Terms & Conditions

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com® TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.
By using this site, you signify your assent to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to all of these Terms and
Conditions of use, do not use this site!

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, Inc. ("RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com") may revise and update these Terms and Conditions at any time. Your continued usage of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com website ("RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site," or the "Site,") will mean you accept those changes.

INDEX

THE SITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
USE OF CONTENT
LIABILITY OF RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM AND ITS LICENSORS
USER SUBMISSIONS
PASSWORDS
RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM LIVE AND MEMBER TO MEMBER AREAS ("PUBLIC AREAS")
ADVERTISEMENTS, SEARCHES AND LINKS TO OTHER SITES
INDEMNITY
GENERAL
JURISDICTION
COMPLETE AGREEMENT
THE SITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE.

The contents of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, such as text, graphics, images, information obtained from RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's licensors, and other material contained on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site ("Content") are for informational purposes only. The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site!
If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site. Reliance on any information provided by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com employees, others appearing on the Site at the invitation of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, or other visitors to the Site is solely at your own risk.
The Site may contain health- or medical-related materials that are sexually explicit. If you find these materials offensive, you may not want to use our Site.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. You should be aware that this Site is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know is a child under the age of 13.

USE OF CONTENT.
RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com authorizes you to view or download a single copy of the material on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site solely for your personal, noncommercial use if you include the following copyright notice: "Copyright (c) 1998 1996 - 2003, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, Inc. All rights reserved" and other copyright and proprietary rights notices that are contained in the Content. Any special rules for the use of certain software and other items accessible on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site may be included elsewhere within the Site and are incorporated into these Terms and Conditions by reference.
The Content is protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws. Title to the Content remains with RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or its licensors. Any use of the Content not expressly permitted by these Terms and Conditions is a breach of these Terms and Conditions and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. Content and features are subject to change or termination without notice in the editorial discretion of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and its licensors.
If you violate any of these Terms and Conditions, your permission to use the Content automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of any portion of the Content.

LIABILITY OF RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM AND ITS LICENSORS.
The use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site and the Content is at your own risk.
When using the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, information will be transmitted over a medium that may be beyond the control and jurisdiction of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and its suppliers. Accordingly, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com assumes no liability for or relating to the delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site.
The RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site and the content are provided on an "as is" basis. RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM, ITS LICENSORS, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES' RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Without limiting the foregoing, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, its licensors, and its suppliers make no representations or warranties about the following:

1. The accuracy, reliability, completeness, currentness, or timeliness of the Content, software, text, graphics, links, or communications provided on or through the use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site or RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.

2. The satisfaction of any government regulations requiring disclosure of information on prescription drug products or the approval or compliance of any software tools with regard to the Content contained on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site.
In no event shall RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, personal injury/wrongful death, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting from the use of or inability to use the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site or the Content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is advised of the possibility of such damages. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com shall be liable only to the extent of actual damages incurred by you, not to exceed U.S. $1000. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is not liable for any personal injury, including death, caused by your use or misuse of the Site, Content, or Public Areas (as defined below). Any claims arising in connection with your use of the Site, any Content, or the Public Areas must be brought within one (1) year of the date of the event giving rise to such action occurred. Remedies under these Terms and Conditions are exclusive and are limited to those expressly provided for in these Terms and Conditions.

USER SUBMISSIONS.
You agree that you will not upload or transmit any communications or content of any type to the Public Areas (including message boards, Ask Our Expert postings, etc.) that infringe or violate any rights of any party. By submitting communications or content to the Public Areas, you agree that such submission is non-confidential for all purposes.
If you make any such submission You agree that you will not send or transmit to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email, (including through the email addresses listed on the "Contact Us" link) any communication or content that infringes or violates any rights of any party. If you submit any business information, idea, concept or invention to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email, you agree such submission is non-confidential for all purposes.
If you make any submission to a Public Area or if you submit any business information, idea, concept or invention to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email, you automatically grant--or warrant that the owner of such content or intellectual property has expressly granted--RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication or content in any media or medium, or any form, format, or forum now known or hereafter developed. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may sublicense its rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses. If you wish to keep any business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not submit them to the Public Areas or to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email. We try to answer every email in a timely manner, but are not always able to do so.

PASSWORDS
RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com has several tools that allow you to record and store information. For example, MyHealthRecord is a service that allows you to record limited amounts of personal health information on a voluntary basis on servers maintained by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or on its behalf. MyHealthRecord is structured to allow access only to visitors with a valid password.
You are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person shall have access to your RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com passwords or accounts. It is your sole responsibility to (1) control the dissemination and use of activation codes and passwords; (2) authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of your RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com account and password; (3) promptly inform RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com of any need to deactivate a password. You grant RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the Site the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store, and use your information in connection with the operation of the Site. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com cannot and does not assume any responsibility or liability for any information you submit, including to MyHealthRecord, or your or third parties' use or misuse of information transmitted or received using RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com tools and services, including MyHealthRecord.
RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM LIVE AND MEMBER TO MEMBER AREAS ("PUBLIC AREAS").
If you use a Public Area, such as a chat room, bulletin board or community Ask Our Expert posting or other member communities, you are solely responsible for your own communications, the consequences of posting those communications, and your reliance on any communications found in the Public Areas. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is not responsible for the consequences of any communications in the Public Areas. In cases where you feel threatened or believe someone else is in danger, you should contact your local law enforcement agency immediately. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.

