Lifestyle Oncology Privacy Policy

Lifestyle Oncology understands how important the privacy of personal information is to you. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about the use of Lifestyle Oncology and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Lifestyle Oncology web site owned and operated by Lifestyle Oncology G.P. that are intended for use by consumers (non-professionals) for non-commercial personal, family or household purposes and including the mobile optimized versions of these sites and our Mobile Device Applications or “Apps” (we refer to these sites and Apps collectively as the “Web Site”).

References to “Lifestyle Oncology” mean Lifestyle Oncology G.P. Lifestyle Oncology may share information among its subsidiaries or web sites that it owns or controls, but information collected under this Privacy Policy is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information Collected About You

Personal Information

If you choose to register or update an existing member profile with Lifestyle Oncology or access certain functionality on the Web Site, you may be required to submit Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that we can use to identify or contact you, such as your name, age, address, telephone number or email address. Some of our interactive tools and services may request you to submit health information, which would also be considered Personal Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personal Information that you submit to Lifestyle Oncology. Inaccurate information will affect your experience when using the Web Site and tools and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy.

Registration

Access to some Lifestyle Oncology interactive tools and services may be limited to users who have registered. Some of our tools may store your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Newsletters & Emails to You

At registration and at various times as you use the Web Site, you will be given the option of providing us with Personal Information in order to receive recurring informational/promotional newsletters – such as a newsletter relating to a health conditions or lifestyle tips – via email from Lifestyle Oncology and/or directly from third parties acting for Lifestyle Oncology. From time to time Lifestyle Oncology makes subscriptions to our newsletters available on third party websites. If you sign up for one of our newsletters on a third party site the site will provide us with your Personal Information such as your email address and we may use that information as described in this Privacy Policy as though you had provided it directly to Lifestyle Oncology.

When you sign up for our email newsletters on the Web Site or at any time, you can choose to opt out of receiving additional promotional newsletters from Lifestyle Oncology or our Sponsors.
You can unsubscribe from a newsletter by following the directions included at the bottom of the newsletter.

Market Research

From time to time, Lifestyle Oncology may conduct online research surveys through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to enter Personal Information. The Personal Information you submit in a survey may be used for research and measurement purposes, as described below, including to measure the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs.

Community, Health Communities, Blogs and Other Public Forums

Lifestyle Oncology may feature community areas and other public forums where users can share information. Our communities may be open to the public and should not be considered private.

Any information (including Personal Information) you share in any online community area including a chat room, blog or online discussion is by design open to the public and is not private. You should think carefully before posting any Personal Information in any public forum. What you post can be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we cannot control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, the information you post may also show up in third-party search engines.
If you mistakenly post Personal Information in our Community areas and would like it removed, you can send us an email to request that we remove it by using the Contact Us page of the Web Site. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information.

Emails You Send to Lifestyle Oncology

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information, content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to Lifestyle Oncology by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to Lifestyle Oncology.

Non-Personal Information

Even if you do not register with or provide any Personal Information to Lifestyle Oncology, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of the Web Site. “Non-Personal Information” means information that we cannot use to identify or contact you. We may also acquire Non-Personal Information about our users from external sources. While you may use some of the functionality of Lifestyle Oncology without registration, many of the specific tools and services on the Web Site require that you register with Lifestyle Oncology.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of the Web Site and your use of other web sites through the use of Cookies and Web Beacons. “Cookies” are small data files that are stored on the hard drive of the computer you use to view a web site. Every computer that accesses the Web Site is assigned a different Cookie. “Web Beacons” are graphic image files imbedded in a web page typically used to monitor activity on a web page and send back to its home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party) information from your browser, such as the IP address, the URL of the page on which the Web Beacon is located, the type of browser that is accessing the site and the ID number of any Cookies on your computer previously placed by that server.

Third parties under contract with Lifestyle Oncology may use Cookies or Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your usage of the Web Site, including which health or lifestyle topics you have viewed or have an interest in. These third party service providers may use this information to help Lifestyle Oncology deliver advertising on the Web Site as well as on other sites on the Internet based on your browsing activity on our sites. Lifestyle Oncology may further tailor the advertising on the Web Site and these third party sites based on additional Non-Personal Information.

Mobile Device Applications (“Apps”) and Mobile Optimized Sites

Our Apps may allow you to use many features without being registered but may require that you are signed in as a registered user in order to use certain features. The information that we collect through your use of Apps will be treated as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

Our use of Cookies and Web Beacons on our mobile optimized sites are similar to our use on our desktop sites. Your choices to reject Cookies are available on our mobile optimized sites. If you have questions about how to reject Cookies on your specific device please check with the device manufacturer.

Non-Personal Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on Lifestyle Oncology’s Behalf

Sponsors or advertisers on the Web Site may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the banner advertisements served on the Web Site and in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Their advertisements may be displayed on the Web Site or on other sites that you visit after you visit the Web Site. Some advertisers use companies other than Lifestyle Oncology to serve their ads and to monitor users’ responses to ads, and these ad servers may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on the Web Site.

