The Ashland-Boyd Health Department is committed to
your privacy!
This site is owned and operated by
ABCHealthDepartment.com. Your privacy on the
Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At
ABCHealthDepartment.com, we want to make your
experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information
about our users, we feel you should fully
understand the terms and conditions surrounding
the capture and use of that information. This
privacy statement discloses what information we
gather and how we use it.
Definition of the Information
ABCHealthDepartment.com gathers and keeps track
of.
ABCHealthDepartment.com gathers two types of
information about users:
-Information that users provide through optional,
voluntary submissions. These are voluntary
submissions to receive our electronic newsletters,
to participate in our message boards or forums, to
email a friend, and from participation in polls
and surveys:
-Information ABCHealthDepartment.com gathers
through aggregated tracking information derived
mainly by tallying page views throughout our
sites. This information allows us to better tailor
our content to readers' needs and to help our
advertisers and sponsors better understand the
demographics of our audience. Because
ABCHealthDepartment.com derives its revenue mainly
from sponsorships and advertising, providing such
aggregated demographic data is essential to
keeping our service free to users. Under no
circumstances does ABCHealthDepartment.com divulge
any information about an individual user to a
third party.
ABCHealthDepartment.com Gathers User Information
In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary
Information
We offer the following free services, which
require some type of voluntary submission of
personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to
users. ABCHealthDepartment.com gathers the email
addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe.
Users may remove themselves from this mailing list
by following the link provided in every newsletter
that points users to the subscription management
page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters
at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must
register separately for these services (both are
free of charge) in order to post messages,
although they needn't register to visit the site.
During registration the user is required to supply
a username, password, and email address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically
forward a link, page, or documents to someone else
by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user
must provide their email address, as well as that
of the recipient. This information is used only in
the case of transmission errors and, of course, to
let the recipient know who sent the email. The
information is not used for any other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they
can easily share their opinions with other users
and see what our audience thinks about important
issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are
aggregated and are not identifiable to any
particular user. ABCHealthDepartment.com may use a
system to "tag" users after they have voted, so
they can vote only once on a particular question.
This tag is not correlated with information about
individual users.
5. Surveys
ABCHealthDepartment.com may occasionally conduct
user surveys to better target our content to our
audience. We sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these surveys with our
sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share
any of this information about specific individuals
with any third party.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will
never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13
without requesting parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
ABCHealthDepartment.com tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we
do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. ABCHealthDepartment.com does
break down overall usage statistics according to a
user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by
reading this information from the browser string
(information contained in every user's browser).
ABCHealthDepartment.com sometimes tracks and
catalogs the search terms that users enter in our
Search function, but this tracking is never
associated with individual users. We use tracking
information to determine which areas of our sites
users like and don't like based on traffic to
those areas. We do not track what individual users
read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better
service for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the
browser files of your computer. The cookie itself
does not contain Personal Information although it
will enable us to relate your use of this site to
information that you have specifically and
knowingly provided. But the only personal
information a cookie can contain is information
you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off
your hard disk or read cookie files created by
other sites. ABCHealthDepartment.com uses cookies
to track user traffic patterns (as described
above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time
cookie to better track ad impressions and click
rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your
browser. If you've set your browser to warn you
before accepting cookies, you will receive the
warning message with each cookie. You do not need
to have cookies turned on to use this site.
However, you do need cookies to participate
actively in message boards, forums, polling and
surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
ABCHealthDepartment.com uses any information
voluntarily given by our users to enhance their
experience in our network of sites, whether to
provide interactive or personalized elements on
the sites or to better prepare future content
based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users
voluntarily provide in order to send out
electronic newsletters and to enable users to
participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and
forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on
a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter),
and occasionally send out special editions when we
think subscribers might be particularly interested
in something we are doing. ABCHealthDepartment.com
never shares newsletter mailing lists with any
third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or
partners.
When we use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like
based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well
each page performs overall. This helps us continue
to build a better service for you. We track search
terms entered in Search function as one of many
measures of what interests our users. But we don't
track which terms a particular user enters.
ABCHealthDepartment.com creates aggregate reports
on user demographics and traffic patterns for
advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows
our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and
allows our users to receive advertisements that
are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't
track the usage patterns of individual users, an
advertiser or sponsor will never know that a
specific user clicked their ad. We will not
disclose any information about any individual user
except to comply with applicable law or valid
legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
ABCHealthDepartment.com uses the above-described
information to tailor our content to suit your
needs and help our advertisers better understand
our audience's demographics. This is essential to
keeping our service free. We will not share
information about individual users with any third
party, except to comply with applicable law or
valid legal process or to protect the personal
safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
ABCHealthDepartment.com operates secure data
networks protected by industry standard firewall
and password protection systems. Our security and
privacy policies are periodically reviewed and
enhanced as necessary and only authorized
individuals have access to the information
provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and
practical. Such choices include:
· Opting not to register to receive our electronic
newsletters.
· Opting not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviates the need to
gather any personally identifiable information
from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection
and use of this information by
ABCHealthDepartment.com. If we decide to change
our privacy policy, we will post those changes on
this page so that you are always aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances we disclose it. |
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