In consideration of being allowed to use the Public Areas, you agree that the following actions shall constitute a material breach of these Terms and Conditions:
Using a Public Area for any purpose in violation of local, state, national, or international laws;
Posting material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others;
Posting material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com in its sole discretion;
Posting advertisements or solicitations of business;
After receiving a warning, continuing to disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, or posting comments that are not related to the topic being discussed (unless it is clear the discussion is free-form);
Posting chain letters or pyramid schemes;
Impersonating another person;
Distributing viruses or other harmful computer code;
Harvesting or otherwise collecting information about others, including email addresses, without their identification for posting or viewing comments; consent;
Allowing any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments
Posting the same note more than once or "spamming"; or
Engaging in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Public Area or the Site, or which, in the judgment of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, exposes RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or any of its customers or suppliers to any liability or detriment of any type.
RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com reserves the right (but is not obligated) to do any or all of the following:
Record the dialogue in public chat rooms.
Investigate an allegation that a communication(s) do(es) not conform to the terms of this section and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the communication(s).
Remove communications which are abusive, illegal, or disruptive, or that otherwise fail to conform with these Terms and Conditions.
Terminate a user's access to any or all Public Areas and/or the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site upon any breach of these Terms and Conditions.
Monitor, edit, or disclose any communication in the Public Areas.
Edit or delete any communication(s) posted on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, regardless of whether such communication(s) violate these standards.
RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com reserves the right to take any action it deems necessary to protect the personal safety of our guests or the public. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com has no liability or responsibility to users of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site or any other person or entity for performance or nonperformance of the aforementioned activities.

ADVERTISEMENTS, SEARCHES AND LINKS TO OTHER SITES.
RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may provide links to third-party web sites. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com also may select certain sites as priority responses to search terms you enter and RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may agree to allow advertisers to respond to certain search terms with advertisements or sponsored content. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not recommend and does not endorse the content on any third-party websites. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites, sites framed within the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, third-party sites provided as search results, or third-party advertisements, and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not endorse any product advertised on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site.

INDEMNITY.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your violation of these Terms and Conditions.

GENERAL.
RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is based in Warwick,RI, in the United States of America. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com makes no claims that the Content is appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the United States. Access to the Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. The following provisions survive the expiration or termination of these Terms and Conditions for any reason whatsoever: Liability, User Submissions, Indemnity, Jurisdiction, and Complete Agreement.

JURISDICTION.
You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute with RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, or in any way relating to your use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, resides in the courts of the State of Rhode Island and you further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of the State of Rhode Island in connection with any such dispute including any claim involving RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, contractors, officers, directors, telecommunication providers, and content providers.
These Terms and Conditions are governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Rhode Island, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition.

COMPLETE AGREEMENT.
Except as expressly provided in a particular "legal notice" on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, these Terms and Conditions and the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Privacy Policy and Agreement constitute the entire agreement between you and RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com with respect to the use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, and Content.
Thank you for your cooperation. We hope you find the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site helpful and convenient to use! Questions or comments regarding this website, including any reports of non-functioning links, should be directed by electronic mail to info@rihealthcare.com or via U.S. mail to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com at 962 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, RI 02888. We try to answer every email in a timely manner but are not always able to do so.
© 2003 RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Corporation. All rights reserved.

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Privacy Policy and Agreement Your privacy is important to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. We understand that health is a very personal, private subject, and we want you to feel as comfortable as possible visiting our website and using its services. Perhaps you are visiting RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com to learn about health for yourself, perhaps on behalf of someone else. This Privacy Policy and Agreement ("Privacy Policy") will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of our website. It will explain how we protect that information and what choices you have about how it is used. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you will understand clearly both our commitment to you and your privacy, and how we may collect and use information. By using the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com site, you agree to the terms of this

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, nonprofit organization whose goal is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. As required of TRUSTe licensees, we will inform you of the following in this privacy policy:

• What personally identifiable information of yours is collected;
• What organization is collecting the information;
• How the information is used;
• With whom the information may be shared;
• What choices are available regarding collection, use and distribution of the information;
• What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control; and,
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is a recipient of the URAC e-Health seal. URAC is the American HealthCare Accreditation Association, an independent accrediting body that has reviewed and approved the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Health website for compliance with the quality and ethics standards set forth in the Hi-Ethics Principles. Hi-Ethics is an alliance of health websites committed to a set of ethical principles designed to ensure that consumers can confidently realize the full benefit of the Internet to improve their health and the health of their families. The Hi-Ethics Principles </privacy_content/article/1761.50193> are set out in detail on our website. To learn more about the URAC accreditation process please click the URAC logo.

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com also complies with the standards set by </click?url=http://webapps.urac.org/healthwebsiteaccreditation/default.asp?id=321554545>Health on the Net </click?url=http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct298987> [HON], as is indicated by the presence of the seal below.

Please remember that any information (including personal and medical information) that you reveal in a RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com public forum (such as a bulletin board, Ask Our Expert posting, chat room/event) is not protected by this Privacy Policy. Such postings will be seen by third parties not related to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. What you've written could be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. Also, if you access a third party site from a link on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, any information you reveal on that site is not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should consult the privacy policies of each site you visit.

The following are links to the provisions of our Privacy Policy that describe the information we collect from or about you; ways we disclose, use and protect that information; choices you have, and how you can update your information or contact us with questions. We hope that reading our Privacy Policy gives you a clear idea of how we manage information about you. For immediate access to a particular topic, click on the title of that Article.

ARTICLE 1: Information Collected About YouA. Information Collected by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's Behalf1. In General2.Registration and Member Profile3.Interactive Tools4.Cookies5. Web Beacons6. E-Mails and NewslettersB. Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's BehalfC.ChildrenD.Public ForumsE.Emails to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.comARTICLE 2: Disclosure of Your InformationA.Disclosure to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com SubsidiariesB.Disclosure to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Operations and Maintenance ContractorsC.Disclosure to Website Service and Content ContractorsD.Disclosure to or by Co-branded Channel PartnersE.Disclosure to Linked SitesF.Disclosure of Aggregate InformationG.My Health RecordARTICLE 3: How RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Handles Privacy InternallyARTICLE 4: Your Privacy ChoicesARTICLE 5: Updating Your Personal Information and Contacting RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com

ARTICLE 1

INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU

A. Information Collected by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's Behalf
1. In General
Personally Identifiable Information (PII or Personal Information) is information that can be used to identify or contact you. When you visit our website, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com collects only the Personal Information you provide to us. We collect the Personal Information that you provide to us in two general and distinct ways: (1) When you register as a Member and/or when you update your Member Profile, and (2) When you choose to use various RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Interactive Tools and Services or participate in surveys or send emails to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. We also collect non-personal information from you and about your use of our website, emails, special promotions and newsletters that we send to you, and websites of selected sponsors and advertisers. For example, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may use "cookies" or "web beacons" to collect non-personal information about your use of our site, selected sponsors' sites, or emails we send to you. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not store any Personal Information in any cookies on your computer. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not use web beacons to collect any Personal Information from or about you or to track your activities across websites generally. All of these are described in more detail below.

