Your choice to disclose Personal Information in an e-mail submission or online form is voluntary. We cannot fully ensure that your private communications and other Personal Information will not be inadvertently disclosed to third parties. For example, although we take every precaution to maintain the security of our Web site and servers, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. At the discretion of Southern Regional AHEC, we may choose to disclose Personal Information or the content of an e-mail message to law enforcement, government officials, or other investigative personnel that we believe is necessary or appropriate in order to investigate or resolve possible problems or inquiries.

Southern Regional AHEC is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any third-party linked site that is not owned by Southern Regional AHEC or for any other links contained in such third-party sites. We provide links to other Web sites for your convenience only and for informational purposes. The inclusion of any link to a site not owned by Southern Regional AHEC is not an endorsement by Southern Regional AHEC of the site or its contents or accuracy and does not suggest that the opinions expressed on a third-party site are representative of the views or opinions of Southern Regional AHEC.

Southern Regional AHEC assumes no responsibility for any links to the Southern Regional AHEC Web site from another party's Web site. You may post a link to any portion of the Southern Regional AHEC Web site without written permission as long as Southern Regional AHEC is portrayed in a positive manner. Any such links must not use framing techniques or in any way represent the Southern Regional AHEC Web site or its content as being connected with your organization. In addition, you may not use any meta tags or hidden text in your Web site that incorporate the Southern Regional AHEC name or the names of any Southern Regional AHEC products and services. No permission is granted for you to use Southern Regional AHEC's logo, icons, or content. You must obtain prior written permission to post additional graphic or textual material along with your link to Southern Regional AHEC Web site.

Criteria for Considering Links for Southern Regional AHEC Website:

• Recognition of an organization that is a strategic partner of Southern Regional AHEC
• Timeliness and accuracy of factual material
• Inclusion of META variables - Author, Keywords and Description. META refers to protocol and format established so information may be exchanged between different data sources.

Prohibitions:

• Links to personal websites are prohibited.
• Links to commercial websites (except as allowed by the above criteria) are prohibited.
• Links to sites associated with, sponsored by or serving a candidate for elected office, any political party or organization supporting or seeking to defeat any candidate from elected office or ballot proposal.
• Links to websites with obscene or objectionable images or text are prohibited.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

• If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• The date and time you access our site;
• The pages you visit; and
• If you linked to the Southern Regional AHEC website from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors - to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors are using. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.