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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 PolicyIf 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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1776 Mentor Avenue Suite 210 |
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Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. 45212 |
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