2. Registration and Member Profile
You may use our website without registering or submitting any Personal Information. In that case, the only information we collect will be non-personal information collected through the use of cookies or web beacons (see details below). However, in order to have access to certain services and content available on our site (e.g., MyHealthRecord), you are required to complete a registration form. We use the Personal Information that you provide through registration to respond to questions from you and/or inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy. We may also use this information to send you emails with special promotions or newsletters with content that we think may be of interest to you. You can always opt-out <http://my.RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.com/privacy_content/article/1761.50190> of receiving such emails or unsubscribe to newsletters at the time you register or at any time - see Article 4 below for more detail about opting-out of receiving emails and newsletters. The information we collect in the Registration form and Member Profile is set forth below. Required information is indicated by an asterisk*. Provision of all other information is optional.
Registration Member Nickname* Password*/Hint Email Address* Zip Code*Member Profile Name Street Address Gender Age Range (18-24, 25-34, 34-54, or 55+) Health Topics of Interest Health Plan
3. Interactive Tools
We also collect other information, some of which may be Personal Information, that you voluntarily provide to us when you choose to use some of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Interactive Tools and Services, such as MyHealthRecord, Ask Our Experts or Health Risk Appraisal. We also collect information you provide voluntarily through responses to surveys, questionnaires and the like. Some of the free Interactive Tools on our site ask you for health-related Personal Information.
For example, MyHealthRecord is a special Interactive Service that allows you to record limited amounts of health-related Personal Information on a voluntary basis on secure servers maintained by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or by a third party on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's behalf. Please see the description of MyHealthRecord below in Article 2, and please read the Security and Confidentiality Statement posted on the MyHealthRecord pages for more information regarding what information is collected when you use this service.
While we collect Personal Information about you if you use our service called the Health Risk Appraisal (HRA), we do not store this information unless you request it. Therefore, you can use HRA and if you do not choose to store the information, it is deleted and no longer accessible to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. If you choose to store the information, it is collected by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and subject to this Privacy Policy. HRA is an educational tool that is designed to help you better understand how to maintain your health and the health of your family. HRA interacts with MyHealthRecord to give you a central place to store your and your family's health risk information. Over time, as you and your family members learn more about their health status, the HRA tool can track your progress and their progress in reducing the risk of illness.

4. Cookies
We also collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of our site or your use of emails, special promotions or newsletters that we send to you. For example, we collect non-personal information about your use of our site and your use of the sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of "Cookies <http://my.RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.com/privacy_content/article/1761.50190>". Cookies are small computer files that we transfer to your computer's hard drive that allow us to know how often someone visits a site and the activities they conduct while on that site (such as the chatrooms you visited, whether you submitted orders for products, etc.). Every computer is assigned a different cookie by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. The information collected by cookies helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on web pages or in emails specifically designed for you and also allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, or opening our emails, and for what purposes. We may use cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements.
Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookie, certain of the functions and conveniences of our site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our cookie in order to productively use our site. While it may be possible to link non-personal cookie information to Personal Information collected in other ways, we want you to know that if you accept our cookie we will not, without your consent, link the cookie information we collect to Personal Information you provide to us on our site.
6. E-mails and Newsletters
As noted in the discussions of cookies and web beacons (see above), we collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of e-mails and newsletters that we send to you. In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the site of a third party which, acting on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's behalf (see Disclosure to Website Service and Content Contractors, below), notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to its proper destination; this re-direction process will not be apparent to you. When you use RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's "Email a Friend" application, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com emails the article or other content you designate to your friend's email address and lists your email address as the sender. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com uses the friend's email address only for the purpose of sending your friend the email you requested and for no other purpose unless otherwise disclosed to you at the time you send the email.
B. Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's Behalf
Sponsors, partners or advertisers on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com site or in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you may also use their own cookies or web beacons when you click on their advertisement or link to their site or service, or even if the advertisement simply appears on a page or in an e-mail that you are viewing. Some advertisers use companies other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com to serve their ads and to monitor users' responses to ads, and these companies ("Ad Servers") may also collect non-personal information through the use of cookies or web beacons on our website. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the site of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its proper destination (e.g., back to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com to show the ad, or to the advertiser's Web site); this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.
We do not control these third parties' use of cookies or web beacons, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. However, we do require sponsors, advertisers and Ad Servers who collect cookie or web beacon information through our website to agree that they will not collect any Personal Information from our site without your consent. They have promised us they will not link any non-personal cookie or web beacon information collected by them on our site to Personal Information they or others collect in other ways or from other sites. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies or web beacons on their own sites. In addition, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's Advertising Policy is posted on our website and will provide additional detail about our relationship with advertisers and the companies that serve ads.

C. Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. This website is not designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personal Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13.

D. Public Forums
This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you use RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com public forums. As a service to our users, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com features chat rooms and bulletin boards where users with similar medical conditions can share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer. In addition, we offer online discussions on a variety of topics moderated by medical experts. You should be aware that any information shared in a chat room, bulletin board, Ask Our Expert posting or online discussion is public information and may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. You should think carefully before disclosing any personal information in any public forum.

E. Emails to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com
This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send business information, ideas, concepts or inventions to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email to the various RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com departments listed on the "Contact Us" link on our Website. If you want to keep business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. We try to answer every email in a timely manner, but are not always able to do so.

ARTICLE 2

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Except as set forth in this Article or as specifically agreed to by you, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com will not disclose any Personal Information it gathers from you on our website. We may release Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personal Information to a third party, we will notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order

A. Disclosure to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Subsidiaries
RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may disclose Personal Information to its corporate subsidiaries. Any Personal Information provided to subsidiaries of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com will be treated by those subsidiaries in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

B. Disclosure to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Operations and Maintenance Contractors

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personal Information in the course of providing products or services to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content related to better operation and maintenance of our website. Unless you have opted out of receiving emails and newsletters from RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, these contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. Access to your Personal Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary in order for the contractor to perform its limited function for RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. We also contractually require that our operations and maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose your Personal Information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services.

C. Disclosure to Website Service and Content Contractors

Certain content and services offered to you through our website are served on websites hosted and operated by a company other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com ("Third Party Contractor Websites"). One example of this is Find A Physician, which is hosted and served by Health Pages, LLC. Similarly, if you purchase an item through one of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's co-branded stores (e.g., from the Sports and Fitness Store, from SimplyHealth or from CVS/pharmacy), you will be purchasing it from the Third Party Contractor Website (i.e., Global Sports, SimplyHealth or CVS) and not RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Contractor Websites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Contractor Websites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other site to understand how that Third Party Contractor Website collects and uses your Personal Information. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Contractor Website, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as "Powered by" or "in association with" followed by the name of a company other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, then you are on a website hosted by a company other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.

D. Disclosure to or by Co-branded Channel Partners

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is a contractor and provides co-branded content and services to websites hosted and operated by companies other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com ("Channel Partner Websites"). You can only access these co-branded content and services through the Channel Partner Website, and usually from the health section of these other websites. Our current Channel Partners include: AOL, Lycos, and MSN. The co-branded RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com pages that you may access through a Channel Partner Website have different registration processes and opportunities for information collection, and Personal Information that you provide on these pages may be shared with the Channel Partners. Each of these co-branded RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com sites has its own privacy policy posted on that site, which explains what information is disclosed by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com to the Channel Partner and vice versa. If you visit one of these co-branded RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com sites, please read the privacy policy that is posted on that site, as well as the individual privacy policy of the Channel Partner Website.

E. Disclosure to Linked Sites

In addition to the Third Party Contractor Websites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there are links to websites operated by companies other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com ("Third Party Websites") that are not contractors who provide content or services through our website. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites without obtaining your consent. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third party Websites, you should review the privacy policy posted on this other site to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your Personal Information.

F. Disclosure of Aggregate Information

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may provide to third parties non-personal information about you that does not allow you to be identified or contacted and that is combined with the non-personal information of other users. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our site and the activities they conduct while on our site. We might also inform a pharmaceutical company (that may or may not be an advertiser on our site) that "30% of our users live east of the Mississippi" or that "25% of our users have tried alternative medicine." Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We also may not limit the third parties' use of the Aggregate Information, except that we do require third parties to whom we disclose Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable by combining it with other databases or otherwise.

ARTICLE 3

HOW RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM HANDLES PRIVACY AND SECURITY INTERNALLY

RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com wants your Personal Information to remain as secure as possible. That is why we have a two-tier security system at RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com that combines leading technical safeguards and a code of conduct for those employees who are permitted to access our customers' Personal Information. On the technical side, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology in transmitting your Personal Information to our servers to help ensure the integrity and privacy of the Personal Information you provide to us via the Internet. Encryption involves systematically scrambling numbers and letters, so that even if someone managed to intercept the information, they would not be able to make sense of it. In order to take advantage of this encryption technology, you need to have an Internet browser that will support 128-bit encryption, such as Netscape or Microsoft Explorer. As an additional security measure, your Personal Information is also kept physically separate on a separate server where your password is encrypted and stored on a database. On the employee side, only a limited number of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com employees are authorized to access your Personal Information. All RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com employees must abide by our Privacy Policy and those who violate our Privacy Policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Access by authorized personnel is controlled by two-factor authentication (i.e., a token and a thumbprint). Although we will make every reasonable effort to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over the Internet. There is also some risk that thieves could find a way to thwart our security systems.

ARTICLE 4

YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

When you complete Registration or update your Member Profile, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional emails from RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and/or third parties. You may opt out <http://my.RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.com/privacy_content/article/1761.50190> of receiving emails from or on behalf of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com at Registration by removing the automatic check mark from the statement that expresses a preference for receiving these emails and newsletters. You may also opt out of receiving these emails and newsletters at any time by changing your preferences within your Member Profile.
We ask for contact information (such as name and email address) if you wish to subscribe to various newsletters. You can unsubscribe from such newsletters very easily. When you have received a newsletter you wish to stop, click on the "reply" button in your mail program, then type in the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the "Subject" field and send. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Customer Service will unsubscribe you from that newsletter in two to three business days.
At Registration and at various times as you use the site, you may have the option of receiving emails or newsletters from third parties, participating in research or marketing surveys and participating in other activities. You may exercise these options by placing a check mark beside a statement that expresses a preference for receiving these communications or participating in these activities. You may change your decision at any time by changing your preferences within your Member Profile or by following other directions provided in association with the individual communication or activity.
This privacy statement applies only to the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com website. The RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com site does contain links to other sites. Once you enter another website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's site or any site that collects Personal Information from you.

ARTICLE 5

UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CONTACTING RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM

You can always contact us in order to (1) delete your Personal Information from our systems, (2) update the Personal Information that you have provided to us, and (3) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts or other activities, by emailing us at privacy@RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.net. Such changes will not have any effect on other information that RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com maintains. If you have a complaint or problem you may email us at info@rihealthcare.com and the customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email in a timely manner but are not always able to do so.
You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com from our servers. The need to back-up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your Personal Information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Nevertheless, we promise that upon receiving your request, all Personal Information stored in the databases we actively use for research and daily business activities, and other readily searchable media, will be deleted.

Privacy as it applies to the Internet is a dynamic, rapidly developing area. In the future, we may make significant changes to our privacy policy affecting the use of the Personal Information we collect. We will notify you by email of any significant changes concerning our use of your Personal Information and obtain your "opt-in" consent to any significant new uses of your Personal Information if it was collected from you prior to a significant change in this policy. We may also make non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that generally will not affect our use of your Personal Information and we generally will not notify you of these non-significant changes. You should check this posted Privacy Policy for any non-significant changes. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy, please exit the site immediately.
Revised September 2003.

