Please remember that medical information provided by The Cleveland Clinic Health System, in the absence of a visit with a health care professional, must be considered as an educational service only. The information sent through e-mail should not be relied upon as a medical consultation. This mechanism is not designed to replace a physician's independent judgement about the appropriateness or risks of a procedure for a given patient. We will do our best to provide you with information that will help you make your own health care decisions.
The Cleveland Clinic Health System is very interested in the privacy and safety of our visitors. Our Web site contains forms through which users may request information or supply feedback to us. In some cases, telephone numbers or return addresses are required so that we can supply requested information to you. Please note that our forms are encrypted to protect your privacy. Once the information is sent to our site, it is kept in secure databases where it is not available to users on the Internet. In some cases, third parties assist us in maintaining these databases.
We may also track where you go or what you read in our Web site so that we can supply you with effective follow up information. After you fill out a form, we might contact you ourselves with follow-up information, but we do not provide any information supplied on Web form to any outside organization for any reason (other than where we may be required to by law). We also do typical web traffic analyses through which we track statistics such as which pages are visited in what order, where users come from, and how long users spend on our site. But we never associate such information with specific identities.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or our use of information gathered through our Web site, please contact our Webmaster at Webmaster@cchseast.org.