Internet Policy Overview Thank you for visiting the Athens Regional Medical Center (ARMC) web site and for reviewing our Internet policy. Through this web site, ARMC is committed to providing you with quality healthcare information, while always respecting the privacy of your general and personally identifiable information. ARMC pledges that it will never release visitor names or email addresses to any third party without the visitor's consent. Our policy is quite simple: Any general personal information you voluntarily provide when using this site such as your name, address and email address will only be used to provide you with the information that you specifically request from ARMC. When you browse through our web site, we automatically collect and temporarily store the following information about your visit: date and time of your visit pages you visited IP address of origin We use this information for statistical purposes and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you. Personally provided information You do not have to give us personal information to visit our web site. If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an email message, form, survey, etc., we will only maintain the information as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. Disclosure ARMC will not share or sell any personally identifiable information we gather to any company, organization or person. Any information you voluntarily provide to us will only be used to provide you with information that you have specifically requested from ARMC. An ARMC representative will contact you only upon your request. You will not receive unsolicited communications from ARMC. No practice of medicine The ARMC web site is not engaged in the practice of medicine. Any information and advice on the web site is given on a generalized, generic basis and is not specific to any individual patient's condition. Use of this web site is helpful in making sure you are informed about healthcare issues. However, online health services and health information content cannot replace a health professional-patient relationship and anyone with healthcare problems should always consult with a professional for diagnosis and/or treatment of their specific health problems. You and any other affected people should not disregard any advice or treatment from those professionals based on your interpretation of what you may read on this site. Any e-mail generated from this web site may not be secure and is not intended to create, and the recept of it does not constitute, a physician-patient relationship. E-mail communication is not intended as a substitute for consultation with a physician. Content from other sources and linked web sites The ARMC web site may include information and other material prepared by other sources. This information is provided as a courtesy. We are not responsible for the accuracy of the content of any such information or materials. Links to other Internet sites and resources are also provided for your information. We are not responsible for the availability, updating and accuracy of any information provided on these outside sites or for the privacy or security of these outside sites. Contacting Us The ARMC web site is owned and solely funded by Athens Regional Medical Center, free of commercial advertising of any kind. For more information or if you have questions or concerns regarding ARMC's Internet policy, please send an email to the webmaster@armc.org or you can send written correspondence to the following address: Tim Penning Chief Information Officer & HIPAA Security Officer Athens Regional Medical Center 1199 Prince Avenue Athens, GA 30606-2793 Phone: 706.475.3868* *(We can be contacted by telephone between the hours of 8am-4:30pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except on holidays. Voice mail is available whenever the number is busy or the office is closed.)

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