Privacy Policy

Last modified: September 2, 2008

This Policy applies to all of the web content and services offered by Health Globe, LLC or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at Health Globe, 304 Newbury Street, Suite 364, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115 USA.

Information we collect and how we use it

Information you provide: When you request additional information through our web site, we ask you for personal information (such as your name and email address).

Cookies: When you visit Health Globe, we send one or more cookies — a small file containing a string of characters — to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as what information most people read and take action on. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features and services of the Health Globe web site may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

Log information: When you visit the Health Globe web site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

User communications: When you send email or other communication to Health Globe, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Affiliated sites: We offer some of our services in connection with other service providers. Personal information that you provide to those providers may be sent to Health Globe in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated providers may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

Links: Patients Without Bordres may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed.

Other sites: This Privacy Policy applies to web sites that are owned and operated by Health Globe. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as links from our web site. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

Choices for personal information

If we use personal information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use personal information for purposes other than those described in this Policy, unless we have obtained your prior consent. You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Health Globe may not be able to provide those services to you.

Information sharing

Health Globe only shares personal information with other companies in the following limited circumstances: We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

If Health Globe becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users that read a particular article, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

Data integrity

Health Globe processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services.

Changes to this policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time at Health Globe, 304 Newbury Street, Suite 364, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA.