Part 1: About This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to Web sites owned and operated by Informational Media Brands.

Reference to “Informational Media Brands” means Informational Media Brands, LLC, including any company that Informational Media Brands, LLC controls (for example, a subsidiary that Informational Media Brands, LLC owns). “Informational Media Brands Web sites” include any site that Informational Media Brands owns or controls, for example, AtoZHealth.com. Informational Media Brands may share information among its subsidiaries or sites that it owns or controls, but is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

The Informational Media Brands Web sites contain links to other sites. Once you enter another Web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Informational Media Brands is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on Informational Media Brands.

While you may use some of the functionality of Informational Media Brands without registration, many of the specific tools and services on our website require registration. If you use our Web site without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons. If you choose to register with our Web site for certain services, we require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. We do not collect personal health information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information you submit to Informational Media Brands. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and tools and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy. For example, your email address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.

 

Part 2: Non-Personal Information We Collect About You

Even if you do not register with Informational Media Brands, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site, special promotions and newsletters.

We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and your use of the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every computer that accesses a Informational Media Brands Web site may be assigned a different Cookie by Informational Media Brands. The information collected by Cookies (i) helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on Web pages or in newsletters, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Web site and selected sponsors’ and advertisers’ sites, (iii) how many people open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to deliver certain advertisements to your browser on our owned or operated Web sites based on areas of the Site that you have visited during the same session or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. In connection with our sale of advertising we may allow third parties to place a cookie on your browser in order to enable advertisers to recognize your browser in order to deliver an advertisement based on non-personally identifiable information. Importantly, we do not allow these advertisers to collect any information based on your visits to Informational Media Brands. We may also acquire Non-Personal Information about our users that these third parties have access to and we may use that information for the purpose of content development and for marketing purposes. Cookies may also be used to facilitate a user’s log-in, as navigation aids and as session timers. We may also use cookies in order to enable us to conduct surveys for our own use and on behalf of our advertisers. These cookies are used to determine whether you have seen certain content or advertising so that we may request your opinions.

Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our Web site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. Additionally Informational Media Brands may geographically target advertising based on your IP address. We may use local shared objects, also known as Flash cookies, to enable you to use certain interactive tools on our site. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount and type of data they collect, and how the data is stored. Informational Media Brands does not share information stored in flash cookies with third parties and the data in them is not used by or on behalf of Informational Media Brands for delivery of advertisements.

Part 3: Personally Identifiable Information We Collect About You

We collect Personally Identifiable Information, like your name, email address, date of birth, and zip code, you provide to us when you register as a member of Informational Media Brands and/or when you update your member profile. 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.

A. Newsletters & Emails to You

At registration and at various times as you use Informational Media Brands, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email from Informational Media Brands and/or directly from third parties.  When you sign up for our email newsletters or at any time, you can choose to opt-in to receiving additional promotional emails from Informational Media Brands or our Sponsors. In order to subscribe to Informational Media Brands newsletters via email, we need your contact information, like name and email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by emailing info@atozhealth.com

In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement on our site, in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the website of a third party which, acting on behalf of Informational Media Brands notes or “counts” your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to your selected destination; this re-direction process may not be apparent to you.

B. Emails You Send to Informational Media Brands

This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to Informational Media Brands by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to Informational Media Brands.

C. Community, Health Communities, Blogs and other Public Forums

Informational Media Brands features several community areas 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 medical or healthcare experts. Our communities are open to the public and should not be considered private.

Any information you shared in any online community area (including Personally Identifiable) like an Ask the Expert posting or online discussion is by design open to the public and is not private. You should think carefully before posting any Personally Identifiable in any public forum. What you post can be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we cannot control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, the information you post may also show up in third-party search engines like Google. If you mistakenly post personal information in our Community areas and would like it removed, you can send us an email to request that we remove it by using the Contact Us link on every page of our site. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information and if we can’t, we will let you know and why not.

Part 4: Disclosure of Your Information

Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Informational Media Brands will not disclose any Personally Identifiable it gathers from you on our website. We may only release Personally Identifiable 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 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.

1. A.    Disclosure to Sponsors Participating in Our Free Samples and Offers Program

We operate a Free Samples and Offers Program in which you can receive free products and discount offers from certain commercial sponsors.  During the enrollment in this program, you specifically agree that we may share your Personally Identifiable Information with these sponsors so that they can a) inform of you of what free samples and offers are available, and b) ship free samples and offers to you.  Our sponsors are not permitted to use your Personally Identifiable Information for any other purpose.  You can leave Free Samples and Offers Program by using the Contact Us link available on every page of our website.  If you leave the program we will immediately inform any sponsors who have been provided your Personally Identifiable Information that they must remove your information from their database and discontinue using it in any manner.

B.  Disclosure to Informational Media Brands Operations and Maintenance Contractor

Informational Media Brands operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to Informational Media Brands. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for the operation and maintenance of our Web site. Unless you have Opted-out of receiving emails and newsletters from Informational Media Brands, these contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. 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 Informational Media Brands. We also contractually require that our operations and maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your Personally Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services as required by law.

C. Disclosure of Aggregate Information

Informational Media Brands 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 “30% of our users live east of the Mississippi” or that “25% of our users have tried alternative medicine.” 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.