Keeping Personal Matters Private
The privacy and security of users are a priority at the Website. This Privacy Policy will help information you about the information we collect and about The Website services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Websites owned and operated by Share Space Networks, Inc., including the Website and any affiliate or subsidiary sites. The Website may share information among its subsidiaries or sites that it owns or controls, but it is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
The Website contains links to other sites. Once you enter another Website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that The Website is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. Please look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Website that you visit through a link or advertisement on The Website.
We hope that reading our Privacy Policy gives you a clear idea of how we manage information about you. Throughout our Privacy Policy, we have underlined various terms. While you may use some of the functionality of The Website without registration, many 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 through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons. If you choose to register with our Website for extended services, we require you to submit personal information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the personal information. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and tools and our ability to assist you as contemplated in this Privacy Policy. For example, your email address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.
We collect Non-personal information about your use of our Website and your use of the Websites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every computer that accesses The Website is assigned a different Cookie. The information collected by Cookies helps us generate advertising and content, allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Website and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, how many people open our emails, and for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user's log-in, as navigation aids and as session timers.
If you disable our Cookies, certain functions of our Website may not work properly. We do not link personal information from Cookies to personally identifiable information without your profile or registration, and do not use Cookies to collect or store personal health information about you.
Also, we may use Web Beacons to collect information about your use of our Website and the Websites of sponsors and advertisers, and your use of special promotions. The information collected by Web Beacons allows us to monitor how many people are using our Website and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, how many people open our emails, and for what purposes these actions are being taken.
From time to time we may collect personally identifiable information that you provide to us when you register as a member of The Website and/or when you update your member profile and use our services. We may use personally identifiable information to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services, send emails about maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
When you use the Website "Tell a Friend", The Website emails the article or other content you designate to your friend's email address and identifies your email address as the sender. The Website uses the friend's email address to send your friend the particular email you requested.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to the Website by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to The Website. We try to answer every email within but are not always able to do so.
As a service to our users, The Website features message boards, chat rooms and other public forums where users with similar interests or medical conditions can share information and support one another or where users can post questions and give or receive answers from other users.
Any information shared (including personally identifiable and personal health information) that you reveal in a chat room, message board, or online discussion mediums contained in The Website. These services are open to the public and are not a private, secure service. You should think carefully before disclosing any personally identifiable or personal health information in any public forum. What you have written may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes.
After you have registered as a member of The Website, you may choose to use certain The Website interactive content, tools and services that may ask you to voluntarily provide other types of information about yourself including personal health information. Some of the tools (like certain surveys and calculators) do not retain your personal health information, while others may store your personal health information in accordance with the authorization you provide at the time you use the tool.
From time to time, the Website offers users the opportunity to register for paid subscription services. Each subscription service has its own Service Agreement that governs your use of the service and the information we collect to provide the service, including your credit card information. The Service Agreement will be disclosed to you at the time of registration for that subscription service.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Neither The Website nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. The parent or guardian is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor's use of the Website. The parent or guardian assumes full responsibility for ensuring that the registration information is kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate. The parent or guardian also assumes full responsibility for the interpretation and use of any information or suggestions provided through The Website for the minor.
From time to time the Website market research department, or its operations contractors acting on its behalf, conducts online research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site, our sponsors and opinions on important healthcare issues, through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to submit personally identifiable information. This personally identifiable information is used for research purposes. When a survey is sponsored by a third party, Aggregate Information of the survey results is reported to the sponsor. Personally identifiable information collected through market research will be used only by The Website and its service providers and contractors and will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent or as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy. For market research surveys we will not knowingly accept survey responses from or conduct interviews with any person under the age of 18. Some surveys may provide remuneration to participants such as a small cash fee for your time or an entry into a sweepstakes for a larger prize. Each survey will disclose whether or not it is a paid survey.
In addition to collecting survey responses from our members, Cookies may be used to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some studies. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with the Website site usage characteristics. You will be notified when we would like to use Cookies in this way and your consent will be requested for these Cookies.
The Website tailors the information you receive on your personal home page to reflect your interests, concerns and personal health characteristics. The Website may combine, in a non-identifiable format, the personal health information you provide with information from other users to create Aggregate Data that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate data does not contain any information that could be used to contact or identify you. For example, The Website may use information gathered to create a composite profile of all the users of a particular third party site. These third party Websites may use this information to understand community needs and to design appropriate programs and activities on their site. The Website will not disclose your personal health information to any third party without your prior permission, except as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy.
The Website has the ability to use personally identifiable information that you provide to send you personalized emails or electronic messages. All of the Website contact services require an "Opt-in" authorization from you. Information that The Website deems related to your personal health information will be delivered to you through the on your home page. If you decide, that you would prefer not to receive personalized email or secure electronic messages through from The Website, you may "Opt-out" of the service by clicking on the Control Panel and changing your email preference.
Interactive tools within the Website, gather self-reported personal health information. In addition, certain of these tools can store personal health information coming from third party data interchange agreements We maintain and limit the use of that information to the Opt-in permission you have provided at the time you use the tool.
The Website does not knowingly engage in business with a company that uses Spyware nor does the Website provide Users with downloadable software that collects or uses any personal information without full disclosure and consent.
Sponsors or advertisers on The Website may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the banner advertisements served on The Website and in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Some advertisers use companies other than the Website to serve their ads and to monitor users' responses to ads, and these companies may also collect information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on our Website. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the Website of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its selected destination this re-direction process will not be apparent to you. We do not control these third parties' use of cookies or Web Beacons, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them.
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, the Website will not disclose any personally identifiable or personal health information it gathers from you on our Website. We may 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; or in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. 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. In addition, we may disclose personal information as described below.
The Website contractors sometimes have access to personally identifiable information in the course of providing products or services to the Website. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for the operation and maintenance of our Website. Unless you have Opted-out of receiving emails and newsletters from The Website, these contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. Access to your personally identifiable information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for the Website. We also contractually require that our operations and maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your personally identifiable information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose your personally identifiable information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services as required by law.
In addition to the Third Party Websites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there are links to Third Party Websites operated by companies that are not affiliated with the Website and that do not have contracts to provide content or services through the Website. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. The Website does not disclose your personal information to these Third Party Websites without obtaining your consent. The Website does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third Party Websites, you should review the privacy policy posted on the other Websites to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your personally identifiable information.
The Website may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our Website and the activities they conduct while on our site. We might also inform a pharmaceutical company (that may or may not be an advertiser on our site) that "30% of our users live east of the Los Angeles" or that "25% of our users have tried a certain medicine." Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information.
- Requires both a personal username and a password in order for users to access their homepage.
- The Website uses firewalls to protect information held in our servers.
- Closely monitors the limited number of contractors and employees who have potential access to your personally identifiable information.
- Requires all contractors and employees to abide by our Privacy Policy and to be subject to disciplinary action if they violate it.
- Backs-up our systems to protect the integrity of information.
If you have a complaint or problem, please use our contact page. Our customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal The Website department for a response or resolution.
Self-Reported Information - Please log-in to the Website, access your "Control Panel", and "Profile" section, and the functions will show you how to correct, update or review your information. We remove personal health information only at the request of the authorized user. In order to verify that it is the authorized user requesting removal of his/her personal health information, we require you to send a signed statement, including your name, address, email address and birth date, to the address below authorizing The Website to remove your personal health information from our active databases and other readily searchable media. Upon receiving your request, the requested information will be removed so that you cannot be identified or associated with any information you previously provided. The Website will notify you after your personal information has been removed.
Upon your request, we will delete your personally identifiable or personal health information from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided The Website from our servers.
The Website will inform you if a material change to the Privacy Policy, which means a change that, expands the permissible uses or disclosures of personally identifiable information allowed by the prior version of the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Website will indicate acceptance of the changes. You may of course choose to Opt-out of continuing to use the Website. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.