References to "THYROSCOPE" mean THYROSCOPE.org Web Sites. THYROSCOPE may share information among its subsidiaries or web sites that it owns or controls, but information collected under this Privacy Policy is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you choose to register or update an existing member profile with THYROSCOPE or access certain functionality on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites, you may be required to submit Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that we can use to identify or contact you, such as your name, address, telephone number or email address. Some of our interactive tools and services may request you to submit health information, which would also be considered Personal Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personal Information that you submit to THYROSCOPE. Inaccurate information will affect your experience when using the THYROSCOPE Web Sites and tools and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy.
Access to some THYROSCOPE interactive tools and services may be limited to users who have registered. Some of our tools store your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You may also be asked to provide authorization for uses of personal information in addition to what is in this Privacy Policy when you use certain tools, such as providing personal information to a sponsor of the tool. THYROSCOPE will not make any use of your personal information beyond the permitted uses in this Privacy Policy unless you provide such additional consent in connection with the specific tool at the time you submit Personal Information in order to use the tool. THYROSCOPE does not allow any third parties to place Web Beacons or Cookies or to gather any data about you in connection with your use of the THYROSCOPE. Furthermore, THYROSCOPE does not use any information that you submit in connection with that tool to deliver any advertisements to you on or off of the THYROSCOPE Web Sites.
From time to time, THYROSCOPE may conduct online research surveys through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to enter Personal Information. The Personal Information you submit in a survey may be used by THYROSCOPE for research and measurement purposes, as described below, including to measure the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs. When our market research surveys collect Personal Information we will not knowingly accept participants who are under the age of 13. Market research surveys conducted by or on behalf of THYROSCOPE will contain a link to this Privacy Policy.
THYROSCOPE features several community areas and other public forums where users with similar interests or medical conditions can share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer. We also offer online discussions moderated by healthcare experts. Our communities are open to the public and should not be considered private.
Any information (including Personal Information) you share in any online community area including a chat room, Health Community, Ask Our Expert posting or online discussion is by design open to the public and is not private. You should think carefully before posting any Personal Information in any public forum. What you post can be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we cannot control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, the information you post may also show up in third-party search engines.
If you mistakenly post Personal Information in our Community areas and would like it removed, you can send us an email to request that we remove it by using the Contact Us link on every page of the THYROSCOPE Web Sites. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information, content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to THYROSCOPE by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to THYROSCOPE.
Even if you do not register with or provide any Personal Information to THYROSCOPE, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of the THYROSCOPE Web Sites. “Non-Personal Information” means information that does not specifically identify an individual person. We may also acquire Non-Personal Information about our users from external sources. While you may use some of the functionality of THYROSCOPE without registration, many of the specific tools and services on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites require that you register with THYROSCOPE.
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information through your use of our Sites. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
“Cookies” are small data files that are stored on the hard drive of the computer you use to view a web site. Every computer that accesses the THYROSCOPE Web Sites is assigned a different Cookie by THYROSCOPE. “Web Beacons” are graphic image files imbedded in a web page typically used to monitor activity on a web page and send back to its home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party) information from your browser, such as the IP address, the URL of the page on which the Web Beacon is located, the type of browser that is accessing the site and the ID number of any Cookies on your computer previously placed by that server.
Third parties under contract with THYROSCOPE may use Cookies or Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your usage of the THYROSCOPE Web Sites, including which health topics you have viewed. These third party advertising service providers may use this information to help THYROSCOPE deliver advertising on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites as well as on other sites on the Internet based on your browsing activity on our sites. THYROSCOPE may further tailor the advertising on THYROSCOPE and these third party sites based on additional Non-Personal Information to the extent known by THYROSCOPE or these third parties.
Sponsors or advertisers on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the banner advertisements and sponsored links and on the pages ("Brand Pages") on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites that consist solely of advertisements or other content from our advertisers. This advertiser content may also be served in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Their advertisements may be displayed on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites or on other sites that you visit after you visit the THYROSCOPE Web Sites. Some advertisers use companies other than THYROSCOPE to serve their ads and to monitor users' responses to ads, and these ad servers may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites.
While we generally permit the use of these third party cookies on the assumption that they comply with our Advertising Policy and we assist our advertisers with the placement of cookies or beacons on Brand Pages, we do not control how third parties use Cookies or Web Beacons or how they manage the Non-Personal Information they gather through the use of these technologies on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites.
If you do not want your Personal Information used by THYROSCOPE as provided in this Privacy Policy, you should not register as a member or for any specific tool or application that collects Personal Information. You can correct, update or review Personal Information you have previously submitted by going back to the specific tool or application, logging-in and making the desired change. You can also update any Personal Information you have submitted by contacting us using the contact information listed below.
If you have registered and desire to delete any of your Personal Information you have provided to us from our systems please contact us using the contact information listed below. Upon your request, we will delete your Personal Information from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to the THYROSCOPE Web Sites from our servers. Emails that THYROSCOPE sends with opportunities from THYROSCOPE or with offers or informational materials from THYROSCOPE on behalf of our sponsors will contain an opportunity to unsubscribe from getting additional emails of that type in the future from THYROSCOPE unless you re-subscribe.
Most browser software can be set to reject 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, certain of the functions and conveniences of the THYROSCOPE Web Sites may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use the THYROSCOPE Web Sites.
Certain companies that serve ads allow you to prevent them from collecting data through the use of Cookies. In order to do so, you must Opt-out of such data collection with each individual site.You can find additional information and resources about how to opt out of advertising and related Cookies by visiting the World Privacy Forum's Site.
Information collected by THYROSCOPE about you is used by THYROSCOPE to:
THYROSCOPE may combine Personal and Non-Personal Information collected by THYROSCOPE about you, and may combine this information with information from external sources.
We also use Cookies in order to enable us to conduct surveys for our own use and on behalf of our advertisers. These Cookies are used to determine whether you have seen certain content or advertising so that we may request your opinions. We may also use Cookies to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some surveys.
Information that THYROSCOPE collects about you may be combined by THYROSCOPE with other information available to THYROSCOPE through third parties for research and measurement purposes, including measuring the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs. This information from other sources may include age, gender, demographic, geographic, personal interests, product purchase activity or other information. We may report aggregate information, which is not able to be identified back to an individual user of the THYROSCOPE Web Sites, to our current or prospective advertisers and other business partners. We do not sell or share any Personal Information with any third parties, except that contractors performing services on our behalf may be provided access to Personal Information when performing these services. These contractors agree not to use this information for any purpose other than performing services on our behalf.
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, THYROSCOPE will not disclose any Personal Information it gathers from you through the THYROSCOPE Web Sites. We may only release Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; (2) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request; or (3) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below. We may share Non-Personal Information that we have about you, including about your browsing activity on THYROSCOPE, with third party advertising service providers who may use this information, on our behalf, to help THYROSCOPE deliver advertising on the THYROSCOPE Web Sites as well as on other sites on the Internet.
In the event of a corporate change in control resulting from, for example, a sale to, or merger with, another entity, or in the event of a sale of assets or a bankruptcy, THYROSCOPE reserves the right to transfer your Personal Information to the new party in control or the party acquiring assets. In the event of such a change, your Personal Information will continue to be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless any changes to the Privacy Policy are made in accordance with the section below that discusses “Changes to This Privacy Policy.”
THYROSCOPE contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personal and Non-Personal Information in the course of providing products or services to THYROSCOPE. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, data analysis, research, advertising and marketing assistance and/or content in connection with our operation and maintenance of the THYROSCOPE Web Sites. We contractually require that our contractors: 1) protect the privacy of your Personal and Non-Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy and 2) not use or disclose your Personal or Non-Personal Information for any purpose other than providing the limited service or function for THYROSCOPE.
Certain content, services and advertisements offered to you through the THYROSCOPE Web Sites are served on, or contain links to, web sites hosted and operated by a company other than THYROSCOPE ("Third Party Web Sites"). THYROSCOPE does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Web Sites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose to the other web sites once you access these other web sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
THYROSCOPE does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Web Sites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other web site to understand how that Third Party Web Site collects and uses your Personal Information. THYROSCOPE makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Web Site, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site before you visit the third party site.
We take reasonable security measures to protect the security of your Personal Information. Despite THYROSCOPE efforts to protect your Personal Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. When you enter Personal Information (including personal health information in various tools on our website), we encrypt the transmission of that information or use SSL connections (Secure Socket Layer) technology.
We will retain your Personal Information as long as your account is active or needed to provide you services. At any time you can remove your Personal Information or instruct us to remove it, but you should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to THYROSCOPE from our servers. THYROSCOPE tools that collect and store Personal Information allow you to correct, update or review information you have submitted by going back to the specific tool, logging-in and making the desired changes. We will also retain your Personal Information as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. The THYROSCOPE Web Sites are not designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. The THYROSCOPE Web Sites do not collect Personal Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. A parent or guardian, however, may use THYROSCOPE to establish a personal health record and a THYROSCOPE home page for a minor. The parent or guardian is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor's use of THYROSCOPE. The parent or guardian assumes full responsibility for ensuring that the registration information is kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate. The parent or guardian also assumes full responsibility for the interpretation and use of any information or suggestions provided through THYROSCOPE for the minor.
Please send us an email by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page of our site if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Personal Information we maintain about you.
We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy or any of our tools or services at any time and any changes will be effective upon being posted unless we advise otherwise. If we make any material changes to this policy we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified when you register) and/or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this website for the latest information on our privacy practices. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the THYROSCOPE Web Sites. Please exit the THYROSCOPE Web Sites immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
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