Privacy Policy
Introduction
We are committed to respecting the privacy of visitors to our site. This Privacy Policy explains some of the steps we have taken to protect your privacy.
Registration
In order to use this website, you must first complete the registration form, create a username (also called a “user id” or “id”), and select a password. You may complete the registration process entirely on this website. Alternatively, you may have begun the registration process by filling out a form on paper and receiving an email with a username and temporary password that will permit you to complete the registration process on this website. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name, address, telephone number, age, and email address). As part of creating your registration, you may also be requested to provide questions and/or secret answers which we use to help verify your identity and assist in resetting your password. During registration, and at various times, you will also be given the option as to whether or not you want to receive email from us.
Privacy of Personal Information
Collection of Personal Information. We collect personal information about you, including personal information that you provide when you register to use this site (as described above), and when you update your user profile. “Personal information” means any information that may be used to identify an individual.
Use of Personal Information. Personal information collected through paper registration forms and through our website is used by us to, among other things, process and manage registrations, operate and improve our website, track site usage policies and statistics, make the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information, deliver personalized content, display content customized to your interests and preferences, send you gifts or information about products and services, for prize information-request fulfillment purposes, and for other purposes pursuant to your consent. We also use your personal information to communicate with you in other ways. For instance, when you register on this site, we may use your personal information to send you an email confirming your registration, username, and password. We also use personal information to inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
From time to time we invite users to provide information via surveys or drawings. Participation in these surveys or drawings is completely voluntary, and the website user therefore has a choice whether to disclose requested information. In addition to the other uses set forth in this Privacy Policy, contact information collected in connection with surveys and drawings is used to notify the winners and award prizes and to monitor or improve the use of, and satisfaction with, the website.
Disclosure of Personal Information. We hire or are affiliated with other companies who provide services on our behalf, such as creating your account, handling the processing and delivery of communications, hosting this website, delivery of content and services provided by this website, and performing statistical analysis. We may provide personal information to these companies to perform those services, but they will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of this information, and they are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
We may access, use or disclose your personal information for other reasons, including if we believe such action is necessary to comply with the law or legal process, protect and defend our rights or property, protect the personal safety of users of our website or members of the general public, enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, investigate or take action with respect to illegal or suspected illegal activities, in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, or otherwise pursuant to your consent.
Personal information will not be posted or published by us, and except as specified in this Privacy Policy, it will not be provided to third-party providers without your consent. We will not sell, lease or rent our e-mail user lists to third parties.
Access to Personal Information. You may have the ability to view or edit your personal information online by emailing a request to info@HealthyJackson.org . In order to help prevent your personal information from being viewed by others, you will be required to sign in with your username and password. You are responsible for protecting the security of your username and password.
If, after registering on this website, you decide that you do not want your Personal Information or Personal Health Information used for any purpose, you may disenroll from the HealthyTown program by contacting us at the following address: Privacy@HealthyJackson.org.
Privacy of Personal Health Information
After registration, you may choose to use certain interactive content, tools, and services that may ask you to voluntarily provide other information about yourself including personal health information. Your personal health information will be used to enrich your site experience by allowing us to provide custom content according to your responses to questions presented on our website, allowing you the most potential benefit from our site. The custom content will consist of general health information about a particular topic that may be of interest to you personally based on your responses.
Children's Personal Information
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our website is intended for general audiences and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. When our website collects age information, and users identify themselves as under age 13, the site will block those users from providing personal information or registering as users of the website.
Security
We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, including the encrypting data using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, high security grade, 128-bit SSL server certificates or other encryption technologies; firewalls; proxy servers; password management and authentication; implementing policies, procedures, and security measures designed to prevent, detect, contain, and correct security violations; implementing procedures for guarding against, detecting, and reporting malicious software; limiting physical access to electronic information systems, and restricting access to authorized users.
Our Practices with Respect to Non-Personal Information
We may collect other, non-personal information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions taken in connection with your use of our website. We may also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your Internet address, browser type and language, access times, and referring website address.
Use of Cookies. Our website uses “cookies” to enable you to sign in to our services and to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by our web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by us. None of the information we gather in this way can be used to identify any individual who visits the site. Nor can cookies be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. We use cookies to monitor the use of our website, to gather non-personal information about users, to store your preferences and other information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information, and to display your personalized content on your later visits to our website. This information is also used for statistical research to tailor content to usage patterns.
Use of Web Beacons. Our web pages may contain electronic images known as “web beacons” - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assist in delivering cookies on our site and allow us to count users who have visited those pages. We may also include web beacons or other functionalities in promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon, which enables us to provide you more focused e-mail communications or other information. We may also employ web beacons from third parties in order to help us compile aggregated statistics and determine the effectiveness of our delivery. We prohibit web beacons on our website from being used by third parties to collect or access your personal information.
Aggregate Information. We may combine, in a non-identifiable format, the personal information you provide with the personal information of other users, to create aggregated data. We plan to analyze data of an aggregate nature, mainly to track group trends. We do not link aggregate user data with personal information, so aggregate data cannot be used to contact or identify you. We will use usernames instead of actual names to create aggregate data and to perform any analyses. Anonymous aggregated data may be provided to other companies we do business with, for statistical purposes and to track group trends.
Links to Other Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by this website. This website may contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those other sites. When you leave our site you should read the privacy statements of each website that collects personal information.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We reserve the right from time to time to change, modify, or supplement this Privacy Policy in whole or in part. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be informed of how we are protecting your personal information. The most current version of our Privacy Policy can be viewed by clicking on the “Privacy Policy” hypertext link located at the bottom of the home page on this website. In many instances in which we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy, but may not provide any other notice to you. If there are material changes to this statement, however, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of those changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending you an email notification. Your continued accessing or use of this website constitutes acceptance by you of any changes.
California Rights Regarding Sharing Personal Information for Marketing Purposes
You may notice that we do not offer an “opt-out” of disclosure to third parties for marketing purposes. We do not offer an opt-out because we disclose your information only as described in this Privacy Policy. Companies who offer an “opt-out” may sell, rent, or lease your information to direct marketers, or otherwise provide your information, including personal health information, to third parties for marketing purposes, unless you follow the opt-out procedure. If you are a resident of California, you do not need to make an election to prevent your personal information from being shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose your personal information, including personal health information, to third parties for direct marketing purposes within the meaning of California Civil Code § 1798.83. In general, this statute applies to a business that in the immediately preceding calendar year, shared customer personal information with other companies for their direct marketing use. A business subject to California Civil Code § 1798.83 is required to disclose to its customers, upon request, the identity of any third parties to whom the business has disclosed “personal information” regarding that customer within the immediately preceding calendar year. Individual users who reside in California and have provided their personal information to us may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us at the following address: Privacy@HealthyJackson.org. Within thirty days of receiving such a request, we will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the addresses specified in this paragraph.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at following address: Privacy@HealthyJackson.org .
THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE
The health information available on or through this website is provided for informational purposes only. That information is not intended to constitute medical advice. The information is not suitable for and must not be relied upon by you or any other person for purposes of medical care, diagnosis or treatment of any health care condition or disease, or prescribing or taking any medication. It should not be considered a recommendation for a specific treatment plan or course of action.
Individuals with any type of medical condition or having any medical concerns, including concerns relating to medications or other treatment, should seek the advice and consultation of a physician or other qualified health care professional. Do not delay seeking or disregard professional medical advice based on any information available on or through this website.
The health information available on or through this website is compiled from a variety of sources, may be provided in summary form only, and is intended to provide only broad general understanding and knowledge of the subject matter. It should not be considered complete, accurate, or reliable. We make no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, or reliability of any information available on or through this website or its suitability for any purpose. Further, we undertake no commitment to update or correct any information available on or through this site.
A link from this website to another website does not constitute an endorsement of that website or any product or service offered by that website or any health information available on or through that website or be considered as a recommendation for a specific treatment plan or course of action.
See “Terms of Use” at the bottom of this website’s home page for additional disclaimers, as well as terms and conditions governing your use of this website. See also the “Privacy Policy” at the top of this webpage.