Privacy Policy

Medicine Yoga Privacy Policy

Medicine Yoga 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 Medicine Yoga 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.

 

About This Privacy Policy and Using Our Site and Tools

This Privacy Policy applies to the Medicine Yoga Web sites owned and operated by Medicine Yoga and Soul Yogi, Inc. Reference to "Medicine Yoga" means Soul Yogi, Inc., including any company that Soul Yogi, Inc. controls (for example, a subsidiary that Soul Yogi, Inc. owns). Medicine Yoga Web sites include any site that Medicine Yoga or Soul Yogi, Inc. owns or controls. Medicine Yoga may share information among its subsidiaries or sites that it owns or controls, but it is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

The Medicine Yoga Web site contains links to other sites. Once you enter another Web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Medicine Yoga 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 Medicine Yoga.

We hope that reading our Privacy Policy helps you understand how we manage information about you.
While you may use some of the functionality of Medicine Yoga without registration, many of the 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 Medicine Yoga. 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.

Non-Personal Information We Collect About You

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

A. Cookies

 

We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and your use of the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every computer accesses a Medicine Yoga Web site is assigned a different Cookie by Medicine Yoga. The information collected by Cookies (i) helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on Web pages or in newsletters, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Web site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, (iii) how many people open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user's log-in, as navigation aides and as session timers. Cookies used by Medicine Yoga and Medicine Yoga Health Manager are also used to restrict underage use of the tools.

Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our Web site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Cookies to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.

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.

C. Third Parties Collecting Non-Personal Information on Medicine Yoga's Behalf

 

Third parties under contract with Medicine Yoga may use Cookies or Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your usage of Medicine Yoga's sites, and this information may used by Medicine Yoga to tailor the advertising you may see on sites within the networks of these third parties. This Non-Personal Information is anonymous and does not contain any personal information about you. These third parties may collect this information, on our behalf, to help Medicine Yoga target our advertising on these third party sites. These third parties have agreed not to use this non-personal cookie or web beacon information except to help us target our advertising on these sites and have agreed to not link any non-personal cookie or web beacon information collected by them on our sites to Personally Identifiable Information they or others collect from other sites. If your browser is set to reject cookies, this Non-Personal Information will not be sent to these third parties.

Personally Identifiable Information We Collect About You

We collect Personally Identifiable Information, like your name, email address, date of birth, and zip code, you provide to us when you register as a member of Medicine Yoga and/or when you update your member profile. 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.

A. Newsletters & Emails to You

At registration and at various times as you use Medicine Yoga, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email from Medicine Yoga and/or directly from third parties. These emails will not contain Personal Health Information. When you sign up for our email newsletters or at any time, you can choose to Opt-In to receiving additional promotional emails from Medicine Yoga or our Sponsors. In order to subscribe to Medicine Yoga newsletters via email, we need your contact information, like name and email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by simply clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email newsletter. An email to our automated unsubscribe service will be created on your computer. Click the "send" button. You will then be unsubscribed from that newsletter within two to three business days. You may also unsubscribe or change any of your email preferences by clicking on the applicable links in your email newsletter or by changing your profile settings by clicking on any of the view/manage links at the bottom of your Medicine Yoga Newsletter. If you experience difficulties with our automated unsubscribe service, please contact us directly. Medicine Yoga Customer Service will manually unsubscribe you from that newsletter in two to three business days. In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement on our site, in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the website of a third party which, acting on behalf of Medicine Yoga (see Disclosure to Third Party Contractor Web sites, below), notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to your selected destination; this re-direction process may not be apparent to you.

Email a Friend

If you choose to use our Email a Friend service to tell a friend about our site or newsletter, we will ask you for your name, your email address and your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site using your name and email address as the from email address. Medicine Yoga does not use your name, your email address or your friend's email information and the information you provide using this service for any other purpose. We will only use the information you provide to send the email you request.

B. Emails You Send to Medicine Yoga

This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to Medicine Yoga 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 Medicine Yoga. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but are not always able to do so.

C. Message Boards and other Public Forums

As a service to our users, Medicine Yoga features message boards, chat rooms and other public forums where users with similar interests or medical conditions can share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer. We also offer online discussions moderated by medical or healthcare experts. Any information shared (including Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information) that you reveal in a chat room, message board, Ask Our Expert posting or online discussion is by design open to the public and is not a private, secure service. You should think carefully before disclosing any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information in any public forum. What you have written may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, this information may also appear in third-party search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc.

We use other third parties to manage the Medicine Yoga blog(s) on our site. Those providers may share the information you have posted as necessary for us and the third party to provide continued service and to allow you to post your blogs on the Medicine Yoga site. Those providers will share ownership of your information as necessary to continue to implement the blogs on our site and as described in their privacy policy. Medicine Yoga will use your information as described in this privacy policy.

D. Website Registration and Interactive Tools on Medicine Yoga

After you have registered as a member of Medicine Yoga, you may choose to use certain Medicine Yoga interactive content, tools and services that may ask you to voluntarily provide other types of information about yourself including Personal Health Information. Some of the tools (like certain quizzes or calculators) do not retain your Personal Health Information, while others store your Personal Health Information in accordance with the authorization you provide at the time you use the tool.

E. Subscription Services

From time to time, Medicine Yoga 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.

F. Children

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Neither Medicine Yoga nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. A parent or guardian, however, may use the Medicine Yoga Site for a minor. The parent or guardian is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor's use of Medicine Yoga Site. The parent or guardian assumes full responsibility for ensuring that the registration information is kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate. The parent or guardian also assumes full responsibility for the interpretation and use of any information or suggestions provided through the Medicine Yoga Site for the minor.

