Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Web site of

LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org

La SaludHispana's websites understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org websites and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

La Salud Hispana (www.LaSaludHispana.com) and (www.LaSaludHispana.org) is owned and operated by La Salud Hispana Medical Communications Group, LLC. LaSaludHispana.com is our Website for consumers and LaSaludHispana.org is our company website describing our services and compan mission

La Salud Hispana is also the name we use to refer to our entire company. When we refer to ourselves as "we" or "La Salud Hispana, we mean our company, including any subsidiary we control (for example, a subsidiary we own). We may share information among our subsidiaries that we own or control, but it is always protected under the terms of this privacy policy.

LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org websites is dedicated to providing quality credible health information in Spanish and English for Latinos solely residing in the United States and for purposes of announcing our company services and mission to healthcare providers and corporate executives and sponsors. The site provides up-to-date health information and in-depth reference material about health subjects that matter to the Latino community. We are a source for original and timely health information as well as material from well known content providers.

La SaludHispana.com website includes past articles from La Salud Hispana Health Magazine, Health news for the public and maintains up-to-date medical reference content databases including a complete Medical Dictionary, Disease and Treatment sections and a Find a Doctor Directory. This Privacy Policy sets forth La Salud Hispana's policy with respect to information, including personally identifiable data that are collected from individuals who use the site and from individuals who otherwise register for and/or participate in La Salud Hispana activities.

The La SaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org website contains links to other sites. Once you enter another Web site be aware that La SaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on La SaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org. We hope that reading our Privacy Policy gives you a clear idea of how we manage information about you. While you may use some of the functionality of LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org without registration, some of our specific tools and services on our website require registration. If you use our Web site without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons. If you choose to register with our Web site for certain Interactive Tools or other services, we require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information.

Depending on the tool or service you have selected, we may also collect Personal Health Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information you submit to LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and tools and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy. For example, your email address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.

II. Non-Personal Information We Collect About You

Even if you do not register with LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org, we collect Non-Personal Information collect about your use of our Web site, special promotions and newsletters.

A. Cookies

In operating this site, we may use a technology called "cookies." A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our site gives to your browser when you access a Web site. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the site and help us analyze site usage more accurately. For instance, our site may set a cookie on your browser that keeps you from needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the site. In cases in which we use cookies, we will not use such cookies to collect Personal Data unless such collection has been disclosed to you in advance. On most Web browsers, you will find a help section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the sites features.

B. Web Beacons

We also may use Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers, and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information collected by Web Beacons (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, (ii) how many people open our emails, and (iii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our Web sites or those of our sponsors'. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Web Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Web Beacons to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.

In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org activities, LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org occasionally conducts research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org may share this aggregated data with its affiliates, agents, and business partners. When we share this information in aggregate form, it does not identify you personally. LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.

III. Personally Identifiable Information We Collect About You

We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily choose to provide such information such as when you contact us with inquiries or register for access to the LaSaludHispana's websites. By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

La Salud Hispana uses the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. Also, if you provide Personal Data in order to obtain access to the La Salud Hispana activities, we will use your Personal Data to provide access to such services. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you emails about Web site maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy. For instance, if you contact us via e-mail, we may use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem.

La Salud Hispana's websites may rely upon third-party service providers to collect and process your registration for activities. These service providers are instructed that they may use your Personal Data only as specified by La Salud Hispana's websites.

A. Newsletters & Emails to You

At registration and at various times as you use LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email from LaSaludHispana.com, LaSaludHispana.org and/or directly from third parties. These emails will not contain Personal Health Information. At the time you sign up for our email newsletters or any time thereafter, you can choose to Opt-In to receiving additional promotional emails from LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org. In order to subscribe to LaSaludHispana.com and / or LaSaludHispana.org newsletters via email, we need your contact information, such as name and email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by simply clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email newsletter.

B. Emails You Send to LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org

This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to LaSaludHispana.com and/or LaSaludHispana.org. We try to answer every email within 72 business hours, but are not always able to do so.

C. Subscription Services

From time to time, LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org offers users the opportunity to register for paid subscription services. Each subscription service has its own Service Agreement that governs your use of the service and the information we collect to provide the service, including your credit card information. The Service Agreement will be disclosed to you at the time of registration for that subscription service.

D. Market research

In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the La Salud Hispana activities, La Salud Hispana occasionally conducts research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and La Salud Hispana may share this aggregated data with its affiliates, agents, and business partners. When we share this information in aggregate form, it does not identify you personally.

La Salud Hispana may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to sumit Personally Identifiable Information. This Personally Identifiable Information is used for research purposes, and is not used for sales solicitations. When a survey is sponsored by a third party, Aggregate Information of the survey results is reported to the sponsor. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by LaSaludHispana.com, LaSaludHispana.org and its service providers and contractors and will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent or as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy.

