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Welcome to Private Health
News. Your privacy is important to TriHealth and Private Health News, Inc. ("PHN").
PHN is under contract with TriHealth to provide to you the health information
you requested ("Content"). That information
is provided to you through PHN's website even
though it is framed with TriHealth logo. This Privacy Policy will
tell you what information we collect about you
and about your use of our Website.
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1.Information
Collection and Use Information
Collection. In order to make your experience
on our Website and through the e-mails sent
to you on the Content as valuable as possible,
you must register. During registration you will
be requested to provide certain required and
optional contact information, demographic information
and unique identifiers. We use this information
so that the Content that we send to you via
e-mails or make available to you through our
Website is only the information that you have
requested. We also collect non-personal information
from you about your use of our Website, emails
and special promotions that we send to you.
Other than the information you provide at sign
up, which you may update it from time to time,
PHN receives no information about you from TriHealth.
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Information Use. The following
are other ways that we use information about
you that we have collected. Except as specifically
mentioned in this Privacy Policy, we will not
provide you name, address, e-mail address or
other personally identifiable information to
any third party, other than TriHealth, without your prior consent.
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Aggregate
Data. We create
aggregate data about visitors to our Website
to assist us in developing and improving our
Website and the e-mails that are sent to you.
We also use aggregate data for market analysis.
We may provide information from our Website
in aggregate form, with personal identifying
information removed, to third parties. For example,
we may tell a healthcare partner what percentage
of our users reside in a particular geographical
area or we may provide information to a potential
advertiser of a product that would appeal to
a diabetes patient about what percentage of
our users have indicated that they are interested
in receiving information about diabetes. Depending
on our agreement with the third parties, we
may or may not charge our partners for this
information.
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Marketing and
Advertising. We may target our advertising
or marketing depending on information we have
about you. For example, a user we know is a
woman may receive advertising for products targeted
at women that a male user will not see, or a
user that we know is interested in the topic
of diabetes may receive advertising for new
diabetes therapies (although in neither case
will the advertiser have access to any individually
identifiable information about you through us).
Information about users' visits to our Website,
such as number of times they have viewed an
ad (but not user name, address or other personal
information), may be provided to advertisers
who serve ads to users on our Website.
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Third Parties. In addition
to sharing aggregate data (discussed previously),
we may share some kinds of information with
third parties as described below.
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TriHealth: Under our agreement
with TriHealth, both TriHealth and PHN have access to and
ownership rights for all user information
on our Website that is either branded or
co-branded with TriHealth. Additionally, TriHealth is provided information about
aggregate usage of the Site. Users cannot
opt-out of having their information provided
to TriHealth. TriHealth has agreed to honor the applicable
terms of this privacy statement with regard
to all information collected through our
Website; however, this privacy statement
does not cover information that you have
directly provided TriHealth or that TriHealth has been provided by any third
party.
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Promotional/Special
Offers: Sometimes we may communicate
offers to selected groups of users on behalf
of other businesses. When we do this, we
do not give that business your name and
contact information. In other situations,
we may provide you an opt-in box to consent
to receiving an email from a business, and
we make clear that by opting in you consent
to submitting your data to that third party.
You can always opt-out of receiving such
emails at the time you register or at any
time; see Choices/Opt-out below for more
details about opting-out.
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Legal Requirements
: We may release personal information,
if, in our judgment after review by an attorney,
the release is compelled by law or regulation,
or if the release is necessary to prevent
the death or serious injury of an individual.
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Other than the cases described
above, we will not release personally identifiable
information about you to a third party without
your consent.
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2. Profile
We store information that we collect through
log files and/or third parties to create a profile
of our users. A profile is stored information
that we keep on individual users that details
their viewing preferences. Consequently, collected
information is tied to the user's personally
identifiable information to provide offers and
improve the content of our Website for users.
This profile is used to tailor a user's visit
to our Website, and to direct pertinent marketing
promotions to the user.
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3. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's
computer tied to information about the user.
We use cookies on this Website to recognize
you for simplified log in, to ease your navigating
the Website and to chronicle utilization of
our Website. If users reject our cookies, they
may still use our Website. These persistent
cookies can be removed by following Internet
browser help directions.
This privacy statement covers
the use of cookies by this Website. Please be
aware that PHN and TriHealth are not responsible for the use
of cookies by any advertisers or other third
parties who are linked to this Website. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our Website
and to read the privacy statements of each and
every website that that they visit from our
Website.
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4. Communications from our Website
Confirmation. We send all new users a welcoming
email to verify passwords and usernames as well
as to confirm the information that the user
has chosen to receive.
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Website and
Service Announcements. We communicate with
our users for Website and service announcement
updates. We may send you an announcement of
the introduction of a new service through our
Website that may be of interest to you. On rare
occasions it also may be necessary to send out
a strictly service related announcement. For
instance, if our service is temporarily suspended
for maintenance we might send users an email.
Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications,
though they can deactivate their account. However,
these communications are not promotional in
nature.
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Customer Service. We communicate with
users on a regular basis to provide the requested
Content and in regards to issues relating to
their account we reply via email or phone, in
accordance with the users wishes.
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5.Choice/Opt
Out Our users
are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having
their information used for purposes not directly
related to our Website at the point where we
ask for information.
Users who no longer wish to
receive the additional information and special
offers may opt-out of receiving these communications
by emailing us at optout@privatehealthnews.com.
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6.Links Our
Website contains links to other websites. Please
be aware that PHN and TriHealth are not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other websites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our Website
and to read the privacy statements of each and
every website that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies
solely to information collected by PHN's Website.
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7. Security Protecting
your privacy and personal information is a top
priority. We have taken careful measures to
secure both your information and the physical
location of our servers. All of our users' information
is restricted in our offices. Only our associates
who need the information to perform a specific
job are granted access to personally identifiable
information. Furthermore, all associates are
kept up-to-date on our security and privacy
practices. Every quarter, as well as any time
new policies are added, our associates are notified
and/or reminded about the importance we place
on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our
users' information is protected.
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8. Correcting/Updating/Deactivating Personal
Information If
a user's personally identifiable information
changes or if a user no longer desires to receive
the Content, we provide a way to correct, update
or deactivate a user's personally identifiable
information. This can usually be done at the
member information page or by emailing our Customer
Support at support@privatehealthnews.com.
By indicting that you no longer want to receive
the Content, you will continue to receive additional
information and special offers. If a user also
no longer wish to receive the additional information
and special offers, see Choices/Opt-out above
for more details about opting-out.
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9. Notification of Changes to Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes to
this privacy statement, the homepage, and other
places we deem appropriate so our users are
always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. We will use information
in accordance with the privacy policy under
which the information was collected.
If, however, we are going
to use users' personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the
time of collection we will notify users via
email. Users will have a choice as to whether
or not we use their information in this different
manner. However, if users have opted out of
all communication with our Website, then they
will not be contacted, nor will their personal
information be used in this new manner. In addition,
if we make any material changes in our privacy
practices that do not affect user information
already stored in our database, we will post
a prominent notice on our Website notifying
users of the change. In some cases where we
post a notice we will also email users, who
have opted to receive communications from us,
notifying them of the changes in our privacy
practices.
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Contact Information If
users have any questions or suggestions regarding
our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Phone: (513) 731-6700
Toll Free: (800) 399-0109
Fax: (513) 731-6705
Email: support@privatehealthnews.com
Postal Address:
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Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. 45212 |
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