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LEGAL DISCLAIMER / CONDITIONS OF USE / PRIVACY POLICY

Products and Services Provided by Great Lakes Health Plan, Inc.

"Great Lakes Health Plan" is a registered service mark of Great Lakes Health Plan, Inc., licensed for use by Great Lakes Health Plan (GLHP). GLHP is a for-profit health maintenance organization authorized by the Michigan Insurance Commissioner to provide health benefits for persons enrolled in the health plan.

GLHP Delivers Health Benefits in Michigan Only

The product descriptions, if any, provided on GLHP.com are not intended to constitute offers to sell or solicitations in connection with any products or services. GLHP is only authorized to provide health benefits to employer or government-sponsored products in the State of Michigan. It does not advertise or market its products or services outside Michigan.

Links to Other Sites

We make no representation as to any content on any other site.

General Disclaimer

All material including any link to other sites and content found at linked sites is provided "as is" and without any express or implied warranties including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Due to the nature of the Internet, GLHP does not warrant that access to GLHP.com or any of its pages will be uninterrupted or error free. GLHP does not warrant or make any representations regarding the usefulness of or the expected results of the material contained on GLHP.com.

Viruses, Worms, Use of Files

GLHP goes through a screening to ensure the security of the information and files available for downloading. However, the viewer is advised to utilize their own anti-virus programs.

Health Information

The health information on this web site is provided by GLHP solely for informational purposes as a public service to promote consumer health. It does not constitute medical advice and is not intended to be a substitute for proper medical care provided by a physician. GLHP assumes no responsibility for any circumstances arising out of the use, misuse, interpretation or application of any information supplied on this site. Always consult with your doctor for appropriate examinations, treatment, testing, and care recommendations. Do not rely on information on this site as a tool for self-diagnosis.

Trademarks

There are references throughout GLHP.com to various trademarks or service marks and these, whether registered or not, are the property of their respective owners.

Message Boards and Chat Rooms

It is a condition of your use of Message Boards or Chat Rooms that you do not: (i) post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, racial, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law; (ii) post or transmit comments containing harassing or offensive language, using sexual references, sexual nicknames, racial slurs or rude or deliberately offensive comments or engage in disruptive activity online, including excessive use of scripts, sound waves, scrolling (repeating the same message over and over), or use viruses, worms or Trojan horses; (iii) post or transmit any information, software or other material which violates or infringes the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works without first obtaining permission from the owner; (iv) post or transmit any information, software or other material which contains a virus, worm, Trojan horse or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties; (v) post any information, software, or other material for commercial purposes; (vi) solicit other users to join or contribute money to any online service or other organization, advocate or attempt to get users to join in legal or illegal schemes; (vii) impersonate any person or entity or falsely represent your professional or other affiliation with any person or entity; or (viii) use GLHP.com to collect personally identifiable information in violation of our Privacy Policy. You agree GLHP, at its sole and absolute discretion, shall determine whether any information transmitted or received violates this provision.

You agree to indemnify and hold GLHP and its parents, affiliates, employees, officers, directors and agents harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by a third party arising from any material you contribute to Message Boards or Chat Rooms you access via GLHP.com.

You understand that GLHP has no obligation to monitor Message Boards or Chat Rooms. GLHP reserves the right at all times to disclose any information regarding the Message Boards or Chat Rooms, or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in GLHPs' sole and absolute discretion are objectionable.

When using GLHP.com, please be certain that anything you disclose does not compromise your personal safety. Do not provide your name, phone number, social security number or any other personally identifying information to people you do not know. Do not continue any conversation online that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Limitation of Liability

You agree by accessing GLHP.com that under no circumstances or any theories of liability under international or civil, common or statutory law including but not limited to strict liability, negligence or other tort theories or contract, patent or copyright laws, will GLHP be liable for damages of any kind occurring from the use of this web site or any information, goods or services obtained on this web site including direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, or punitive damages (even if GLHP has been advised of the possibility of such damages), to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Minors and Child Online Privacy Protection Act

GLHP.com does not direct content to Minors and does not intend to collect personal information from Minors and therefore is not subject to the Child Online Privacy Protection Act. If you allow your minor child, or a child for whom you are legal guardian (a "Minor"), to access and use GLHP.com, you agree that you will be solely responsible for: (i) the online conduct of such Minor; (ii) monitoring such Minor's access to and use of GLHP.com; and (iii) the consequences of any use.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act

GLHP reserves the right, but not the obligation, to terminate your access to GLHP.com if it determines in its sole and absolute discretion that you are involved in infringing activity, including alleged acts of first-time or repeat infringement, regardless of whether the material or activity is ultimately determined to be infringing. GLHP and its service providers accommodate and do not interfere with standard technical measures used by copyright owners to protect materials. GLHP has implemented procedures for receiving written notification of claimed infringements and for processing such claims in accordance with the Act.

