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Privacy Notice

This Web Site is published and maintained by 2440 Media Inc, based in Pittsburgh, PA. Sick Journal is sometimes referred to in this Privacy Policy as "we," "us," "our," or other similar pronouns.

This Privacy Policy governs your use of the Sick Journal Web site with the URL www.sickjournal.com ("Web site"). By visiting this Web site, and/or using the services offered on or through this Web site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy as they may be amended from time to time. As we update and expand our services, this Privacy Policy may change, so check back to this page from time to time. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and part of, the Sick Journal Web Site Terms of Use, which governs your use of this Web site in general.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you may provide to us, or that we may obtain, other than through our Web site, such as by phone, through postal mail and through other live and print mediums.

This Web site is intended for users who are located in the United States of America. This Privacy Policy shall be interpreted under the laws of the United States.

Purpose

Your privacy is a serious matter to us. In order to make your visits to our Web site and use of the services available through our Web site as worthwhile as possible, we may ask you for Personal Information and we may collect certain information from your computer each time you visit us. "Personal Information" includes, for example, your name; home and/or business address; e-mail address; medical information; demographic information and/or other information that may identify you as an individual or allow online or offline contact with you as an individual. This privacy statement explains, in general, what Personal Information and other information is collected on our Web site, how the information is used, and with whom we may share such information. Please take a few minutes to read our Privacy Policy so that you understand how Sick Journal treats your information.

Right to Opt Out

You have the right to "opt-out" of certain of our uses of your Personal Information. For example, at the time you are requested to provide Personal Information on this Web site, you may have the opportunity to elect to, or not to: (1) receive promotional correspondence, if any, from us, or (2) have your Personal Information shared with other entities for their marketing purposes. You may also make this request by sending an e-mail to info@sickjournal.com. In this e-mail, please say whether: (i) you would like to opt-out of receiving correspondence from Sick Journal in general, (ii) you would only like to opt-out of certain of Sick Journal's email newsletters or correspondence, and if so which ones, and/or (iii) you would like to elect for Sick Journal not to share your Personal Information with other entities for use by such other entities for their marketing or research purposes.

Please understand that if you opt-out of receiving correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us. Also, a request to have us stop sharing your Personal Information with other entities will only apply as of the date of your request, and we will not be responsible for any communications that you may receive from entities that received your Personal Information prior to such request. In these cases, please contact that entity directly. Finally, please also understand that if you opt-out of receiving correspondence from us, you may not be able to use some of the features and benefits offered through this Web site.

What Information is Collected on this Web site?

User-Provided Information

We collect Personal Information from users of our Web site, for example, through such users' activities, transactions and completion of online forms on our Web site. Such information is collected, for example, when users register or subscribe for accounts or features on our Web site, offer or advertise their products or services on our web site, complete surveys, contribute to a blog or other open forum that we may make available on or through our Web site, submit a comment or question to us using a "contact us" or similar feature on our Web site, send us an e-mail, or in any other way submit Personal information to us via our Web site.

You may be able to send information about our services to your friends and family members through our Web site by clicking on an "Tell A Friend" or similar button on our Web site or in an e-mail that we have sent you. In some of these cases (unless you simply forward our e-mail on your own), you may provide the name and e-mail address of your friend or family member to us. Such information will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law. 

Web site Usage Information

Cookies

We may use "cookies" to keep, and sometimes track, information about you. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your browser or related software from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies track where you travel on our Web site and what you look at and purchase. They may store your username and/or password. A cookie may enable us to relate your use of our Web site to other information about you, including your Personal Information. All of these purposes serve to improve and personalize your experience on our Web site.

IP Address and Clickstream Data

Our server automatically collects data about your server's Internet address when you visit us. This information, known as an Internet Protocol address, or IP Address, is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider whenever you are on the Internet. When you request pages from our Web site, our servers may log your IP Address and sometimes your domain name. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another Web site or a search engine); the pages you visit on this Web site; the Web site you visit after this Web site; the ads you see and/or click on; other information about the type of Web browser, computer, platform, related software and settings you are using; any search terms you have entered on this Web site or a referral site; and other Web usage activity and data logged by our Web servers. We use this information for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Such information may also be used to gather broad demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider. We may also link this information with your Personal Information.

Any or all of these activities with regard to Web Site Usage Information may be performed on our behalf by our services providers.

How is the Personal Information used?

We will use the Personal Information you provide to our Web site, for example, to respond to your requests and to provide you with our product and service offerings, as well as those of authorized third party sources. For example, we will respond to your requests and inquiries and provide you with the information, services and features offered on or through our Web site. We may also use your Personal Information to maintain our internal record keeping. We may match information collected from you through different means or at different times, including both Personal Information and Web Site Usage Information, and use such information along with information obtained from other sources, including third parties. [In addition, we may send you notices (for example, in the form of e-mails, mailings, and the like), and otherwise correspond with you, about products, services, companies and events, sponsored by us and others, that we think might interest you.] You may opt-out of receiving such notices from us by following the instructions in the Right to Opt Out section above.

We may analyze user behavior as a measure of interest in, and use of, our Web site and e-mails, both on an individual basis and in the aggregate. 

In addition, some of our specific service offerings may involve additional service-specific uses of your Personal Information as set forth in the Terms of Use applicable to such service. 

Do we share Personal Information and Web site Usage information with others?

