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Privacy
Policy
The Kidney Stone
Web Site strives both to provide informative
content and to help our visitors protect their
privacy. Our policy is to respect and protect the
privacy of our users. There are cases where we may
ask you for personal information such as your name,
e-mail address, or comments. Even so, we will not
rent, sell, or exchange any such information with a
third party for any purpose. In most cases this
information is immediately used to send the
requested communications and is then deleted from
our server.
The Kidney Stone
Web Site encourages parents and guardians to spend
time online with their children. No information
should be submitted to or posted on our webpages by
visitors under 13 years of age without the consent
of their parent or guardian.
Before a
submitted email address is added to our mailing
list all online registrants receive an e-mail which
must be answered. Only when that response is
recieved is the address added to our list and
another email is sent confirming their
Registration. This double opt-in process is in
place to protect your privacy from anyone adding
your address to our list without your
consent.
The Kidney Stone
Web Site does not provide any personally
identifying information, regardless of its source,
to any third party for any purpose whatsoever from
any of our visitors including those under 13 years
of age. No information collected from our visitors
is ever used for any marketing purposes whatsoever.
The only mailings from our email list is to promote
new information about Kidney Stones available on
The Kidney Stone Web Site or elsewhere.
Visitors should
be aware that when they click on links to other
websites from The Kidney Stone Web Site pages, they
could be directed to other sites that are beyond
our control. Although we have attempted to only
link to other reputable websites, they may have
links to other websites and we cannot be
responsible for actions taken by, nor for
information displayed by, those websites. Beyond
what is on The Kidney Stone Web Site webpages, we
cannot guarantee the security of any information
you disclose online and you do so at your own
risk.
The importance
of security for all personally identifiable
information associated with our visitors is of
great concern to us. We exercise care in providing
secure transmission of your information from your
personal computer to our servers. Unfortunately, no
data transmission over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we
strive to protect your personal information, The
Kidney Stone Web Site cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to us, and
you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your
transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its
security on our systems and keep it for only as
long as necessary to perform the requested task
before being deleted.
By using The
Kidney Stone Web Site, you signify your assent to
our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this
policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued
use of The Kidney Stone Web Site following the
posting of changes to these terms will mean you
accept those changes.
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