General Information Only
Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas, (“MANA,” “we,” or “us”) intends for the information on this site to be only for self-educational purposes, and you should use the information on this site for only those purposes. Information provided is general healthcare information only and should not be used in place of a visit, call, consultation or advice from your primary care physician, or some other treating physician or caretaker. You should never disregard medical advice or delay seeking medical advice from your personal doctor because of something you have read on this website. Never discontinue treatment or medication that has been prescribed to you without first consulting your physician, clinician, therapist, or other caretaker. Any representation by MANA contained on this website should not be construed, and is not intended to expressly or impliedly warrant or create any standard of care. Your visit and use of this website does not create a physician/patient or hospital/patient relationship. IF YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION HELP OR ASSISTANCE ON THIS WEBSITE. Immediately call 911 or some other emergency assistance.
Use of this Site
MANA maintains this website to provide informational and educational service to the community. Any use of this site by you is at your sole risk, and should not be relied upon by you to diagnose or treat any illness or symptom you may have. No one involved with this website, including but not limited to MANA, affiliated offices and doctors of MANA, or any other party involved in developing, creating or delivering the website will be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of your access to, use of, or inability to use this website. MANA provides the content of this website “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. MANA assumes no responsibility and cannot be liable for damages to, or viruses that may affect your computer equipment or other property because of your access to or use of this website. This includes the downloading of materials, data, text, images, video or audio from this website.
Privacy
MANA values your privacy and considers this issue to be an important one. The information MANA gathers about you from this website depends on what you do on the site. We collect information on the pages viewed by the visitors to our site in an aggregate amount, so we know what pages our visitors view and we can then tailor this website according the aggregate information we review.
There will be opportunities for you to provide information to MANA via our website. You have the opportunity to submit e-mails regarding appointments. You also have the option to submit general e-mail messages to us. If you choose to submit an unsolicited e-mail to us, we will use your e-mail address only to reply to your message and for no other use. Any reply to unsolicited correspondence is intended to provide general information only and does not constitute part of an individual’s medical record with MANA, unless such e-mail is regarding an appointment. We will not respond to any unsolicited e-mail messages seeking medical advice, treatment, opinions or other matters traditionally associated with the physician/patient relationship. If you e-mail regarding an appointment, we will keep this message as long as we need to in order to schedule and confirm the appointment. Please note that e-mail is not considered a secure form of communication, and any communication you send to us via e-mail has the possibility of being read by someone other than us. Your e-mail address will not be sold to third parties, or used by MANA except to correspond with you about your communication to us.
Links To Other Websites
MANA provides links to other websites that may provide further general healthcare information for self-educational purposes. However, MANA cannot and has not reviewed all of these sites and does not make any representations to you regarding the content or accuracy of these outside sites. Further, if you have found this site through a link from another website, we cannot and do not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of the websites providing a link to our website, as we cannot control the links on other websites.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT WILL MANA BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SITE OR ANY LINKED SITE OR USE THEREOF OR INABILITY TO USE BY ANY PARTY, OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE OR SYSTEM FAILURE, EVEN IF MANA, OR REPRESENTATIVES THEREOF, ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES.
AVAILABILITY
This web site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.
GOVERNING LAW
Use of this site shall be governed by all applicable Federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of Arkansas.
Copyright
You may use materials on this website for your own personal use, as long as you include the copyright and other notices contained on the materials. You may not use the materials included on the website, including text, images, audio and video, for public or commercial purposes, without MANA’s written permission.