Personal Information Obtained by WellTellMe.comInformation provided by you:Information provided by the user (“you”) to WellTellMe.com via email, letters or any other form of communication is collected and used for such purposes as responding to requests, providing services outlined in The
Terms of Use Agreement, business operations, maintenance of member/user accounts, providing you with advertising and on-advertising at the discretion of WellTellMe.com, and all other communications between WellTellMe.com and you.
You agree to provide, maintain and update true, accurate, current and complete information as prompted by WellTellMe.com’s registration processes. If you provides any information that does not satisfy this provision, or WellTellMe.com has any reasonable grounds to suspect as much, WellTellMe.com reserves the right to suspend or terminate any member’s account and refuse any and all current or future use of any portion thereof operated by any of our affiliates.
In posting to WellTellMe.com, you agree not to provide any private, confidential or sensitive information relating to, or controlled by third parties unless: (1) you have obtained any required permission to do so under applicable law and, (2) for private information relating to someone other than you, you have informed the person whose data will be included that their private information will be subject to this Policy and you has obtained his/her consent to this Policy. You must do this even if an inability to obtain permission means that you cannot submit Content or other information. By providing information to us, you represent and warrant that he/she has made all required disclosures and obtained all required permissions.
Content submitted by you to WellTellMe.com, such as reviews, comments, or articles, may be highlighted or referenced in another location.
All information provided by you to WellTellMe.com, such as the user profile pages or forums, that information can be viewed and possibly used by others. WellTellMe.com therefore advises visitors not to disclose contact information, including phone number, email address, street address or instant messenger address (within these public areas) that they do not wish to share. WellTellMe.com and Bulk Herb Store are not and will not be responsible for ANY private or confidential information you choose to submit in these forums or pages.
Your private information may be used to contact you regarding your account, such as to inform you that content submitted has been accepted or rejected for posting, or to forward user comments about the content you have posted. WellTellMe.com may also email newsletters and other types of communications about WellTellMe.com.
Automatic Information: Certain types of information are received and stored whenever you interact with WellTellMe.com. Like many Web sites, WellTellMe.com may use "cookies," and obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses WellTellMe.com’s pages. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable systems to recognize a browser. WellTellMe.com uses persistent, identifying cookies to remember information and to link your activities back to you.
WellTellMe.com’s cookies may collect at least the following:
the domain name and host from which a visitor accesses the Internet and the Internet address of the site from which the visitor direct-linked to WellTellMe.com;
the date and time a visitor accesses the Site and pages visited;
the visitor’s computer's IP address and information about its operating system, platform and the web browser type and version used; and
information to combat fraud or misuse.
In addition, our cookies may house demographic and other non-personally identifiable profile information about a visitor and/or member.
Steps can be taken to warn of, block or disable cookies; however, this may cause WellTellMe.com not to function properly or as designed for the visitor. Nonetheless, if you want to take these steps, you can do so by following the instructions associated with your particular browser.
Sharing Collected Personal InformationIn general, personal information may be used to verify, evaluate, process, respond to, communicate about, investigate and enforce our rights and content you may submit. Non-private information may be used for purposes such as measuring the number of visitors to sections of WellTellMe.com, making WellTellMe.com more useful to visitors and delivering targeted advertising and non-advertising content.
WellTellMe.com may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track a user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
We do share Information, but only as described below.
Advertisers: We will share aggregated demographic information with advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Service Third Parties: We contract with affiliated and non-affiliated third parties to provide specific services to us or to you on our behalf. Examples include providing marketing assistance, providing customer services, sending eHow postal mail and email to you, removing repetitive information from customer lists, the preparation, filing and distribution of tax forms, and analyzing data. These persons have access to personal information needed to perform their functions (including, without limitation, access to your social security number by tax reporting service providers).
Business Transfer: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or their assets, or engage in transfers in acquisitions, mergers, restructuring, changes of control or operations or the like. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets, and your Information may be subject to such a transfer. We may also share PRIVATE INFORMATION, non-PRIVATE INFORMATION and other information with our corporate affiliates. Some of our affiliates are identified on the website of our parent company, Demand Media, Inc. Corporate affiliates are those entities that we control, are controlled by us, or are under common control with us. Any use of your information by the other entities identified in this paragraph will be subject to the terms of this Policy or a different policy no less protective of your privacy. For example, information we share with corporate affiliates is not used by our affiliates for direct marketing purposes.
Compliance: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law, to respond to legal process; to make disclosures under programs intended to prevent potential crimes or investigate persons; enforce or apply agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of eHow, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Subject to the terms of this Policy, WellTellMe.com reserves the right to the following worldwide: use, access (or bar access to), process, disclose, display, share, transfer, store, sell, retain, commingle, investigate, verify, prove and otherwise deal with, voluntarily or as required by law, (collectively "Disclose") all private information, non-private information and other information. WellTellMe.com may disclose the foregoing internally or to third parties or through any databases for any purpose not prohibited by this Privacy Policy or, in our discretion, to help prevent or address perceived harm, damage or loss to WellTellMe.com or others or to respond to subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, or other legal process.
WellTellMe.com will generally retain information for as long as required, allowed or believed useful, but will not undertake retention obligations. Information may be disposed of at the discretion of WellTellMe.com without notice, subject to applicable laws that specifically require the handling or retention of information. You must keep his/her own separate records.
Personal Information SecurityWellTellMe.com will not give, sell or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by WellTellMe.com to any third party for the purposes of initiating or enabling others to initiate electronic email messages except as authorized by appropriate WellTellMe.com personnel or policies.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to his/her password and computer or other internet access devices. E-mails received by WellTellMe.com and any sensitive information which may be included in them cannot be guaranteed secured from interception and therefore misuse by other parties. WellTellMe.com generally will not ask for passwords or the like in an email and you should assume that such requests should be considered fraudulent.
You agree not to enter information on WellTellMe.com if you or anyone else whose information entered desires a higher level of security than is described in this Privacy Policy or
Terms of Use Agreement or if appropriate consents have not been obtained.
All efforts have been made by WellTellMe.com to safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information that is collected from you; however, WellTellMe.com cannot and will not guarantee security of any information provided on WellTellMe.com by you. You agree to understand that no security measures are foolproof and you agree not to hold WellTellMe.com responsible for any intentional crimes committed by third parties or mistakes made by affiliates, employees or others which may provide services or security for WellTellMe.com. You assume all risk or responsibility for the security of private, personal and confidential information.
You agree to assume responsibility of all aforementioned security measures for any/all other sites linked from or to WellTellMe.com. WellTellMe.com cannot and will not assume any responsibility for the privacy statements and/or policies of other websites.
WellTellMe.com reserves the right to send you customary business communications (i.e. acceptance/rejection notices regarding content submissions, general system and administrative messages, address confirmations, transactional information about his/her account, etc.) without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
RevisionsWellTellMe.com reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove any part of the Privacy Policy and encourages you to re-read this Policy when prudent to keep updated of any revisions or changes to the Privacy Policy.
If anyone (member, visitor, reader, etc.) is not comfortable with this Privacy Policy, our
Terms of Use Agreement, or the Disclosures, he/she should not provide WellTellMe.com with any private or confidential information or other information or content or otherwise use WellTellMe.com.
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