HealthLink Privacy Statement

This website is owned and operated by HealthLink and its affiliates. Any activity on this website is subject to monitoring by HealthLink at any time. HealthLink routinely gathers quantitative information on website activity, including the number of Users to the website and the pages visited. No personally identifiable information is collected in this routine activity, and subsequently, HealthLink reserves the right to use and share or disclose this information with others.

When You log on to our website and communicate with us via our website, we do not collect personal information about You unless You provide it to us voluntarily. Personal information is any information or data that is unique to an individual such as a name, Social Security number, address, birth date, etc. Portions of our website may allow You to provide us with personal information in order to deliver requested materials, products or services to You, respond to your questions, or enable to You to update information or sign up for HealthLink programs. Any personal information that You provide via our website is used by HealthLink and its affiliated companies.

Any disclosure of any personal information is performed within the parameters of applicable laws and regulations.

Security
Our website requires Users to provide unique identifiers, such as subscriber identification numbers, in order to log into some of the website pages. HealthLink utilizes these unique identifiers to verify the User's identify and eligibility, in order to protect our members from the release of personally identifiable information to unauthorized Users.

Responsibility and Liability of Access Administrator
In the event You grant access to any third party, You will ensure that the third party and its employees and agents will be subject to the terms and conditions of this Legal/Privacy Statement, as may be amended from time to time by HealthLink at its sole discretion. You are responsible for the acts or omissions of such third parties and its employees and agents. HealthLink reserves the right to inspect and audit your records and any third parties for which You grant access relating to the use of this website at any time. 

Internet Protocol Addresses
An Internet Protocol address is a number that automatically identifies the computer or machine that You are using to access the Internet. The address enables our server to send You the web pages that You want to visit. It may disclose the server owned by your Internet Service Provider. We utilize your Internet Protocol address to help diagnose problems with our server and to support our website administration.

Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to a User's computer for purposes of storing information regarding User's preferences. Just as many major web sites use cookies as a standard practice to provide useful information to a User, HealthLink uses cookies to deliver website content specific to your identified interests. By themselves, cookies do not personally identify Users, although they do identify a User's computer. A User can opt not to take advantage of the cookie benefits by setting his or her browser to refuse cookies.

Disclaimer
HealthLink may change this website statement at any time without prior notice.

You should visit this page periodically to review the Terms and Conditions. You agree that your continued access and use at this website will bind You to any new Terms or Conditions.

Website Traffic Analysis
WebTrends Live is used to analyze traffic to this website. WebTrends Live does not create individual profiles for visitors. Unlike some tracking services WebTrends Live does not have a database of individual profiles for each visitor. WebTrends Live only collects aggregate data.

Jurisdiction
Except as described otherwise, all materials in the HealthLink website are made available only to provide information about HealthLink. HealthLink controls and operates this website from its headquarters in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, and makes no representation that these materials are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If You use this website from other locations You are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

Termination
This agreement is effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate this agreement at any time by destroying all materials obtained from any and all HealthLink website(s) and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise. This agreement will terminate immediately without notice from HealthLink if, in HealthLink's sole discretion, You fail to comply with any term or provision of this agreement. Upon termination, You must destroy all materials obtained from this website and any and all other HealthLink website(s) and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise.

An important notice about HealthLink and the HealthLink networks of physicians, hospitals and other health care professionals.

The doctors, hospitals and other health care providers that are part of the network organized by HealthLink are independent contractors who exercise independent medical judgment, and over whom HealthLink has no control or right of control. They are not agents or employees of HealthLink. As a doctor or other health care provider, You exercise independent medical judgment and should discuss treatment options with your patients. HealthLink is not responsible for, does not provide, and does not hold itself out as a provider of medical care.