PRIVACY POLICY

Please read the following before using the North General Hospital Web site.

North General Hospital is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This Web Site Privacy Policy is intended to disclose and describe the privacy practices of our Web site so that you will be empowered to make informed decisions about submitting information online. We have provided a link to this Web Site Privacy Policy on every page of our Web site so that it will be easy for our users to find and access.

Your use of our Web site constitutes you acceptance of and agreement to be bound by the provisions of this Web Site Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to terms and conditions of this Web Site Privacy Policy, please exit our Web site immediately.

As we implement new technology and introduce new services, we may need to revise this Web Site Privacy Policy. Your continued usage of our Web site after any revision(s) to this Web Site Privacy Policy shall constitute your acceptance of the revised Web Site Privacy Policy. We encourage you to refer to this Web Site Privacy Policy frequently; any revisions to this Web Site Privacy Policy will be highlighted in the space immediately below.

The Information We Collect
The only personally identifiable information that North General Hospital obtains about visitors to our Web site is information that you supply voluntarily. Specifically, in certain areas of our Web site, we may ask that you provide your name and mailing address. Your provision of this information is necessary to allow us to provide you with certain services including sending you certain health-related mailings prepared by us, such as newsletters with articles about both general health and wellness issues, as well as specific health and medical conditions, and information about services offered at North General Hospital, and to invite you to lectures and other events regarding general health and wellness topics offered by North General Hospital.

Use of the Information We Collect
By using our Web site, you grant us the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store and use your information in the manner provided in this Web Site Privacy Policy. Accordingly, for example, if you register to receive any mailings or invitations from us, we will use the information you provide us in order to provide those services to you. We also use the information you provide to analyze usage of, and conduct trend analysis with respect to, our Web Site.

In addition, we reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we reasonably believe to be unlawful, and to release to such agencies information about users of our Web site who we reasonably believe to be engaged in or involved with such activities.

Finally, in the unlikely event that North General Hospital is (or all or substantially all of our assets are) acquired by a third party, merges with a third party, or is bankrupt or ceases operations and dissolves, you should expect that your information will be transferred to a third party.

Removing or Changing Your Information
Please call 212-423-4468 if you want to remove or change the information you have provided to us.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
By using this site, you signify your assent to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to all of these terms and conditions, do not use this site.

North General Hospital may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time. Your continued usage of our Web site after any revision(s) to these Terms and Conditions shall constitute your acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions. We encourage you to refer to these Terms and Conditions frequently; any revisions to these Terms and Conditions will be highlighted in the space immediately below. These Terms and Conditions were last revised June 16, 2003.

THE SITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE

The information on the North General Hospital Web site (www.northgeneral.org), including but not limited to any content provided on and any question and answer service provided through the Web site, is for informational and educational purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for medical professional help, advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician with any questions you have regarding your medical care. Nothing contained in this Web site is intended to constitute a medical diagnosis or treatment. Nothing in this Web site is intended as a recommendation or endorsement of any specific tests, products, procedures, opinions or other information that may be mentioned in this Web site. Any reliance by you on any information provided by the Web site personnel, others appearing on the Web site at the invitation of the Web site, and/or other visitors to the Web site is solely at your own risk.

Question and Answer Services
We may offer question and answer services through our Web site. You hereby agree that you will not ask any question through any question and answer service on our Web site:

	that threatens or abuses others, is defamatory, or is invasive or violative of another person's privacy;
	that you do not have a right to post, including but not limited to proprietary material of any third party;
	that advocates any illegal activity or discusses an intent to commit an illegal act;
	for advertising or commercial solicitation;
	that is vulgar, obscene, pornographic or indecent; or
	that does not pertain directly to the subject matter of the particular question and answer service.