Symptom Reporting

When you contribute to Sick Journal, the information that you submit will be made available to the general public or kept private (which is the default setting), but will not describe or identify you as an individual user. If you have connected your Sick Journal account with another Social Network (such as Facebook or Twitter) or another Third Party, per your selection, this status update information may be broadcast to those accounts per the Opt-In process which grants Sick Journal permission to do so. This permission may be revoked at any time from changing the permission settings in your third party accounts. Please refer to the websites of your connected third party accounts for more information regarding this process.

Service Providers

We may use third party partners to help operate our Web site and deliver our products and services, and may share your information with our affiliates, service providers and other third parties that provide products or services for or through this Web site or for our business (such as Web site or database hosting companies, address list hosting companies, e-mail service providers, analytics companies and other similar service providers that use such information on our behalf).

Aggregate Statistics

We may disclose aggregate statistics regarding user behavior as a measure of interest in, and use of, our Web site and e-mails to third parties in the form of aggregate data, such as overall patterns or demographic reports that do not describe or identify any individual user.

Legally Compelled Disclosures

We may disclose user information to government authorities, and to other third parties when compelled to do so by government authorities, at our discretion, or otherwise as required or permitted by law, including but not limited to in response to court orders and subpoenas. We also may disclose user information when we have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other users of the Web site, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.

Business Transfer

In the event that Sick Journal or substantially all of its assets are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets.

Third Party Ad Servers

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name or email address) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies may employ cookies to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and clear gifs is generally not personally identifiable (unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or e-mail message). We encourage you to read these businesses' privacy policies if you should have any concerns about how they will care for your Personal Information.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on information the visitor sends via their browser.
Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users, based on their visit to information visitor sends through their browser and other sites on the Internet.

Users may keep out of the DART cookie use by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Few of our advertising partners may use web beacons and cookies on our site. Our advertising partners are …

Google Adsense

The third-party ad networks and ad servers use technology for the advertisements and links that appear on www.sickjournal.com to be send directly to your browsers and when thi occur, they automatically receive your IP address. Other technologies (JavaScript, Cookies, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks for measuring the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or personalizing the advertising content that you see.

Amazon.com

The owner of this website 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 properties including, but not limited to, amazon.com, endless.com, myhabit.com, smallparts.com, or amazonwireless.com.

Wireless Addresses

If the email address you provide to us is a wireless email address, you agree to receive messages at such address from Sick Journal and the rest of the third parties with which we share your e-mail address (unless and until you have elected not to receive such messages by following the instructions in the Right to Opt Out section above). You understand that your wireless carrier's standard rates apply to these messages, and that you may change your mind at any time by following the instructions in the Right to Opt Out section above. You represent that you are the owner or authorized user of the wireless device on which messages will be received, and that you are authorized to approve the applicable charges.

Your Access Rights 

You may review the Personal Information that is stored in your user account on this Web site by e-mailing info@sickjournal.com. We will send you a copy of the Personal Information we have on file in your user account (if any). You may send us new or updated information at any time. We will endeavor to respond to your request to access, update or delete your information as soon as practicable. Before we are able to provide you with any information, correct any inaccuracies or delete any information, however, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us to respond to your request.

Security

Sick Journal will take reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of all Personal Information provided to this Web site. However, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our system or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers.

If you contact us by e-mail [or a "contact us" or similar feature on our Web site], you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure. A third party could view information you send by these methods in transit.

You may be able to create an account on our Web site with a username and password. If so, you are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account password, and you shall be responsible for any access to or use of the Web site by you or any person or entity using your password, whether or not such access or use has been authorized by or on behalf of you, and whether or not such person or entity is your employee or agent. You agree to (a) immediately notify Sick Journal of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. It is your sole responsibility to control the dissemination and use of your password, control access to and use of your account, and notify Sick Journal when you desire to cancel your account on this Web site. We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this provision.

We will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission.

In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. You consent to our use of e-mail as a means of such notification.

Phishing

With identity theft a continuing problem, it has become increasingly common for unauthorized individuals to send e-mail messages to consumers, purporting to represent a legitimate company such as a bank or on-line merchant, requesting that the consumer provide personal, often sensitive information. Sometimes, the domain name of the e-mail address from which the e-mail appears to have been sent, and the domain name of the web site requesting such information, appears to be the domain name of a legitimate, trusted company. In reality, such sensitive information is received by an unauthorized individual to be used for purposes of identity theft. This illegal activity has come to be known as "phishing."

If you receive an e-mail or other correspondence requesting that you provide any sensitive information (including your Site password or credit card information) via e-mail or to a web site that does not seem to be affiliated with our Web site, or that otherwise seems suspicious to you, please do not provide such information, and report such request to us at info@sickjournal.com.

Consent to Processing

By providing Personal Information to this Web site, you understand and consent to the collection, maintenance, processing and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other countries and territories.

Third Party "Linked-To" Web Sites

When you are on our Web site you may have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites not operated by 2440 Media, including other Web sites operated by governmental agencies or other unaffiliated third parties. These sites may collect Personal Information about you. Sick Journal does not control sites that are operated by these agencies and entities and is not responsible for the information practices of these sites. This Privacy Policy does not address the information practices of those other Web sites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Sick Journal reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy, or any other of our policies or practices, at any time, and will notify users of this Web site by posting such changed or updated Privacy Policy on this page. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to this Web site. Under certain circumstances, we may also elect to notify you of changes or updates to our Privacy Policy by additional means, such as posting a notice on the front page of our Web site to sending you an e-mail.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy practices, you may contact us at info@sickjournal.com.

Effective Date: 7/5/2014