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This privacy policy raises concerns about the potential collection of your personal information from third parties and its use for behavioral advertising. The policy states that Everyday Health is not responsible for personal information you voluntarily share in public areas of its services. Furthermore, minors are explicitly prohibited from using public discussion areas and making purchases, with a warning that unintended consequences, such as unsolicited messages, may occur if they disregard these rules.
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Company not responsible for user-volunteered information in public areas
Everyday Health states it is not responsible for Personal Information users volunteer about themselves in public areas of the Services, such as forums, blogs, wikis, chat rooms, private messages, message boards or other publicly accessible interaction, or information that users choose to make public in their member profile or other areas of the Services that allow users to upload or post content.
Why it matters: Users who volunteer their Personal Information in public areas of the Services, such as forums, blogs, or chat rooms, do so at their own risk, as Everyday Health will not be responsible for this information. This means that if such information is misused or accessed by unauthorized parties, the company disclaims liability.
Please note that Everyday Health is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the discussions in certain public areas of the Services, such as forums, blogs, wikis, chat rooms, private messages, message boards or other publicly accessible interaction, or information that you choose to make public in your member profile or other areas of the Services that allow users to upload or post content.
Summary – Collection and Creation of Information, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
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Minors forbidden from public areas and purchases, with potential for unwanted consequences
Minors should not provide any Personal Information or use public discussion areas, forums, or chats. Minors under 18 are also not permitted to make purchases or obtain coupons for third-party websites through the services. If minors disregard these prohibitions and disclose information about themselves in public discussion areas, unintended consequences such as unsolicited messages from other parties may occur.
Why it matters: Minors who use public discussion areas or attempt to make purchases may face risks such as receiving unwanted messages or disclosing sensitive personal information to unintended parties, for which the company explicitly warns of potential consequences not intended for children.
Minors should not provide any Personal Information or use our public discussion areas, forums or chats. Minors under the age of 18 are not permitted to make purchases through the Services or obtaining coupons or codes from the Services to purchase goods or services on third party websites. If, notwithstanding these prohibitions, your children disclose information about themselves in our public discussion areas, consequences may occur that are not intended for children (for example, they may receive unsolicited messages from other parties).
How your information is collected, used, and shared.
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Collection of Personal Information from third parties
Everyday Health may collect Personal Information from third parties, including offline channels, commercially available or publicly-available sources like data brokers and public databases, third-party affiliate network operators, referral sources, and social network sites or services.
Why it matters: Your personal information might be collected from various third-party sources without your direct interaction, potentially expanding the data profile the company holds on you beyond what you directly provide.
We may collect or obtain your Personal Information from third parties who provide it to us. This may include offline channels such as through telephone or direct mail efforts; from customers, vendors, suppliers, third parties, commercially available or publicly-available sources (e.g., data brokers, data aggregators, public databases, etc.); third party affiliate network operators; referral sources; and social network sites or services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.).
Summary – Collection and Creation of Information, paragraph 3 · Citation strength: strong
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Use of User Information for online behavioral advertising and licensing segments to third parties
Everyday Health and/or certain third parties may collect information about you for online behavioral advertising purposes to deliver relevant interest-based advertising on the Services and other platforms. The company uses Online Data and other User Information to send online behavioral ads and may license segments of User Information to third parties.
Why it matters: Your personal information, combined with online data, can be used to deliver targeted advertisements to you across various platforms, and portions of this data may be licensed to third parties, potentially leading to more targeted and personalized ads.
Everyday Health and/or certain third parties may collect information about you for online behavioral advertising purposes in order for you to receive relevant interest-based advertising on the Services and on other websites, platforms and media channels. We use Online Data as well as other User Information to send you online behavioral ads. Online Data is aggregated with the Other Information and data we collect and/or similar data collected by partners to create groups of users and certain general-interest categories or segments that we have inferred.
Cookies, Similar Technologies and Online Behavioral Advertising, paragraph 3 · Citation strength: strong
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Retention of User Information for Direct Marketing after unsubscribe
Even if you unsubscribe from newsletter lists, Everyday Health may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any other Services you have requested or for additional emails you have signed up for.
Why it matters: Even after unsubscribing from a newsletter, you may still receive communications related to other services you use or have signed up for, meaning your contact information is not fully removed from marketing contact lists across all services.
We will not send you any emails from a list you have selected to be unsubscribed from, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any other Services you have requested or for additional emails you have signed up for.
Direct Marketing, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
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Immediate deletion of Personal Information collected from Minors
If it is discovered that Personal Information has been collected from a Minor, the company will delete that information immediately.
Why it helps: This commitment helps protect the privacy of minors by ensuring that any inadvertently collected personal data is promptly removed from the company's systems, reducing the risk of unauthorized use or disclosure.
If it is discovered that we have collected Personal Information from a Minor , we will delete that information immediately.
Option to unsubscribe from direct marketing at any time
Users may unsubscribe from newsletter lists at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email sent.
Why it helps: This provides users with control over the marketing communications they receive, allowing them to opt-out of unwanted emails and manage their inbox preferences.
You may unsubscribe from our newsletter lists at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email we send.
Direct Marketing, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
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