Terms of Use
Thank you for visiting Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District’s website.
The information provided on the Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between patient/site visitor and his/her physician.
By accessing, browsing and/or using webpages or other digital content in this site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the following terms of use.
CONSENT. You agree that your use of the Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District website and any uses of any services or materials are subject to your agreement with all of these Terms of Use, and the Website Privacy Policy. You agree that you will not violate any local, state, federal or international laws in using this website or accessing any Material on this website.
SITE ACCESS. The Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District reserves the right to prohibit, restrict or discontinue your access to certain pages within the website if you violate any terms of this agreement. Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District may modify these Terms of Use at any time without notice. The modified terms of use will be effective upon posting on our website. To remain in compliance, Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District suggests that you review the Terms of Use, as well as the other website policies listed above, at regular intervals.
MEDICAL DISCLAIMER. IF THIS IS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY CALL EMERGENCY PERSONNEL (911) TO GET PROMPT MEDICAL ATTENTION. DO NOT RELY ON ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE IN REGARD TO YOUR IMMEDIATE, URGENT MEDICAL NEEDS.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. MATERIALS, SERVICES AND OTHER INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” BY RUTHERFORD POLK McDOWELL HEALTH DISTRICT FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
ALTHOUGH OUR HEALTH INFORMATION CONTENT IS REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, RUTHERFORD POLK McDOWELL HEALTH DISTRICT DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS OR FOR THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF SUCH INFORMATION.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT RUTHERFORD POLK McDOWELL HEALTH DISTRICT DOES NOT OPERATE OR CONTROL THE INTERNET AND THEREFORE RUTHERFORD POLK McDOWELL HEALTH DISTRICT DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL BE ERROR FREE OR FREE OF TECHNOLOGY DOWNTIMES OR UNAVAILABILITY.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT RUTHERFORD POLK McDOWELL HEALTH DISTRICT CANNOT AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE AGAINST VIRUSES, WORMS, OR OTHER UNAUTHORIZED USERS OR HACKERS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE OR INFORMATION TRANSMITTED TO OR FROM THIS SITE.
Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District also reserves the right to temporarily or permanently discontinue this site, any page, or any functionality on this website at any time and without notice.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT SHALL RUTHERFORD POLK McDOWELL HEALTH DISTRICT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR MONETARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING FEES, AND PENALTIES IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF MATERIALS POSTED ON THIS SITE OR CONNECTIVITY TO OR FROM THIS SITE TO ANY OTHER SITE.
GOVERNING LAW. You agree that any claim or dispute relating to the Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District website or your use or reliance on this website shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of North Carolina without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. The parties agree to be bound and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state or federal courts located in North Carolina.
USER NAME AND PASSWORD. In the event you access any Service requiring a User Name and Password, you are solely responsible for keeping such User Name and Password strictly confidential.
CHILDREN. Accept as otherwise indicated, Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District does not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information from children under age 18. The content of our website is directed at adults, and therefore this site is intended for use only by adults over the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please consult a parent or guardian for help in using this website.
EXTERNAL LINKS. Please note that pages of this site may be linked to other sites which may have different terms of use. The Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District does not own, control, manage, supervise, direct or otherwise have any involvement in the business or affairs of ay third party site. Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the third party site. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site. The Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District encourage you to be aware when you are leaving the Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District site to read the privacy statements of each and every website that you visit before providing any personally identifiable information.
TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS. All trademarks, service marks, and logos or copyrights displayed and used in this site are the property of their respective owners. Nothing in this site should be construed as granting any right or license to use any Trademark without the written permission of its owner.
PRIVACY. Please read the full text of our Notice of Privacy Practices to understand how any Protected Health Information ("PHI"), as that term is defined in the Notice of Privacy Practices (HIPAA), that you submit via the Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District website will be treated.
BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS.
About this Site
This website is provided by the Rutherford Polk McDowell District Health Department for use by the citizens of our communities and the general public.
File Formats
For information regarding file types and formats used on our site, please visit our File Format page by clicking here.
Please review the following pages for additional information:
File Formats Used
The Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District uses several different file formats on our website. You can find more information about those formats below.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Description: Adobe Acrobat Reader is a program that allows users to view files in Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF is a universal file format that preserves the appearance of the original document. PDF files can be easily printed but not easily modified. Several documents throughout this Web site are available in PDF. These files contain complex documents with graphs, images, and special text that cannot be presented easily through the typical Web browser. The creator of this file format, Adobe® Systems, offers a free viewer so that you can view any PDF file.
File Extension: .pdf
Viewing: If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download Acrobat Reader free.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Description: Microsoft PowerPoint is a program for creating and viewing presentations and slide shows.
