(Last Revised on July 25, 2001)
Welcome to the Jefferson House Web Site!
Hartford Hospital provides this Jefferson House web site to you subject to the following
Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. If you visit this Jefferson House web
site, you agree to abide by these policies. Please read them carefully.
Hartford Hospital reserves the right to make changes to this web site and
to modify the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement at any time. Therefore, you
should check these policies frequently to review the then-current policies
because they are binding on you.
Terms of Use
Hartford Hospital offers the information on this web site for general
information and educational purposes only. This information is not intended
as medical advice and should not be used for diagnosis. Information on this
web site is not intended to create any physician-patient relationship, nor
should it be considered a replacement for consultation with a healthcare
professional. If you have questions or concerns about your health, please
contact your healthcare provider.
Copyright and Trademark Information
©2002 Hartford Hospital. All Rights Reserved.
All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button
icons, images, digital downloads, and software is the property of Hartford
Hospital or its content suppliers and is protected by copyright laws. The
compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of
Hartford Hospital and is protected by copyright laws. All software used on
this site is the property of Hartford Hospital or its software suppliers and
protected by copyright laws.
The Hartford Hospital logo is a registered trademark of Hartford
Hospital. Hartford Hospital, Life Star, The Institute of Living and
Jefferson House logos are service marks of Hartford Hospital. The
product and service names profiled herein, including, but not limited to,
"Health Questions? Ask Us" are proprietary marks of Hartford
Hospital. All other brands and names are the property of their respective
owners.
License for Your Use of this Site
Hartford Hospital grants you a limited, revocable and nonexclusive
license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download
(other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with
the express written consent of Hartford Hospital. This site or any portion
of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, visited or
otherwise exploited for commercial purposes without the express written
consent of Hartford Hospital. You may not utilize framing to enclose any
trademark, logo or other proprietary information contained on this site
without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other
"hidden text" utilizing Hartford Hospital's name or trademarks
without our express written consent. You are granted a limited, revocable,
and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of this site
so long as the link does not portray Hartford Hospital, its affiliates or
its services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive
manner.
You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and you acknowledge
that your failure to do so may subject you to civil or criminal liability.
You are responsible for ensuring that any materials you post to this site or
a discussion area via email or otherwise does not violate the copyright,
trademark, trade secret or other personal or proprietary rights of any third
party. You agree not to disrupt, modify, or interfere with this site or its
associated software, hardware and servers in any way and you agree not to
impede or interfere with others' use of this web site. You further agree not
to alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated with
this site.
Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by
Hartford Hospital.
Use of Email Content
Transmittal of emails to this web site may not be private. You grant
Hartford Hospital and its designees the unrestricted right to use,
reproduce, modify, translate, transmit and distribute any information or
material you supply or communicate to the web site via such postings in any
medium now in existence or hereafter developed for any purpose.
Web Site Links
This web site may provide links or references to other sites. Hartford
Hospital cannot be held responsible for information, products or services
obtained on such other sites and will not be liable for any damages arising
from access to such sites. Any links to other sites are provided merely as a
convenience to the visitors of this web site and any inclusion of such links
in this web site does not imply an endorsement or warranty of the linked
sites or their content, products or services. Visitors are cautioned that
linked sites are governed by their own use and privacy policies, so visitors
linking to such sites should make sure to visit the appropriate pages of
those sites to determine what policies will apply.
Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
Hartford Hospital makes no representations or warranties about the
suitability of these materials for any purpose. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE
USING THIS WEB SITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY HARTFORD
HOSPITAL ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, AND
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. HARTFORD HOSPITAL DOES NOT WARRANT
THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, EMAIL
RESPONSES, LINKS AND OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE OR ON ANY OTHER
SERVER. HARTFORD HOSPITAL DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR
EMAIL SENT FROM HARTFORD HOSPITAL ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS. HARTFORD HOSPITAL SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND
ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE AND IN ANY EMAIL RESPONSES
FROM HARTFORD HOSPITAL TO YOU ARE INTENDED TO BE FOR GENERAL INFORMATION
PURPOSES ONLY, ARE NOT CONFIDENTIAL, AND ARE NOT IN RESPONSE TO AN
INDIVIDUAL'S ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL HEALTH PROBLEMS OR AN INDIVIDUAL'S
PARTICULAR SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES. FURTHER, THIS INFORMATION SHOULD NOT BE
USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR CONSULTING WITH YOUR PERSONAL PHYSICIAN.
Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
By visiting this web site, you agree that the Terms of Use and Privacy
Statement for all purposes shall be governed and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Connecticut, without regard to principles of
conflict of laws, and that any action based on or alleging a breach of these
provisions must be brought in a state or federal court located in the State
of Connecticut. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal
jurisdiction and venue of such courts.
General
Hartford Hospital may make changes to the information contained on this
web site or the products and services described on this web site at any
time. Hartford Hospital makes no commitment and undertakes no obligation to
update the information contained herein. Hartford Hospital reserves the
right to make changes to our Terms of Use and Privacy Statement at any time,
without notice. If any of these provisions shall be deemed invalid, void or
for any reason unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and
shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provision.
Privacy Statement
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Statement describes the
guidelines Hartford Hospital uses for protecting information you provide to
us during your visit to this web site, subject to the provisions contained in
our "Terms of Use."
The Information We Collect and How We Use It
Certain information is automatically collected when you visit our site.
You may have read about "cookies," nuggets of information that are
placed by a web site in a storage place on your own computer. The types of
information we collect with cookies include the name of your Internet
service provider, the web site that referred you to us (if any), the date
and time our web site was accessed, the page or pages you visited, and your
IP address. Our cookies do not contain information that is, in itself,
personally identifying.
In addition, we receive and store any information you enter on our web
site or give us in any other way. For example, if you send us an email or
fill out a form, you are transmitting the information that appears to you in
the form or the message. This will typically include information like your
name, address, email address, the kind of request you are making, and any
other information necessary to fulfill your request. You never transmit any
personally identifying information that you do not enter yourself. This
information is used internally only for the purpose of fulfilling the
request or for contacting you directly. The information we collect may be
used for several purposes, for example, to improve the content of our web
site, track activity on our site, develop new products or services, or
respond to inquiries. We also allow access to our database by third parties
that provide us with services only for the purpose and only to the extent
necessary to provide you with those services. There may also be occasions
when we are legally required to provide access to our database in order to
cooperate with investigations or other legal proceedings. In those
instances, the information is provided only for that purpose.
While your individual information is protected as outlined above, we
reserve the right to use aggregated, anonymous data about our visitors as a
group for any business purpose, such as, without limitation, analyzing usage
trends.
Please note that Hartford Hospital will not intentionally share the
contents of any email feedback or questions with any third party. However,
due to the nature of electronic communications, we cannot and do not provide
any assurances that the contents of your email will not become known or
accessible to third parties. Please refer to our "Terms of Use"
concerning additional policies relating to emails.
Other than as outlined above, Hartford Hospital will not sell, trade or
rent any personally identifying information we may collect on this web site
to any third party without your permission.
WE URGE YOU NOT TO PROVIDE ANY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU OR YOUR
HEALTH TO US VIA ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION. IF YOU DO SO, IT IS AT YOUR OWN
RISK.
Web Site Links
From time to time, we may provide additional links on our web site to
resources you may find useful. These links will lead you to sites governed
by different privacy policies. We wish to caution our visitors that they
must take the responsibility for visiting the other web sites' privacy
policies, as we have no control over information that is submitted to those
sites. Please refer to our "Terms of Use" for additional
information concerning links to other web sites.
Questions/Comments?
If you have any questions about the Terms of Use, Privacy Statement, or
the practices of this site, you can contact:
Hartford Hospital
Risk Management Department
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT 06102
Telephone: 860-545-2104
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