This Cookie Policy explains how Boston Oncology uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how Boston Oncology collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal data more broadly. The rules governing use of this website are set out separately in our Terms of Use.
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, telephone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow a website to recognize a device, remember certain preferences, support website functions, protect forms and systems, and understand how visitors use the website.
Some cookies operate only while your browser is open and expire when the browser is closed. Others remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
We may also use technologies that perform similar functions. References to “cookies” in this policy include those similar technologies where applicable.
Boston Oncology may use cookies to:
We do not use information collected through cookies to provide medical advice or make decisions about an individual’s treatment.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to operate securely and properly. They may support functions such as:
Because these cookies are necessary to provide the website and its requested functions, they cannot ordinarily be disabled through our preference controls. You may be able to block them through your browser, but doing so may prevent portions of the website from functioning properly.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as language, region, display settings, or other preferences.
These cookies are used only where the relevant functionality is available and, where required by applicable law, only with your consent.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors use the website. They may collect information such as:
We use this information in aggregate to evaluate website performance, identify areas for improvement, and understand which information is most useful to visitors.
Where required by applicable law, these cookies will not be activated unless you provide consent.
Functional and Embedded-Content Cookies
Some website features or externally provided content may require cookies to operate. These may include interactive content, maps, videos, accessibility tools, or other third-party functionality.
Where required, these features and their associated cookies will remain inactive until you choose to enable them.
Some cookies are placed directly by Boston Oncology. These are known as first-party cookies.
Other cookies may be placed by service providers that support website security, forms, analytics, performance, or embedded functionality. These are known as third-party cookies.
Third-party providers may process information collected through their technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies. Boston Oncology selects and manages service providers with the intention of applying appropriate privacy and security protections.
When you first visit the website, you may be asked to choose whether to permit nonessential cookies.
You may:
Strictly necessary cookies will remain active because they are required for the website to function.
You may change or withdraw your choices at any time through the Cookie Preferences link available in the website footer. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before the withdrawal.
Your preferences may need to be renewed periodically, when the website changes materially, or if cookies stored on your device are deleted.
Cookies may be either:
We retain cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary for their intended purpose. The applicable duration may vary according to the cookie’s function, legal requirements, security needs, and the settings of the relevant service.
Most internet browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies through their settings.
Browser controls vary by browser and device. Blocking all cookies may affect website functionality, including forms, security features, preference settings, and interactive content.
Browser settings operate separately from the choices available through our Cookie Preferences control.
Some information collected through cookies may constitute personal data when it identifies, relates to, or can reasonably be associated with an individual or device.
Boston Oncology handles personal data collected through cookies as described in our Privacy Policy, including its provisions concerning security, retention, service providers, international transfers, and individual rights.
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the website, the cookies we use, legal requirements, or our privacy practices.
The date of the latest update will appear at the top of this page. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or cookie-preference interface.
Questions about this Cookie Policy or Boston Oncology’s use of cookies may be submitted through our Contact Form. Select Privacy or Personal Data Request as the inquiry type.
Boston Oncology, LLC
245 First Street, Suite 1800
Cambridge, MA 02142
United States
