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Legal Notice - Notice of Privacy Practices

Women's Health Associates of Western Massachusetts Inc. is required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information. This information consists of all records related to your health, including demographic information either created by Women's Health Associates of Western Massachusetts Inc. or received by Women's Health Associates of Western Massachusetts Inc. from other healthcare providers.

We are required to provide you with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your protected health information. These legal duties and privacy practices are described in this Notice. Women's Health Associates of Western Massachusetts Inc. will abide by the terms of this Notice, or the Notice currently in effect at the time of the use or disclosure of your protected health information.

Women's Health Associates of Western Massachusetts Inc. reserves the right to change the terms of this Notice and to make any new provisions effective for all protected health information that we maintain. Patients will be provided a copy of any revised Notices upon request. An individual may obtain a copy of the current Notice from our office at any time.

WHA Patient Privacy Policy

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Legal Notice - Website Privacy

Women's Health Associates (WHA) is committed to protecting your privacy. We have designed our web site (WomensHealthTeam.com) to allow you to visit most areas without identifying yourself or supplying personal information. For those areas where you are requested to provide identifiable information, we assure you that it will only be used to support your customer/patient relationship with WHA.

What information do we collect?
On some BHS web site pages, you may request information which requires a response. We may ask for information when you signup for our e-mail newsletter, register for a class, or order products. Therefore, we may need your name, Email address, phone number, Physicians' names, credit card number, etc... in order to fulfill your request.

Disclosure
We do not disclose your personal information unless the following conditions are met:

You provide to us a specific written consent, or
We are required by law.

Be assured we do not sell, rent, lease or share your personal information with any individual, group or company outside WHA. Your personal information is only used for the purpose it was collected.

About "Cookies"
If you are browsing the WHA web site, a cookie may be used to help us track activity on our website. WE DO NOT USE COOKIES TO TRACK ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU. Cookies only allow us to identify which information is most commonly requested, traffic flow thru the website, and general information about how visitors are using the website. This allows us to change the design or present information based on preferences or interests we have assumed based on your use of the site. If you would rather not take advantage of the benefits made possible by cookies, most browsers allow you to reject them or to choose which cookies to accept. For further information about cookies, please refer to the U.S. Department of Energy, Information Bulletin, I-034: Internet Cookies.

Email

Due to privacy and security concerns, we do not accept patient information or requests thru the website. We use e-mail to send product order confirmations, class or seminar registrations, and electronic newsletters.

Children's Guidelines
This web site does not contain content directed at children. Information on sexuality and drug abuse may be available on other pages of this site. Therefore, we encourage you to provide guidelines to your children and to supervise and monitor their activities in cyberspace.

Privacy outside the WHA website
We ocassionally provide links to other websites for your convenience. Once you click to another website, this WHA Privacy Policy no longer applies.

Contacting us regarding the website

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, please contact Joe Schmo at (413) xxx-xxxx.

Legal Notice - Terms of Use

Thank you for visiting the Womens Health Associates of Western Massachusetts (WHA) website. We have set up some ground rules to ensure that we can keep this area useful, fun, and safe for everyone. We reserve the right to change these guidelines and disclaimers at any time, and you agree that each visit you make to this website shall be subject to the current guidelines.

You specifically acknowledge that WHA is not liable for defamatory, offensive, infringing or illegal materials or conduct, or that of third parties, and we reserve the right to remove such materials from this website without liability. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action.

The contents of the website pages, including, but not limited to text, graphics, and icons, are copyrighted materials owned or controlled by WHA and contain our name, trademarks, service marks, and trade names. You may download one copy of these materials on any single computer and print a copy of the materials for your use in learning about, evaluating, or acquiring our services or products.

No other permission is granted to you to print, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, upload, download, store, display in public, alter, or modify these materials. No permission is granted here to you to use our icons, trademarks, service marks or logos to hyperlink other Internet sites with any page in this website. You may use our site address to hyperlink other Internet sites ONLY to our HOMEPAGE, www.WomensHealthTeam.com. We assume no responsibility for any other party's site hyperlinked to this Web site or in which any part of the our Web site has been hyperlinked.

Except for materials provided in those sections of this website that are restricted to licensed users and which are provided under the terms of a written agreement, all other materials and information you find on this website are provided without cost, "as is", without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation any warranty for information, services, or products provided through or in connection with this website and any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, expectation of privacy or non-infringement.

This website contains links to and frames of sites which are not maintained by us. We are not responsible for the content of those sites and cannot guarantee that sites will not change without our knowledge, and inclusion of such links and frames in this website does not imply our endorsement of the linked or framed sites or their content.