Privacy Policy
Lifestyle Medicine is committed to protecting your online privacy. We feel it is important for you to know how we handle the information we receive from you via the Internet. In general, you can visit www.Lifestyle Medicine.Net.Au without revealing any personal information. However, you are required to provide personal information to gain access to some of our content and services, as explained below.
What does this privacy policy cover?
This policy covers the collection and use of personal information collected when you visit the Lifestyle Medicine website and when you use Lifestyle Medicine services.
What information do we collect?
We collect and log the IP address of all visitors to Lifestyle Medicine. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. IP addresses allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with one another. We collect IP address information so we can properly administer our system and gather aggregate information about how our site is being used, including the pages visitors are viewing. This aggregate information may be shared with advertisers, sponsors and other businesses. To maintain your anonymity, we do not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. We will use IP address information, however, to personally identify you in order to enforce our legal rights or when required to do so by law enforcement authorities.
Lifestyle Medicine collects personal information from you when you register as a member on our website and also when you use other services offered by Lifestyle Medicine.
When you register on our website we ask for your name, email address, and your postcode.
If you complete a Self Assessment online we will ask specific information regarding your health, exercise and dietary habits.
This data is treated confidentially by all our supporting staff.
How do we use your information?
Lifestyle Medicine will use your information to tailor our services to suit you personally.
Lifestyle Medicine will not use your information for anything without your consent.
Lifestyle Medicine may use demographic information collected from your personal information and other users to create profiles regarding the usefulness of Lifestyle Medicine programs. You are not identified when your information is used for this purpose.
Lifestyle Medicine may record your visits to our website for statistical and business purposes.
Your contact information may be used to get in touch with you when necessary to follow up on questions asked and to collect data to determine the effectiveness of our services.
Surveys
You may be asked to complete surveys when you visit Lifestyle Medicine. We use information from surveys to better understand the needs of our users and to gather information about health care trends and issues. We may share information from surveys with third parties who perform data management services for our site. Those third parties have agreed to keep all data from surveys confidential. Also, we may share information from surveys in an aggregated, de-identified form with third parties with whom we have a business relationship.
How to update or delete your personal information
Once you have registered with our site, you can update the information in your "profile" at any time by logging in and visiting the "Update my profile" page. You can delete your profile. Deleting your profile will remove you from our user database, and you will no longer receive the information you had requested when you registered.
It's not technologically possible for us to remove from our servers every record of the information you've provided to Lifestyle Medicine. The need to back up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your personal information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Nevertheless, we promise that upon receiving your deletion request, all personal information stored in the databases we actively use for research and daily business activities, and other readily searchable media, will be deleted.
Remember:
- Unsubscribing from our e-mail newsletter will not delete your profile information.
- Your personal information will remain accessible to you so long as you log in to the site on a regular basis. If you do not log in to the site for one year, your personal profile will be automatically deleted from our database, after which you will no longer be able to access your personal information. You may re-register on the site after automatic deletion.
How we protect your personal information
All personally identifiable data that you enter on this site are encrypted with secure server software (SSL). The encryption means that your data are protected while they are being transferred over the Internet to our servers.
Once your data reach our servers, the same state-of-the art security software that guards our company's essential business data protects your personal data as well.
In addition to using the most secure technology available, we de-identify the information you provide before it is used in any aggregate reporting that may be done.
Sharing and Disclosure
Lifestyle Medicine treats your privacy seriously. We will not sell your personal information. The Lifestyle Medicine website contains links to other sites. Lifestyle Medicine is not responsible for their privacy practices or the content of their sites.
What we provide to third parties
Except as noted above for surveys, Lifestyle Medicine does not provide any third-party access to your personal information unless the information has been aggregated and de-identified to make it anonymous. We may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns and related site information. These data reflect site-usage patterns gathered during visits to our Web site each month, but they do not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual member unless that member has given us permission to share that information.
Our sponsors and advertisers and their Ad Servers may use cookies when you view pages on our site. They use those cookies to collect non-personal information as a way of measuring the effectiveness of their advertising. We do not control these third parties' use of cookies or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. However, our sponsors and advertisers have agreed that they will not collect any personally identifiable information from our site visitors while they are on Lifestyle Medicine. If you click on an advertisement on Lifestyle Medicine 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 that site. You should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be collecting about you.
Aggregate information
We use general traffic, site usage and length-of-stay information in reports to advertisers and organisations with which we have a business relationship. This sort of information is shared only in aggregate and does not personally identify you.
Email communication, newsletter and related information
Lifestyle Medicine provides you with the opportunity to receive communications from us or third parties. At registration time, you can sign up for a free e-mail newsletter. You can unsubscribe from this newsletter at any time.
E-mail communication that you send to us via the e-mail links on our site may be shared with a Customer Service representative, employee, medical expert or agent that is most able to address your inquiry. We make every effort to respond in a timely fashion once communications are received. Once we have responded to your communication, it is discarded or archived, depending on the nature of the inquiry.
The e-mail functionality on our site does not provide a completely secure and confidential means of communication. It's possible that your e-mail communication may be accessed or viewed by another Internet user while in transit to us. If you wish to keep your communication private, do not use our e-mail.
You may decide at some point that you no longer wish to receive communications from our site. To stop receiving communications, send an e-mail message to info@lifestylemedicine.net.au or send regular mail to the following postal address:
Security and Privacy Officer
Lifestyle Medicine
5/5 Colony Close
Tuggerah Business Park NSW Australia 2259
Security of information
A username and password is required for you to log in to visit secure areas on the website and before any personal information is accessed. This is to ensure that your information is only accessed by you. Please ensure your username and password cannot be used by anyone else.
Changes to the policy
Lifestyle Medicine may amend this policy as required and will make available on our website immediately.
Remember: You may opt out of our services at any time you do not agree with the terms of this policy by simply deleting your personal profile.