E .Aggregated Personal Data:

LaSaludHispana.com may combine, in a non-identifiable format, the Personal Information you provide with information from other users to create Aggregate Data create that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate data does not contain any information that could be used to contact or identify you. For example, LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org may use information gathered to create a composite profile of all the users of a particular third party site.

These third party Web sites may use this information to understand community needs and to design appropriate programs and activities on their site. LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org will not disclose your Personal Information to any third party without your prior permission, except as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy.

F. Children Privacy

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. You should be aware that this Site is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 13. La Salud Hispana does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children younger than the age of 13. If you are younger than the age of 13, please do not submit any Personal Data through the site.

We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help enforce our Children Policy by instructing their children to never provide Personal Data on this site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child younger than the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to the LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org websites, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

G. La Salud Hispana and our affiliates may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the site to help us improve the content and functionality of the site, to better understand our users and to improve La Salud Hispana activities.

La Salud Hispana and our affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services or products we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future communications. In addition, at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or to have your name deleted from our mailing lists please contact us as indicated below. We may also share your Personal Data with certain third parties as described further in the section labeled Do We Share Your Personal Data?

If La Salud Hispana intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected, and given the option to opt-out of such use.

H. What Are Your Choices?

You can use the site without providing any Personal Data; however, you may not be able to register for and/or participate in certain La Salud Hispana activities.

IV. Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on LaSaludHispana.com's and LaSaludHispana.org's Behalf

This site may frame or contain references or links to other Web sites not operated or controlled by La Salud Hispana, including Web sites of unrelated companies with which La Salud Hispana has a business relationship (the Third-Party Sites).

The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third-Party Sites. The links from this site do not imply La Salud Hispana's review or endorsement of the Third-Party Sites. We do not control these third parties' use of cookies or Web Beacons, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. However, we do require sponsors, advertisers and Ad Servers who collect cookie or web beacon information through our Web site to agree that they will not collect any Personally Identifiable Information from our site without your consent.

 In addition, LaSaludHispana.com's and LaSaludHispana.org's Advertising Policy is posted on our Web site and will provide additional detail about our relationship with advertisers and the companies that serve ads. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites. LaSaludHispana.com website and LaSaludHispana.org does not endorse any product advertised on the LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org websites.

V. Disclosure of Your Information

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, LaSaludHispana.com and LaSaludHispana.org will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on our website.

Do We Share Your Personal Data?

La Salud Hispana is not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:

A. Business Transfers:

As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.

B. La Salud Hispana Related Companies:

We may also share your Personal Data with subsidiaries and affiliates of the La Salud Hispana Medical Communications Group, LLC (La Salud Hispana's parent company -- for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy).

C. Event Supporters:

If you sign-up to attend an activity offered by La Salud Hispana, we may share your registration information with non-related companies that are involved in supporting the applicable activity, including, without limitation, pharmaceutical companies.

D. Business Partners:

From time to time, La Salud Hispana may offer you the opportunity to participate in discount plans and similar benefit programs from one or more of our business partners. If you opt-in to participate in the discount plans or other benefit programs of our business partners, we will disclose your Personal Information to such business partners so that they may register you for the applicable discount plan and/or benefit program.

E. Agents, Consultants, and Related Third Parties:

La Salud Hispana, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples include mailing information, maintaining databases, and processing payments. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we endeavor to provide them only with the information that they need to perform their specific function and we instruct them to limit their use of the Personal Data accordingly.

F.Legal Requirements:

La Salud Hispana may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of La Salud Hispana, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.

G. Exclusions

This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to La Salud Hispana through this site or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the site, such as bulletin boards any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, Unsolicited Information). All such Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential, and La Salud Hispana shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution.

VI: How La Salud Hispana Handles Privacy and Security Internally

La Salud Hispana takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the site from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this site may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to La Salud Hispana via the Internet.

VII. Updating Your Information and Contacting La Salud Hispana

If you want to update your information or you want to report a problem, please contact our customer service representative. Our customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal La Salud Hispana department for a response or resolution. If you want to

(1) delete your Personally Identifiable Information from our systems

(2) update the Personally Identifiable Information that you have provided to us, or

(3) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts or other activities please also feel free to contact us as follows:

La Salud Hispana Medical Communications Group, LLC

info@lasaludhispana.com

VIII. Changes to La Salud Hispana's Privacy Policy

The site and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for La Salud Hispana to make changes to this Privacy Policy. La Salud Hispana reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data.

Personally Identifiable Information - We will inform you if a material change to the Privacy Policy, which means a change that expands the permissible uses or disclosures of Personally Identifiable Information allowed by the prior version of the Privacy Policy.

 Your continued use of the La Salud Hispana's Web sites will indicate acceptance of the changes. You may of course choose to Opt-out of continuing to use the La Salud Hispana's Web sites. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of the site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.