Privacy Policy

Internet privacy is an issue that we take very seriously and PHRsToday is committed to protecting your privacy. We believe it is important for you to know what information is being collected about you, how that information is being used, with whom it is being shared, and how to contact us if you have additional questions or concerns.

What information does PHRsToday gather/track, and how is it used?
Information gathered online can generally be categorized as either anonymous or personally identifiable. Anonymous information is information that cannot be traced back to a specific individual. For example, PHRsToday knows how many searches are queried each day but does not know the names, e-mail addresses or gender of the people searching.

Gathering and Use of Anonymous Information
Each time a visitor comes to the PHRsToday web site, we collect some information to improve the overall quality of the online experience, including product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising. At the PHRsToday web site, we collect the visitor's domain name (e.g. whether the user is logged on google.com or yahoo.com), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to the PHRsToday web site), and browser and platform type (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 browser on a Windows XP platform).

In addition to collecting these types of information, PHRsToday collects aggregate queries for internal reporting and targeted advertising. We also count, track, and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the PHRsToday properties, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about you into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but PHRsToday will not disclose your individual identity or personal data without your permission. When PHRsToday does present aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify or contact you.

Use of 'Cookies'
The PHRsToday web site uses cookies to monitor traffic flow, patterns of travel within and through the sites, and to dynamically generate advertising and content. Cookies are a standard Internet technology that allows us to both store and retrieve login information on a user's system. Our web server automatically asks a new user whether his or her browser will agree to accept a PHRsToday cookie file. If a visitor accepts, our web server will identify the user's cookie for PHRsToday's use in internal reporting. If a user accepts a PHRsToday cookie, but would later like to remove it from his or her computer, he or she can just remove it from the browser.

Third-party Media Companies
PHRsToday may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our web site. Our advertising partners' Ad Server may use cookies when you view pages on our site; these cookies collect anonymous (non-PII) information as a way of measuring the effectiveness of advertising sold on PHRsToday and to help tailor ads at other web sites you visit. Our sponsors and advertisers have agreed that they will not collect any personally identifiable information from our site visitors while they are on PHRsToday. If you click on an advertisement on PHRsToday and visit a site maintained by one of our sponsors or advertisers, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. You should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be collecting about you.

Some Ad Servers allow you to opt out of anonymous data collection through the use of cookies. To do so, you must opt out of such data collection with each individual site. You can opt out of cookies for several Ad Servers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative gateway opt-out site http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp. At that site you can also review the privacy policies of those Ad Servers.

With whom does PHRsToday share the information it gathers/tracks?
PHRsToday does not provide third-party access to your personal information except in the aggregate and only after the information has been de-identified. The information will be in the form of grouped statistics compiled from our users' answers to survey questions and on-site behavior. PHRsToday will not disclose the contact or demographic information of any individual user to advertisers or any other outside organization without the express permission of the individual. PHRsToday uses a third-party company to serve ads when you visit our web site. This company may use certain information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visit to our web site in order to provide advertisements to our web site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

User Research
On occasion, PHRsToday will make available to potential advertisers and research firms aggregated results from research it has conducted on its user base. Once again, PHRsToday will only provide such demographic information on an aggregated basis and does not disclose individual member profiles without user consent.

Special Policy With Regards to Information from Children Under Thirteen
In accordance with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), PHRsToday will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without parental consent. When we do receive information (with parental consent) from users under the age of 13, we will never voluntarily share their personally identifiable information with third parties, regardless of their stated preference given at registration.

Effective: June 2009