Privacy Statement

As a health care provider, Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas is both experienced and strongly committed to protecting the right of privacy for patients. We do not share any personally identifiable information submitted through the forms or e-mail links on this site with any entity outside Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas unless you authorize us to do so or we are required to do so by law.

ATTENTION

MHS-NWA Notice on Privacy Practices

Anonymous Access

You can access our Web site home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.

The services and links of our Web site

Our Web site may enable you to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data.

Log Files/Cookies

We collect and log the IP address of each visitor to gather aggregate data on visitors to our site and how our site is being used. We do not associate IP addresses with any personally identifiable information.

Cookies may be sent to your computer to collect general information about how our site is viewed. We do not use cookies to store personal data, nor do we link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals.

Data Collection and Purpose Specification

We only collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. This information will be used to fulfill your requests for information. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.

E-mail Communication and Newsletters

This Web site provides you with the opportunity to send and receive communication from Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas. Any specific medical data from you via our web forms will be transmitted to us via a secure method.

If you decide you would like to stop receiving communications from Mercy, you may send an e-mail to Michelle.Bass@Mercy.net or send mail to the following postal address:

Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas
2710 Rife Medical Lane
Rogers, AR 72758
(479) 338-8000
Attn: Michelle Bass

Confidentiality/Security

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

• unauthorized access
• improper use or disclosure
• unauthorized modification
• unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

Other Sites

This site contains links to other sites that we believe may be valuable to our users. Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites. Users should read the privacy policies of each site they visit to determine what information is collected.

Questions

If you have any questions about our privacy statement, please send them to Michelle.Bass@Mercy.net.