Health News Review's Privacy Policy

1. General

The Foundation respects the privacy of every individual who visits www.HealthNewsReview.org (the "Web Site"). This Privacy Policy outlines the information the Foundation will collect and how we will use that information. This Policy will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared.

2. Personally-Identifiable Information

There are cases where the Foundation may ask you for personally-identifiable information such as your name and email address. For example, we request personally-identifiable information when you register as a member of the Web Site. The Foundation will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you unless you provide it to us voluntarily.

When you do provide us with personally-identifiable information, the Foundation may:

• store and process that information to better understand your needs and how we can improve the Web Site our products and services;
• use and disclose that information to third parties to the extent necessary to provide you with products or services you have requested;
• use that information to contact you for informational, marketing and promotional purposes;
• share that information with selected third parties who provide products and services which we believe may interest you;
• disclose that information to third parties when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the Foundation's rights or property, other members or users of the Web Site, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities;
• disclose that information to third parties when we believe in good faith that the law requires it; and
• transfer such information to successors of our business assets.

Except as stated in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise stated at the time personally-identifiable information is gathered, we will not provide personally-identifiable information to third parties.

In case you would like to remove or change some personally-identifiable information, you may do so by contacting our Customer Support Department at feedback@healthnewsreview.org. (Remember, however, that removing some or all of your personally-identifiable information may limit your ability to access some or all of the features and services of the Web Site.)

3. Non-Personally-Identifiable Information

The Foundation may also collect information about you that is not personally-identifiable. Examples of this type of information may include your gender, interests and preferences. The Foundation will not collect any such information about you unless you provide it to us voluntarily. The Foundation may share this information with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties. For example, the Foundation may inform a sponsor that the membership of the Web Site is x percent females and y percent males. This data would be used to customize the Web Site's content and advertising, and to deliver a better experience for our members and users.

4. Information Collected Automatically

The Foundation may also automatically collect non-personally-identifiable information about your use of the Web Site, such as the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account), the date and time you access the Web Site, and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our Web Site. This information will not be linked to personally-identifiable information. The Foundation may use this information to analyze and enhance the Web Site, and may aggregate this information and share such aggregated information with sponsors and other third parties.

5. Children

The Web Site is not directed at individuals under thirteen years of age, and the Foundation does not intend to collect any personally-identifiable information from such individuals.

6. Links to Other Web Sites

The Web Site may allow links to various other web sites. The Foundation assumes no responsibility for the information practices of sites you are able to access through the Web Site. These links to other sites do not imply affiliation or endorsement of a linked site.

7. Security

Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online --- for example, via message boards or chat --- that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While the Foundation strives to protect your information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.

The importance of security for all personally-identifiable information associated with our users and members is of utmost concern to us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personally-identifiable information, the Foundation can't ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your personally-identifiable information, we will take reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

Your account on the Web Site is password protected. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. The Foundation will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information. Remember to sign out of your account on the Web Site and close your browser window when you have finished. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if your computer is accessible to others or if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet café.

8. Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using the Web Site, you signify your assent to the Foundation Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use the Web Site. We will post any changes to this Policy on the Web Site. Your continued use of the Web Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

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