Our designated agent to receive notification of claimed infringement is:

Eric Wexler
Great Lakes Health Plan, Inc
17117 West Nine Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48075
ewexler@GLHP.com

Any written notice regarding any infringement of copyright or of other proprietary rights, should be sent to our designated agent, listed above, and must include the following information:

A. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of (i) the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed or (ii) the person defamed.

B. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.

C. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, or to be the subject of infringing activity, including information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.

D. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, and/or electronic mail address.

E. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright or other proprietary right owner, its agent, or the law.

If you choose to access GLHP.com from outside the United States you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with U.S. and local laws, if and to the extent that local laws are applicable. Software is subject to United States export controls. No software may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods, or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. You represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national resident of any such country or on any such list. You agree to comply with U.S. export control laws and that you will not transfer any software or other content from GLHP.com to a foreign national or foreign country in violation of those laws.

Changes and Applicable Law

We reserve the right to make changes to GLHP.com and our Legal Disclaimer/Conditions of Use. We encourage you to review the web site and these terms periodically for any updates or changes. Your continued access or use of GLHP.com shall be deemed your acceptance of these Legal Disclaimers/Conditions of Use and any changes and the reasonableness of these standards for notice of changes. Use of GLHP.com will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan, without giving effect to its conflict of law provisions. You agree that any legal action or proceeding between you and GLHP.com will be brought exclusively in a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction sitting in, either Oakland County, Michigan or Detroit, Michigan. If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Great Lakes Health Plan’s Privacy Policy

When visiting GLHP.com, no information is collected and stored about you. Any information that you submit to this web site is not retained and is used solely to respond to your inquiry. Your privacy is important to GLHP. GLHP does not sell any personal information about you. GLHP does not disclose any personal information about you without your written consent unless we are allowed by law to do so.

To serve you, GLHP must collect, use, and disclose certain personal information about you. GLHP receives personal information about you from the following sources:

• Medicaid enrollment lists, which have information about your age, sex, identifying number and other personal information;

• Reports about the cost and quality of the health care services you receive, bills for healthcare services you receive,

• Complaints and grievances about your care and information necessary for coordination of benefits with any other health care coverage you may have.

GLHP does not collect such personal information through your use of this web site. The personal information is collected only through GLHP's administration of its Medicaid benefit program as permitted by federal and state law. As part of GLHP's contractual and administrative duties, it does disclose your personal information as allowed by law. GLHP may disclose personal information about you to pay claims for the care you receive, to deal with complaints and grievances about your care, to address quality of care or utilization management issues associated with services furnished by providers, to provide case and disease management services, to coordinate your health care benefits with any other health care coverage you may have and to provide information required by government and accreditation agencies.

GLHP policy is to allow personal information about you to be seen only by people who have a need and a legal right to see that information. We maintain safeguards for your personal information. GLHP regularly reviews these safeguards to make sure that your privacy is protected.

Personal Identifying Information

GLHP will not request any personally identifying information from you in order to use our web site.

Access

Since GLHP.com does not collect any information through administration of this web site, we do not know who you are and there is no information stored by this web site for you to access.

Security

Any transmission that you make on the Internet is not secure. However, since we do not collect any information, we have no need for security beyond that necessary to maintain this web site.

Changes

We will post any substantial changes in this privacy policy at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect. Any information collected under this current policy will remain bound by the terms of this privacy policy. After the changes take effect, all new information collected, if any, will be subject to the revised privacy policy.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy or feel that we have acted in violation of this policy, please contact dkoehler@glhp.com or write:

Great Lakes Health Plan, Inc.
Government Relations
17117 West Nine Mile Road- Suite 1600
Southfield, MI 48075

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