The UW Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Website Privacy Statement
Last updated Monday, January 03, 2005
Our commitment to privacy
The UW Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine offers this
privacy statement to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The
following discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for this website: http://www.orthop.washington.edu.
We adhere to the policies outlined by UW Medicine. View the "Joint Notice of Privacy Practices of UW Medicine and Certain Other Providers" here.IP addresses We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server,
and to administer our web site. Your IP address may also be used to
gather broad demographic information about our users."Ask a Question" Our “Ask a Question” forms ask visitors for their e-mail address. This
address is used to contact visitors when necessary, such as to respond
to questions or other comments you send to our site. We do not use it
for any other reason, and will not contact you unless it is to respond
to your question. This site is experimental, which means it is used for
research purposes in addition to providing a service for visitors. Any
question you submit may be used for educational or research purposes,
as well as for demonstrations of our question management system.
Identifying information such as your name and your e-mail address will
be removed before being used for research and will not be supplied to
any outside parties. If you DO NOT want your question included in our
database, please do not submit a question. If you have previously
submitted a question and would like it removed from consideration for
research purposes, please contact the webmaster.Surveys We often run surveys about our site. Our on-line surveys are anonymous
and are used to improve our site and better serve our users.
Demographic information is collected, but we do not ask for any
personally identifying information.E-mail communication E-mail messages sent to our website may not be secure. Site visitors
should not send confidental information by e-mail. Site visitors
sending e-mail accept the risk that a third party may intercept e-mail
messages.
E-mails sent to this website are answered by the web site manager, NOT by a medical doctor. We cannot give medical advice. Links This site contains links to other sites. The UW Department of
Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine is not responsible for the privacy
policies or content of such web sites.More information If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact the webmaster.
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