Privacy Policy - Disclaimer

-Thank you for visiting Health-Stories!

We recognize that your privacy is very important to you.

This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Health-Stories.org, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard your information.

-We hope this will help you to make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

Health-Stories.org strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. In that vein, we are dedicated to protecting consumers, our customers, and all our online visitors' privacy on this website.

-Personal Information

Health-Stories.org collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include: name, postal address, country of origin, e-mail address, company name and telephone number.

This information is collected if you request information from us, participate in a contest, sweepstakes, or make a submission to one of many submission pages on the site, or if you sign up to join our email list or request some other service or information from us. Whew! This information collected is internally reviewed and used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.

Once information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to any third parties.

-Use of Cookies and Web Beacons

We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page of the site.

-For example, if you personalize the sites pages, (or create your own page through one of the submission page options) or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables Health-Stories.org to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

-A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.

We may serve third-party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our web site to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site.

-Google may provide some third-party advertisements, which use cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses the DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions should not cause a problem with our site, should you choose to do so.

The search boxes on this web site are powered by Google Inc. ("Google"). You acknowledge and agree that Google's privacy policy (located at: Google privacy center) shall apply to your use of the Search Box and by using the Search Box you consent to Google using your personal data in accordance with its privacy policy.

-Visitor Submissions

Health-Stories.org welcomes comments, suggestions and ideas on its website and your stories are encouraged. However, you do acknowledge that if you send us suggestions, ideas, stories or other information, this "information" shall be deemed, and shall remain, the property of Health-Stories.org. By your submission of any information to us, You assign to us and we shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights to said information and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of this information for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation of any kind to you.

As a visitor to Health-Stories.org, you are responsible for your own communications and for the consequences of their posting. Therefore, please do not do any of the following: transmission of any material that is copyrighted unless you are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright owner to post it; send any material that could reveal any trade secrets, unless you own them or have the permission of the owner; send material that infringes on any others intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights of others; send material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to any other user or any other person or entity; send any sexually explicit images; send advertisements or solicitations of business; or impersonate any other person.

-Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personalinformation from anyone under 13 years of age.

Non-Personal Information

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Release of Information

If Health-Stories.org is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.

-How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please click on this link to use our Contact Us page.

Updates and Effective Date

Health-Stories.org reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

-Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to Health-Stories.org's Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.

-Your use of this site indicates your acceptance of this privacy policy.

-Health-Stories.org provides this website as a service.

While the information contained within the site is periodically updated, no guarantee is given that the information provided in this website is correct, complete, and/or up-to-date.

The materials contained on this website are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or any other professional advice on any subject matter. Health-Stories.org does not accept any responsibility for any loss that may arise from reliance on information contained on this site.

-Copyright law under international conventions protects the contents of this site and the reproduction, permanent storage, or retransmission of the contents of this site is prohibited without the prior written consent of Health-Stories.org.

Links on this site

Some links within this website may lead to other websites, including those operated and maintained by third parties. Health-Stories.org includes these links solely as a convenience to you, and the presence of such a link does not imply a responsibility for the linked site or an endorsement of the linked site, its operator, or its contents (exceptions may apply).

This website and its contents are provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

-Health-Stories.org does not send out unsolicited emails, and never asks for detailed personal information. If you get this type of email appearing to be from Health-Stories.org, you should assume that it is fraudulent and avoid clicking any link within the email, unless of course the email is in response to a recent communication initiated by you .

-We welcome all questions, suggestions, and ideas for future content for Health-Stories.org from any and all site visitors and we sincerely hope you enjoyed your visit, and that it helped you in some small way.

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