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UMMS does not use this Web site to collect any personally identifiable information about visitors to the site. We do not learn or store any personal information about you as a result of your visiting this site. If you found this site through the use of a search engine (like Google or Yahoo), we received information from that search engine that allows us to count the number of visitors who found us through that search engine. This information does not include any personally identifiable information about you or the portions of this site that you visited. Any e-mails we receive may be handled by several staff members within our organization. We may use electronic or paper copies of your e-mail. You should not consider e-mail to be confidential correspondence.

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We have contracted with a number of partners to monitor certain pages of our Web site for the purpose of reporting Web site traffic, statistics and other Web site activities. Where authorized by us, our partners may use cookies, Web beacons and other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics about Web site visitors. No personally identifiable information is collected by or transferred to these partners. For more information about this, please see the following sites:

We provide links to other Web sites for the purposes of providing health information. Once you link to another site, you are subject to that site's privacy policy.


This page was last updated on: May 23, 2008.

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