Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. Quite simply put, our goal is to protect your private information. However, as this an internet website with public blogging areas, forums, message boards and features, it is very important that you only share whatever information you feel comfortable with sharing publicly. Additionally, any comments you display on the YouTube channel can be read by anyone as well. Cancer Concepts, LLC, cannot be held responsible for personal and private information you have posted publicly on your own accord, whether intentional or not. Please take the time to read our Privacy Policy below.
This Privacy Policy applies to the CancerConcepts.org website, and all of the components of CancerConcepts.org and the Cancer Concepts, LLC, including but not limited to the Forums, Blogs, and Information content. Elements of this Privacy Policy also pertain to the CancerConcepts YouTube channel as well. Any information you submit electronically via e-mail or private message with private intent to any of the staff or e-mail addresses associated with CancerConcepts.org or Cancer Concepts, LLC, is subject to viewing and/or discussion by Cancer Concepts, LLC, staff/volunteer members. Cancer Concepts, LLC also reserves the right to publicly discuss clinical information with other parties, including health care professionals, outside of Cancer Concepts, LLC, as long as all personally identifiable information (e.g., name, birthdate) is witheld.
The CancerConcepts.org website may contain links to other sites. Once you enter another website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Cancer Concepts, LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. Review the privacy statements of each and every website that you visit through a link or advertisement on CancerConcepts.org.
If you choose to register with CancerConcepts.org for certain Features or other services, you may be required to submit Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name and e-mail. Depending on the tool or service you have selected, we may also collect Personal Health Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information you submit to CancerConcepts.org. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and features and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy. Your email address should be kept current because that it is our primary method of communication with you.
When you use our website, we may collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our website, such as which pages you have viewed. This allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website; they are not used to track your activity outside of our websites. We do not collect or store Personal Health Information about you, unless you decide to display that information publically on our website.
We have no control over third parties who may use Cookies or Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your usage of CancerConepts.org. These third parties would be encountered when clicking on an advertiser.
Currently, the registration process in certain elements of the Website collects some Personally Identifiable Information, like your name and email address you provide to us when you register as a member of CancerConcepts.org. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you emails about Website maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, ideas, business information, concepts or inventions that you send to CancerConcepts.org by email. If you want to keep content or business information, concepts, ideas, or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to CancerConcepts.org. We will try to answer every email as soon as possible, but are not always able to do so.
As a service to our users, CancerConcepts.org features message boards and other public forums where users with similar interests or medical conditions can share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer. We also offer online discussions moderated by healthcare or medical experts. Any information shared (including Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information) that you reveal in a chat room, message board, posting or online discussion is by design open to the public and is not a private, secure service. You should think carefully before disclosing any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information in any public forum. What you have written may be seen, disclosed, or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, this information may also appear in third-party search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. We may use other third party programs and services, such as WordPress, to manage the CancerConcepts.org blogs and Forums on our site. All information posted and submitted on CancerConcepts.org is also subject to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy inherent within the platforms of the third parties.
After you have registered as a member of CancerConcepts.org, you may choose to use certain CancerConcepts.org interactive content, tools and services that may ask you to voluntarily provide other types of information about yourself including Personal Health Information. Some of the tools do not retain your Personal Health Information, while others store your Personal Health Information in accordance with the authorization you provide at the time you sign up for the feature. Specifically, if you accept to be a Featured Hero, your information will be “Archived” on the website for future reference. Even if you decline to be archived, CancerConcepts.org cannot be held responsible if your information continues to be on the internet in an archived form as a result from a Third Party which has collected or cached your information.
Neither CancerConcepts.org nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. A parent or guardian, however, may use CancerConcepts.org and is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor’s use of CancerConcepts.org. The parent or guardian assumes full responsibility for ensuring that the registration information is kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate. The parent or guardian also assumes full responsibility for the interpretation and use of any information or suggestions provided through CancerConcepts.org.org for the minor.
From time to time the CancerConcepts.org may conduct online research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site, our sponsors and opinions on important healthcare issues, through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by CancerConcepts.org and its service providers and contractors and will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent or as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy. For market research surveys we will not knowingly accept survey responses from or conduct interviews with any person under the age of 18. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with CancerConcepts.org site usage characteristics.
CancerConcepts.org may combine, in a non-identifiable format, the Personal Health Information you provide with information from other users to create Aggregate Data that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate data does not contain any information that could be used to contact or identify you. For example, CancerConcepts.org may use information gathered to create a composite profile of all the users of a particular third party site. These third party websites may use this information to understand community needs and to design appropriate programs and activities on their site. CancerConcepts.org will not disclose your Personal Health Information to any third party without your prior permission.
Sponsors or advertisers on CancerConcepts.org may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the advertisements served on CancerConcepts.org. Some advertisers use companies other than CancerConcepts.org to serve their ads and to monitor users’ responses to ads, and these companies (“Ad Servers”) may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on our website. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the website of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its selected destination (e.g., back to CancerConcepts.org to show the ad, or to the advertiser’s website); this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.
We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or Web Beacons, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies or web beacons on their own sites. 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. You can also find additional information and resources about how to opt out of advertising and related cookies by visiting the World Privacy Forum’s Site.
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, CancerConcepts.org will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on our website. We may only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid 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 the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health 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.
CancerConcepts.org operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to CancerConcepts.org. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology and services for the operation and maintenance of our website. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for CancerConcepts.org.
You should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these Third Party websites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. CancerConcepts.org does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party websites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other website to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.
CancerConcepts.org may provide links to sites provided by Third Party Contractor Websites that have business arrangements with CancerConcepts.org to pay commissions based on sales of products or services generated through CancerConcepts.org. In addition to the Third Party websites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there are links to Third Party websites operated by companies that are not affiliated with the CancerConcepts.org website and that do not have contracts to provide content or services through the CancerConcepts.org website. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. CancerConcepts.org does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites without obtaining your consent. CancerConcepts.org does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third Party websites, you should review the privacy policy posted on this other website to understand how that Third Party website collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.
CancerConcepts.org may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our website and the activities they conduct while on our site. We might also inform a pharmaceutical company (that may or may not be an advertiser on our site) that “28% of our users live on the west cost”. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information.
Despite CancerConcepts.org’s efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health 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.
Your continued use of the CancerConcepts.org website will indicate acceptance of the current Privacy Policy which is subject to change at any time. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.
CancerConcepts.org may make non-significant changes to the Privacy Policy that do not affect Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Health Information. CancerConcepts.org may not notify you of such non-significant changes. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement on the same page of our privacy policy. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, and it is advised to review it frequently. Any material changes to this policy will be found here.