The Online Health Communities Researcher Exchange website collects information in order to serve you better—by providing information tailored to our audience and creating a valuable community in which to discuss and share data, ideas, and expertise with other members. The information we collect will be used solely to improve our services, and will not be sold to other companies without your consent.
Membership
To process your Online Health Communities Researcher Exchange membership we may ask you common required information including name, email address, etc.
Discussions and Community Tools
The Online Health Communities Researcher Exchange offers community sections including discussions, information directories, etc., available to all registered users. Your e-mail posts are previewed by our editorial staff before being posted on the website. If in the future we create bulletin boards and other sections that post comments automatically, please use considerate and respectful language.
How we use and disclose your Information
We do not sell your personally identifiable information to third parties or mass marketers. For example, we will not sell another company your name or email address. On occasions, we may ask for your consent to share particular data with a third party. In addition, the Online Health Communities Researcher Exchange reserves the right, without disclosing your personally identifiable information to third parties, to use the information you provide to offer you additional Online Health Communities Researcher Exchange or third party products and services that we think will be of interest to you.
We do disclose aggregated data to our sponsors, advertisers, and co-branded partners to generate reports and marketing research. For example, we tell advertisers how many people saw or clicked on an ad and additionally, how many people saw or clicked on ads in different portions of our service. Where available, we may offer additional information about viewer characteristics. However this does not include personally identifiable information about you or your online usage patterns. Our advertisers allow us to provide our service to you. In return, they need to know how to effectively place their ads to potential customers.
You have the option to subscribe to receive the Online Health Communities forum Newsletter when you register on the site. We will use this to provide you with news, events, special offers, site upgrades, and much more. To opt out from receiving these emails, you can return to the website and adjust your profile accordingly.
We may share your personally identifiable information with third parties with which we contract to help enhance the functionality of the website and provide new products, services, and content. We make sure that these third parties do not use this information for any other purpose and do not share the information with any other third party.
We use cookies on the Online Health Communities Researcher Exchange web site to enable registered members to leave comments on site content without having to log-in each time members visit the site.
Your Consent
By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of information by the Online Health Communities Researcher Exchange in the manner explained above. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will correct it to reflect those changes so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact us at lisa@acm.org.