Peggy Knight Solutions understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and explains 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.
Even if you do not register with Peggy Knight Solutions, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site, special promotions and newsletters.
A. Cookies
We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and your use of the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every computer accesses a Peggy Knight Solutions Web site is assigned a different Cookie by Peggy Knight Solutions. The information collected by Cookies (i) helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on Web pages or in newsletters, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Web site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, (iii) how many people open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user's log-in, as navigation aides and as session timers. Cookies used by Peggy Knight Solutions Manager are also used to restrict underage use of the tools. Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our Web site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Cookies to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.
B. Web Beacons
We also may use Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers, and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information collected by Web Beacons (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, (ii) how many people open our emails, and (iii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our Web sites or those of our sponsors'. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Web Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Web Beacons to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.
We collect Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to us when you register as a member of Peggy Knight Solutions and/or when you update your member profile. 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 Web site maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
A. Newsletters & Emails to You
At registration and at various times as you use Peggy Knight Solutions, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email from Peggy Knight Solutions and/or directly from third parties. These emails will not contain Personal Health Information. At the time you sign up for our email newsletters or any time thereafter, you can choose to Opt-In to receiving additional promotional emails from Peggy Knight Solutions.
In order to subscribe to such newsletters via email, we need your contact information, such as name and email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by simply clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email newsletter. An email to our automated unsubscribe service will be created on your computer. Click the "send" button. You will then be unsubscribed from that newsletter within two to three business days. You may also unsubscribe or change any of your email preferences by clicking on the applicable links in your email newsletter or by changing your profile within the Peggy Knight Solutions Manager. If you are experiencing difficulties with our automated unsubscribe service, please use our new Customer Support Form. Peggy Knight Solutions Customer Service will unsubscribe you from that newsletter in two to three business days.
In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the website of a third party which, acting on behalf of Peggy Knight Solutions (see Disclosure to Third Party Contractor Web sites, below), notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to your selected destination; this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.
When you use Peggy Knight Solutions's "Email a Friend", Peggy Knight Solutions emails the article or other content you designate to your friend's email address and identifies your email address as the sender. Peggy Knight Solutions uses the friend's email address to send your friend the particular email you requested.
B. Emails You Send to Peggy Knight Solutions
This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to Peggy Knight Solutions 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 Peggy Knight Solutions. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but are not always able to do so.
C. Message Boards and other Public Forums
As a service to our users, Peggy Knight Solutions features message boards, chat rooms 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 medical or healthcare experts.
Any information shared (including Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information) that you reveal in a chat room, message board, Ask Our Expert posting or online discussion such as Peggy Knight Solutions University 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 to 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.
D. Website Registration and Interactive Tools on Peggy Knight Solutions
After you have registered as a member of Peggy Knight Solutions, you may choose to use certain Peggy Knight Solutions 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 (like certain quizzes or calculators) do not retain your Personal Health Information, while others (like Ovulation Calendar) store your Personal Health Information in accordance with the authorization you provide at the time you use the tool.
E. Subscription Services
From time to time, Peggy Knight Solutions offers users the opportunity to register for paid subscription services. Each subscription service has its own Service Agreement that governs your use of the service and the information we collect to provide the service, including your credit card information. The Service Agreement will be disclosed to you at the time of registration for that subscription service.
F. Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Neither Peggy Knight Solutions 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 Peggy Knight Solutions Manager to establish a personal health record and a Peggy Knight Solutions Manager home page for a minor. The parent or guardian is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor's use of Peggy Knight Solutions Manager. 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 Peggy Knight Solutions Manager for the minor.
G. Market Research
From time to time the Peggy Knight Solutions market research department, or its operations contractors acting on its behalf, conducts 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. This Personally Identifiable Information is used for research purposes, and is not used for sales solicitations. When a survey is sponsored by a third party, Aggregate Information of the survey results is reported to the sponsor. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by Peggy Knight Solutions 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. Some surveys may provide remuneration to participants such as a small cash fee for your time or an entry into a sweepstakes for a larger prize. Each survey will disclose whether or not it is a paid survey.
In addition to collecting survey responses from our members, Cookies may be used 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 studies. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with Peggy Knight Solutions site usage characteristics. You will be notified when we would like to use Cookies in this way and your consent will be requested for these Cookies.