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Privacy Policy
Internet privacy is an issue that we take very seriously and 101 Health is committed to protecting your privacy. We believe it is important for you to know what information is being collected about you, how that information is being used, with whom it is being shared, and how to contact us if you have additional questions or concerns.
What information does 101 Health gather/track, and how is it used?
Information gathered online can generally be categorized as either anonymous
or personally identifiable. Anonymous information is information that cannot
be traced back to a specific individual. For example, 101 Health knows how
many searches are queried each day but does not know the names, e-mail addresses
or gender of the people searching.
Gathering and Use of Anonymous Information
Each time a visitor comes to the 101 Health web site, we collect some information
to improve the overall quality of the online experience, including product
monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising. At the 101 Health
web site, we collect the visitor's domain name (e.g. whether the user is
logged on google.com or yahoo.com), referral data (e.g., we record the address
of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to the 101 Health
web site), and browser and platform type (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer
6.0 browser on a Windows XP platform).
In addition to collecting these types of information, 101 Health collects aggregate queries for internal reporting and targeted advertising. We also count, track, and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the 101 Health properties, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about you into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but 101 Health will not disclose your individual identity or personal data without your permission. When 101 Health does present aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify or contact you.
Use of 'Cookies'
The 101 Health web site uses cookies to monitor traffic flow, patterns of
travel within and through the sites, and to dynamically generate advertising
and content. Cookies are a standard Internet technology that allows us to
both store and retrieve login information on a user's system. Our web server
automatically asks a new user whether his or her browser will agree to accept
a 101 Health cookie file. If a visitor accepts, our web server will identify
the user's cookie for 101 Health's use in internal reporting. If a user
accepts a 101 Health cookie, but would later like to remove it from his
or her computer, he or she can just remove it from the browser.
Third-party Media Companies
101 Health may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you
visit our web site. Our advertising partners' Ad Server may use cookies
when you view pages on our site; these cookies collect anonymous (non-PII)
information as a way of measuring the effectiveness of advertising sold
on 101 Health and to help tailor ads at other web sites you visit. Our sponsors
and advertisers have agreed that they will not collect any personally identifiable
information from our site visitors while they are on 101 Health. If you
click on an advertisement on 101 Health and visit a site maintained by one
of our sponsors or advertisers, please be aware that we are not responsible
for the privacy practices of those sites. You should read the privacy policies
of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be collecting
about you.
Some Ad Servers allow you to opt out of anonymous data collection through the use of cookies. To do so, you must opt out of such data collection with each individual site. You can opt out of cookies for several Ad Servers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative gateway opt-out site http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp. At that site you can also review the privacy policies of those Ad Servers.
With whom does 101 Health share the information it gathers/tracks?
101 Health does not provide third-party access to your personal information
except in the aggregate and only after the information has been de-identified.
The information will be in the form of grouped statistics compiled from
our users' answers to survey questions and on-site behavior. 101 Health
will not disclose the contact or demographic information of any individual
user to advertisers or any other outside organization without the express
permission of the individual. 101 Health uses a third-party company to serve
ads when you visit our web site. This company may use certain information
(not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about
your visit to our web site in order to provide advertisements to our web
site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie
on your browser.
User Research
On occasion, 101 Health will make available to potential advertisers and
research firms aggregated results from research it has conducted on its
user base. Once again, 101 Health will only provide such demographic information
on an aggregated basis and does not disclose individual member profiles
without user consent.
Special Policy With Regards to Information from Children Under
Thirteen
In accordance with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
of 1998 (COPPA), 101 Health will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without parental consent. When
we do receive information (with parental consent) from users under the age
of 13, we will never voluntarily share their personally identifiable information
with third parties, regardless of their stated preference given at registration.
Effective: October 2009
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