Johns Hopkins Health Alerts Privacy Policy

We have created this privacy policy (hereinafter, this "Privacy Policy") in order to disclose how Johns Hopkins Health Alerts gathers, uses, disseminates, and safeguards the information that we collect from you on this Website. We understand the importance that consumers place on privacy and have designed our service with this in mind. By using this Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

The Website is designed and targeted to audiences and governed by and operated in accordance with the laws, regulations, and treaties of the United States of America. We make no representation that the Website is operated in accordance with or governed by the laws of other nations or jurisdictions. If you are located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the United States of America and you use or attempt to use the Website, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local, national laws rules and regulations and, if applicable, international treaties.

Anti-Spam

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts complies with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of the State of California, under the California Civil Code, you have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed Personal Information (as defined below) during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law provides that if the company has a Privacy Policy that gives either an opt-out (which we may sometimes refer to as “unsubscribe”) or opt-in choice for use of your Personal Information by third parties (such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing purposes, the company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options.

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts qualifies for the alternative option; it has a comprehensive Privacy Policy and provides you with details on how you may either opt-out or opt-in to the use of your Personal Information by third parties for direct marketing purposes. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your Personal Information for marketing purposes during the preceding year.

If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third party disclosure choices you must send a request to the following address with a preference on how our response to your request should be sent (email or postal mail). Send an email to the Privacy Administrator at customerservice@johnshopkinshealthalerts.com, or you may contact us via regular mail at:
Johns Hopkins Health Alerts c/o Remedy Health Media, LLC

500 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1900
New York, NY 10110
Attention: Privacy (California Privacy Rights)
c/o Privacy Administrator

All requests sent via regular mail must be labeled "Your California Privacy Rights" on the envelope or post card and clearly stated on the actual request. For all requests, please include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. (Your street address is optional if you wish to receive a response to your request via email. Please include your zip code for our own recordkeeping.) We will not accept requests via the telephone or by facsimile. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete information.

To all other users of this Website, if you have other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Administrator at customerservice@johnshopkinshealthalerts.com or:
Johns Hopkins Health Alerts c/o Remedy Health Media, LLC

500 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1900
New York, NY 10110
Attention: Privacy (California Privacy Rights)
c/o Privacy Administrator

Personal Information Johns Hopkins Health Alerts Collects From You

If you are receiving Johns Hopkins Health Alerts via email, this is due to your having registered online to receive such messages or to your having contacted Johns Hopkins Health Alerts and indicated your interest in receiving such communications. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" shall mean information that can be used to identify you, including, but not limited to: (a) a first and last name; (b) a home or other physical address, including street name and name of city or town; (c) an e-mail address. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts collects Personal Information from you during the process of online registration and when purchasing a Johns Hopkins Health Alert health information product that is sold at the Johns Hopkins Health Alerts Website.

Registration

To register as a member of the Website, you are required to select a user name and password (together, your “User ID”), and may be required to also provided other Personal Information, such as your email address, first and last name, gender, country and zip code. Additional Personal Information may be requested during the registration process (but not required). We may contact you by e-mail informing you of various Website-related and health-related events, informational alerts, promotions, or offers for the purchase of goods and/or services that may of interest to you; provided, however, that Johns Hopkins Health Alerts has not and does not make a registered user’s personal information available to other parties except as provided below. If, at any time, you do not wish to receive Health Alerts or marketing or promotional email from Johns Hopkins Health Alerts, you may send a message customerservice@johnshopkinshealthalerts.com requesting the cessation of such email messages, or simply follow the instructions to unsubscribe found at the bottom of our email messages. However, as long as you are a registered user, we may continue to contact you via email for administrative or informational purposes, including follow-up messages regarding the administration of your account, any services, features or functions you have enrolled in or registered to use, goods and/or services you have ordered, or other transactions you have undertaken through the Website.

