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.

Privacy of Personal Information
Collection of Personal Information. We collect personal information about you, including personal information that you provide when you share a story, submit a letter or sign up to receive email alerts from this site. "Personal information" means any information that may be used to identify an individual, such as a name or email address.

Use of Personal Information
Personal information collected through paper registration forms and through our Web site is used by us to, among other things, process and manage registrations, operate and improve our Web site, track site usage policies and statistics, or purposes pursuant to your consent. We also use your personal information to communicate with you in other ways. For instance, when you sign up for more information on this site, we may use your personal information to send you an email confirming your sign-up. We also use personal information to inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Personal Information
We hire or are affiliated with health other companies who provide services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of communications, hosting this Web site, delivery of content and services provided by this Web site, 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 disclose results of stories or letters, but 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 with thout your consent. We will not sell, lease, or rent our e-mail user lists to third parties.

Children's Personal Information
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our Web site is intended for general audiences and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13.

Our Practices with health 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 Web site. We may also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every Web site you visit, such as your Internet address, browser type and language, access times, and referring Web site address.

Use of Cookies.
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 Web site, 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 Web site. This information is also used for statistical research to tailor content to usage patterns.

Links to Other Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by this Web site. healthis Web site may contain 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 Web site that collects personal information.

Changes to healthis 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 Contact Us page on this Web site. In many instances in which we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "updated" date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy, but may not provide any other notice to you.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please use our Contact Us page.

Privacy Policy Updated 12/15/2009