OUR PRIVACY POLICY - Healthklin
We value the trust you place in
Healthklin.com. That's why we insist upon the highest standards for secure
transactions and customer information privacy. Please read the following
statement to learn about our information gathering and dissemination practices.
Note: Our privacy policy is subject
to change at any time without notice. To make sure you are aware of any
changes, please review this policy periodically. By visiting this website you
agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do
not agree please do not use or access our Site.By mere use of the website, you
expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into
and subject to the terms of the User Agreement.
1. Collection of Personally Identifiable Information and other
Information:
When you use our website, we collect
and store your personal information from you. Our primary goal in doing so is
to provide a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience. This allows us
to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to
customize our Site to make your experience safer and easier. Importantly, we
only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for
achieving this purpose.
In general, you can browse the
website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information
about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not
anonymous to us. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and
which fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide
information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature on the
website. You may provide us with a user ID. We may automatically track certain
information about you based upon your behavior on our site. We use this
information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and
behavior to better understand, protect and serve our users. This information is
compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. This information may include the
URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL
you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), your computer browser
information, and your IP address.)We use data collection devices such as
"cookies" on certain pages of the website to help analyze our web
page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety.
"Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in
providing our services. We offer certain features that are only available
through the use of a "cookie". We also use cookies to allow you to
enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us
provide information that is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are
"session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from
your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our
cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to
use certain features on the website and you may be required to reenter your
password more frequently during a session.
Additionally, you may encounter
"cookies" or other similar devices on certain pages of the website
that are placed by third parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third
parties.
If you choose to buy on the website, we
collect information about your buying behavior.
If you transact with us, we collect
some additional information, such as a billing address, a credit / debit card
number and a credit / debit card expiration date and/ or other payment
instrument details and tracking information from cheques or money orders.
If you choose to post messages on our
message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback, we will
collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as
necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot
problems as permitted by law.
If you send us personal
correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties
send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may
collect such information into a file specific to you.
We collect personally identifiable
information (email address, name, phone number, credit card / debit card /
other payment instrument details etc.) from you when you set up a free account
with us. While you can browse some sections of our site without being a
registered member, certain activities (such as placing an order) do require
registration. We do use your contact information to send you offers based on
your previous orders and your interests.
2. Use of Demographic / Profile Data / Your Information:
We use personal information to
provide the services you request. To the extent we use your personal
information to market to you, we will provide you the ability to opt-out of
such uses. We use your personal information to resolve disputes; troubleshoot
problems; help promote a safe service; collect money; measure consumer interest
in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers,
products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect
us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our terms and
conditions; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
In our efforts to continually improve
our product and service offerings, we collect and analyze demographic and
profile data about our users' activity on our website. We identify and use your
IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our
website. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad
demographic information.
3. Other uses of your personal information:
We may use your personal information
for opinion and market research. Your details are anonymous and will only be
used for statistical purposes in Healthklin.com. You can choose to opt out of
this at any time. Any answers to surveys or opinion polls we may ask you to
complete will not be forwarded on to third parties. Disclosing your email
address is only necessary if you would like to take part in competitions. We
save the answers to our surveys separately from your email address.
We may also send you other
information about us, the Site, our other websites, our products, sales
promotions, our newsletters, anything relating to other companies in our group
or our business partners. If you would prefer not to receive any of this
additional information as detailed in this paragraph please email us on contact@healthklin.com.
We may further anonymize data about
users of the Site generally and use it for various purposes, including
ascertaining the general location of the users and usage of certain aspects of
the Site or a link contained in an email to those registered to receive them,
and supplying that anonymized data to third parties such as publishers.
However, that anonymized data will not be capable of identifying you personally.
4. Cookies :
The acceptance of cookies is not a
requirement for visiting the Site. However we would like to point out that the
some functionality on the Site and ordering is only possible with the
activation of cookies. Cookies are tiny text files which identify your computer
to our server as a unique user when you visit certain pages on the Site and
they are stored by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Cookies
can be used to recognize your Internet Protocol address, saving you time while
you are on, or want to enter, the Site. We only use cookies for your
convenience in using the Site (for example to remember who you are when you
want to amend your shopping cart without having to re-enter your email address)
and not for obtaining or using any other information about you (for example
targeted advertising). Your browser can be set to not accept cookies, but this
would restrict your use of the Site. Please accept our assurance that our use
of cookies does not contain any personal or private details and are free from
viruses. If you want to find out more information about cookies, go to
http://www.allaboutcookies.org or to find out about removing them from your
browser, go to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.
The Site uses technology from Google
Analytics through which data is collected and stored for marketing and
optimization purposes and data use profiles are prepared under a pseudonym.
Cookies may be used for this. The cookies enable recognition of the Internet
browser. The data collected with these technologies is not used, without
separate authorization by the person concerned, to personally identify the
visitors to this website and is not collated with personal data on the
pseudonym holder. The permission for data recording and storage may at any time
be cancelled with on-going effect.
5.Sharing of personal information:
We may share personal information
with our other corporate entities and affiliates to: help detect and prevent
identity theft, fraud and other potentially illegal acts; correlate related or
multiple accounts to prevent abuse of our services; and to facilitate joint or
co-branded services that you request where such services are provided by more
than one corporate entity. Those entities and affiliates may not market to you
as a result of such sharing unless you explicitly opt-in.
We may disclose
personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief
that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court
orders, or other legal process. We may disclose personal information to law
enforcement offices, third party rights owners, or others in the good faith
belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms or
Privacy Policy; respond to claims that an advertisement, posting or other
content violates the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property
or personal safety of our users or the general public.
We and our
affiliates will share / sell some or all of your personal information with
another business entity should we (or our assets) plan to merge with, or be
acquired by that business entity. Should such a transaction occur that other
business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this
privacy policy with respect to your personal information.
6. Links to Other Sites:
Our site links to
other websites that may collect personally identifiable information about you.
Healthklin.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of
those linked websites.
7.Security Precautions:
Our site has
stringent security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and
alteration of the information under our control. Whenever you change or access
your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. Once your
information is in our possession we adhere to strict security guidelines,
protecting it against unauthorized access.
8.Choice/Opt-Out:
We provide all
users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential (promotional,
marketing-related) communications from us on behalf of our partners, and from
us in general, after setting up an account.
9.Advertisements:
We use
third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website.
These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email
address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in
order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
10.Your Consent:
By using the
Website and/ or by providing your information, you consent to the collection
and use of the information you disclose on the website in accordance with this
Privacy Policy, including but not limited to your consent for sharing your
information as per this privacy policy.If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we
disclose it.
By submitting
data to us or our agent or using the Site, you consent to our use of your data
in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.
NOTE :This
Privacy Policy can change at any time to include / exclude clauses and
Heatlhklin.com does not bear responsibility for updating Users on the same.