Privacy Policy

MyHealthMyWorld.com has established this Privacy Policy to protect the privacy of our cooperative members. Your trust is very important to us and we will take every reasonable care to protect information that you provide.

We describe below why we gather information from members, what information we collect, how we collect it, how we use the information and how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit our use of the information. By visiting MyHealthMyWorld.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Why We Gather Information

We are committed to providing our customers with quality goods and excellent customer service. We gather personal information to allow us to process your orders, to provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience and to inform you of special offers and discounts.

The Internet is an amazing tool. It has the power to change the way we live, and we're starting to see that potential today. With only a few mouse-clicks, you can follow the news, look up facts, buy goods and services, and communicate with others from around the world.

We believe your information is no one else's. Your privacy is important to you…and to us. So we'll protect the information you share with us. To protect your privacy, we follows principles in accordance with worldwide health practices for customer privacy and data protection.
 

1. We won’t sell or give away your name, mail address, phone number, email address, credit card number or any other information to anyone.
2. We’ll use state-of-the-art security measures to protect your information from unauthorized users.

NOTICE
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you create a Registration ID on the site or when you download free software, enter a contest, order email newsletters, or join a limited-access premium site. We use your Personal Information for four primary purposes:

1. To make the site easier for you to use by not having to enter information more than once.
2. To help you quickly find software, services, or information.
3. To help us create content most relevant to you.
4. To alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information, and other new services from MyHealthMyWorld.

CONSENT
If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still use most of the website. But you will not be able to access areas that require registration.

If you decide to register, you will be able to select the kinds of information you want to receive from us by subscribing to various services, like our electronic newsletters. If you do not want us to communicate with you about other offers regarding products, programs, events, or services by email, postal mail, or telephone, you may select the option stating that you do not wish to receive marketing messages - and you can opt out at any later time also.

The Types of Information We Do Not Gather

We will never request you to share personal unique information - such as SSN or user password- via this web site email, by phone or by letter. Credit card number and details are not stored within our site. Billing information is therefore requested for each purchase.

The Types of Information We Do Gather

Personal Health Records:
You completely control the privacy of all personal health records entrusted to your profile within MyHealthMyWorld. Your personal health record is structured so that you and only you have ability to enable anyone to access the data. For this reason it is essential that you take particular care of storing your user name and password. Further information about how Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical school emphasized this security embedded in the MyHealthMyRecord personal health record can be viewed from technical links from the following article on personal Health Records. Through your profile by simple point and click, you determine whether to make parts of your record searchable. If you “opt out”  you make your personal health records non-searchable, the records will only be readable by you. If you elect to “opt in” and make certain record fields searchable, they maybe searched by specific designees for the purpose of medical research. However - you are notified everytime either the record has been viewed or ammended.

You can change your profile within MyHealthMyWorld at anytime to change your permission at anytime that applies from that point forward. You may completely delete your record at anytime.

Shopping:
Through our web site and e-mails we may collect the following information: your name, title (gender), address, phone number, e-mail address, products purchased, any relevant promotion, source, or referral code and information, and other information detailed on our registration page. Information you enter is collected even if you cancel or otherwise do not complete an order. If you choose to participate in feedback surveys about your personal preferences - we may use this information to provide you with relevant special offers. Your information will not be provided to third parties.

How We Use “Cookies”
A “cookie” is a small file stored on your computer by a web site which gives you a numeric user ID and stores certain information about your activity on the site. We use cookies to let us know that you are a prior customer and to provide certain features to you (such as information on your product selections as you shop) but we do not store any financial or personal information with cookies.

Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but most allow you to choose to prevent the use of cookies. If you disable the use of cookies, certain aspects of MyHealthMyWorld.com may not function properly.

How We Use the Information We Collect About You

We use information we collect from you to process your orders, to provide an enhanced and more personalized shopping experience and to inform you of offers and discounts.

In the event of a merger, consolidation, sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets or business, one of the assets which would generally be transferred is the information we collect from our customers and members. However, the use of this information by any successor would still be governed by the terms of this Privacy Policy (as it is amended from time to time).

We may disclose any information you provide to MyHealthMyWorld.com only: (i) when we believe disclosure to be appropriate to comply with any law, regulation or governmental request, or to comply with judicial process; (ii) if such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate this web site or to process any purchases you make or conduct any promotions you participate in; or (iii) to protect the rights or property of MyHealthMyWorld.com, its users, sponsors, providers, licensors or merchants.

Links
When you click on links that take you to third-party web sites, you will be subject to those third parties’ privacy policies and not ours. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, we cannot be responsible for the actions of third parties. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement and user terms and conditions whenever interacting with, and prior to providing any personal information to, any other web site.

We make use of syndicated news feed, but all other information is the direct copy of MyHealthMyWorld unless denoted by Author affiliation in the header of the page. For example, if the artcile is provided to us by an author or is external research, we will make it clearly labelled. We do this so that you can can clearly identify the information is from us, directly.

For more details please read our full advertising policy

Your Security

To help ensure that your sensitive information is not intercepted or decoded during transmission over the Internet, our web site encrypts that information prior to transmission using 128 bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology. To ensure that editing of Personal Health Records or your order is being placed on a Secure Socket Layer, there are visual cues displayed by your browser:

• You will notice that “http” in your browser’s URL location has changed to “https”.
• In a Netscape browser, the lock located in the lower left corner will be highlighted and appear closed
• In Internet Explorer, a closed lock will be displayed in the lower right corner.
• However, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we take reasonable steps to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, we cannot warrant the security of your information during its transmission to us.

For more details please read our full security policy

Product Information and Promotional Mailings

If you prefer not to receive further product information and promotional mailings/e-mails from MyHealthMyWorld.com based on information you provided to us, please let us know by e-mailing us at customer service and include your mailing address.

Your instructions to limit the use of your information will be processed as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that your instructions will not apply to order status and confirmation e-mails for in-process business, and that such e-mails may also contain promotional items and offers. Unless you indicate otherwise in the e-mail or letter you send us, we will continue to provide you with information that we believe will be of interest about our own products and promotions.

Corrections
If you would like to update or correct information previously provided to us, please send an e-mail with both your new and old information to: customer service.

Your Consent and Changes to this Policy

Subject to the above provisions, by using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of information by us and the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time and we will post those changes so that you may always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it. By using MyHealthMyWorld.com, you agree to be legally bound and to abide by the Privacy Policy and other Terms of Use then in effect.

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