Terms and Conditions of Use
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General Information
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Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas, (“MANA,” “we,” or “us”)
intends for the information on this site to be only for self-educational
purposes, and you should use the information on this site for only
those purposes. Information provided is general healthcare information
only and should not be used in place of a visit, call, consultation
or advice from your primary care physician, or some other treating
physician or caretaker. You should never disregard medical advice
or delay seeking medical advice from your personal doctor because
of something you have read on this website. Never discontinue treatment
or medication that has been prescribed to you without first consulting
your physician, clinician, therapist, or other caretaker. Any representation
by MANA contained on this website should not be construed, and
is not intended to expressly or impliedly warrant or create any
standard
of care. Your visit and use of this website does not create a physician/patient
or hospital/patient relationship. IF YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY, DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION HELP OR ASSISTANCE ON THIS
WEBSITE.
Immediately call 911 or some other emergency assistance.
Use of
this Site
MANA maintains this website to provide informational and educational
service to the community. Any use of this site by you is at your
sole risk, and should not be relied upon by you to diagnose or
treat any illness or symptom you may have. No one involved with
this website,
including but not limited to MANA, affiliated offices and doctors
of MANA, or any other party involved in developing, creating
or delivering the website will be liable for any direct, incidental,
consequential,
indirect or punitive damages arising out of your access to, use
of, or inability to use this website. MANA provides the content
of this
website “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. MANA assumes no responsibility and cannot
be liable for damages to, or viruses that may affect your computer
equipment
or other property because of your access to or use of this website.
This includes the downloading of materials, data, text, images,
video or audio from this website.
Privacy
MANA values your privacy and considers this issue to be an important
one. The information MANA gathers about you from this website
depends on what you do on the site. We collect information
on the pages viewed
by the visitors to our site in an aggregate amount, so we know
what pages our visitors view and we can then tailor this website
according
the aggregate information we review.
There will be opportunities for you to provide information
to MANA via our website. You have the opportunity to submit
e-mails
regarding
appointments. You also have
the option to submit general e-mail messages to us. If you choose to submit
an unsolicited e-mail to us, we will use your e-mail address
only to reply to your
message and for no other use. Any reply to unsolicited correspondence is
intended to provide general information only and does not constitute
part of an individual’s
medical record with MANA, unless such e-mail is regarding an appointment. We
will not respond to any unsolicited e-mail messages seeking medical advice,
treatment, opinions or other matters traditionally associated with the physician/patient
relationship. If you e-mail regarding an appointment, we will keep this message
as long as we need to in order to schedule and confirm the appointment. Please
note that e-mail is not considered a secure form of communication, and any
communication
you send to us via e-mail has the possibility of being read by someone other
than us. Your e-mail address will not be sold to third parties, or used by
MANA except to correspond with you about your communication to us.
Links To
Other Websites
MANA provides links to other websites that may provide further general
healthcare information for self-educational purposes. However, MANA cannot
and has not
reviewed all of these sites and does not make any representations to
you regarding the
content or accuracy of these outside sites. Further, if you have found
this site through a link from another website, we cannot and do not make
any representations
regarding the content or accuracy of the websites providing a link to
our website,
as we cannot control the links on other websites.
Copyright
You may use materials on this website for your own personal use,
as long as you include the copyright and other notices contained
on the materials.
You
may not
use the materials included on the website, including text, images,
audio and video, for public or commercial purposes, without
MANA’s written permission. |