File Extension: .ppt, pptx
Viewing: If you do not have Microsoft PowerPoint, you can download Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer here.
Social Media Policy
BY POSTING ON ANY RUTHERFORD POLK McDOWELL HEALTH DISTRICT SOCIAL MEDIA SITE YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. Rutherford Polk McDowell Health District (“RPMHD”) has opened publicly facing pages on social media sites for viewing content and/or videos and posting comments about RPMHD. These social media sites include but are not limited to various blogs, bulletin boards, networks, multi-media and news media sites or other user generated content sites (“Social Media Sites”). By accessing, viewing and/or posting any content related directly or indirectly to RPMHD on any Social Media Site on the internet, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the following terms of use. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you may not view or post any content to any Social Media Site on the internet. Your use of Social Media Sites is acceptance of this Policy and has the same effect as if you had actually physically signed an agreement.
1. If you are a RPMHD employee you must adhere to the RPMHD SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY.
2. You must be at least 18 years old to post any content on any Social Media Site.
3. You are prohibited from posting any content that is personal health information including patient images on any Social Media Site. You are also prohibited from using the Social Media Site to provide medical advice or medical commentary.
4. As a guest posting content to any Social Media Site on the internet, you agree that you will not: violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including but not limited to copyright and intellectual property rights laws regarding any content that you send or receive via this Policy; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that is unlawful, disruptive, threatening, profane, abusive, harassing, embarrassing, tortuous, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or is an invasion of another's privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable as solely determined in RPMHD’s discretion; impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising (including advertising of non RPMHD services or products), promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; harass another; or collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal data about third parties without their knowledge or consent; or to share confidential pricing information of any party.
5. RPMHD reserves the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue your access to any Social Media Site, at any time, without notice and for any reason and in its sole discretion. RPMHD may remove, delete, block, filter or restrict by any other means any materials in RPMHD’s sole discretion. You understand and agree that RPMHD may disclose your communications and activities with RPMHD in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including Patriot Act requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of RPMHD rights. You agree that in the event that RPMHD exercises any of its rights hereunder for any reason, RPMHD will have no liability to you.
6. By posting any content on any Social Media Site, you grant to RPMHD the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display such content and the right to create derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any RPMHD purpose.
7. You shall defend, indemnify, and hold RPMHD and its respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, and assigns harmless from and against, and shall promptly reimburse them for, any and all losses, claims, damages, settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys' fees) to which any of them may become subject arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with, your posting of any content to a Social Media Site, any third party claims of infringement or any breach of this Policy.
8. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY RELATED TO THE SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND CONFIDENTIALITY RISKS INHERENT IN SENDING ANY CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET. BY ITS VERY NATURE, A WEBSITE AND THE INTERNET CANNOT BE ABSOLUTELY PROTECTED AGAINST INTENTIONAL OR MALICIOUS INTRUSION ATTEMPTS. RPMHD DOES NOT CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SITES AND THE INTERNET OVER WHICH YOU MAY CHOOSE TO SEND CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL OR HEALTH INFORMATION OR OTHER CONTENT AND, THEREFORE, RPMHD DOES NOT WARRANT ANY SAFEGUARD AGAINST ANY SUCH INTERCEPTIONS OR COMPROMISES TO YOUR INFORMATION. WHEN POSTING ANY CONTENT ON AN INTERNET SITE, YOU SHOULD THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT YOUR OWN PRIVACY IN DISCLOSING DETAILED OR PRIVATE INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY. FURTHERMORE, RPMHD DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY PRODUCT, SERVICE, VIEWS OR CONTENT DISPLAYED ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA SITE.
9. You agree that any claim or dispute relating to your posting of any content on a Social Media Site on the internet shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of North Carolina without regard to its conflict of laws provisions and you agree to be bound and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state or federal courts located in North Carolina.
10. You may not provide any content to a Social Media Site that contains any product or service endorsements or any content that may be construed as political lobbying, solicitations or contributions or use the Social Media Site to link to any sites or political candidates or parties or use the Social Media Site to discuss political campaigns, issues or for taking a position on any legislation or law.
11. Representatives of RPMHD may communicate via the Social Media Site, consequently any communication via these Social Media Site(s) (whether by a RPMHD employee or the general public) may be subject to monitoring and disclosure to third parties.
12. THIS POLICY MAY BE UPDATED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND EACH TIME A USER ACCESSES A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE, THE NEW POLICY WILL GOVERN, USAGE, EFFECTIVE UPON POSTING. To remain in compliance, RPMHD suggests that you review the Policy, as well as the other website policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to post any content after such new terms are posted, you accept and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.