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INDEX THE SITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE CHILDREN'S PRIVACY USE OF CONTENT LIABILITY OF RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM AND ITS LICENSORS USER SUBMISSIONS PASSWORDS RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM LIVE AND MEMBER TO MEMBER AREAS ("PUBLIC AREAS") ADVERTISEMENTS, SEARCHES AND LINKS TO OTHER SITES INDEMNITY GENERAL JURISDICTION COMPLETE AGREEMENT THE SITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE. The contents of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, such as text, graphics, images, information obtained from RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's licensors, and other material contained on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site ("Content") are for informational purposes only. The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site! If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site. Reliance on any information provided by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com employees, others appearing on the Site at the invitation of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, or other visitors to the Site is solely at your own risk. The Site may contain health- or medical-related materials that are sexually explicit. If you find these materials offensive, you may not want to use our Site. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY. We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. You should be aware that this Site is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know is a child under the age of 13. USE OF CONTENT. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com authorizes you to view or download a single copy of the material on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site solely for your personal, noncommercial use if you include the following copyright notice: "Copyright (c) 1998 1996 - 2003, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, Inc. All rights reserved" and other copyright and proprietary rights notices that are contained in the Content. Any special rules for the use of certain software and other items accessible on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site may be included elsewhere within the Site and are incorporated into these Terms and Conditions by reference. The Content is protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws. Title to the Content remains with RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or its licensors. Any use of the Content not expressly permitted by these Terms and Conditions is a breach of these Terms and Conditions and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. Content and features are subject to change or termination without notice in the editorial discretion of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and its licensors. If you violate any of these Terms and Conditions, your permission to use the Content automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of any portion of the Content. LIABILITY OF RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM AND ITS LICENSORS. The use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site and the Content is at your own risk. When using the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, information will be transmitted over a medium that may be beyond the control and jurisdiction of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and its suppliers. Accordingly, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com assumes no liability for or relating to the delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site. The RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site and the content are provided on an "as is" basis. RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM, ITS LICENSORS, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES' RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Without limiting the foregoing, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, its licensors, and its suppliers make no representations or warranties about the following: 1. The accuracy, reliability, completeness, currentness, or timeliness of the Content, software, text, graphics, links, or communications provided on or through the use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site or RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. 2. The satisfaction of any government regulations requiring disclosure of information on prescription drug products or the approval or compliance of any software tools with regard to the Content contained on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site. In no event shall RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, personal injury/wrongful death, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting from the use of or inability to use the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site or the Content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is advised of the possibility of such damages. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com shall be liable only to the extent of actual damages incurred by you, not to exceed U.S. $1000. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is not liable for any personal injury, including death, caused by your use or misuse of the Site, Content, or Public Areas (as defined below). Any claims arising in connection with your use of the Site, any Content, or the Public Areas must be brought within one (1) year of the date of the event giving rise to such action occurred. Remedies under these Terms and Conditions are exclusive and are limited to those expressly provided for in these Terms and Conditions. USER SUBMISSIONS. You agree that you will not upload or transmit any communications or content of any type to the Public Areas (including message boards, Ask Our Expert postings, etc.) that infringe or violate any rights of any party. By submitting communications or content to the Public Areas, you agree that such submission is non-confidential for all purposes. If you make any such submission You agree that you will not send or transmit to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email, (including through the email addresses listed on the "Contact Us" link) any communication or content that infringes or violates any rights of any party. If you submit any business information, idea, concept or invention to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email, you agree such submission is non-confidential for all purposes. If you make any submission to a Public Area or if you submit any business information, idea, concept or invention to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email, you automatically grant--or warrant that the owner of such content or intellectual property has expressly granted--RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication or content in any media or medium, or any form, format, or forum now known or hereafter developed. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may sublicense its rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses. If you wish to keep any business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not submit them to the Public Areas or to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email. We try to answer every email in a timely manner, but are not always able to do so. PASSWORDS RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com has several tools that allow you to record and store information. For example, MyHealthRecord is a service that allows you to record limited amounts of personal health information on a voluntary basis on servers maintained by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or on its behalf. MyHealthRecord is structured to allow access only to visitors with a valid password. You are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person shall have access to your RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com passwords or accounts. It is your sole responsibility to (1) control the dissemination and use of activation codes and passwords; (2) authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of your RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com account and password; (3) promptly inform RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com of any need to deactivate a password. You grant RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the Site the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store, and use your information in connection with the operation of the Site. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com cannot and does not assume any responsibility or liability for any information you submit, including to MyHealthRecord, or your or third parties' use or misuse of information transmitted or received using RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com tools and services, including MyHealthRecord. RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM LIVE AND MEMBER TO MEMBER AREAS ("PUBLIC AREAS"). If you use a Public Area, such as a chat room, bulletin board or community Ask Our Expert posting or other member communities, you are solely responsible for your own communications, the consequences of posting those communications, and your reliance on any communications found in the Public Areas. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is not responsible for the consequences of any communications in the Public Areas. In cases where you feel threatened or believe someone else is in danger, you should contact your local law enforcement agency immediately. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. In consideration of being allowed to use the Public Areas, you agree that the following actions shall constitute a material breach of these Terms and Conditions: Using a Public Area for any purpose in violation of local, state, national, or international laws; Posting material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; Posting material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com in its sole discretion; Posting advertisements or solicitations of business; After receiving a warning, continuing to disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, or posting comments that are not related to the topic being discussed (unless it is clear the discussion is free-form); Posting chain letters or pyramid schemes; Impersonating another person; Distributing viruses or other harmful computer code; Harvesting or otherwise collecting information about others, including email addresses, without their identification for posting or viewing comments; consent; Allowing any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments Posting the same note more than once or "spamming"; or Engaging in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Public Area or the Site, or which, in the judgment of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, exposes RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or any of its customers or suppliers to any liability or detriment of any type. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com reserves the right (but is not obligated) to do any or all of the following: Record the dialogue in public chat rooms. Investigate an allegation that a communication(s) do(es) not conform to the terms of this section and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the communication(s). Remove communications which are abusive, illegal, or disruptive, or that otherwise fail to conform with these Terms and Conditions. Terminate a user's access to any or all Public Areas and/or the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site upon any breach of these Terms and Conditions. Monitor, edit, or disclose any communication in the Public Areas. Edit or delete any communication(s) posted on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, regardless of whether such communication(s) violate these standards. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com reserves the right to take any action it deems necessary to protect the personal safety of our guests or the public. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com has no liability or responsibility to users of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site or any other person or entity for performance or nonperformance of the aforementioned activities. ADVERTISEMENTS, SEARCHES AND LINKS TO OTHER SITES. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may provide links to third-party web sites. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com also may select certain sites as priority responses to search terms you enter and RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may agree to allow advertisers to respond to certain search terms with advertisements or sponsored content. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not recommend and does not endorse the content on any third-party websites. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites, sites framed within the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, third-party sites provided as search results, or third-party advertisements, and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not endorse any product advertised on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site. INDEMNITY. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your violation of these Terms and Conditions. GENERAL. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is based in Warwick,RI, in the United States of America. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com makes no claims that the Content is appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the United States. Access to the Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. The following provisions survive the expiration or termination of these Terms and Conditions for any reason whatsoever: Liability, User Submissions, Indemnity, Jurisdiction, and Complete Agreement. JURISDICTION. You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute with RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, or in any way relating to your use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, resides in the courts of the State of Rhode Island and you further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of the State of Rhode Island in connection with any such dispute including any claim involving RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, contractors, officers, directors, telecommunication providers, and content providers. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Rhode Island, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition. COMPLETE AGREEMENT. Except as expressly provided in a particular "legal notice" on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, these Terms and Conditions and the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Privacy Policy and Agreement constitute the entire agreement between you and RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com with respect to the use of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site, and Content. Thank you for your cooperation. We hope you find the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Site helpful and convenient to use! Questions or comments regarding this website, including any reports of non-functioning links, should be directed by electronic mail to info@rihealthcare.com or via U.S. mail to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com at 962 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, RI 02888. We try to answer every email in a timely manner but are not always able to do so. © 2003 RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Corporation. All rights reserved. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Privacy Policy and Agreement Your privacy is important to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. We understand that health is a very personal, private subject, and we want you to feel as comfortable as possible visiting our website and using its services. Perhaps you are visiting RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com to learn about health for yourself, perhaps on behalf of someone else. This Privacy Policy and Agreement ("Privacy Policy") will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of our website. It will explain how we protect that information and what choices you have about how it is used. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you will understand clearly both our commitment to you and your privacy, and how we may collect and use information. By using the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, nonprofit organization whose goal is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. As required of TRUSTe licensees, we will inform you of the following in this privacy policy: • What personally identifiable information of yours is collected; • What organization is collecting the information; • How the information is used; • With whom the information may be shared; • What choices are available regarding collection, use and distribution of the information; • What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control; and, • How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is a recipient of the URAC e-Health seal. URAC is the American HealthCare Accreditation Association, an independent accrediting body that has reviewed and approved the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Health website for compliance with the quality and ethics standards set forth in the Hi-Ethics Principles. Hi-Ethics is an alliance of health websites committed to a set of ethical principles designed to ensure that consumers can confidently realize the full benefit of the Internet to improve their health and the health of their families. The Hi-Ethics Principles </privacy_content/article/1761.50193> are set out in detail on our website. To learn more about the URAC accreditation process please click the URAC logo. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com also complies with the standards set by </click?url=http://webapps.urac.org/healthwebsiteaccreditation/default.asp?id=321554545>Health on the Net </click?url=http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct298987> [HON], as is indicated by the presence of the seal below. Please remember that any information (including personal and medical information) that you reveal in a RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com public forum (such as a bulletin board, Ask Our Expert posting, chat room/event) is not protected by this Privacy Policy. Such postings will be seen by third parties not related to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. What you've written could be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. Also, if you access a third party site from a link on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, any information you reveal on that site is not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should consult the privacy policies of each site you visit. The following are links to the provisions of our Privacy Policy that describe the information we collect from or about you; ways we disclose, use and protect that information; choices you have, and how you can update your information or contact us with questions. We hope that reading our Privacy Policy gives you a clear idea of how we manage information about you. For immediate access to a particular topic, click on the title of that Article. ARTICLE 1: Information Collected About YouA. Information Collected by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's Behalf1. In General2.Registration and Member Profile3.Interactive Tools4.Cookies5. Web Beacons6. E-Mails and NewslettersB. Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's BehalfC.ChildrenD.Public ForumsE.Emails to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.comARTICLE 2: Disclosure of Your InformationA.Disclosure to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com SubsidiariesB.Disclosure to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Operations and Maintenance ContractorsC.Disclosure to Website Service and Content ContractorsD.Disclosure to or by Co-branded Channel PartnersE.Disclosure to Linked SitesF.Disclosure of Aggregate InformationG.My Health RecordARTICLE 3: How RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Handles Privacy InternallyARTICLE 4: Your Privacy ChoicesARTICLE 5: Updating Your Personal Information and Contacting RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com ARTICLE 1 INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU A. Information Collected by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's Behalf 1. In General Personally Identifiable Information (PII or Personal Information) is information that can be used to identify or contact you. When you visit our website, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com collects only the Personal Information you provide to us. We collect the Personal Information that you provide to us in two general and distinct ways: (1) When you register as a Member and/or when you update your Member Profile, and (2) When you choose to use various RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Interactive Tools and Services or participate in surveys or send emails to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. We also collect non-personal information from you and about your use of our website, emails, special promotions and newsletters that we send to you, and websites of selected sponsors and advertisers. For example, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may use "cookies" or "web beacons" to collect non-personal information about your use of our site, selected sponsors' sites, or emails we send to you. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not store any Personal Information in any cookies on your computer. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not use web beacons to collect any Personal Information from or about you or to track your activities across websites generally. All of these are described in more detail below. 2. Registration and Member Profile You may use our website without registering or submitting any Personal Information. In that case, the only information we collect will be non-personal information collected through the use of cookies or web beacons (see details below). However, in order to have access to certain services and content available on our site (e.g., MyHealthRecord), you are required to complete a registration form. We use the Personal Information that you provide through registration to respond to questions from you and/or inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy. We may also use this information to send you emails with special promotions or newsletters with content that we think may be of interest to you. You can always opt-out <http://my.RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.com/privacy_content/article/1761.50190> of receiving such emails or unsubscribe to newsletters at the time you register or at any time - see Article 4 below for more detail about opting-out of receiving emails and newsletters. The information we collect in the Registration form and Member Profile is set forth below. Required information is indicated by an asterisk. Provision of all other information is optional. Registration Member Nickname Password/Hint Email Address Zip Code*Member Profile Name Street Address Gender Age Range (18-24, 25-34, 34-54, or 55+) Health Topics of Interest Health Plan 3. Interactive Tools We also collect other information, some of which may be Personal Information, that you voluntarily provide to us when you choose to use some of the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Interactive Tools and Services, such as MyHealthRecord, Ask Our Experts or Health Risk Appraisal. We also collect information you provide voluntarily through responses to surveys, questionnaires and the like. Some of the free Interactive Tools on our site ask you for health-related Personal Information. For example, MyHealthRecord is a special Interactive Service that allows you to record limited amounts of health-related Personal Information on a voluntary basis on secure servers maintained by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com or by a third party on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's behalf. Please see the description of MyHealthRecord below in Article 2, and please read the Security and Confidentiality Statement posted on the MyHealthRecord pages for more information regarding what information is collected when you use this service. While we collect Personal Information about you if you use our service called the Health Risk Appraisal (HRA), we do not store this information unless you request it. Therefore, you can use HRA and if you do not choose to store the information, it is deleted and no longer accessible to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. If you choose to store the information, it is collected by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and subject to this Privacy Policy. HRA is an educational tool that is designed to help you better understand how to maintain your health and the health of your family. HRA interacts with MyHealthRecord to give you a central place to store your and your family's health risk information. Over time, as you and your family members learn more about their health status, the HRA tool can track your progress and their progress in reducing the risk of illness. 4. Cookies We also collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of our site or your use of emails, special promotions or newsletters that we send to you. For example, we collect non-personal information about your use of our site and your use of the sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of "Cookies <http://my.RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.com/privacy_content/article/1761.50190>". Cookies are small computer files that we transfer to your computer's hard drive that allow us to know how often someone visits a site and the activities they conduct while on that site (such as the chatrooms you visited, whether you submitted orders for products, etc.). Every computer is assigned a different cookie by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. The information collected by cookies helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on web pages or in emails specifically designed for you and also allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, or opening our emails, and for what purposes. We may use cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookie, certain of the functions and conveniences of our site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our cookie in order to productively use our site. While it may be possible to link non-personal cookie information to Personal Information collected in other ways, we want you to know that if you accept our cookie we will not, without your consent, link the cookie information we collect to Personal Information you provide to us on our site. 6. E-mails and Newsletters As noted in the discussions of cookies and web beacons (see above), we collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of e-mails and newsletters that we send to you. In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the site of a third party which, acting on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's behalf (see Disclosure to Website Service and Content Contractors, below), notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to its proper destination; this re-direction process will not be apparent to you. When you use RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's "Email a Friend" application, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com emails the article or other content you designate to your friend's email address and lists your email address as the sender. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com uses the friend's email address only for the purpose of sending your friend the email you requested and for no other purpose unless otherwise disclosed to you at the time you send the email. B. Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's Behalf Sponsors, partners or advertisers on the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com site or in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you may also use their own cookies or web beacons when you click on their advertisement or link to their site or service, or even if the advertisement simply appears on a page or in an e-mail that you are viewing. Some advertisers use companies other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com to serve their ads and to monitor users' responses to ads, and these companies ("Ad Servers") may also collect non-personal information through the use of cookies or web beacons on our website. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the site of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its proper destination (e.g., back to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com to show the ad, or to the advertiser's Web site); this re-direction process will not be apparent to you. We do not control these third parties' use of cookies or web beacons, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. However, we do require sponsors, advertisers and Ad Servers who collect cookie or web beacon information through our website to agree that they will not collect any Personal Information from our site without your consent. They have promised us they will not link any non-personal cookie or web beacon information collected by them on our site to Personal Information they or others collect in other ways or from other sites. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies or web beacons on their own sites. In addition, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's Advertising Policy is posted on our website and will provide additional detail about our relationship with advertisers and the companies that serve ads. C. Children We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. This website is not designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personal Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. D. Public Forums This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you use RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com public forums. As a service to our users, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com features chat rooms and bulletin boards where users with similar medical conditions can share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer. In addition, we offer online discussions on a variety of topics moderated by medical experts. You should be aware that any information shared in a chat room, bulletin board, Ask Our Expert posting or online discussion is public information and may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. You should think carefully before disclosing any personal information in any public forum. E. Emails to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send business information, ideas, concepts or inventions to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com by email to the various RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com departments listed on the "Contact Us" link on our Website. If you want to keep business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. We try to answer every email in a timely manner, but are not always able to do so. ARTICLE 2 DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION Except as set forth in this Article or as specifically agreed to by you, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com will not disclose any Personal Information it gathers from you on our website. We may release Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personal Information to a third party, we will notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order A. Disclosure to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Subsidiaries RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may disclose Personal Information to its corporate subsidiaries. Any Personal Information provided to subsidiaries of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com will be treated by those subsidiaries in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. B. Disclosure to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Operations and Maintenance Contractors RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personal Information in the course of providing products or services to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content related to better operation and maintenance of our website. Unless you have opted out of receiving emails and newsletters from RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, these contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. Access to your Personal Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary in order for the contractor to perform its limited function for RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. We also contractually require that our operations and maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose your Personal Information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services. C. Disclosure to Website Service and Content Contractors Certain content and services offered to you through our website are served on websites hosted and operated by a company other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com ("Third Party Contractor Websites"). One example of this is Find A Physician, which is hosted and served by Health Pages, LLC. Similarly, if you purchase an item through one of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's co-branded stores (e.g., from the Sports and Fitness Store, from SimplyHealth or from CVS/pharmacy), you will be purchasing it from the Third Party Contractor Website (i.e., Global Sports, SimplyHealth or CVS) and not RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Contractor Websites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Contractor Websites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other site to understand how that Third Party Contractor Website collects and uses your Personal Information. