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Thank you for visiting AshevilleHealthCoach.com, a service of Asheville Center for Health Excellence, LLC.

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This website is purely a public resource of general information which is intended, but not promised or guaranteed, to be correct, complete, and up-to-date. This website is not a source of medical or health advice. Thus, the material provided on this website is not intended to create an physican/provider-patient relationship, and the receipt or viewing of this website does not constitute a physician/provider-patient relationship. The viewer should not rely on information provided herein, and should always seek the advice of a competent licensed physician/provider in their local area.

The owner of this website is a chiropractic practice established in the State of North Carolina, USA. The provider partner(s) of Asheville Center for Health Excellence, LLC are licensed chiropractic physicians of the State of North Carolina. Viewing this website in a state where this website fails to comply with all laws and ethical rules of that state is not permitted. Do not send the owner of this website or anyone listed herein confidential information until you speak with one of their staff.

Copyright © 2008-2011 by Asheville Center for Health Excellence. All rights reserved as to all original content throughout this web site. No copyright claim is made as to any government works or open source material(s) made available or quoted herein. Some material is provided with written permission from the owner(s) and will be labeled as such. Freeware and shareware available through connections to this website are not the property of Asheville Center for Health Excellence, LLC and use of such material is at the risk of the user. Asheville Center for Health Excellence, LLC is not responsible for damage to files or computers with the use of materials provided via the website or use of the website itself.

You may may not reproduce materials available within this site without the written permission of the owner unless you are a current patient in good standing or an employee of Asheville Center for Health Excellence, LLC. Patients in good standing with Asheville Center for Health Excellence, LLC may reproduce contents for their personal use only.

A federal regulation, known as the “HIPAA Privacy Rule,” went into effect on April 14, 2003 and requires that we provide detailed notice in writing of our privacy practices. The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires us to address many specific things in this Notice.

In this Notice, we describe the ways that we may use and disclose health information about our patients. The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires that we protect the privacy of health information that identifies a patient, or where there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to identify a patient. This information is called “protected health information” or “PHI.” This Notice describes your rights as our patient and our obligations regarding the use and disclosure of PHI.

We are required by law and commit to you to:
  • Maintain the privacy of PHI about you;
  • Give you this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to PHI; and
  • Comply with the terms of our Notice of Privacy Practices that is currently in effect.
As permitted by the HIPAA Privacy Rule, we reserve the right to make changes to this Notice and to make such changes effective for all PHI we may already have about you. If and when this Notice is changed, we will post a copy in our office in a prominent location. We will also provide you with a copy of the revised Notice upon your request made to our Privacy Official.

Internet Privacy

This Privacy Policy applies to the Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com website. The Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com website contains links to other sites. Once you enter another website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Asheville Center for Health Excellence is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every web website that you visit.

While you may use some of the functionality of Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com website without registration, some of the specific tools and services on our website require registration. If you use our website without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information using Cookies. If you choose to become a member of our website, we require a limited amount of Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name and email address.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Even if you do not register with us, we collect Non-Personal Information about all visitors to our website, special promotions and newsletters.

Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com assigns every visiting computer a different Cookie. The information collected by Cookies:

  • Helps us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website;
  • How many people find our information useful; and
  • What interests visitors.
Cookies are also used to facilitate a user's log-in, as navigation aides and as session timers, but not to retain Personal Health Information about you.

Your browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. If you reject our Cookies, certain functions and conveniences of our website may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to use our site. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Cookies to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

As you use Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email. These emails will be of a general nature and will in no way disclose your unique health characteristics. At the time you sign up for our email newsletters or any time thereafter, you can choose to opt-out of receiving additional promotional emails from us.

To subscribe to such newsletters, we need your contact information, such as name and email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by simply clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email newsletter. An email to our automated unsubscribe service will be created on your computer. Click the "send" button. You will then be unsubscribed from that newsletter within two to three business days.

When you use Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com "Email an Article,” Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com emails the article or other content designated by you to your friend's email address, listing your email address as the sender. Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com uses the friend's email address only for sending your friend the email you requested. While we store the email address, we do not use it for any other purpose.

This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send content, questions or ideas to Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com by email. If you want to keep them private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Neither Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13.

Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will only be used by Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com and its operations contractors and will not be given or sold to a third party.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on our website. We will only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to third parties:

  • To comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; and
  • In special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We will inform you if a material change to the Privacy Policy is made that involves the use of your Personally Identifiable Information. Your continued use of the Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com site will indicate acceptance of the changes. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.


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Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com may occasionally link to resources that have been personally reviewed and are continually monitored by Dr Sher or his designee for quality assurance. Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com includes a link to Asheville Pilates, a business owned by Dr Sher's wife, Maureen, located on the same premises of, and closely integrated with, Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com. Additionally, Dr Sher offers "Recommended Reading" resources. These resources have been personally reviewed by Dr Sher for consistency with his practice philosophy and training in chiropractic. Dr Sher or Asheville Center for Health Excellence / AshevilleHealthCoach.com may, from time to time, include reading resources through the Affiliate Program of Amazon.com and, as such, receive minor compensation based on a limited percentage of the purchase transaction, should one occur.


Copyright © 2008-2011 by Asheville Center for Health Excellence
Dr. Russel Sher
188 Charlotte Street, Suite 1
Asheville, NC 28803
(828) 253-1727

Click here for a copy of our HIPAA Privacy Policy
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Most of us believe that our medical and other health information is private and should be protected, and we want to know who has this information. The Privacy Rule, a Federal law, gives you rights over your health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your health information.

We share your beliefs and have established a compliance program that exceeds federal and state privacy requirements in order to ensure what you say in private remains safe with us.

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