Privacy Policy
At womenhealthdirect.org ("WHD"), we strive to develop and present innovative products and services to benefit our users and registered users ("Members"). WHD recognize that privacy is a very important issue, so WHD design and operate our products and services with your privacy in mind. This womenhealthdirect.org Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information WHD may collect when you use our service ("Service"), which is described in greater detail in the Community Guidelines, available at http://www.womenhealthdirect.org/community-guidelines.html, as well as some of the steps WHD takes to secure it.
What this policy covers
Your privacy is very important to us. This page will show our firm commitment to your privacy. womenhealthdirect.org will not sell, loan, rent, lease, barter, or publish your personal information to a third party. All data that WHD keeps on you is kept strictly for womenhealthdirect.org business use, to assist you in your current or future purchases or in analyzing sales trends.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies and/or other entities that WHD does not own or control, to people that are not managed or employed by WHD, and/or to operators of sites which are linked to or from womenhealthdirect.org
Data and Information Collection and Use
General
WHD collects information from and about you when you register with WHD as a member, and when you use WHD's service. Users who visit WHD's site and do not register do not need to provide any personal information. WHD does, hoWever, collect limited, non-personally identifying information from non-registered users that browsers make available whenever a user visits a website. This information includes your internet protocol IP address, browser type, browser language, cookies, and use patterns.
When you register as a Member, WHD will ask for personal information from you, which may include your name, email address,and a password. Your password will be maintained on our system in an encrypted form and you will be able to create a unique username that will identify you during login and when you are using the service. Please note that WHD owns your username, grants you a license to use it while you are a Member, and reserves all rights to your username once you either cease to be a Member or following an extended period of inactivity, including but not limited to the right to revoke, reuse, resell, or license your username.
Certain members may opt to participate in programs offered by WHD where a member can earn WHD Marketplace dollars. If you participate in such programs, WHD may require you to provide additional information, including but not limited to your social security number. All such information will be maintained in secure and encrypted areas of our system. Once you register with WHD and sign into our site, you are not anonymous to us.
WHD uses the information collected for the following purposes: to fulfill requests for products and service, to improve our service, to contact you, to conduct research, and to provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Publishing on womenhealthdirect.org
Care is needed posting to the WHD site as your user name, your user profile, and the threads and posts you make on our site will be able to be vieWed by everyone on the web. So it is important not to create a user name that others can use, to locate you with. It is also important to remember that whatever you post on the web can be found by the major search engines such as Google and MSN, and can be read, copied, used and redistributed by people you do not know. Do not use personally identifiable information in your posts!
The contents of the postings that you submit to the service are stored and maintained on our servers in order to publish the postings and provide the service. In order to protect our Members from email harvesting software and bots, WHD attempts to "mask" email addresses so that they are typically human readable but not machine readable. In addition, WHD collect and maintain information about your account activity, such as the contents of your posts, the links that you click on, search inquiries, postings that you comment upon, and your preferred settings when using the service.
Children
To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the service is only available to users and Members who are at least 13 years old. If you are under 13, you may NOT use womenhealthdirect.org. WHD needs to ask all users, including children under the age of 13, for certain personal information that is reasonably necessary to determine the user's eligibility to participate on and belong to the site.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
WHD does not rent, sell, share, or otherwise disclose personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies, except to provide products or services you've requested, when WHD have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
a. WHD may provide information to trusted partners who work on our behalf and who have entered into confidentiality agreements with us.
b. WHD responds to valid subpoenas, court orders, and other legal proceedings. WHD also may disclose information if WHD deem it necessary to exercise our own legal rights or to defend ourselves against legal claims.
c. WHD will share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our community guidelines, or as otherwise required by state or federal law.
d. WHD may transfer information about you if WHD are acquired or merged with another company.
Financial Information Security
Financial information that is collected by womenhealthdirect.org is only used to bill the member for products and services ordered through the WHD Marketplace. You can enter your credit card number on a secure (https) form and transmit the form over the internet to a secure server without risk of an intermediary obtaining your credit card information. The security features offered by your Web browser technology protects commercial transactions, as Well as all other communications, from misappropriation and fraud that could otherwise occur as information passes through internet computers.
With SSL implemented on both the client and server, your internet communications are transmitted in encrypted form. Information you send can be trusted to arrive privately and unaltered to the server you specify (and no other).
SSL uses authentication and encryption technology. For example, your browsers export implementation of SSL (U.S. government approved) uses a high-grade, 128-bit key size. The encryption established between you and a server remains valid over multiple connections, yet the effort expended to defeat the encryption of one message cannot be leveraged to defeat the next message.
Your browser and secure servers deliver server authentication using signed digital certificates issued by trusted third parties known as certificate authorities. A digital certificate verifies the connection between a server's public key and the server's identification (as a driver's license verifies the connection between your photograph and your personal identification). Cryptographic checks, using digital signatures, ensure that information within a certificate can be trusted.
You know that you have a secure connection when you look at the location (URL) field. If the URL begins with https:// (instead of http://), the document comes from a secure server. To connect to an HTTP server that provides security using the SSL protocol, insert the letter "s" so that the URL begins with https://. You need to use https:// for HTTP URLs with SSL and http:// for HTTP URLs without SSL.
You can also verify the security of a Webpage by examining the security icon in the bottom left corner of your browser window. Only your computer and the server can encrypt and decrypt your information. In transit, the information is an unreadable mess. An intermediary can route the data, and even copy it, but the information cannot be de-encrypted, and thus remains private and safely communicated.
Information Security
WHD takes appropriate physical and electronic measures to protect against unauthorized access to, alteration of, and disclosure of personal information. Access to personal information is limited to employees who need to know that information in order to successfully provide our service. All our employees enter into confidentiality agreements with WHD.
Cookies
WHD may set and access "cookies" on your computer. A "cookie" is a small file, containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a Website. WHD use cookies to improve the quality of our service, target advertising, and to better understand how our members interact with us. WHD do this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how you use our service. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, but this will impact the quality and speed of your user experience on the site.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Account Information
You may edit your personal profice and related personal information at any time by visiting your account at womenhealthdirect.org You may delete your member account by sending an email to support at womenhealthdirect.org
Mailing Lists
Any or all of WHD mailing lists are absolutely private and are not made available; sold, rented or lent nor is personal information divulged to others.
WHD has a strict policy of not sending email to rented or purchased lists, at random or through indiscriminate broadcasting.
If you receive any of our material in error or wish to no longer receive it, email to list remove support at womenhealthdirect.org and you will be promptly removed from our lists
Changes to this Policy
WHD may update and change this Policy from time to time.
All updates and changes will be posted to this Webpage.
WHD will notify you directly if WHD make significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
