Privacy Policy
April 12, 2024
Welcome to MoodChangeMedicine.com privacy policy section. Please note that this website’s privacy policy can change. Changes to this website’s privacy policy apply from the date of the change. By using this website, you are agreeing to this website’s privacy policy. You can reject future changes to our privacy policy by not using this website following the change in the privacy policy.
Overview of Our Privacy Policies
Like pretty much all websites do when users browse, read, or download information from the website, MoodChangeMedicine.com allows for the passive collection of data through a server access log. Information such as IP address, user configuration settings, identification of the website that referred the user to our website, among other things, is collected automatically on standard web server access logs. Aside from this automatic data collection, website operators such as MoodChangeMedicine.com may have to disclose user information in response to legal warrants, subpoenas, or other valid legal process. Because, at present, MoodChangeMedicine.com is free to users and accepts no advertisers, the information that is passively collected is at a minimum.
Any communication that you provide to MoodChangeMedicine.com website such as any information, concepts, know-how, techniques, graphics, images, text, questions, suggestions, statements, replies, messages, comments, other material, or other type of communication that you post or submit to this website or that you transmit through website are considered as user communications. Be advised that all personally identifiable information as well as all user communications are subject to this website’s privacy policy.
(See the sections below for more information on user communications.)
For more details on passive data collection, please see the below section on Detailed Privacy Policy Adapted from its originator, Automattic Inc.—parent company of MoodChangeMedicine.com’s web host, WordPress.
The webhost of MoodChangeMedicine.com stores personal information for only as long as it has a reason to keep it.
It collects information about you if it has a reason to do so — for example, to provide services, to communicate with you, or to make our services better.
It collects this information from three sources: if and when you provide information, automatically through operating our services, and from outside sources.
Information You Voluntarily Post on this Website May Become Viewable by the Public
Information that you voluntarily post, submit or transmit on any part of this website is deemed to be user communications, such communication is not considered to be and will not be treated as private or confidential information. Personally identifiable patient information should not be used and you should not post or transmit to or via this website any personally identifiable information of anyone for whom you are entrusted to maintain confidentiality of their information. You should not post/submit any information including your own personally identifiable information that you wish to keep confidential.
Please, be mindful and aware that whatever you post or write, it is considered public and you should always use caution when posting/submitting any information to the MoodChangeMedicine.com website or any publicly viewable website or forum. You should avoid posting information such as your home address and phone number on any public forum. You must a name and email address in order to submit or post messages or comments to the MoodChangeMedicine.com website. The email address you provide is not made public, but is collected by the website. The name you provide is made public. The IP address from which the comment originated is also collected, but not made public. Anything you write in the message or comment will be publicly available if the Site moderator approves it to be posted. Information that you make public through a comment or message is available to third parties who view the Site that MoodChangeMedicine.com has no connection to and no control over the behavior of such unaffiliated third parties.
You Should Not Post Any Confidential Information
MoodChangeMedicine.com reserves the right to remove any information that it determines to be questionable in regards to privacy infringement. Towards that end, we may elect, at our discretion, to remove allegedly private information such as might be included in any comments, replies or messages or other user communications that you post or transmit to our website. By leaving a message or commenting on or engaging in any form of user communication on our website you are granting MoodChangeMedicine.com permission to, at its discretion, remove this type of potentially private information from your comments. However, MoodChangeMedicine.com does not warrant or represent that it will be able to distinguish confidential information which users do not wish to have published on the website from information that the user intends to be viewable on the worldwide web.
We do not guarantee to remove any or all of this information from the messages you post to our website. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information from our website. THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD NOT POST ANY INFORMATION TO OUR WEBSITE THAT IS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL.
This Website Is Not Intended for Children Under 18 Years of Age
MoodChangeMedicine.com will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age, you should not register, provide, submit or otherwise post personal information on our website.
Your Posts May Be Re-Published
MoodChangeMedicine.com reserves the right to re-publish, in any format we chose, your submissions to our website. (Please see this website’s Terms of Use page.)
The Detailed Privacy Policy Below Has Been Adapted from the Privacy Policy of Automattic Inc. http://automattic.com/ MoodChangeMedicine.com elected to adapt its privacy policy from that used by Automattic Inc. because Automattic Inc. currently owns wordpress.com which is the free and open-source blogging tool and CMS used by MoodChangeMedicine.com.
