Privacy Policy

Use of HearingLossLinks.com

Privacy Policy for this website (also referred to as this "site")

 

This Privacy Policy applies to the HearingLossLinks.com website. This site contains links to other sites. Once you enter another website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), we are not responsible for those sites' privacy practices.

You may use much of this site without registration, but some specific tools and services on our website require registration. If you don't register, the information we collect will be nonpersonal information through the use of cookies. If you register with our website for educational courses or other services, you will need to submit Personally Identifiable Information. You are responsible for the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information you submit to us. Inaccurate information may affect the information you receive from us and our ability to contact you. For example, without your current email address we can't communicate with you.

Nonpersonal Information We Collect About You

Even if you do not register with this site, we collect nonpersonal information about your use of our website, special promotions and newsletters.

Cookies
We collect nonpersonal information about your use of this site and your use of the websites of selected corporate partners and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every computer is assigned a different Cookie by HearingLossLinks.com. Cookies facilitate (i) dynamically generating advertising and content on web pages or in newsletters, (ii) statistically monitoring numbers of people using our website and selected corporate partners' and advertisers' sites, (iii) counting how many people open our emails, and (iv) knowing why these actions are being taken. Cookie may allow us to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Cookies help a user's log-in, ease navigation and time sessions.

Your can set your browser software to reject all Cookies. If you reject our Cookies, certain functions and conveniences of our website may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. We do not link nonpersonal information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission.

Identifiable Information We Collect About You

We collect Personally Identifiable Information that you provide when you register as a member of HearingLossLinks.com and/or you update your member profile. This Personally Identifiable Information allows us to respond to your questions, provide you specific services selected, and send you emails about website maintenance and updates.

Newsletters & Emails to You
When you register and at various times as you use this site, you will be offered signup for recurring newsletters via email from HearingLossLinks.com and/or directly from third parties. You may always opt out of these emails from HearingLossLinks.com.

Subscriptions to email newsletters requires your contact information, such as name and email address. Unsubscribe from the newsletters by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link of any email newsletter and following the directions. You may also unsubscribe and/or change email preferences by by changing your profile within HearingLossLinks.com. If you are experiencing difficulties with our automated unsubscribe service, you can email HearingLossLinks.com Customer Service. We will followup to unsubscribe you from that newsletter promptly.

Sometimes clicking on a link or an advertisement in an e-mail or newsletter, may direct your browser to a third party's website which, acting on behalf of HearingLossLinks.com (see Disclosure to Website Service and Content Contractors, below), notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to its proper destination. This process may not be apparent to you.

When you use this site's "Email a Friend" function, HearingLossLinks.com emails the article or other content to another email address and lists your email address as the sender. HearingLossLinks.com uses the other email address only for the purpose of sending your friend the email you requested. While we store both email addresses, we do not use them for any other purpose unless disclosed to you at the time you send the email.

Emails You Send to Us
This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions to this site by email, so don't send them to us if you wish to keep them private or proprietary. Also, we are not always able to answers emails sent to us.

Chat Rooms and other Public Forums
This site may offer chat rooms and other public forums where users with similar interests or medical conditions can share information and support each other, or where users can post questions for experts to answer. We may also offer online discussions moderated by medical or healthcare experts.

Information (including Personally Identifiable Information) that you reveal in a chat room, message board, "Ask The Expert" posting or online discussion is of course open to the public and therefore is not kept private. What you write may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, such as contacting you for unauthorized purposes.

Market Research
Our market research group, or contractors acting on our behalf, may conduct online research surveys, gathering feedback about our site, our corporate partners and opinions on important healthcare issues, through email invitations, pop-up surveys online focus groups and other methods.

Surveys may ask you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. It is used for research purposes, and not for sales solicitations. When a third party sponsors a survey, the sponsor receives Aggregate Information of that survey's results. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will only be used by us, or our operations contractors and will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent.

Cookies also may be used to authenticate respondents or to help you resume a partially completed survey. With Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some surveys.

Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on Our Behalf
Corporate Partners or advertisers on HearingLossLinks.com may use their own Cookies in the advertisements served on HearingLossLinks.com and/or in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send. Some third party advertisers use Ad Servers, which may also collect nonpersonal information through the use of Cookies on our website. We do not control these third parties' use of Cookies, or how they manage the information they gather through them. Certain Ad Servers allow you to prevent them from collecting data through the use of Cookies. In order to do so, you must Opt-out of such data collection with each individual site. Alternatively, you can Opt-out of Cookies for several Ad Servers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative gateway Opt-out site. This website will also allow you to review the Ad Server's privacy policies.

Disclosure of Your Information

Except as stated in this Privacy Policy or as agreed to by you, this site will not disclose any Personally Identifiable Information we gather from you on this site. We will only release Personally Identifiable Information to third parties: (1) as required to comply with legal requirements such as by law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others (3) to comply with our corporate partners relating to live and pre-recorded e-learning courses. Should we feel legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below.

Disclosure to Third Party Organizations for e-Learning Courses
We may offer links to e-learning modules hosted by us, but managed and operated by third party companies and organizations. These e-learning module links may be found in advertisements, linked within content, or otherwise on our site. We will disclose limited Personal Information to these third party corporate partner companies and organizations relating to e-learning courses provided by them. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the privacy practices of those organizations.

Disclosure of Aggregate Information
We may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties about the number of users of this site and their activities while on our site. We may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We require parties with whom we share Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.

Internal Security

Despite our efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information, there is risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet will be intercepted.

Updating Your Information and Contacting HearingLossLinks.com

If you have a complaint or problem, please email us. Our customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal HearingLossLinks.com department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but we may not always able to do so. If you want to (1) delete your Personally Identifiable Information from our systems, (2) update the Personally Identifiable Information that you have provided to us, or (3) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts or other activities; you should us the tools available on this site, otherwise please email us.

If you do not receive adequate resolution of a privacy related problem, you may write to our Privacy Help Desk at:

HearingLossLinks.com, Inc.
PO Box 18322
Greensboro NC 27419

Limitations on Removing or Changing Information
If you request, we will delete your Personally Identifiable from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to HearingLossLinks.com from our servers.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will seek to inform you if our Privacy Policy changes materially to allow broader use of your Personally Identifiable Information. However, you are responsible for confirming the Privacy Policy of this site, and to opt out if you do not agree with it. Please exit this site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.

Your privacy is important to us. Thank you for visiting HearingLossLinks.com.