Health and Environmental Illness

Resources about environmental illness and non-drug treatments

Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Advertising Policy

At Health and Environmental Illness, we value health freedom and health privacy.

We are committed to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Health and Environmental Illness, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a text file that is transferred to your web browser's cache when you visit a website. It allows a site to recognize your browser on subsequent visits. It may store user preferences or other information.

Health and Environmental Illness stores a cookie (a text file or string of information) on your computer, and your browser provides the cookie to Health and Environmental Illness each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

Health and Environmental Illness uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at:  https://policies.google.com/privacy

Health and Environmental Illness uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Affiliate Products and Services

The sole affiliate services platform we use is Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. It serves Amazon advertising and associated content.

Health and Environmental Illness is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, Heidi Boudro and Health and Environmental Illness earns from qualifying purchases.

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below.

For information about Amazon's use of cookies and the procedure to opt out, see

 

Amazon's customer Privacy Notice:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496

and its Interest-Based Ads notice:  https://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=5160028011

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse Health and Environmental Illness cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

Health and Environmental Illness may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

To run and operate our site.
To display content on the site correctly.
To improve customer service.
To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
To personalize your user experience.
To improve our site.
To improve our products and services.
To run a promotion, contest, survey, or other site features.
To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

Health and Environmental Illness may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

If you email us, we will require your name and your email address, and may ask for further information relevant to your request.

However, we will not sell or share email addresses or information from your correspondence, even if the site is sold.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also may collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Health and Environmental Illness contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell Health and Environmental Illness, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

If we sell Health and Environmental Illness, we will not sell or share email correspondence or email addresses from your correspondence.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is DreamHost, 707 Wilshire Blvd Suite 5050, Los Angeles, CA 90017. DreamHost's Privacy Policy is here: https://www.dreamhost.com/legal/privacy-policy/

Some information is collected by third-party services.

Iubenda provides cookie compliance services. Its Privacy Policy can be found under Legal in the footer here: https://www.iubenda.com/en/

Earthlink email may be used to communicate with visitors. The Privacy Policy of Earthlink, a subsidiary of Windstream Services, can be found here:   https://www.windstream.com/about/legal/Privacy-Policy

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review that information or request to edit or delete any of your information, please email us at privacy@health-ei.com .

Updates and Effective Date

Health and Environmental Illness reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to the Health and Environmental Illness privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: December 2, 2018