Detailed Privacy Policy
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, MoodChangeMedicine.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. MoodChangeMedicine.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how MoodChangeMedicine.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, MoodChangeMedicine.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
MoodChangeMedicine.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. MoodChangeMedicine.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to MoodChangeMedicine.com’s websites choose to interact with MoodChangeMedicine.com in ways that require MoodChangeMedicine.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that MoodChangeMedicine.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with MoodChangeMedicine.com may be asked for certain information. In each case, MoodChangeMedicine.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with MoodChangeMedicine.com. MoodChangeMedicine.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Information You Provide to Us
Here are some examples:
- Basic account information: We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, we require individuals who sign up for a WordPress.com account to provide an email address and password, along with a username or name — and that’s it. You may provide us with more information — like your address and other information you want to share — but we don’t require that information to create a WordPress.com account.
Information Collected Automatically
We also collect some information automatically:
- Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.
- Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions. We may also collect information about your precise location via our mobile apps (like when you post a photograph with location information) if you allow us to do so through your mobile device operating system’s permissions.
- Stored information: We may access information stored on your mobile device via our mobile apps. We access this stored information through your device operating system’s permissions.
- Interactions with other users’ sites: We collect some information about your interactions with other users’ sites while you are logged in to your account with us, such as your “Likes” and the fact that you commented on a particular post.
- Information from cookies & other technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. The webhost of our site uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads.
Information Collected from Other Sources
We may also get information about you from other sources. For example:
- Third Party Login: If you create or log in to your WordPress.com account through another service (like Google) we’ll receive associated login information (e.g. a connection token, your username, your email address)
The information we receive depends on which services you use or authorize and what options are available.
Third-party services may also give us information, like mailing addresses for individuals who are not yet our users. We use this information for marketing purposes like postcards and other mailers advertising our services.
The webhost shares information with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you.
Aggregated Statistics
MoodChangeMedicine.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, MoodChangeMedicine.com may monitor the most popular blogs on the WordPress.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. MoodChangeMedicine.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, MoodChangeMedicine.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services, or share a hashed version of your email address to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
MoodChangeMedicine.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to contractors that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on MoodChangeMedicine.com’s behalf or to provide services available at MoodChangeMedicine.com’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those contractors may be located outside of your home country; by using MoodChangeMedicine.com’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. MoodChangeMedicine.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, MoodChangeMedicine.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when MoodChangeMedicine.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of MoodChangeMedicine.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a MoodChangeMedicine.com website and have supplied your email address, MoodChangeMedicine.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with MoodChangeMedicine.com and our services. At this time MoodChangeMedicine.com sells no products (Please, see Ads below).
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. MoodChangeMedicine.com uses cookies to help MoodChangeMedicine.com identify and track visitors, their usage of MoodChangeMedicine.com website, and their website access preferences. MoodChangeMedicine.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using MoodChangeMedicine.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of MoodChangeMedicine.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. How webhost uses cookies
Business Transfers
If MoodChangeMedicine.com, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that MoodChangeMedicine.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of MoodChangeMedicine.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on the website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. At this time, MoodChangeMedicine.com itself has no advertisers. But webhost WordPress may place ads on the MoodChangeMedicine.com Site. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by MoodChangeMedicine.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Content is submitted to Automattic’s Akismet anti-spam service, but is not saved on servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case they store them long enough to use them to improve their service to avoid future false positives.
Information Shared Publicly
Information that you choose to make public is disclosed publicly.
That means information like your public profile, posts, other content that you make public on your website, and your “Likes” and comments on other websites are all available to others.
For example, the photo that you upload to your public profile, or a default image if you haven’t uploaded one, is your Globally Recognized Avatar, or Gravatar. Your Gravatar, along with other public profile information, displays alongside the comments and “Likes” that you make on other users’ websites while logged in to your WordPress.com account. Your Gravatar and public profile information may also display with your comments, “Likes,” and other interactions on websites that use our Gravatar service, if the email address associated with your account is the same email address you use on the other website.
We also provide a “Firehose” stream of public data (like posts and comments) from some sites that use our Services to provide that data to Firehose subscribers, who may view and analyze the content, but do not have rights to re-publish it publicly. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.
Privacy Policy Changes
From time to time, at MoodChangeMedicine.com’s sole discretion, MoodChangeMedicine.com may change its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contacting Us About Privacy Policies
When you contact us a privacy matter, we’ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose any information. We will require you to verify your identity with us and possibly our Webhost.
Contact us by leaving a short comment through a “leave-a-comment” box on the Site saying that you wish to inquire about matters concerning privacy. In response you will receive an email with further information.
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