Privacy Statement

Your privacy is very important to us. Here at mcchc.org, we respect your personal privacy as we do our own. That is why we ensure that the information you volunteer to us through the use of registration, surveys, questionnaires, etc. on our website stays private between you and mcchc.org.

We will not sell your personal information to third parties for commercial use. We request or collect usage habits and demographic information such as age, gender, and marital status, but your response is optional. This information is only used internally for our own marketing research purposes. We do not sell your information to third parties for commercial use. In addition, specific individual personal identification information is never given out. As an on-going effort to protect your privacy, we strive to uphold the following five principles:

1. We have a high level of security in place within our computer systems to protect our visitors' personal information. Information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel.

2. We will not release or sell any visitor's name, street address, telephone number or e-mail address.

3. mcchc.org is guided by the HONcode Principles which are ethical guidelines to help unify the quality of medical and health information available on the WWW.

4. If visitors choose one of our features that requires registration, they will understand that the use of these features is voluntary and that information requested during the registration process is given at will.

5. If our visitors have concerns about privacy, we provide contact numbers and an address for our users to communicate with us. We welcome feedback at all times. Our visitors may also want to view our Terms and Conditions of Use for more information.

Advertising Policy

Advertisement and Sponsorship Identification
We believe it is important for you to be able to distinguish advertisements from health information. For this reason, advertisements and sponsorships are clearly identified as being separate from our consumer health information.

Advertising Click Through
If you click on an advertisement, you will be leaving the mcchc.org Network Partner site and entering the advertiser's site. Be aware that mcchc.org has no control over the practices of other sites. Your computer may receive cookies from other sites and you will not be protected by mcchc.org's Privacy Policy. These sites may place a cookie on your computer for the purposes of ad tracking and presentation. mcchc.org does not share personally identifiable visitor information with its advertising services.

User Information
mcchc.org may share aggregated, anonymous statistical information regarding site usage traffic patterns with our advertisers and sponsors. Information in these aggregated summary repots cannot be linked to you, individually.