
Privacy Policy for
www.avoidtheflu.com
We recognize
that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal
information we receive and collect when you use www.avoidtheflu.com, as well as
some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you
make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
www.avoidtheflu.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency,
fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to
protecting our customers', consumers' and online visitors' privacy on our
website.
Personal Information
www.avoidtheflu.com collects personally identifiable information from the
visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information
collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal address, email address,
company name and telephone number.
This
information is collected if you request information from us, participate in a
contest or sweepstakes, and sign up to join our email list or request some other
service or information from us. The information collected is internally
reviewed, used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of
updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.
Once
information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. If we make
material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we
will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received
from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or
provided to third parties.
www.avoidtheflu.com contains links to other sites but we are not responsible for
the content or privacy policies of other sites. Please review the privacy
policies of all Web sites that gather personal information.
Web Searching from this Site
The search box
on this web site ("Search Box") is powered by Amazon Inc ("Amazon").
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use
cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers
that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to
enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell
the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you
personalize the sites pages, or register with any of our site's services, a
cookie enables www.avoidtheflu.com to recall your specific information on
subsequent visits.
You have the
ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if
you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the
interactive features of the site.
A web beacon is
a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single Web site
or collection of sites. They are also referred to as Web bugs and are commonly
used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be
used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the
pages and content on the pages of a Web site.
We may serve
third party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads
being served on our Web site to ascertain how many times you've seen an
advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to
them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with
that information on our Web site.
Some
third-party advertisements may be provided by Google, which uses cookies to
serve ads on this site. Google uses the DART cookie, which enables it to serve
ads to our users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the Web.
You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network
privacy policy.
Browsers can be
set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent.
Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these
actions shouldn't cause a problem with our site, should you so choose. In
FireFox, choose Tools > Options > Privacy to set your cookie settings. In
Internet Explorer, choose Tools > Internet Options > Privacy. In other browsers,
please check the documentation of that browser for how to change the cookie
settings.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
This website is
directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We
operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone
under 13 years of age.
Non-Personal Information
In some cases,
we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use
this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends,
to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather
demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information
collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other
organizations for commercial purposes.
Release of Information
If
www.avoidtheflu.com is sold, the information we have obtained from you through
your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part
of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In
that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in
control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the
purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this
privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal
information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and
would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or
correct that information, please use our
Contact Us page.
Updates and Effective Date
www.avoidtheflu.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there
is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that
our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy.
We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what
information we collect and how we use it.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not
agree to www.avoidtheflu.com's Privacy Policy as posted here on this website,
please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.
Your use of this site indicates
acceptance of this privacy policy.