Last updated July 27, 2023
HEALTHCREEKS PRIVACY POLICY
BE INFORMED
The Internet is a helpful source of information. Unfortunately, it may also contain personal details about you that you don’t want other people to know. For example, your real name (some people online use aliases, nicknames, etc.), street address, phone number, or e-mail address. When you go online, the sites you visit may gather information about you without your knowledge. HealthCreeks values its users’ privacy. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. Our focus is to make your use of our website and services a fun and safe experience. We aim to do so through the terms of the HealthCreeks’ privacy policy.
PRIVACY POLICY OVERVIEW
This Privacy Policy will help you understand what personally identifiable information is collected from you through our website; Why we collect such information; How we use the collected information; What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data; and the security procedures in place to protect against the misuse of your information. By using healthcreeks.com services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions accessible at [wpautoterms site_url]
In this privacy policy, “We”, “Us”, and “Our” refer to HealthCreeks.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
It is always your decision to disclose personally identifiable information to us. However, if you decide not to do so, we reserve the right not to register you as a user or provide you with any products or services. This website collects your voluntarily provided information which may include but is not limited to:
- Your name, address, email address, Telephone number, etc. which you willingly provided to us when you visit our site.
- information that is automatically collected when you visit our website, which may include cookies, third-party tracking technologies, and server logs.
- Information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. This assists us in providing and maintaining superior quality service.
- Occasionally non-personal anonymous demographic information, such as age, gender, household income, political affiliation, race, and religion.
- We may also follow websites that our users frequent to see what types of services and products may be the most popular to customers or the general public.
Please, rest assured that this site will only collect personal information that you knowingly and willingly provide to us by way of surveys, completed membership forms, and emails. It is the intent of this site to use personal information only for the purpose for which it was requested, and any additional uses specifically provided for in this Policy.
WHY WE COLLECT THE INFORMATION
To better understand your needs and provide you with the services you have requested; To fulfill our legitimate interest in improving our services and products; To send you promotional emails containing information we think you may like when we have your consent to do so; To contact you to fill out surveys or participate in other types of market research, when we have your consent to do so; To customize our website according to your online behavior and personal preferences.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
The data we collect from you will be stored for no longer than necessary. The length of time we retain said information will be determined based upon the following criteria: the length of time your personal information remains relevant; the length of time it is reasonable to keep records to demonstrate that we have fulfilled our duties and obligations; any limitation periods within which claims might be made; any retention periods prescribed by law or recommended by regulators, professional bodies or associations; the type of contract we have with you, the existence of your consent, and our legitimate interest in keeping such information as stated in this Policy.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED
- We use your personal information to improve the operations of our website and to ensure delivery of the services you needed or request.
- To keep you informed of other possible products and/or services that may be available to you from healthcreeks.com.
- To reach you with regards to completing surveys and/or research questionnaires related to your opinion of current or potential future services that may be offered.
- To contact you regarding potential new offers from our external business partners which may be of interest to you. If you consent or show interest in presented offers, then, at that time, specific identifiable information, such as name, email address, and/or telephone number, may be shared with the third party.
- We may find it beneficial to our customers to share specific data with our trusted partners (third parties) to conduct statistical analysis, provide you with email and/or postal mail, deliver support, and/or arrange for deliveries to be made. Third parties will have access to your personal information but shall be strictly prohibited from making use of your personal information, other than to deliver those services which you requested. As such they are required, in accordance with this agreement, to maintain the strictest confidentiality with regard to all your information. To maintain your privacy, we talk about our users in an aggregate manner, not as individuals for example, we will say Healthcreeks.com audience is x percent females and y percent males.
- We use Google Analytics to analyze the audience of the Healhcreeks.com website and improve our content. No personal information is collected from Google Analytics. For further information on the privacy policy concerning Google Analytics, please read here.
SOCIAL MEDIA USE
HealthCreeks uses various third-party social media features including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Etc. and other interactive programs. These may collect your IP address and require cookies to work properly. These services are governed by the privacy policies of the providers and are not within our control. We use Twitter scripts to show embedded content from Twitter accounts and to allow logged-in users to share our content. This service uses cookies for remembering users’ preferences if they have opted in or out of these browser push notifications. For further information on the privacy policy concerning Twitter scripts, visit https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
MARKETING
We may send you information about our products and services, but you may always opt-out at a later date. You have the right at any time to stop HealthCreeks from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, simply click on an unsubscribe link via email or email support@healthcreeks.com.
NON-MARKETING PURPOSES
HealthCreeks greatly respects your privacy. We do maintain and reserve the right to contact you if needed for non-marketing purposes (such as bug alerts, security breaches, account issues, and/or changes in HealthCreeks products and services). In certain circumstances, we may use our website, newspapers, or other public means to post a notice.
CHILDREN
Healthcreeks.com is not intended for children under the age of 13 years. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of eighteen (18). If we discover that a child under 18 years old has provided us with Personal Information or that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone of a stated age, we will take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system’s database immediately, or in the alternative, that verifiable parental consent is obtained for the use and storage of such information. Anyone under the age of thirteen (13) must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use this website. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us.
