Privacy Notice
1. Introduction.
This Privacy Policy is legally binding.
www.EnhanceMyself.com or other web sites owned or operated by EnhanceMyself.com (the “EnhanceMyself.com Sites”) values your privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of your information collected on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites. EnhanceMyself.com provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the EnhanceMyself.com Sites. This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the EnhanceMyself.com Terms of Service. Your use of the EnhanceMyself.com Sites and any personal information you provide on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Service.
Please note that any content posted by you onto the EnhanceMyself.com Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.
Commitment To Children’s Privacy. Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, EnhanceMyself.com does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites from persons under 18 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 18. If you are under 18 years of age, then please do NOT use or access the EnhanceMyself.com Sites at any time or in any manner.
If EnhanceMyself.com learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 18 years of age has been collected on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites without verified parental consent, then EnhanceMyself.com will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
If children under the age of 18 use our site and we find out about it, we will do our best to remove their personally identifiable information.
Note to International Users. The EnhanceMyself.com Sites are hosted in the United States and are intended for and directed to Users in the United States. If you are a User accessing the EnhanceMyself.com Sites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the EnhanceMyself.com Sites, which are governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Service, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.
2. Information EnhanceMyself.com Receives from You.
You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to EnhanceMyself.com when choosing to participate in various activities on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites such as posting messages, entering contests or sweepstakes, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists. In addition, if you provide your third-party account information (e.g., your log-in information for Facebook or other third party sites) to us, you understand that if you authorize the transmissions, some content and/or information in those accounts may be transmitted into your EnhanceMyself.com account. This Privacy Policy governs any third party account information that is transmitted to EnhanceMyself.com.
3. Information EnhanceMyself.com Collects.
Cookies Information. When you visit the EnhanceMyself.com Sites, we may send one or more cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. EnhanceMyself.com uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the EnhanceMyself.com Sites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Log File Information. When you use the EnhanceMyself.com Sites, our servers may automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Clear Gifs Information. When you use the EnhanceMyself.com Sites, we may employ “clear gifs” (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our Users to track which emails are opened by recipients
4. The Way EnhanceMyself.com Uses Information.
Use of Voluntary Disclosure of Information. Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites (e.g., on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites’ discussion boards, in messages and comment areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other EnhanceMyself.com users when you submit comments, articles or send messages through the EnhanceMyself.com Sites and other EnhanceMyself.com users can contact you through messages and comments.
Any content that you submit to the EnhanceMyself.com Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
Contact its Users. We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major EnhanceMyself.com Site changes or for customer service purposes).
Improve the EnhanceMyself.com Sites and Service. We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the EnhanceMyself.com Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing EnhanceMyself.com’s users’ preferences and trends. We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the EnhanceMyself.com Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.
5. When EnhanceMyself.com Discloses Information.
Provide Services. We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
However, we do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites.
Connect EnhanceMyself.com Users with Doctors. EnhanceMyself.com in the future may offer a “Find a Doctor” feature on its EnhanceMyself.com Sites, which connects EnhanceMyself.com users with various doctors featured on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites. By using EnhanceMyself.com’s “Find a Doctor” form, you voluntarily provide the doctor’s office with your name, email address, telephone number and your comments/desired treatment, which is transmitted by EnhanceMyself.com to the doctor’s office. The information provided to the doctor’s office through the “Find A Doctor” feature is not used by EnhanceMyself.com in any other manner other than transmitting that information to the doctor’s office through the EnhanceMyself.com Sites.
Legal Requests and Comply with State and Federal Laws. We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
EnhanceMyself.com also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that EnhanceMyself.com believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Service, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of the EnhanceMyself.com Sites, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of EnhanceMyself.com, EnhanceMyself.com’s users or others.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy. In the event that EnhanceMyself.com or the EnhanceMyself.com Sites are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites. EnhanceMyself.com allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the EnhanceMyself.com Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Currently, EnhanceMyself.com has relationships with the following third-party ad servers or ad networks: Google, Inc. http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
6. Your Choices.
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the EnhanceMyself.com Sites, in which case EnhanceMyself.com may not be able to provide certain services to you.
You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.
Please note that content submitted by EnhanceMyself.com users to the EnhanceMyself.com Sites cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Service.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
Please contact EnhanceMyself.com with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices at [email protected]
7. Our Commitment To Data Security.
EnhanceMyself.com uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to EnhanceMyself.com and the EnhanceMyself.com Sites and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, EnhanceMyself.com makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If EnhanceMyself.com learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. EnhanceMyself.com may post a notice on the EnhanceMyself.com Sites if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us at [email protected]
8. Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the “effective date” below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the EnhanceMyself.com Sites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.
For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.
Date Last Modified: This Privacy Notice was last modified on June 15th , 2013.
Contact Information: Please contact EnhanceMyself.com with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice using [email protected]