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Website Privacy and Terms of Use

CHILDREN'S MERCY FAMILY HEALTH PARTNERS
INTERNET WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE

THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE AND INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU RELATED TO THIS WEBSITE ARE SUBJECT TO THE PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE. USING THIS WEBSITE AND DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION TO US CONSTITUTES YOUR UNCONDITIONAL AGREEMENT TO, AND ACCEPTANCE OF, THE PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE.

Privacy Policy
Children's Mercy Family Health Partners ("CMFHP") recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our members and visitors to our website while permitting us to conduct legitimate business by providing information of interest to our members and visitors. Our privacy policy is stated below.

What this Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you are on the CMFHP website and when you use services provided by CMFHP. This policy also covers our treatment of any personally identifiable information that may be provided to us from other sources. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control or to people that we do not employ or manage.

Information Collection
We collect personally identifying information from our users, members and visitors. We recognize two kinds of personal data that deserve different levels of protection:

• Personally identifiable information includes, for example, your name, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, billing information, your title or degree, your organization, your professional specialty, answers to survey questions and "click stream" data that tracks visitor activity.
• Sensitive data includes, for example, Social Security numbers, passwords, mothers' maiden names, personal financial data, information about specific medical conditions and credit card information.

CMFHP collects personally identifiable information and sensitive data only when there is a legitimate need to do so. If your relationship with us includes providing us with sensitive data, we will endeavor to protect that information. Except as provided herein, we will not distribute sensitive data outside of CMFHP or our affiliates, and will give you the chance to "opt out" of sharing this information with our affiliates.

We also automatically receive and record information on our internet webserver logs from your internet browser, including your internet protocol address, cookie information and the page you requested.

Information Use
We use information collected on our website:

• To fulfill your requests for services or information,
• To contact you about our services and those of our affiliates, based on the preferences you have indicated,
• To customize the advertising and content you see on our internet webpages,
• To improve our website,
• To develop new services or ideas, and
• To better administer and troubleshoot our systems.

We will give you the opportunity to "opt out" of receiving any unsolicited information from us or to limit the unsolicited information you receive from us to information regarding the service for which you requested information.
Once you register with us and sign in on the CMFHP website, you are not anonymous to us.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your personally identifiable information with companies and organizations that have a product or service that we believe may be of interest to you. We will, however, offer you the opportunity to "opt out" of having your personally identifiable information shared with third parties that are not affiliated with CMFHP. We will also offer you the opportunity to "opt out" of having your personally identifiable information shared with our affiliates.

Even if you have opted out of having your personally identifiable information shared with any other person or company, we will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:

• We need to share your information to provide the service you have requested,
• We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of CMFHP to provide a service to you (unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us),
• We need to share your information with licensing, accreditation or regulatory agencies or entities as may be required of us,
• We find that your actions on our website violate the Terms Of Use, any of our usage guidelines for specific services and/or any agreement, or
• We respond to or initiate subpoenas, court orders or legal process.

Internet Protocol Addresses
An Internet Protocol (or "IP") address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you request an e-mail or a webpage from another computer on the internet. Internet web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you request webpages from our website, our internet servers log the IP address for your computer for the purpose of system administration. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable.

Cookies
We will use "cookies" only to recognize you and your access privileges on our website. A "cookie" is a piece of information that is sent to your internet web browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each time you return to our site, we are able to identify you as a previous or registered user. Most internet web browsers are initially set to accept "cookies". If you prefer, you may set your internet web browser to refuse "cookies" or to alert you when they are being sent. It is possible, however, that some parts of our website will not function properly if you do so.

Ability to Review and Edit Your Information
You may review and approve the information collected about you upon registration in our database. Upon request, we will remove that information from our database or change or correct personal information that you state is erroneous. You should understand, however, that information about you in our database might come from a number of sources.

Security
We will maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, privacy and integrity of your personally identifiable information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change, modify or otherwise update this policy at any time. These changes or updates will be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by posting on this website, by electronic or conventional mail or by any other means by which you obtain notice of changes or updates.

Policies of Other Websites
CMFHP is not responsible for the privacy policies of websites to which this website may link. Further, due to the diverse nature of our business our affiliates may have privacy policies that differ from this policy. In such cases, the privacy policy of the affiliate will be posted and will supersede the terms of this document.

TERMS OF USE

Proprietary Rights
All material contained in this website is proprietary and is protected by law, including United States copyright law. Except as indicated, CMFHP is the owner of this content.

Copyright, Children's Mercy Family Health Partners, 2008.  All Rights Reserved

Any commercial use of website content is prohibited without the prior written consent of CMFHP. Except as indicated, CMFHP owns all trademarks and service marks appearing on this website. The unauthorized use or misuse of these trademarks and service marks is prohibited.

Your Communications To The Web Site
By forwarding any communications to CMFHP through this website or any other electronic means, you thereby grant CMFHP a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, redistribute and display such communications in any form. Furthermore, FHP may use any suggestions contained in or resulting from any such communications. CMFHP cannot be responsible for the contents of communications to the website by visitors or persons other than CMFHP employees.

Collection of Data from Children
To the extent that CMFHP is able to determine the age of users by their communications with the CMFHP website, CMFHP will not knowingly (a) collect or post information from any person under the age of sixteen ("child") without parental or guardian consent, or (b) provide any personally identifying information about a child, regardless of its source, to any third party. If registration is required for any services on the website, and a user submits information to the website that indicates the is a child, CMFHP will attempt to alert the child's parent or guardian of the child's registration and will provide instructions on how the parent or guardian can delete the child's registration, if so desired. No information collected from any user self-identified as a child will knowingly be used for promotional purposes.

No Solicitation or Offer
This website is designed to provide general information about CMFHP. Information on the website is not intended to constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of any particular product or service.

Accuracy
CMFHP attempts to keep the information contained within this website current and accurate, but CMFHP is not responsible for any errors or omissions on the website. CMFHP expressly disclaims the accuracy (including the timeliness) of the information, links or other items contained within the website.

Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CMFHP, its owners and all their respective directors, officers, employees, successors and assigns from any and all claims, losses and expenses (including attorney's fees and litigation expenses) relating to or arising from your use of this website and any breach by you of these Terms of Use.

No Medical Advice
Nothing contained in this website is intended as nor shall be construed as medical advice.

Confidentiality Cannot be Guaranteed.
CMFHP does not guarantee the privacy of material transmitted to CMFHP via www.fhp.org or Internet electronic mail. If this is a concern to you, you should communicate with CMFHP by telephone at (816) 559-9599, or write to us at 215 W. Pershing, Suite 600, Kansas City, MO 64108.

Links
This website may contain links to other websites. Such third party websites are maintained by persons or organizations over which CMFHP exercises no control and CMFHP expressly disclaims any responsibility for the content thereof.

Agreement
These Terms of Use constitute an agreement between you and CMFHP with respect to your use of the website. You acknowledge that, in providing you access to and use of this website, CMFHP has relied on your agreement to be legally bound by these Terms of Use.

Questions
Questions regarding this policy should be directed to privacy@fhp.org.