UNSUBSCRIBE OR OPT-OUT
All users and visitors to our website have the option to discontinue receiving communications from us by way of email or newsletters. To discontinue or unsubscribe from our website please send an email to support@healthcreeks.com stating that you wish to unsubscribe to our website. If you wish to unsubscribe or opt out from any third-party websites, you must go to that specific website to unsubscribe or opt-out. HealthCreeks will continue to adhere to this Policy with respect to any personal information previously collected.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to affiliates and other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site which we do not have control over. Therefore, we want you to be aware and strongly encourage you to read the privacy statements of every website you visit. This Privacy Policy Agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our website. HealthCreeks does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices, and/or procedures of any third-party sites or services legally. As an amazon associate,
AFFILIATE DISCLAIMER/DISCLOSURE
HealthCreeks is a participant in the amazon services LLC associates program, and some other affiliate advertising programs. Affiliate advertising program is designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by promoting and linking products and services to the affiliate partners sites. As an amazon associate, we may earn from qualifying purchases. Our posts and other content may contain affiliate links. This means that when you read our posts, click on the qualifying affiliate links, and make a purchase, we may earn commission from the sale but this is at NO extra cost to you. This practice is an acceptable way sites earn money from their contents and Ads.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
HealthCreeks will not disclose the information provided by you except under the following circumstances: As necessary to provide services or products you have ordered; In other ways described in this Policy or to which you have otherwise consented; In the aggregate with other information in such a way so that your identity cannot reasonably be determined; As required by law, or in response to a subpoena or search warrant; To outside auditors who have agreed to keep the information confidential; As necessary to enforce the Terms of Service; or as necessary to maintain, safeguard and preserve all the rights and property of HealthCreeks.
OUR SERVICE COOKIES
When you first visit Healthcreeks.com, Healthcreeks.com sends a “cookie” to your computer. Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. It identifies you as a unique user. It stores your personal preferences and user data but does not tell us specifically who you are, for example “Ann Bolt.” Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Healthcreeks.com uses cookies for three primary reasons:
- Functionality cookies help us to recognize you on our website and specify or remember your selected and unique preferences, including but not limited to what language you prefer and location you are in. For example, in Healthcreeks.com, news channel users can specify keywords across several news categories. This way you don’t have to tell us repeatedly about the kinds of news stories you want to see.
- Cookies also help us to track user trends and patterns. This helps us to better understand and improve areas of the Healthcreeks.com service that our users find most valuable.
- Advertising cookies help us to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, information about your device, and your IP address. With that, we can choose the advertisements that will be most relevant to our users. We sometimes share a selected portion of this data or online data with third parties or advertising partners for advertising purposes. This means that when you visit another website, you may see advertisements that are based on your browsing patterns on our website.
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
While most of our activities depend on the use of cookies, you always have the option to disable cookies via your browser preferences. Although most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note that some parts of the Healthcreeks.com service may not function properly if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized news preferences.
SECURITY
The security of your Personal Information is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. HealthCreeks takes precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (e.g., credit card information), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the webpage.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers and servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. This is all done to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of the user’s personal information under our control. The company also uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for authentication and private communications to build users’ trust and confidence in the internet and website use by providing simple and secure access and communication of credit cards and personal information.
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
In accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, we may collect your personal information about your online activities when you use our services. While we give our users many avenues to opt out of providing their personal Information, we do not respond to Web Browsers’ “do not track” signals. According to California’s “Shine the Light” law, Civil Code Section 1798.83, our users who are California residents may periodically request and obtain certain information about any of their personal information disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and wish to make such a request or if you wish for us to refrain from gathering your personal information, please submit your request in writing to support@healthcreeks.com.
DO NOT TRACK/GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL
We do not currently take steps to respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals as no uniform standard to respond to such signals has been developed at this time. We do, however, respond to the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) to the extent required by applicable law, and allow eligible individuals to convey opt-out preferences when we detect the signal. You can learn more about the GPC on the Global Privacy Control website.
NOTICE TO EUROPEAN UNION USERS
HealthCreeks’ operations are located primarily in the United States. If you provide information to us, the information will be transferred out of the European Union (EU) and sent to the United States. (The adequacy decision on the EU-US Privacy became operational on August 1, 2016. This framework protects the fundamental rights of anyone in the EU whose personal data is transferred to the United States for commercial purposes. It allows the free transfer of data to companies that are certified in the US under the Privacy Shield). By providing personal information to us, you are consenting to its storage and use as described in this Policy.
YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT
Under the regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) of the EU, you have certain rights as a Data Subject. These rights are as follows:
- The right to be informed: this means we must inform you of how we intend to use your personal data and we do this through the terms of this Policy.
- The right of access: this means you have the right to request access to the data we hold about you and we must respond to those requests within one month. You can do this by sending an email to support@healthcreeks.com.
- The right to rectification: this means that if you believe some of the data, we hold is incorrect, you have the right to have it corrected. You can do this by logging into your account with us, or by sending us an email with your request.
- The right to erasure: this means you can request that the information we hold be deleted, and we will comply unless we have a compelling reason not to, in which case you will be informed of the same. You can do this by sending an email to support@healthcreeks.com.
- The right to restrict processing: this means you can change your communication preferences or opt out of certain communications. You can do this by sending an email to support@healthcreeks.com.
- The right of data portability: this means you can obtain and use the data we hold for your own purposes without explanation. If you wish to request a copy of your information, contact us at support@healthcreeks.com.
- The right to object: this means you can file a formal objection with us regarding our use of your information with regard to third parties, or its processing where our legal basis is our legitimate interest in it. To do this, please send an email to support@healthcreeks.com.
In addition to the rights above, please be rest assured that we will always aim to encrypt and anonymize your personal information whenever possible. We also have protocols in place in the unlikely event that we suffer a data breach, and we will contact you if your personal information is ever at risk. For more details regarding our security protections see the section below or visit our website at healthcreeks.com.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective whenever they are posted on this page.
By using this website, you are hereby accepting the terms and conditions stipulated within the Privacy Policy Agreement. If you are not in agreement with our terms and conditions, please you may avoid further use of our sites. Your continued use of our website following the posting of any updates or changes to our terms and conditions shall mean that you agree to and accept our terms for such changes.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy Agreement related to our website, please feel free to contact the site coordinator at support@healthcreeks.com
For more information concerning your use of the HealthCreeks’ website and its applications, please see read our TERMS OF USE
