This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering
system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but
may only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed this store
through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information
about your shopping experience. Please see the
Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more
information about how Yahoo! uses this information.
STORE
PRIVACY STATEMENT
This confirms that Healthgenesis.com
is a licensee of the Yahoo! Privacy Program. This privacy statement discloses
the privacy practices for http://www.healthgenesis.com
of the Healthgenesis.com Website.
Yahoo! is an independent
organization whose mission is to build users trust and confidence in the
Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. Because this web
site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose
its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance
by Yahoo! By displaying the Yahoo! trustmark, this web site has agreed to notify
you of:
1. What personally
identifiable information of yours or third party personally identification is
collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution
of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse
or alteration of information under Healthgenesis.com control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you have questions
or suggestions complete a feedback form or send an email to privacypolicy@yahoo-inc.com.
Yahoo! is TRUSTe-certified. This certification applies to all English-language
sites under the Yahoo.com domain. If you feel that your inquiry has not been
satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org.
TRUSTe is an independent privacy organization.
Information Collection and Use
Healthgenesis.com is the
sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share,
or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed
in this statement. Healthgenesis.com collects information from our users at
several different points on our website.
Registration
In order to use this website,
a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user
is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address).
This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site
for which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide
demographic information (such as income level and gender), and unique identifiers
(such as social security number), but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized
experience on our site.
Order
We request information from
the user on our order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like
name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number,
expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill
customers orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact
information is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data
stored on the users hard drive containing information about the user.
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates.
For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log
in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user
rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is
that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. For example, the user
will not be able to participate in any of our Sweepstakes, Contests or monthly
Drawings that take place. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the
interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
Some of our business partners
use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access
to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze
trends, administer the site, track users movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated
demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked
to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
We sometimes use an outside
shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill
users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or
use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
We may partner with another
party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services,
we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the
third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use
personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these
services.
Links
This web site contains links
to other sites. Please be aware that we at Healthgenesis.com are not responsible
for the privacy practices of such other 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 collects personally identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe
to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.
Surveys
& Contests
From time-to-time our site
requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these
surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice
whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include
contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information
(such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the
winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring
or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use
our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for
the friends name and email address. Healthgenesis.com will automatically
send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Healthgenesis.com
stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
The friend may contact Health Genesis Corp., at http://www.healthgenesis.com
to request the removal of this information from their database.
Security
This website takes every
precaution to protect our users information. When users submit sensitive
information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order
form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or
social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with
the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page,
such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed
to un-locked, or open, when you are just surfing. To learn more
about SSL, follow this link http://www.ssl.com/developers/faq/whatis.asp
While we use SSL encryption
to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power
to protect user-information off-line. All of our users information, not
just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices.
Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example,
our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to
personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected
screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter
their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees
are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as
well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded
about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our
customers information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store
personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind
a locked cage.
If you have any questions
about the security at our website, you can send an email to security@healthgenesis.com
Site and
Service Updates
We also send the user site
and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from
service announcements, which contain important information about the service.
We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to
issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information:
If a users personally
identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer
desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or
remove that users personal data provided to us. This can usually be done
by emailing our customer support at support@healthgenesis.com
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the
opportunity to opt-out of having their information used for purposes
not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information.
For example, our order form has an opt-out mechanism so users who
buy a product from us, but dont want any marketing material, can keep
their email address off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish
to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out
of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject
line in the email or email us at support@healthgenesis.com
Users of our site are always
notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We
do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed
with services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification
of Changes
If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are
always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected,
we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether
or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information
in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
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