We do not control how third parties use Cookies or Web Beacons or how they manage the Non-Personal Information they gather through the use of these technologies on the Web Site.

What Can I Do?

Updating/Removing Your Personal Information

If you do not want your Personal Information used by Lifestyle Oncology as provided in this Privacy Policy, you should not register as a member or for any specific tool or application that collects Personal Information. You can correct, update or review Personal Information you have previously submitted by going back to the specific tool or application, logging-in and making the desired change. You can also update any Personal Information you have submitted by contacting us using the contact page on the Web Site.

If you have registered and desire to delete any of your Personal Information you have provided to us from our systems please contact us using the contact page on the Web Site. Upon your request, we will delete your Personal Information from our active databases.

If you decide that you would prefer not to receive personalized email or secure electronic messages from Lifestyle Oncology, you may “Opt-out” of the service by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each promotional email.

Cookies

Most browser software can be set to reject Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the “Help” section. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of the Web Site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to use the Web Site productively.

Certain companies that serve ads 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.
As described above in the section “Non-Personal Information” we may work with third party ad networks to display advertising on our Web Site and on other sites on the Internet. Our ad network vendors use technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on our Web Site to provide you Cookie-based targeted advertising based upon your browsing activity and your interests.

How Information Collected About You Is Used

Information collected about you is used by Lifestyle Oncology to:

Lifestyle Oncology may combine Personal and Non-Personal Information collected about you, and may combine this information with information from external sources.

We may also use Cookies in order to enable us to conduct surveys for our own use and on behalf of our advertisers. We may also use Cookies to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some surveys.

Research and Measurement Activities

Information that Lifestyle Oncology collects about you may be combined with other information available to Lifestyle Oncology through third parties for research and measurement purposes, including measuring the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs. This information from other sources may include age, gender, demographic, geographic, personal interests, product purchase activity or other information. We may report aggregate information, which is not able to be identified back to an individual user of the Web Site, to our current or prospective advertisers and other business partners. We do not sell or share any Personal Information with any third parties, except that contractors performing services on our behalf may be provided access to Personal Information when performing these services. These contractors agree not to use this information for any purpose other than performing services on our behalf.

With Whom Do We Share Your Information?

Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Lifestyle Oncology will not disclose any Personal Information it gathers from you through the Web Site. We may only release Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below. We may share Non-Personal Information that we have about you, including about your browsing activity on Lifestyle Oncology, with third party advertising service providers who may use this information, on our behalf, to help us deliver advertising on the Web Site as well as on other sites on the Internet.

In the event of a corporate change in control resulting from, for example, a sale to, or merger with, another entity, or in the event of a sale of assets or a bankruptcy, Lifestyle Oncology reserves the right to transfer your Personal Information to the new party in control or the party acquiring assets. In the event of such a change, your Personal Information will continue to be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless any changes to the Privacy Policy are made in accordance with the section below that discusses “Changes to This Privacy Policy.”

Disclosures to Contractors

Lifestyle Oncology contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personal and Non-Personal Information in the course of providing products or services to Lifestyle Oncology. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, data analysis, research, advertising and marketing assistance and/or content in connection with our operation and maintenance of the Web Site. We contractually require that our contractors: 1) protect the privacy of your Personal and Non-Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy and 2) not use or disclose your Personal or Non-Personal Information for any purpose other than providing the limited service or function for Lifestyle Oncology.

Disclosures to Third Party Web Sites

Content, services and advertisements may be offered to you through the Web Site. This content, service and advertisement are served on, or contain links to, web sites hosted and operated by a company other than Lifestyle Oncology (“Third Party Web Sites”). Lifestyle Oncology does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Web Sites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose to the other web sites once you access these other web sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Lifestyle Oncology does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Web Sites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other web site to understand how that Third Party Web Site collects and uses your Personal Information. Lifestyle Oncology makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Web Site.

How Do We Secure and Retain Your Information?

We take reasonable security measures to protect the security of your Personal Information. Despite our efforts to protect your Personal Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We will retain your Personal Information as long as your account is active or needed to provide you services. At any time you can remove your Personal Information or instruct us to remove it by contacting us using the Contact Us page on our Web Site. Lifestyle Oncology tools that collect and store Personal Information may also allow you to correct, update or review information you have submitted by going back to the specific tool, logging-in and making the desired changes. We will also retain your Personal Information as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Contacting Lifestyle Oncology About Your Personal Information or Privacy

Please send us an email by using the Contact Us page of our site if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Personal Information we maintain about you.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy or any of our tools or services at any time and any changes will be effective upon being posted unless we advise otherwise. We encourage you to periodically review this website for the latest information on our privacy practices. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the Web Site. Please exit the Web Site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Effective November 10, 2015

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