We built CareFlash to make it easy to share information with your friends. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on CareFlash; that is why we give you control to decide who gets invited into your Careopolis as well as the ability to remove people from your Careopolis.
CareFlash follows two core principles:
You should have control over your personal information
CareFlash helps you share information with your friends and people around you. You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join. And you control with whom you share that information through the settings on your personal page.
You should have access to the information others want to share
There is an increasing amount of information available out there, and you may want to know what relates to you, your friends, and people around you. We want to help you easily get that information.
Sharing information should be easy. And we want to provide you with the privacy tools necessary to control how and with whom you share that information. If you have questions or ideas, please send them to privacy@careflash.com.
CareFlash's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using CareFlash located a CareFlash.com ("CareFlash" or "Web Site").
By using or accessing CareFlash, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
When you visit CareFlash you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.
When you register with CareFlash, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your zip code, and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.
When you enter CareFlash, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all CareFlash visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to CareFlash. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
When you use CareFlash, you may form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up iHelp Events™ , and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.
If you post personally identifiable information in areas of the site accessible to other users, you should be aware that such information can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used improperly to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums or for others misuse of such information. Any misuse or improper collection of information provided on CareFlash is a violation of the CareFlash Terms of Use and should be reported to privacy@careflash.com.
When you use our invitation service to tell friends about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend an email inviting him or her to visit the site. CareFlash stores this information to send this one-time email, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us a privacy@careflash.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
CareFlash may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the CareFlash service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags). This information may be used to supplement your profile in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.
By using CareFlash, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed.
CareFlash does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on CareFlash. In the iHelp Event™ that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@careflash.com.
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
When you register with CareFlash, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on CareFlash. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by CareFlash that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information is used by CareFlash primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it, other CareFlash users may be able to supplement your profile.
Profile information you submit to CareFlash will be available to users of CareFlash who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings.
CareFlash will send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message or an update, or someone posts something to a Careopolis in which you are a member, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.
You may opt-out of these service-related announcements by accessing the "My Account" tab and choosing to "Edit Notification Preferences".
CareFlash may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you select an ailment in a group that you are a member of, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a pharmaceutical product associated with that ailment. But we don't tell the pharmaceutical company who you are.
We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:
CareFlash may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by CareFlash.
Advertisements that appear on CareFlash are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. CareFlash does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on CareFlash unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by CareFlash and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Access and control over most personal information on CareFlash is readily available through the profile editing tools. CareFlash users may modify or remove any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Individuals who wish to deactivate their CareFlash account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of CareFlash.
Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on CareFlash, however, you generally cannot remove such communications.
CareFlash takes precautions to protect our users information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. We also use an SSL Encryption to protect any personal health or sensitive information you submit to our web site. As is seen in the news with regular frequency, Internet hackers are becoming more and more successful at hacking web data and even the largest commercial organizations with highly sophisticated security are vulnerable to successful attacks. Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of CareFlash Web Site, please contact us at privacy@careflash.com.
If you choose to visit CareFlash, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of, and application of law of the state of Texas. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's effective date. We therefore encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us a privacy@careflash.com.
CareFlash, LLC
1101 West 34th Street, Ste. 138
Austin, TX 78705
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