analytics

_ga_ID

Google

A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behavior and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.

Analytics

ajs_anonymous_id

Segment

This cookie is set by Segment to count the number of people who visit a certain site by tracking if they have visited before.

Analytics

mp_a36f6f415c91b5834ce258f45c8e7113_mixpanel

Mixpanel

This cookie counts the number of people who visit a certain site.

Analytics

mp_e98d9737-4b67-423d-97cb-a6e3163cf28f_perfalytics

Mixpanel

This cookie counts the number of people who visit a certain site.

Analytics

ASP.NET_SessionId

Sitecore

ASP.NET application to store a unique identifier for a user’s current session, allowing the servers to track and maintain information about a suer’s activity across multiple page requests within that session.

Functional

 

SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE

Sitecore

Sitecore sets this cookie to track the number of visits a visitor makes to the website.

Analytics

_tq_id.TV-7281639027-1.3ba4

TVSquared

 

Analytics

ai_session

Microsoft

This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie set by Microsoft Application Insights software to gather statistical usage and telemetry data for apps built on the Azure cloud platform.

Analytics

ai_user

Microsoft

Microsoft Azure sets this cookie as a unique user identifier cookie, enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.

Advertisement

consumer_tracking_token

Adobe

This cookie counts the number of people who visit a certain site.

Analytics

consumer_user_token

Adobe

This cookie counts the number of people who visit a certain site.

Analytics

gsight2_NeverCookie

GSight

GSight puts a cookie that expires after a year when a visitor chooses to not see the Marketing Survey on our website

Functional

 

shell#lang

Sitecore

Stores context language of the current site.

Functional

 

sxa_site

Sitecore

Sitecore uses cookie to identify the specific website or context site a user is currently viewing on a Sitecore platform. Enables the website to personalize content.

Functional

 

 

Lourdesnursingschool.org

 

Cookie Name

 

Domain

 

Description/Purpose

 

 

Category

 

_utma

Google

This is set by Google Analytics to store the calculation of days and time to purchase

Analytics

__utmb

Google

This is set by Google Analytics to identify a user’s time in which they visited a Website.

Analytics

__utmc

Google

This is set by Google Analytics to identify a user’s time in which they visited a Website.

Analytics

__utmt

Google

This is set by Google Analytics to track the number of service requests.

Analytics

__utmz

Google

This is set by Google Analytics to identify keywords and search engines related to the Website.

Analytics

 

Google. We use “Google Analytics” to collect information about the use of our Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Site. Google Analytics may only collect the IP address assigned to your device on the date you visit our Site rather than your name or other personal information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with other personal information. Although Google Analytics plants a cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our Site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to the Site by disabling cookies on your browser. Along with cookies, Google Analytics also uses electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single pixel gifs) to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our Site is used. You can find additional information on how to install a browser add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Site Monitoring. Please be aware that we use cookies and other tracking technologies within the Site to monitor and record any and all activities and communications to, from, and on, the Site in order to safeguard, improve, and analyze usage of, the Site, and for the other purposes listed in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. For the avoidance of doubt, you hereby acknowledge, agree, and consent to, such monitoring and recording.

3. HOW DO WE USE AND SHARE INFORMATION?

The information and data we gather from our Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies will be used, retained, and shared in accordance with this Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy.

4. REJECTING COOKIES AND YOUR OPTIONS

You can stop cookies from being downloaded on your device by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser's menu or by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to access or take full advantage of the Site. Most browsers allow users to use a “private mode” by which cookies are deleted after your website visit. Please read the help section of your browser to learn more about how to activate the “private mode.” You could still visit our Site if your browser is in “private mode”; however, the user experience may not be optimal, and some features may not work.

  • Click here to learn more about the “Private Browsing” setting and managing cookie settings in Firefox.
  • Click here to learn more about “Incognito” and managing cookie settings in Chrome.
  • Click here to learn more about “InPrivate” and managing cookie settings in Internet Explorer.
  • Click here to learn more about “Private Browsing” and managing cookie settings in Safari.

If you want to remove previously stored cookies, you can manually delete the cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Site from placing further cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your browser setting as described above.

More Information. You can find more information about cookies, behavioral advertising, and online privacy at www.allaboutcookies.org. For some of our service providers that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance, you can exercise your choice to opt out of interest-based advertising at optout.aboutads.info. You may also opt out of receiving interest-based ads from many third-party websites and applications through the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-Out Tool, which is available at www.networkadvertising.org/choices. Certain types of mobile devices have an identifier that provides organizations with the ability to serve targeted advertising directly to a specific mobile device, and you may (depending on the device) be able to limit advertising, reset the advertising identifier, and turn off your device’s tracking features within your device’s settings. For more information see youradchoices.com/appchoices.

5. TARGETED ADVERTISING OPT-OUT RIGHTS

You may have the right to opt out of having your personal information used for targeted advertising purposes. Virtua may, from time to time, use third-party analytical and targeted advertising features on our Site and similar web tools provided by our marketing partners. To opt out of the use of your personal information in these circumstances, please click on the cookie management tool, where available, on the footer of the Site to set your cookie preferences.

6. COOKIE POLICY UPDATES

We reserve the right to amend this Cookie Policy at any time. We will notify you if this Cookie Policy is amended by updating the “Last Updated” section listed above. It is your responsibility to periodically review the Cookie Policy to determine whether any amendments have been made hereto. Your use of the Site, and continued use of the Site after any amendments are made to this Cookie Policy, signifies your consent to this Cookie Policy and any amendments hereto. We may, in our sole discretion, provide you communications, including via email or text messages, about changes to our Cookie Policy; however, such communications do not abrogate or otherwise limit your responsibility to periodically review this Cookie Policy to determine whether any amendments have been made hereto.

7. CONTACT US

If you have questions regarding this Cookie Policy, contact us at https://www.virtua.org/forms/consumer-data-request; (mail) Virtua Health Privacy Officer, 303 Lippincott Drive, 3rd Floor, Marlton, NJ 08053; or (email) privacyofficer@virtua.org.