Privacy Policy
Naturekue 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 about your use of Naturekue and its services. It will explain 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.
References to "Naturekue" mean Naturekue, Inc , including any company that Naturekue controls (for example, a subsidiary that Naturekue owns). Naturekue may share information among its subsidiaries or websites that it owns or controls, but information collected under this Privacy Policy is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information Collected About You
Personal Information
If you choose to register or update an existing member profile with Naturekue or access certain functionality on the Naturekue Web Sites, you may be required to submit Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that we can use to identify or contact you, such as your name, address, telephone number or email address. Some of our interactive tools and services may request you to submit health information, which would also be considered Personal Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personal Information that you submit to Naturekue. Inaccurate information will affect your experience when using the Naturekue Web Sites and tools and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy.
Registration
Access to some Naturekue information, tools and services may be limited to users who have registered. You may also be asked to provide authorization for uses of personal information in addition to what is in this Privacy Policy when you use certain tools, such as providing personal information to a sponsor of the tool. Naturekue will not make any use of your personal information beyond the permitted uses in this Privacy Policy unless you provide such additional consent in connection with the specific tool at the time you submit Personal Information in order to use the tool. Naturekue Professional Portal, which allows healthcare providers a secure place to gather, store, manage and share their Personal Information and provides tools and services to better manage their patients and clients health, requires additional registration and upload of medical license and or professional certifications.
Naturekue has the ability to use Personal Information that you provide to send you personalized emails or secure electronic messages. However, Naturekue does not allow any third parties to place Web Beacons or Cookies or to gather any data about you in connection with your use of the Naturekue. Furthermore, Naturekue does not use any information that you submit in connection with that tool to deliver any advertisements to you on or off of the Naturekue Web Site.
Emails You Send to Naturekue
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information, content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to Naturekue 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 Naturekue.
Non-Personal Information
Even if you do not register with or provide any Personal Information to Naturekue, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of the Naturekue Web Sites. “Non-Personal Information” means information that does not specifically identify an individual person. We may also acquire Non-Personal Information about our users from external sources. While you may use some of the functionality of Naturekue without registration, many of the specific tools and services on the Naturekue Web Sites require that you register with Naturekue.
Cookies and Web Beacons
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information through your use of our Site. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
“Cookies” are small data files that are stored on the hard drive of the computer you use to view a web site. Every computer that accesses the Naturekue Web Site is assigned a different Cookie by Naturekue. “Web Beacons” are graphic image files imbedded in a web page typically used to monitor activity on a web page and send back to its home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party) information from your browser, such as the IP address, the URL of the page on which the Web Beacon is located, the type of browser that is accessing the site and the ID number of any Cookies on your computer previously placed by that server.
Mobile Optimized Sites
Our use of Cookies and Web Beacons on our mobile optimized sites are similar to our use on our desktop sites.
What Choices Do I Have?
Updating/Removing Your Personal Information
If you do not want your Personal Information used by Naturekue as provided in this Privacy Policy, you should not register as a member. You can correct, update or review Personal Information you have previously submitted by going back to the specific tool or application, logging-in and making the desired change. You can also update any Personal Information you have submitted by contacting us using the contact information listed below.
If you have registered and desire to delete any of your Personal Information you have provided to us from our systems, please contact us using the contact information listed below. Upon your request, we will delete your Personal Information from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to the Naturekue Web Site from our servers.
Cookies
Most browser software can be set to reject 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 functions and conveniences of the Naturekue Web Site may not work properly, but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use the Naturekue Web Sites.
How Information Collected About You Is Used
Information collected by Naturekue about you is used by Naturekue to:
· Administer your account and our Site
· Provide you with access to particular tools, information, and services
· Respond to the inquiries you send to us and to send you administrative communications about the Naturekue Web Site or services
· Obtain your feedback about the Naturekue Web Sites or our offerings
· Statistically analyze trends and user behavior and activity including how frequently areas of the site are visited and how many emails are received and opened
· Provide you and people with similar demographic characteristics and interests with more relevant content or advertising both on the Naturekue Web Sites or on other websites that you visit after you leave the Naturekue Web Site
· Conduct research and measurement activities, including those described below.
Send your personalized emails or secure electronic messages pertaining to your health interests, including news, announcements, reminders, and opportunities from Naturekue; or send you relevant offers and informational materials on behalf of our sponsors pertaining to your health interests.
Naturekue may combine Personal and Non-Personal Information collected by Naturekue about you and may combine this information with information from external sources.
We also use Cookies in order to enable us to conduct surveys for our own use and on behalf of our advertisers. These Cookies are used to determine whether you have seen certain content or advertising so that we may request your opinions. We may also use Cookies 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 surveys.
With Whom Do We Share Your Information?
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Naturekue will not disclose any Personal Information it gathers from you through the Naturekue Web Sites. We may only release Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; (2) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request; or (3) 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 addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below. We may share Non-Personal Information that we have about you, including about your browsing activity on Naturekue, with third party advertising service providers who may use this information, on our behalf, to help Naturekue deliver advertising on the Naturekue Web Sites as well as on other sites on the Internet.
In the event of a corporate change in control resulting from, for example, a sale to, or merger with, another entity, or in the event of a sale of assets or a bankruptcy, Naturekue reserves the right to transfer your Personal Information to the new party in control or the party acquiring assets. In the event of such a change, your Personal Information will continue to be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless any changes to the Privacy Policy are made in accordance with the section below that discusses “Changes to This Privacy Policy.”
Disclosures to Naturekue Contractors
Naturekue contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personal and Non-Personal Information in the course of providing product information or services to Naturekue. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that
provide us with technology, services, data analysis, research, advertising and marketing assistance and/or content in connection with our operation and maintenance of the Naturekue Web Sites. We contractually require that our contractors: 1) protect the privacy of your Personal and Non-Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy and 2) not use or disclose your Personal or Non-Personal Information for any purpose other than providing the limited service or function for Naturekue.
Disclosures to Third Party Web Sites
Certain content, services and advertisements offered to you through the Naturekue Web Sites are served on, or contain links to, websites hosted and operated by a company other than Naturekue ("Third Party Web Sites"). Naturekue does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Web Sites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose to the other websites once you access these other websites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Naturekue does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third-Party Web Sites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other web site to understand how that Third-Party Web Site collects and uses your Personal Information. Naturekue makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third-Party Web Site, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site before you visit the third party site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as "Powered by" or "in association with" followed by the name of a company other than Naturekue, then you are on a web site hosted by a company other than Naturekue.
How Do We Secure and Retain Your Information?
We take reasonable security measures to protect the security of your Personal Information. Despite Naturekue's efforts to protect your Personal 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.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. When you enter Personal Information (including personal health information in various tools on our website), we encrypt the transmission of that information or use SSL connections (Secure Socket Layer) technology.
We will retain your Personal Information as long as your account is active or needed to provide you services. At any time you can remove your Personal Information or instruct us to remove it, but you should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to Naturekue from our servers. Naturekue tools that collect, and store Personal Information allow you to correct, update or review the information you have submitted by going back to the specific tool, logging-in and making the desired changes. We will also retain your Personal Information as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. The Naturekue Web Sites are not designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. The Naturekue Web Sites do not collect Personal Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. A parent or guardian, however, may use Naturekue Health
Manager to establish a personal health record and an Naturekue Health Manager home page for a minor. The parent or guardian is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor's use of Naturekue Health 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 Naturekue Health Manager for the minor.
Contacting Naturekue About Your Personal Information or Privacy
Please send us an email by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page of our site if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Personal Information we maintain about you.
You can also contact Naturekue’s Office at:
Naturekue, Inc. - 9400 Key West Ave. Suite 220, Rockville, MD, 20850
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy or any of our tools, information or services at any time and any changes will be effective upon being posted unless we advise otherwise. If we make any material changes to this policy, we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified when you register) and/or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this website for the latest information on our privacy practices. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the Naturekue Web Sites. Please exit the Naturekue Web Sites immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and Disclaimer.