We reserve the right to monitor the question and answer services on our Web site to determine compliance with these Terms and Conditions and/or any applicable laws, rules or regulations, as well as the right to remove, redact and/or refuse to answer any question posed by you, at any time in our sole discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you remain solely and exclusively responsible for any information contained in any question that you ask through any question and answer service on our Web site. You hereby grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any question posed by you in any question and answer service on our Web site, and to incorporate it into other works in any form, medium or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed; and you agree that no such use shall constitute a violation of your privacy or our Privacy Statement.

No Warranties
THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR TITLE, AND WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES. BY ACCESSING THIS WEB SITE, YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE AND ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE DESCRIBED HEREIN.

Without limiting the foregoing, North General Hospital makes no representations regarding, and does not warrant, the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or usefulness of the opinions, advice or other information provided through this Web site or on the Internet generally. The Web site may contain health or medical-related materials, which you may find sexually explicit or otherwise offensive.

North General Hospital, its licensors and its suppliers have no control over and accept no responsibility for compliance with the laws, rules and regulations applicable to your country or state of residence.

All information with respect to our Web site is transmitted over a medium that is beyond our control and jurisdiction. Accordingly, we assume no responsibility for, or relation to, delay, failure, interruption or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of this Web site or sites accessed through this Web site. We do not guarantee continuous access to this Web site, or that any defect in this Web site will be corrected. You are solely responsible for implementing sufficient procedures to satisfy your particular requirements for protection of your computer systems and/or accuracy or integrity of data, and for maintaining a means of reconstructing or retrieving any lost or corrupted data.

Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances shall North General Hospital, or any of its directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives or medical staff, be liable to you or any other party for any punitive, special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages whatsoever, however arising (including, without limitation, our negligence), including, without limitation, damages resulting from loss of use, data, sales, goodwill or profits, whether or not we have been advised of such possibility, or under any legal or equitable theory, in tort, in contract, at equity, or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with your use of this Web site. Your sole and exclusive remedy for dissatisfaction with this Web site is to stop using this Web site.

License and Proprietary Information
We hereby grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited revocable right to use this Web site in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. You will not use the Web site for any other purpose, including but not limited to any commercial purpose, without our prior written consent. Without our prior written consent you will not, and you will not authorize or direct any other person to, (i) co-brand this Web site or any portion thereof, (ii) frame this Web site or any portion thereof (whereby the Web site will appear on the same screen with a portion of another Web site), or (iii) link this Web site to any other Web site. "Co-brand" means to display a name, logo, trademark or other means of attribution or identification of any party in a manner reasonably likely to give a user of this Web site the impression that the party has the right to display, publish or distribute the Web site or any content accessible within the Web site. You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized co-branding, framing or linking to immediately cease.

The content accessible within this Web site (collectively, the "Content") contains the intellectual property and other proprietary information of North General Hospital and its content providers (as applicable). All title to, ownership of, and rights in and to such Consent are, and at all times shall remain, the sole and exclusive property of North General Hospital and its content providers (as the case may be). Any reproduction, redistribution, display or creation of any derivative work of the Content is expressly prohibited by these Terms and Conditions. You will not remove or alter, or cause or direct to be removed or altered, any copyright, trademark, trade name, service mark, or any other proprietary notice or legend appearing on this Web site or any of the Content.

Our name and our trademarks, service marks, and/or logos may not be used in any advertising or publicity, or otherwise to indicate our sponsorship of or affiliation with any product or service, without our prior written consent.

User Representations and Warranties
By using this Web site, you hereby represent and warrant that: (i) you are an individual of at least eighteen (18) years of age; (ii) you have the legal power and authority to agree to, and be bound by, these Terms and Conditions; (iii) if you have provided information to us in connection with your use of the Web site, such information is true and accurate.

Other Web Sites
These Terms and Conditions govern only this Web site, and not any Web site to which this Web site may be linked.

Successors and Assigns
These Terms and Conditions shall be binding upon your heirs, administrators and personal representatives, and shall inure to the benefit of our successors and assigns.

Governing Law
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles.