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