Purchases

There is a separate process required for placing orders through the Website which requires the submission of additional Personal Information including your first and last name, street address, city, state and zip code, email address, telephone number, and credit card or payment information. We do not share any credit card or payment information or other financial information (collectively, “Financial Information”) with any third party and such Financial Information is stored in accordance with applicable law and industry standard security requirements. However, if you make a purchase, your name and mailing address may be released for [one-time] use to carefully screened third-party marketers who offer products or services that may be of interest to you. Customers may opt-out of receiving these third-party mailings by requesting to have their account marked “do not mail” by contacting customerservice@Johnshopkinshealthalerts.com. Non-customers may also have their names removed from our future mailings by contacting customerservice@Johnshopkinshealthalerts.com to have your name added to our suppression file.

This Website makes commenting on Health Alerts available to its users. Please remember that any information that you may post becomes public information when you post it and is the use thereof is not within our control. Please exercise caution and discretion when posting Personal Information in the comment section of the Website. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts is in no way responsible for the accuracy, use, or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive through these forums and you should assume that any disclosure you do make in these forums will be available publicly, even without your knowledge or authorization.

All users of the Website are required to provide true, current, complete and accurate Personal Information when prompted and we have the right to refuse or revoke your right to use our Website and/or reject and delete any entry you make, if we have reason to believe information you provide to us is or may be false, fraudulent, or inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

A user may update his/her Personal Information by visiting the Edit Preferences section of the Website.

How Johns Hopkins Health Alerts Uses Personal Information

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts does not share your Personal Information with any third parties other than as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts may use your Personal Information for internal business purposes, such as performing market analysis and analyzing and managing its business.

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts may, in its sole discretion, share or transfer your Personal Information where permitted or required by law, to comply with legal process (for example, Johns Hopkins Health Alerts may disclose your information as necessary to comply with an authorized civil, criminal or regulatory investigation), to protect the security or integrity of its databases or the Website, to protect Johns Hopkins Health Alerts business or reputation, to take precautions against legal liability, in the event of a business transition (see below), to protect and defend the rights or property of Johns Hopkins Health Alerts, for required institutional risk control, or for resolving disputes, inquiries or complaints with respect to your use of the Website.

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts may also employ other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on its behalf. Examples include sending direct and electronic mail, information technology support, maintaining and removing duplicate information from user lists, analyzing data and providing marketing analysis. The agents performing these limited functions on Johns Hopkins Health Alerts behalf shall have access to its users’ Personal Information as needed to perform their functions for Johns Hopkins Health Alerts but are not permitted to use your Personal Information for other purposes. All Johns Hopkins Health Alerts contractors operate under federal and state laws regarding consumer privacy.

Business Transitions

In the event Johns Hopkins Health Alerts goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information might be among the assets transferred.

Your IP Address

Each time you visit www.johnshopkinshealthalerts.com (the "Website"), our web server automatically recognizes your IP address and the web page from which you came. Your IP address may be used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you. We also may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer the Website and to better serve you in using the Website.

Cookies and Action Tags

The first time a user provides an e-mail address in connection with their activities at the Website, Johns Hopkins Health Alerts assigns an identification number to that e-mail address and deploys a cookie to the applicable user's PC. Whenever that user comes back to the Website using the same PC, the cookie allows the Website to identify the user and to recall the user's e-mail address. If, at any time, a user provides other information in connection with their activities on the Website (such as name, address, birth date, gender, etc.), Johns Hopkins Health Alerts may store that information, along with the user's e-mail address, in its user database. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts may use the Personal Information stored in its database: (i) to effectuate the purpose or transaction for which the information was originally provided by a user; (ii) to pre-populate information fields in the event a user wishes to purchase products and/or services or sign up for and/or subscribe to services, promotions or other offers in the future; (iii) to ensure that a user will not be repeatedly exposed to the same advertisements, offers and/or promotions while visiting the Website; and/or (iv) to, in connection with regular communication with a user, include offers, promotions or advertisements that were historically, or are likely to be, of interest to that user. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts also may use cookies to anonymously track and target the interests of our users to further enhance the experience on the Website. To find out more about cookies, please visit www.cookiecentral.com.

