View HIPAA Privacy Policy Notices
Thank you for visiting the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) agency
web site and reviewing our Privacy Policy. As a visitor to our site, we would
like to make you aware that:
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ADHS collects no personally identifiable information (such as your name,
e-mail address, or Social Security number) when
you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information to us; and
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ADHS collects and temporarily stores certain
limited information about your visit as you browse through the web site (see What information is collected from me and how is it used?).
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| Additional information about our Privacy Policy is provided
below. This Policy applies only to the public agency sites located at http://www.azdhs.gov and not to the
agency's separately hosted web sites, its private and/or internal web sites, or
to its web applications. |
What services are available at this site?
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Information
about the agency's health services, how to access them, and how to find out more
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General
information and suggestions for maintaining and improving the health of you and
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What information is collected from me and how is it used?
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Information collected and stored automatically
ADHS collects and temporarily stores the
following limited information about your visit as you browse through the web
site:
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The Internet domain from which you access our
site (for example, aol.com, if you have an America Online account); |
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The date and time of your visit; |
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The names of the pages you visit; and |
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The address of the web site you came from when
you came to visit.
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| We use this information to measure the number
of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site
more useful to visitors. |
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Cookies
This web site does not use
"cookies" (small bits of data that a web server stores on your hard
drive) to obtain information about you or track your visits to our site.
3. Personal
Information
You do not
have to give us any personal information to visit our web site. No
personally identifying information (such as your name, e-mail address, or Social
Security number) will be collected unless you choose to provide that information
to us.
When e-mails are received, we store them on our server so that we can respond to
them electronically. If your
request can best be handled by staff from another agency (such as the Arizona
Department of Economic Security, for example), your e-mail may be forwarded to
that agency. Unless otherwise
required by law, any information you send us will be used only to respond to you
or investigate your complaint and will not be provided to parties outside of the
Arizona State government.
What are my options for providing personal information?
Information
sent to us electronically is not necessarily secure against interception.
If your communication is very private or includes personal information such as
your Social Security number, you may want to send it by postal mail or contact
us in person or by phone:
ADHS Telephone Numbers and Address
Information
Who else is collecting or has access to my information?
ADHS is the sole collector of information from this web site and does not share
information from visitors to parties outside of the Arizona State Government
except as required by law.
How is ADHS protecting the privacy of my information?
ADHS is committed to
protecting the information that you provide to us and maintains security
standards and procedures regarding web servers and information to prevent loss
or alteration of your data. Information you provide to us via e-mail is stored
behind a firewall. Access to your e-mails is restricted to employees who process
and answer these inquiries as part of their assigned duties.
The policy of this agency is
to not collect personal information from ADHS server log files.
However, for site security purposes and to ensure that this web service remains
available to all users, log files may be used to help identify individuals
engaging in unauthorized attempts to access or damage the contents of this site.
Who can I contact if I have questions?
If you have any questions
regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact our Public Information Office:
Arizona Department of Health
Services
Public Information Office
150 North 18th Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
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