We collect non-personal information about your use of our website and about your use of certain sponsors’ and advertisers’ web sites through the use of Cookies.
Each computer accessing a our web site is assigned a unique cookie by Health Factors. The information gathered by Cookies includes:
1. It allows us dynamically to deliver advertising and content on web pages or in newsletters;
2. it permits us to track statistically how many people are visiting our Web site and the sites of selected sponsors and advertisers
3. who are opening our emails, and
4. 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 also help facilitate a user’s log-in, act as navigation aides and as session timers. Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies.
Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, some of the functions and conveniences of our Web site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information, except with your permission, and we do not use Cookies to,
B. Newsletters & E-Mails to You At registration, and from time to time as you use our website, you will be given the option to opt-in to receive recurring informational/promotional newsletters via e-mail from us and/or directly from third parties. These e-mails will not contain Personal Health Information. If you have a problem receiving these, please email us at
[email protected].
Nothing in this Privacy Policy alters any statutory provisions that may apply to business communications. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts, or inventions private or proprietary, please do not e-mail them to Health Factors. We will make every effort to respond to every email within 48 business hours, but we cannot do so in every instance.
D. Subscription Services, Occasionally, we will offer registered users the opportunity to subscribe to our fee-based subscription services. Each of these subscription services has its own Service Agreement, which applies to your use of the applicable service and the information we collect in connection with such service, including your credit card information. We will notify you of the Service Agreement at the time of your registration for that subscription service.
A. Updating Your Personally Identifiable Information, our tools that collect and store self-reported information enable you to correct, update or view the information you have provided by logging back into the specific tool, and making any corrections as necessary. We may retain user submitted information (PII and/or PHI) in an active database for six (6) months. After six (6) months, user submitted data, including PII and/or PHI will be retained in an active database or on an inactive back-up medium for a period of not less than six (6) years. ,
B. If you have an enquiry or complaint, please write to Health Factors. Our employees will then pass your concern on to the relevant department, which should respond or solve your problem. We strive to reply to every message within 48 business hours, although we can not always achieve this. If you wish (1) to delete your Personally Identifiable Information from our systems, (2) correct the Personally Identifiable Information that you have given us, or (3) alter your preference with respect to receiving marketing communications or other activities, you can choose the privacy option on our Contact form.
C. We require you to send a signed statement including your name, address, email address and birth date to the following address authorizing Health Factors to erase your personal health information from our active databases. Once we receive your request, the personal health identifiers in our active databases will be severed so that you cannot be identified or associated with any Personal Health Information that you may have provided previously.