Action Tags, Web Beacons and other Data Collection Methods: An action tag or a web-beacon (also known as a clear gif or a pixel tag) is a method used to track responses or actions by visitors who view certain advertisements or other information on a website. Action tags are 1x1 pixel images embedded in a website page that are used to transparently collect information. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts may use action tags to count the number of times that visitors click on a particular banner ad or visit the pages of our Website and to provide information about what products are viewed or purchased. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts reserves the right to retain this cookie and action tag data indefinitely. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts at times links the data collected through the means described in this paragraph with your Personal Information for purposes of customizing messages to you and customizing Website content for you. At no time will Johns Hopkins Health Alerts share cookie-related, action-tag-related and/or generated information and/or data with third parties.

Security Precautions

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts strives to protect the privacy and security of the data it collects and maintains. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts (including through its contractors) maintains reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards and security measures to protect the confidentiality, loss, misuse, and alteration of your Personal Information. Johns Hopkins Health Alerts keeps your Personal Information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or document retention requirements. We have taken certain physical, electronic, contractual and managerial steps to safeguard and secure the information we collect from Website visitors and magazine readers. Please note, however, that it is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your password associated with this Website, if any.

Other Websites

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts undertakes the effort to see that any third party to which we disclose Personal Information is under a contractual obligation to us to use the Personal Information solely for the purposes for which the information was disclosed.

This Website may contain links to other third-party owned and/or operated websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third-party websites. In some cases, you may be able to make a purchase though one of these third-party websites. In these instances, you may be required to provide certain information, such as a credit card number, to register or complete a transaction at such website. These third-party websites have separate privacy and data collection practices and we have no responsibility or liability relating to such policies or practices.

Minors

Visitors under 18 years of age are not permitted to use and/or submit their Personal Information at the Website. We do not knowingly solicit or collect information from visitors under the age of 18. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive activities of their children. We will not be liable for any content or advertisements viewed by minor children in violation of the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Removal of Your Information/Opting Out

At your request, Johns Hopkins Health Alerts will remove Personal Information that you have provided to us. You may do so by e-mailing customerservice@johnshopkinshealthalerts.com.

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts provides users the option to opt-out from receiving electronic mailings. Users may unsubscribe from receiving e-mails at any time by following the instructions contained at the end of every e-mail.

(Note that where Johns Hopkins Health Alerts has provided your Personal Information to third parties, Johns Hopkins Health Alerts cannot control the use of that information by such third parties.)

You might continue to receive e-mails from Johns Hopkins Health Alerts for up to ten (10) days following your unsubscribing. If, after that point, a user is still receiving e-mail from Johns Hopkins Health Alerts, the user should contact Remedy Health Media, LLC at customerservice@johnshopkinshealthalerts.com.

Privacy Policy Changes

Johns Hopkins Health Alerts reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add and/or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. All Privacy Policy changes will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Website. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued acceptance of Johns Hopkins Health Alerts e-mails following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy shall indicate that you accept these changes and agree to continue receiving e-mails from Johns Hopkins Health Alerts notwithstanding the changes. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please unsubscribe to Johns Hopkins Health Alerts emails by following the instructions contained at the end of every e-mail.

Contacting us about privacy questions or concerns

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at customerservice@johnshopkinshealthalerts.com or send a letter to Johns Hopkins Health Alerts c/o Remedy Health Media, LLC, 500 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1900, New York, NY 10110.

Sole Statement

The foregoing statements, terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy is the sole statement of our privacy policy, and no summary, restatement or other version, or other statement or policy, in any form, including, without limitation, machine-generated, is valid.

This Privacy Policy was last modified on November 24, 2009 and is effective immediately. © Copyright 2009 Remedy Health Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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