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(last updated January 30, 2014)

Welcome to the Penn Medicine website for the Penn Center for Community Health Workers and its IMPaCT™ program (the “Site”).By accessing any pages of this Site, downloading any of its content, or otherwise using the Site, your conduct constitutes your legal acceptance of the terms and conditions in these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to any of the terms in these Terms of Use, please do not further access or use this Site or download any of its content. The University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”) may amend or add to these Terms of Use at any time, without sending notice to you, by posting the new Terms of Use from links at the Site, and your later access or use of the Site constitutes your legal acceptance of the amended or additional Terms of Use, so please check back at this link often to make sure you are aware of the then-current terms governing this Site. Thank you!

1. Feedback. We welcome your comments and feedback on materials you find on the Site. However, do not send Penn any confidential information, trade secrets, specific patient information, or any other information or material that you do not give Penn permission to use freely. You also agree not to send Penn any information or materials that you do not own in their entirety. Penn may use any of the information or materials you send as part of its research, teaching, education and/or clinical care missions, including incorporating ideas from those comments or feedback into the IMPaCT program or otherwise into Penn proprietary materials, and you are not entitled to any money, authorship credit, or other compensation or consideration if or when Penn uses the information or materials you provide.

2. Copyright. All of the text, audio, video, graphics, images, metadata and/or technology accessed from this website or obtained from the Penn Center for Community Health Workers and its agents or affiliates, including but not limited to the Manuals available for download, and access to workflow management system technologies (collectively, the “Content”), is owned by Penn and is protected by copyright and other legal rights. Please refer to the Online Content License Agreement for details regarding what you are granted permission to do with certain Content. You cannot reproduce, publicly distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or otherwise create derivative works from, any of the text, audio, video, graphics, images, metadata and/or technology at the Site, except as set forth otherwise in the Online Content License Agreement.

3. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. PENN EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE OR NONINFRINGEMENT. PENN DOES NOT WARRANT THE EFFECTIVENESS OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT, OR ITS APPLICABILITY TO YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION, OR RESULTS OR LACK OF RESULTS YOU MAY EXPERIENCE. BY YOUR USE OF ANY CONTENT FROM THIS SITE, PENN IS NOT FORMING ANY DOCTOR-PATIENT OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ANY INDIVIDUAL WITH WHOM YOU USE OR APPLY ANY OF THE CONTENT, AND YOU REMAIN SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY HEALTH CARE OR OTHER CARE PROVIDED TO ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL WITH WHOM YOU USE OR APPLY ANY OF THE CONTENT.

4. Additional Terms. These Terms of Use are the final and entire agreement between Penn and you on the subject matter set forth in this Agreement, and supersedes any previous discussions, negotiations, understandings or agreements on the subject matter set forth in the Terms of Use, except for the Online Content License Agreement. If there is an ambiguity or discrepancy between a term in the Online Content License Agreement and these Terms of Use, the term in the Online Content License Agreement shall prevail in meaning and interpretation, and shall be deemed to reflect the mutual agreement of Penn and you regarding such term. The terms in these Terms of Use are severable. If a term is held to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall be deemed severed and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of all other terms and the Terms of Use as a whole. Any waiver of any term of these Terms of Use, or a breach of a term of these Terms of Use, must be in writing and signed by the party waiving such term or such breach. A failure to enforce any term in these Terms of Use shall not constitute or be deemed to be a waiver of such term or any subsequent breach of such term. If there is a dispute about or related to or in connection with or arising out of the Site or these Terms of Use, you hereby irrevocably agree to bring any lawsuit in a federal or state court located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and hereby irrevocably consent to such court’s personal jurisdiction and venue. You shall comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations in connection with your use of the Content, and your provision of health care services as a result of your implementation of the programs and methods contained in the Content. Penn is not liable for, and you will hold Penn harmless against, any claims, complaints, demands or causes of action related to your use of the Content or provision of health care services.

Notice of Privacy Policy

COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that many web sites transfer to users’ hard drives to enable the site to deliver personalized services or to provide persistent authentication. The information contained in a cookie typically includes information collected automatically by the web server and/or information provided voluntarily by the user. The user controls, via the computer’s operating system, whether cookies will be accepted and, if so, how they will be handled (for example, deleted or saved). Our web site uses cookie technology. If the user blocks cookies, however, this will not affect the functionality of this site.

SECURITY

Our office is committed to ensuring the security of your information. We have put in place reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards designed to prevent unauthorized access to, or use of, the information collected online.

For example, Penn has contracted with third parties that have met industry-standards for security to take in necessary data, such as credit card information, to store, transmit and process this transaction secur ely.

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We will not share your information with third parties except

as required by law,
as necessary to protect the University’s interests,
with service providers acting on our behalf who have agreed in writing to protect the confidentiality of the data, or
in instances that you permit OR in accordance with your consent

Penn has contracted with third parties that have met industry-standards for security to take in necessary data, such as credit card information, to store, transmit and process this transaction securely.

LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES

This site may contain links to other web sites not affiliated with our office. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites, including other University of Pennsylvania sites. We encourage you to read the privacy state ments of other sites for assurance that their practices safeguard your privacy.

CHILDREN UNDER 13

This web site is intended for use by people aged 13 or older. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us

CHANGES TO STATEMENT

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time and will post the changes on this web page.

CONTACT US

We welcome suggestions and questions about our privacy statement. Please send them to privacy@upenn.edu. If you have questions about privacy at Penn overall, please send email to privacy@pobox.upenn.edu, call 1-888-BEN-TIPS (1-888-236-8477), or visit http://www.upenn.edu/privacy.

YOUR CONSENT (IF MAKING A PURCHASE)

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