Introduction

This site is owned and operated by Health World Web Inc. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Health World Web, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy policy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. Health World Web may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from October 07, 2007.

Information We Collect

When you visit our HealthWorldWeb.com site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and non-personally identifiable information about web site use that is collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our web site.

Personal Information You Choose to Provide

This is the information you voluntarily submit to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our blogs, message boards, forums or communities, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys.

Your Personal Information

All the information we collect from you will be for statistical and demographic purposes only. The demographic or other information will be used for internal algorithms and procedures to facilitate search, social networking or other features. We may share this information with consultants that we hire to help us. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
HealthWorldWeb.com may disclose personal information to comply with the law or legal process, to protect or defend the rights or property of HealthWorldWeb.com or others, to enforce the Terms and Conditions of this privacy policy as well as to respond to claims that the content(s) of a communication(s) violates the rights of another.

Business Transfers

Information about our users, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets or transition of service to another provider, as well as in the unlikely event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company.
We also reserve the right to aggregate the Personal Information of users or visitors of this site to produce statistical or other non-personally identifiable form of data, and share with a third party such aggregated data for business reasons, such as, for example, providing advertisers with demographic information necessary to define the audience of HealthWorldWeb.com.

HIPAA

Health World Web is not a "Covered Entity" with is the meaning of HIPAA, and therefore is not a subject to HIPAA. Each user is solely responsible for any public disclosure of his or her private health information (PHI).

Credit Card Transactions Information

If you order a product or a service which would require a payment by a credit card, you will be required to provide us your Credit Card information among with its billing name and address. We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We will only use this information for the purposes of this transaction, and will not store this information on our server or use it for any other purposes.

Registration Information

When you register to be a member of HealthWorldWeb.com, register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts, you will provide us your valid e-mail address and demographic information about yourself, such as your zip code, age, gender. This demographic or other information will be used for internal algorithms and procedures to facilitate search, social networking or other features. We may occasionally send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting. During registration you are required to supply a username, password, and valid email address. We will send you an e-mail when you create your account, to verify your address. Your registration email address is collected to have an address to send you lost password notifications. Also, collecting email addresses serves as a way to limit abuse of the system, in that we only allow accounts to remain active when the email address has been verified.
Your registration email address is not displayed publicly.

Healthcare Providers' individual pages

If you register as a physician or a healthcare provider member you may provide us information about your firm or company, and your practices that you may choose to make available for other registered and/or unregistered users.

Email Information

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

Electronic newsletters

We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration. We will never share newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

"E-mail this to a friend" policy

Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide his or her email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

Non-personal Web Site Use Information

Non-personal information is information we collect through this web site that does not identify you as an individual person.

Cookies

Similar to other commercial web sites, HealthWorldWeb.com utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" and web server logs to collect information about how our web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our web site. Additional information may be placed in this cookie in order to allow HealthWorldWeb.com to function properly. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information.

IP Addresses

In addition, the HealthWorldWeb.com also records your IP address, which is the Internet address of your computer, and information such as your browser type and operating system. This information helps us prevent system abuse and multiple repetitive reviews submissions from same IP. We may also use this information for demographic and statistical purposes. This information is not connected with the personally identifying information you supply to us if you register on our website.

Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
We will close any accounts used exclusively by children under the age of 13, and will remove any personal information we believe was submitted by any child under the age of 13.

Data Security

Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. Only authorized employees, agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) may have access to this information. All emails and newsletters from this site allow you to opt out of further mailings.

Privacy Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy you may contact us by e-mail at Legal@HealthWorldWeb.com

Changes to this Privacy Policy Statement

HealthWorldWeb.com reserves the right to unilaterally change this privacy policy. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.