G. Market Research

From time to time the Medicine Yoga market research department, or its operations contractors acting on its behalf, conducts online research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site, our sponsors and opinions on important healthcare issues, through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to submit 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 Medicine Yoga 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. For market research surveys we will not knowingly accept survey responses from or conduct interviews with any person under the age of 18. Some surveys may provide remuneration to participants such as a small cash fee for your time or an entry into a sweepstakes for a larger prize. Each survey will disclose whether or not it is a paid survey. In addition to collecting survey responses from our members, Cookies may be used to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some studies. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with Medicine Yoga site usage characteristics. You will be notified when we would like to use Cookies in this way and your consent will be requested for these Cookies.

Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on Medicine Yoga’s Behalf

Sponsors or advertisers on Medicine Yoga may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the banner advertisements served on Medicine Yoga and in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Some advertisers use companies other than Medicine Yoga to serve their ads and to monitor users' responses to ads, and these companies ("Ad Servers") may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on our Web site. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the Web site of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its selected destination (e.g., back to Medicine Yoga to show the ad, or to the advertiser's website); this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.

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. They have promised us they will not link any non-personal cookie or web beacon information collected by them on our site to Personally Identifiable Information they or others collect in other ways or from other sites except as may be described in connection with a particular program. For example, in connection with "Ad links" furnished by Yahoo, non-personal information sent by your browser to Yahoo when you click on a sponsored link or submit a query may be used by Yahoo as described in its privacy policy. In addition, Medicine Yoga'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. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies or web beacons on their own sites. Certain Ad Servers allow you to prevent them from collecting data through the use of cookies. In order to do so, you must Opt-out of such data collection with each individual site. Currently, you can Opt-out of Cookies for several Ad Servers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative gateway Opt-out site. This website will also allow you to review the Ad Server's privacy policies.

Disclosure of Your Information

Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Medicine Yoga will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on our website. We may only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below.

Disclosure to Medicine Yoga Operations and Maintenance Contractors

Medicine Yoga operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to Medicine Yoga. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for the operation and maintenance of our Web site. Unless you have Opted-out of receiving emails and newsletters from Medicine Yoga, these contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for Medicine Yoga. We also contractually require that our operations and maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your Personally Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services as required by law.

Disclosure to Third Party Contractor Websites

Certain content and services offered to you through our website are served on Web sites hosted and operated by a company other than Medicine Yoga ("Third Party Contractor Web sites"). Medicine Yoga does not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these Third Party Contractor Web sites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other Web sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Medicine Yoga does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Contractor Web sites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other Web site to understand how that Third Party Contractor Website collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information. Medicine Yoga makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Contractor Web site, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site before you visit the third party site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as "Powered by" or "in association with" followed by the name of a company other than Medicine Yoga, then you are on a Web site hosted by a company other than Medicine Yoga.

Medicine Yoga also provides links to sites provided by Third Party Contractor Websites that have business arrangements with Medicine Yoga to pay commissions based on sales of products or services generated through Medicine Yoga. An example of this would be "Ad links" from Yahoo on our Search pages.

Disclosure to Linked Sites

For your convenience there are links to Third Party Web sites operated by companies that are not affiliated with the Medicine Yoga Web site and that do not have contracts to provide content or services through the Medicine Yoga Web site. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. Medicine Yoga does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites without obtaining your consent. Medicine Yoga does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third Party Web sites, you should review the privacy policy posted on this other website to understand how that Third Party Web site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.

Disclosure of Aggregate Information

Medicine Yoga may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our website and the activities they conduct while on our site. We might also inform a pharmaceutical company (that may or may not be an advertiser on our site) that "30% of our users live east of the Mississippi" or that "25% of our users have tried alternative medicine." Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We require parties with whom we share Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.

How Medicine Yoga Handles Privacy and Security Internally

Here are some of the security procedures that Medicine Yoga uses to protect your privacy:

• Requires both a personal username (log-in name) and a password in order for users to access their Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Health Information.
• Requires a public ‘nickname' different from the username and password, used for any public forums like message boards.
• Uses firewalls to protect information held in our servers.
• Utilizes Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption in transmitting Personally Identifiable Information to our servers. In order to take advantage of encryption technology, you must have an Internet browser which supports 128-bit encryption.
• Closely monitors the limited number of Medicine Yoga employees who have potential access to your Personally Identifiable Information.
• Requires all Medicine Yoga employees to abide by our Privacy Policy and to be subject to disciplinary action if they violate it.
• Backs-up our systems to protect the integrity of your Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information.

Despite Medicine Yoga's efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.

Removing your Personal Information

If you have a complaint or problem, please use our Customer Support Form (Contact Us.) Our customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal Medicine Yoga department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but may not always able to do so. 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, select the privacy option on our Contact Us form.

If you do not receive adequate resolution of a privacy related problem, you may write to Medicine Yoga’s Privacy Office at privacy@medicineyoga.com

Upon your request, we will delete your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to Medicine Yoga from our servers.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

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 Medicine Yoga Web site will indicate acceptance of the changes. You may of course choose to Opt-out of continuing to use the Medicine Yoga Web site. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.

Non-Significant Changes - Medicine Yoga may make non-significant changes to the Privacy Policy that do no affect Personally Identifiable Information. For these instances, Medicine Yoga may not notify you of such non-significant changes.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places appropriate throughout our site so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, and by means of a notice on our home page.