BlackHealthMatters.com collects customer information to enhance your health information-gathering experience. This privacy policy is intended to assist you in understanding what information we gather about you when you visit this website, how we use that information and the safeguards we have in place for that information.
This Privacy Statement applies only to the information collected online at BlackHealthMatters.com.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
1. General Browsing Information
BlackHealthMatters.com gathers navigational information during each visitor’s use of our website. In the process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information (i.e., domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected. The navigational information tells BlackHealthMatters.com about the use of our website by visitors, including the areas of our site that are most visited or the time of a last visit to a page on our site. It also tells us about the technical efficiencies of our website and services (i.e., the time it takes a visitor to connect to our website or download pages). The navigational information helps us better understand a visitor’s experience at BlackHealthMatters.com and improve upon that experience by recognizing and delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer.
2. Personal Information
BlackHealthMatters.com (and its microsites, if any) may ask you to provide personal information (about yourself or someone to whom information is sent) when you establish or update a BlackHealthMatters.com account, sign up for BlackHealthMatters.com’s email, enter a contest, participate in a survey, sign up to receive information about our promotions and events through text messaging.
Categories of information collected include name, address, email address, telephone number, mobile phone number and messages or reminders you create.
We also collect information from you when you visit us from other websites that are linked to the BlackHealthMatters.com website. Categories of information collected when you sign up include name, mailing address and email address.
USING PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
BlackHealthMatters.com uses the personal information we collect from you for verification purposes, to respond to your inquiries and to deliver information about our promotions, sweepstakes or website, including adding you to the BlackHealthMatters.com’s email list and to our mailing list when you sign up.
We will use the information you provide when you visit us from other websites that are linked to the BlackHealthMatters.com website to send you updates about BLACKHEALTHMATTERS.COM products and other products not necessarily related to BLACKHEALTHMATTERS.COM, promotions and events. In addition, we will use your name and mailing address provided during such sign up, in all the ways described in this privacy statement and we will use your email address as described in this privacy statement for email addresses.
BLACKHEALTHMATTERS.COM email allows you to receive information about special offers, media events, new products, other unrelated products and much more.
INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES
BlackHealthMatters.com does share information with its corporate affiliates and its business partners, and it may share information with co-sponsors of promotions, offers, services and events. We use third parties to help us provide services to you such as monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, maintaining our database, administering and monitoring emails, administering and sending text messages, and administering drawings or contests. Third-party service providers may also assist us in offering, running and monitoring microsites where you will provide personal information about yourself and possibly about your friends. The microsites may also include a means for you to access and download information from your existing email address books through the service provider so you can more easily share our offers with your friends. Third parties also provide aggregate, comparative information on the performance of our site and our microsites to us, and a select group.
If, after making a visiting BlackHealthMatters.com, you choose to participate in a survey conducted at a third-party provider’s website, any personal information that you provide during the survey at the third-party provider’s website will be subject to that third-party provider’s privacy policy. If you sign up to receive text messages through BlackHealthMatters.com, we will not share your cell phone number with any third party so that they may send you text messages, but we may share your cell phone number for other purposes.
BlackHealthMatters.com may also participate with other unrelated websites that will link you to our website. It is possible that we may share personally identifiable information we collect from you with the company linking you to our website. BlackHealthMatters.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of the websites involved in this linking program, and we encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website you visit that links you to BlackHealthMatters.com.
You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our website or the public. In the event BLACKHEALTHMATTERS.COM sells or transfers all or a portion of its business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction.
COOKIES
1. What are cookies and how do we use cookies on our website?
BlackHealthMatters.com uses a browser feature known as a cookie. A cookie is a small data file that is stored by your web browser on your computer. Cookies are used to help track your clicks and pass information as you go through the pages within BlackHealthMatters.com. This allows BlackHealthMatters.com to make our site more responsive to your needs by delivering a better and more personalized experience to you.
We also use cookies and/or a technology known as clear gifs, which are typically stored in emails to help us confirm your receipt of, and response to, our emails and to provide you a more personalized experience. Cookies can allow us to associate navigational information from browsing visits with personal information you provide at our site.
2. Do we share information from cookies with third parties?
We may share data collected through the use of cookies with our affiliated companies and business partners.
3. How do third parties use cookies on our site?
We allow third party companies to collect information by placing cookies when you choose to visit and when you visit BlackHealthMatters.com. These selected companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your choice to visit and your visits to our site and other websites to provide advertisements about BLACKHEALTHMATTERS.COM’s services on this and other websites. These selected companies also provide this information to us, which we use to gauge the effectiveness of the advertisements placed about our services and for marketing purposes.
Third-party service providers who assist us in running and monitoring microsites will use cookies on these microsites and pixel tags in the emails sent from the microsites to assist us in conducting and monitoring the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and, in the future, to possibly provide you with enhanced features and content. Cookies and pixel tags will also be used by these third parties to monitor and provide information about participation in sweepstakes or events promoted on our microsites to us and the friend who provided you the connection to the microsite in the following situations: If you receive an invitation to such a sweepstakes or event from a friend and accept the invitation, or if you click on a link located on a friend’s social networking page that takes you to a sweepstakes or event on one of our microsites.
UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We prefer to keep your personal information accurate and up to date. To do this, we provide you with the opportunity to update or modify your personal information iby logging into your account.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES
For your convenience, our website may contain links to other sites. Links that appear on BlackHealthMatters.com should not necessarily be deemed to imply that we endorse or have any affiliation with the linked websites. BLACKHEALTHMATTERS.COM is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage you to review the separate privacy policies of each site you visit.
CONSENT TO PRIVACY POLICY AND NOTICE REGARDING CHANGES
By using BlackHealthMatters.com, you consent to the use of your information by us in conformance with the above privacy policy. Our privacy policy may change from time to time. Therefore, we recommend you review this page on a periodic basis.
