NOTICE: This Web site is provided by the Multnomah County Health Department African American STD Disparities Program subject to your agreement to comply with the "Terms of Use." Please read the "Terms of Use" now and check occasionally for future modifications.

Introduction
The Multnomah County Health Department African American STD Disparities Program provides you with the resources on this site for your personal education and entertainment, but nothing on this site constitutes a recommendation for medical care, nor does MCHD make a warranty of any kind in terms of their appropriateness
for individual online users.

Information provided on the Multnomah County Health Department African American STD Disparities Program’s Web site does not constitute medical, legal, or other professional advice.

Information provided or discussed on the Multnomah County Health Department African American STD Disparities Program’s Web site, E-mail, message boards, or chat rooms does not constitute medical, legal or otherwise professional advice. The information contained in the Multnomah County Health Department African American
STD Disparities Program Web site or any transmission or response to a message from you, the sender, is not intended nor implied to qualify as medical advice, diagnosis of a medical condition or treatment for any medical condition. Any questions discussed via a chat room, message board, or E-mail should not be construed as psychological counseling or any emotional or mental health diagnosis or treatment. We are not medical professionals. Users should always visit or speak to a qualified health service provider in person before starting any new treatment or with any individual questions or concerns regarding a medical condition.

Your Privacy on Advocates for Youth's Web Site
We want this site to be a safe and private place for users. MCHD will do its part by collecting very little information from you and about you. The “knowsex” site logs IP addresses for systems administration purposes and these logs may be analyzed to improve the value of the materials available on the site. But we do not link IP addresses
to anything personally identifiable. This means that a user's session will be logged, but the user will be anonymous.

We ask that you do your part too. When you write to us or send a submission to publish on the site, do not tell us your name, the name of other users, or of your friends. Keep out all personal information that could be used to identify you or your friends or others. Registration, polling, e-mail or chat data, along with our tabulations of where our users are visiting the most, will be compiled into statistics to inform us about your needs and interests. We also may share this statistical information with writers, Web site writers, media and outside experts, to help us improve the site to meet the needs and interests of our users.

In the future MCHD may maintain chat rooms and message boards to provide a place for people to share information and ideas. We cannot, however, vouch for the character or safety of anyone who uses these rooms and boards. Please remember that people on the Internet may not always be who or what they say they are. Also, remember that, if you post your E-mail address, others can send you mail and find out other information about
you even after you sign off. Finally, although Advocates will not sell your name and Internet address to others without your permission, other people may be able to collect this information if you sign on to participate in a chat discussion or post it on a public board.

The Multnomah County Health Department African American STD Disparities Program maintains mailing lists to keep individuals and organizations informed about the work of this organization. Individuals may be included in these lists by submitting informationthrough our Web site. This information may be shared with like-minded organizations.