We are strongly committed to safeguarding subscribers' privacy on YourMedicalDetective.com.

Your privacy is important to YourMedicalDetective.com. We understand that health is a very personal, private subject, and we want you to feel as comfortable as possible visiting our Website and using its services. Perhaps you are visiting YourMedicalDetective.com to learn about health for yourself, perhaps on behalf of someone else.

This Privacy Policy and Agreement will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of our Website. It will explain how we protect that information and what choices you have about how it is used.

We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you will understand clearly both our commitment to you and your privacy, and how we may collect and use information. By using this, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

We operate under the following strict privacy policy:

The confidentiality of any data relating to you, including your identity, will be honored and respected. All of the information you choose to provide us is absolutely confidential and voluntary. Your name will never be shared, rented or sold to any other web site or direct marketing firm.

We understand that many companies make similar promises, but it may reassure you to know that alternativesinmedicine.com rigorously guards consumer health data.

Any personal information you provide will be used only to deliver health news tailored to your personal interests, to draw large composite pictures that reflect the opinions or behavior of a group, or to help us understand whether you like and use the health information we provide.

The only exception is if, in certain situations, you give us explicit permission to release it to a third party.

The only information we obtain about our subscribers is information we need to process credit card charges for subscription fees. The information collected is never revealed, sold, or made public for any reason.

Personally identifiable information provided by subscribers (name, email or home address, etc.) is never disclosed to any individual or business.

Cookies

Each time a subscriber logs into YourMedicalDetective.com, we store a temporary 'cookie' in the browser files of that subscriber's computer. This cookie is used during your online session to allow you free access to the Subscribers Area, without repeatedly requiring you to re-enter your user name and password.

When you log off or leave the site, the cookies file is automatically removed.

External Links

In order to provide visitors with greater value, some of our pages may provide links to various third party websites. In no case is subscriber information or 'cookies' provided to the third party sites. However, keep in mind that many sites do attempt to capture visitor information when you browse those sites.

Once you leave our site, we are not able to alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.

Private Forums

We provide our subscribers with a multi-tiered Discussion Forum that makes sharing information with other subscribers easy. To protect your privacy when posting or replying to messages in the message board, your personal information and email is not revealed.

However, remember that any information you disclose in the message board areas can be read by all other subscribers, so exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Medical Content

The content of the YourMedicalDetective.com site is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. You should always seek the advice and guidance of a qualified health provider before:

1. Making any adjustment to any medication or treatment you are currently using.

2. Stopping any medication or treatment you are currently using.

3. Starting any new treatment, whether or not it was discussed on YourMedicalDetective.com.

4. YourMedicalDetective.com offer recommendations only as "generally informational" and not as specifically applicable to any individual's medical problem(s), concerns and/or needs.

Surveys, Contest and Questionnaires

Our online surveys and questionnaires may ask visitors for contact and demographic information. The subscriber/member’s contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings.

Advertisements And Links To Other Sites

YourMedicalDetective.com does not endorse the content on any third party web sites. This web site contains links to other sites. YourMedicalDetective.com is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy.

Your use of third-party web sites is at your own risk and subject to the Terms and Conditions of use for those sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collect personally identifiable information.

YourMedicalDetective.com does not accept advertising, however, professional peer-reviewed medical abstracts will be accepted for review and possible publication.

Security

We use a variety of security measures including encryption and authentication from Thawte to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information under our control.

Children's Privacy

The Service is intended for adults age 18 and over. It is not intended for or designed to attract persons under the age of 18. We do not permit registration by, nor do we collect personally identifiable information from, any person we actually know to be under the age of 18.

Choice/Opt-In

Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us. You can be assured that we never reveal, sell, or make available your email address to anyone for any purpose. This site also gives users options for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving our communications.

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