Your privacy is of the highest importance to us. Quite simply put, the information you share with us privately is protected and will not be sold or disclosed to outside parties. However, as this an internet website with public message boards and features, it is very important that you only share whatever information you feel comfortable with sharing publicly. radiationfriends.org cannot be held responsible for personal and private information you have posted publicly on your own accord, whether intentional or not. Please take the time to read our Privacy Policy below.
This Privacy Policy applies to the radiationfriends.org Web site and all its components, including but not limited to the Forums, Blogs, Hey Doc! feature, and Information content. Any information you submit electronically via e-mail or private message with private intent to any of the staff or e-mail addresses associated with radiationfriends.org is subject to viewing and/or discussion by radiationfriends.org staff/volunteer members. There is currently only one staff member, but that is subject to change at anytime. radiationfriends.org also reserves the right to publicly discuss clinical information with other parties outside of radiationfriends.org, as long as all personally identifiable information (e.g., name) is witheld.
The radiationfriends.org Web site may contain links to other sites. Once you enter another Web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that radiationfriends.org is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. You should look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on radiationfriends.org.
While you may use some of the functionality of radiationfriends.org without registration, some of the specific features and services on our website require registration. If you choose to register with our Web site for certain Interactive Features or other services, we you may be required to submit Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name and e-mail. Depending on the tool or service you have selected, we may also collect Personal Health Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information you submit to radiationfriends.org. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and features and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy. Your email address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.
Even if you do not register with radiationfriends.org, we may collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site, such as which pages you have viewed. This allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website; they are not used to track your activity outside of our Web sites. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Web Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information and do not use collect or store Personal Health Information about you.
We have no control over Third parties who may use Cookies or Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your usage of radiationfriends.org. These Third parties would be encountered when clicking on an advertiser.
Currently, the registration process in certain elements of the Site collects Personally Identifiable Information, like your name and email address you provide to us when you register as a member of radiationfriends.org. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you emails about Web site maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, ideas, business information, concepts or inventions that you send to radiationfriends.org by email. If you want to keep content or business information, concepts, ideas, or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to radiationfriends.org. We try to answer every email as soon as possible, but are not always able to do so.
As a service to our users, radiationfriends.org features message boards 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 or medical experts. Any information shared (including Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information) that you reveal in a chat room, message board, Hey Doc! posting or online discussion is by design open to the public and is not a private, secure service. You should think carefully before disclosing any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information in any public forum. What you have written may be seen, disclosed, or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, this information may also appear in third-party search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc.
We use other third parties, such as WordPress and Simple Machines Forum, to manage the radiationfriends.org blog(s) and Forums on our site. All information posted and submitted on radiationfriends.org is also subject to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy inherent within the WordPress and Simple Machines Forum platforms.
After you have registered as a member of radiationfriends.org, you may choose to use certain radiationfriends.org interactive content, tools and services that may ask you to voluntarily provide other types of information about yourself including Personal Health Information. Some of the tools do not retain your Personal Health Information, while others store your Personal Health Information in accordance with the authorization you provide at the time you sign up for the feature. Specifically, if you accept to be a Featured Hero, you will be asked whether your information can be “Archived” on the website for future reference after one month has passed. Even if you decline to be archived, radiationfriends.org cannot be held responsible if your information continues to be on the internet in an archived form as a result from a Third Party which has collected or cached your information.
Neither radiationfriends.org nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. A parent or guardian, however, may use radiationfriends.org and is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor’s use of radiationfriends.org. 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 radiationfriends.org for the minor.
From time to time the radiationfriends.org may conduct online research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site, our sponsors and opinions on important healthcare issues, through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. This Personally Identifiable Information is used for research purposes, and is not used for sales solicitations. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by radiationfriends.org and its service providers and contractors and will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent or as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy. For market research surveys we will not knowingly accept survey responses from or conduct interviews with any person under the age of 18. In addition to collecting survey responses from our members, Cookies may be used 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 studies. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with radiationfriends.org site usage characteristics. You will be notified when we would like to use Cookies in this way and your consent will be requested for these Cookies.
Radiationfriends.org may combine, in a non-identifiable format, the Personal Health Information you provide with information from other users to create Aggregate Data that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate data does not contain any information that could be used to contact or identify you. For example, radiationfriends.org may use information gathered to create a composite profile of all the users of a particular third party site. These third party Web sites may use this information to understand community needs and to design appropriate programs and activities on their site. radiationfriends.org Health Manager will not disclose your Personal Health Information to any third party without your prior permission.
Radiationfriends.org does not knowingly engage in business with a company that uses Spyware. We do not provide Users with downloadable software that collects or uses any PII or PHI without full disclosure and Opt-in consent.
Sponsors or advertisers on radiationfriends.org may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the advertisements served on radiationfriends.org. Some advertisers use companies other than radiationfriends.org to serve their ads and to monitor users’ responses to ads, and these companies (“Ad Servers”) may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on our Web site. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the Web site of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its selected destination (e.g., back to radiationfriends.org to show the ad, or to the advertiser’s website); this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.
We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or Web Beacons, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies or web beacons on their own sites. Certain Ad Servers 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. Currently, you can Opt-out of Cookies for several Ad Servers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative gateway Opt-out site. This website will also allow you to review the Ad Server’s privacy policies.
You can also find additional information and resources about how to opt out of advertising and related cookies by visiting the World Privacy Forum’s Site.
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, radiationfriends.org will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on our website. We may only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) 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 the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below.
Radiationfriends.org operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to radiationfriends.org. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology and services for the operation and maintenance of our Web site. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for radiationfriends.org.
You should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these Third Party Web sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. radiationfriends.org 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 Website collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information. If you see a phrase such as “Powered by” or “in association with” followed by the name of a company other than radiationfriends.org, then you are on a Web site hosted by a company other than radiationfriends.org.
Radiationfriends.org may provide links to sites provided by Third Party Contractor Websites that have business arrangements with radiationfriends.org to pay commissions based on sales of products or services generated through radiationfriends.org. In addition to the Third Party Web sites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there are links to Third Party Web sites operated by companies that are not affiliated with the radiationfriends.org Web site and that do not have contracts to provide content or services through the radiationfriends.org Web site. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. radiationfriends.org does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites without obtaining your consent. radiationfriends.org does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third Party Web sites, you should review the privacy policy posted on this other website to understand how that Third Party Web site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.
Radiationfriends.org may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our website and the activities they conduct while on our site. We might also inform a pharmaceutical company (that may or may not be an advertiser on our site) that “28% of our users live on the west cost”. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We require parties with whom we share Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.
Despite radiationfriends.org’s efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health 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.
Your continued use of the radiationfriends.org Web site will indicate acceptance of the current Privacy Policy which is subject to change at any time. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy. radiationfriends.org may make non-significant changes to the Privacy Policy that do not affect Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Health Information. radiationfriends.org may not notify you of such non-significant changes. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement on the same page of our privacy policy. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, and it is advised to review it frequently. Any material changes to this policy will be found here.