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Contractor Website, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as "Powered by" or "in association with" followed by the name of a company other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com, then you are on a website hosted by a company other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com. D. Disclosure to or by Co-branded Channel Partners RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is a contractor and provides co-branded content and services to websites hosted and operated by companies other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com ("Channel Partner Websites"). You can only access these co-branded content and services through the Channel Partner Website, and usually from the health section of these other websites. Our current Channel Partners include: AOL, Lycos, and MSN. The co-branded RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com pages that you may access through a Channel Partner Website have different registration processes and opportunities for information collection, and Personal Information that you provide on these pages may be shared with the Channel Partners. Each of these co-branded RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com sites has its own privacy policy posted on that site, which explains what information is disclosed by RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com to the Channel Partner and vice versa. If you visit one of these co-branded RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com sites, please read the privacy policy that is posted on that site, as well as the individual privacy policy of the Channel Partner Website. E. Disclosure to Linked Sites In addition to the Third Party Contractor Websites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there are links to websites operated by companies other than RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com ("Third Party Websites") that are not contractors who provide content or services through our website. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites without obtaining your consent. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third party Websites, you should review the privacy policy posted on this other site to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your Personal Information. F. Disclosure of Aggregate Information RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com may provide to third parties non-personal information about you that does not allow you to be identified or contacted and that is combined with the non-personal information of other users. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our site and the activities they conduct while on our site. We might also inform a pharmaceutical company (that may or may not be an advertiser on our site) that "30% of our users live east of the Mississippi" or that "25% of our users have tried alternative medicine." Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We also may not limit the third parties' use of the Aggregate Information, except that we do require third parties to whom we disclose Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable by combining it with other databases or otherwise. ARTICLE 3 HOW RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM HANDLES PRIVACY AND SECURITY INTERNALLY RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com wants your Personal Information to remain as secure as possible. That is why we have a two-tier security system at RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com that combines leading technical safeguards and a code of conduct for those employees who are permitted to access our customers' Personal Information. On the technical side, RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology in transmitting your Personal Information to our servers to help ensure the integrity and privacy of the Personal Information you provide to us via the Internet. Encryption involves systematically scrambling numbers and letters, so that even if someone managed to intercept the information, they would not be able to make sense of it. In order to take advantage of this encryption technology, you need to have an Internet browser that will support 128-bit encryption, such as Netscape or Microsoft Explorer. As an additional security measure, your Personal Information is also kept physically separate on a separate server where your password is encrypted and stored on a database. On the employee side, only a limited number of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com employees are authorized to access your Personal Information. All RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com employees must abide by our Privacy Policy and those who violate our Privacy Policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Access by authorized personnel is controlled by two-factor authentication (i.e., a token and a thumbprint). Although we will make every reasonable effort to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over the Internet. There is also some risk that thieves could find a way to thwart our security systems. ARTICLE 4 YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES When you complete Registration or update your Member Profile, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional emails from RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com and/or third parties. You may opt out <http://my.RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.com/privacy_content/article/1761.50190> of receiving emails from or on behalf of RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com at Registration by removing the automatic check mark from the statement that expresses a preference for receiving these emails and newsletters. You may also opt out of receiving these emails and newsletters at any time by changing your preferences within your Member Profile. We ask for contact information (such as name and email address) if you wish to subscribe to various newsletters. You can unsubscribe from such newsletters very easily. When you have received a newsletter you wish to stop, click on the "reply" button in your mail program, then type in the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the "Subject" field and send. RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Customer Service will unsubscribe you from that newsletter in two to three business days. At Registration and at various times as you use the site, you may have the option of receiving emails or newsletters from third parties, participating in research or marketing surveys and participating in other activities. You may exercise these options by placing a check mark beside a statement that expresses a preference for receiving these communications or participating in these activities. You may change your decision at any time by changing your preferences within your Member Profile or by following other directions provided in association with the individual communication or activity. This privacy statement applies only to the RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com website. The RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com site does contain links to other sites. Once you enter another website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com's site or any site that collects Personal Information from you. ARTICLE 5 UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CONTACTING RI Healthcare Family Practice AND WWW.RIHEALTHCARE.COM You can always contact us in order to (1) delete your Personal Information from our systems, (2) update the Personal Information that you have provided to us, and (3) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts or other activities, by emailing us at privacy@RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com.net. Such changes will not have any effect on other information that RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com maintains. If you have a complaint or problem you may email us at info@rihealthcare.com and the customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email in a timely manner but are not always able to do so. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com from our servers. The need to back-up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your Personal Information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Nevertheless, we promise that upon receiving your request, all Personal Information stored in the databases we actively use for research and daily business activities, and other readily searchable media, will be deleted. Privacy as it applies to the Internet is a dynamic, rapidly developing area. In the future, we may make significant changes to our privacy policy affecting the use of the Personal Information we collect. We will notify you by email of any significant changes concerning our use of your Personal Information and obtain your "opt-in" consent to any significant new uses of your Personal Information if it was collected from you prior to a significant change in this policy. We may also make non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that generally will not affect our use of your Personal Information and we generally will not notify you of these non-significant changes. You should check this posted Privacy Policy for any non-significant changes. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy, please exit the site immediately. Revised September 2003. © 2003 RI Healthcare Family Practice and www.rihealthcare.com Corporation. All rights reserved.
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