Privacy Policy
Overview
Methadoneandpregnancy.com is designed to help you learn more about life issues that are sensitive, emotional and often private. Methadoneandpregnancy.com respects your personal privacy and provides this informational statement so that you may better understand how we may collect, aggregate and use personal information about you. Future changes to our privacy statement will be announced on the website at least one week prior to the effective date of the change. This Privacy Statement describes methadoneandpregnancy.com's privacy and security practices for this Web site.
Methadoneandpregnancy.com is committed to safeguarding consumer privacy on our Web site. We operate under the following set of strict privacy principles:
The only information methadoneandpregnancy.com obtains about individual visitors to its Web site is that supplied voluntarily by visitors.
In cases when methadoneandpregnancy.com may need personal information
to provide visitors with customized content or to inform them about new
features or services, visitors are explicitly asked for that information.
Personally identifiable information provided by visitors (name, e-mail
or home address, etc.) will not be disclosed to anyone unless visitors
indicate that methadoneandpregnancy.com may do so.
Only statistical information about our visitors as a group (usage habits,
demographics) may be shared with any partner of methadoneandpregnancy.com.
Personally identifiable information will not be shared at any time without
the visitor's permission. methadoneandpregnancy.com employs strict security
measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is stored
in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel.
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: methadoneandpregnancy.com.
Registration Information
When becoming a registered member of this site, users are asked to provide personal information about themselves. This information is broken into two sets: primary and secondary. Both sets are automatically supplied to any mental health professional with whom the user enters a relationship. Otherwise, only primary information is available to the staff of methadoneandpregnancy.com, and is only accessed for administrative purposes (or at the user’s request). You may add or update any of your information in the "Your Profile" section of the website.
Primary information consists of:
E-mail address *
Username *
Password */Confirmation *
First name *
Last name *
Required information is indicated by an asterisk *. All other information is optional.
Secondary information consists of much more detailed information, such as your home address, home phone number, marital status, and parental status. However, none of that personal information is required, and you could opt to withhold all of it and still successfully proceed through the secondary registration process.
All personal information, both primary and secondary sets, is otherwise private, and will not be made available to any other user of the website, or any other person or entity in general, without the consent of the user. Furthermore, the staff of methadoneandpregnancy.com will only access user information for administrative purposes.
There are three important exceptions to our assurances of confidentiality:
United States law requires that any suspicion of risk of child abuse be reported to child welfare authorities or law enforcement authorities. If we, or the counselors, believe that a child is at risk of being abused, has already been abused, or that someone who previously abused children is still a threat, we have no choice but to immediately make every effort possible to report it to social services agencies and/or the police.
Most United States courts have the power to subpoena our records and a
counselor’s records if you are involved in a court case in which your
relationship with methadoneandpregnancy.com or the mental health professional
is somehow relevant. Although this may be rare, if you have any questions,
it is better to contact your lawyer prior to disclosing any information
you may deem private.
If someone's life is in danger, we will attempt to report it. This applies
to potential cases of suicide or homicide.
AT THIS MOMENT, AS YOU READ THIS TEXT, IF YOU ARE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING SUICIDE, PLEASE LOG OFF YOUR COMPUTER AND TELEPHONE THE POLICE OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.
Internet Protocol Addresses
An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number assigned to your computer for the purpose of identifying it on the Internet. All computer identification on the Internet is conducted with IP addresses, which allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. methadoneandpregnancy.com collects IP addresses in order to conduct system administration, report aggregate information to sponsors and advertisers, to conduct site analysis and to accumulate data that can be used to develop meaningful statistical information. If a visitor requests pages from methadoneandpregnancy.com, the methadoneandpregnancy.com servers enter the visitor's IP address into a log. To maintain visitor anonymity, methadoneandpregnancy.com does not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. However, methadoneandpregnancy.com will use IP addresses to identify any visitors who refuse to comply with methadoneandpregnancy.com's in-house rules or terms and conditions, and to identify visitors who threaten our service, site, customers or others.
Cookies
Methadoneandpregnancy.com uses cookies to store your User ID on your PC. A cookie is a small data file that Web sites transfer to your computer’s hard drive when you visit the site. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID; however, the only information a cookie can contain is the information that you supply to it. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or identify other cookie files created by other sites. methadoneandpregnancy.com uses these "cookies" to enable you (as a registered user) to enter certain areas of our website that are otherwise restricted, and to save you the trouble of logging back onto the website every time you return. If you do not want to remain logged into the site, you can log out through the "Your Profile" link found at the top right corner of the website. If your browser is set to reject all cookies, you will not be able to become a member (register) of methadoneandpregnancy.com.
External Links
In order to provide visitors with greater value, methadoneandpregnancy.com may provide links to various third party Web sites. However, even if a third-party affiliation exists between methadoneandpregnancy.com and that destination site, methadoneandpregnancy.com exercises no authority over linked sites, each of which maintains independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. methadoneandpregnancy.com assumes no responsibility or liability for these independent methods or actions and is not responsible for the independent policies or procedures of destination sites. Similarly, methadoneandpregnancy.com cannot take responsibility for the privacy initiatives or the content of such Web sites. These destination links are provided only for your convenience, and as such, you access them at your own risk. However, methadoneandpregnancy.com wishes to ensure the integrity of the methadoneandpregnancy.com Web site and its destination links, so any comments pertaining to the methadoneandpregnancy.com Web site or any sites accessed through methadoneandpregnancy.com links are greatly appreciated.
Surveys and Questionnaires
Our online surveys and questionnaires may ask visitors for contact and demographic information. The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor if necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-in section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis, but it does not indicate the identity of individual users.
E-Commerce and E-Healthcare transactions
Some methadoneandpregnancy.com site features may use applications to collect data to facilitate an e-commerce or e-healthcare transaction. We will ask your explicit permission to transfer this data to the third party to facilitate this transaction.
Methadoneandpregnancy.com may store this information to verify the transaction for customer service and accounting reasons and may use this information to help personalize your experience on the methadoneandpregnancy.com site. Methadoneandpregnancy.com may also share this information with other third parties on an aggregate basis, but it does not indicate the identity of individual users. (See the External Links section above for additional disclaimers regarding third-party Web sites).
Third Party Ad Services
Methadoneandpregnancy.com may utilize certain third-party advertising services to display advertising for our advertisers. These third-party services may place a cookie on your computer for the purposes of ad tracking and presentation. Methadoneandpregnancy.com does not share personally identifiable visitor information with its advertising services.
Public Forums
Methadoneandpregnancy.com provides its users with a forum. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Security
The methadoneandpregnancy.com Web site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. methadoneandpregnancy.com employs strict security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel.
Children's Guidelines
Methadoneandpregnancy.com does not disclose personally identifiable information about users under 16, whether or not an approval is obtained. Information about users under the age of 16 may be shared with third parties on an aggregate basis. Parents and those permitting minors to use the methadoneandpregnancy.com Web site should be aware that any information voluntarily given by children in chat sessions, e-mail exchanges, BBS's, forums, etc., may be used by third parties to generate unsolicited mail or other contact with children.
Choice/Opt-In
Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. You may change, modify and/or update any of your communication preferences by contacting us at info@methadoneandpregnancy.com.
Contacting methadoneandpregnancy.com
If you have any questions about methadoneandpregnancy.com’s Privacy Statement, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us at info@methadoneandpregnancy.com