Email Policy 

Sydney Airport Medical Centre offers patients/guardians/ clients the opportunity to communicate by email. This sheet provides information about the risks of email, conditions for use of email communication and how email communication will be used.

Risks

Communication by email has several risks which include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Sydney Airport Medical Centre cannot guarantee that any email will be read or responded to.

2. Email can be circulated, forwarded, and stored in paper and electronic files.

3. Backup copies of email may exist even after the sender or the recipient has deleted his/her copy.

4. Email senders can easily misaddress an email or email can be received by unintended recipients. 5. Email can be intercepted, altered, forwarded, or used without authorisation or detection.

6. Employers and on-line services have a right to archive and inspect emails transmitted through their systems.