Deep Brain Thoughts Privacy Policy
We at Deep Brain Thoughts (DBT) want this site to be a safe and private place for users. DBT will do its part by not requiring you to register or provide any information at all to use most features of this Web site. In turn, you can do your part by reading this policy and taking the steps outlined below.
There are certain actions and areas of the site that will require you to provide personal information, such as:
- Subscribing to our blog site via email
- Sending an e-mail question
- Commenting on posts
Any time you provide personal information, you should be mindful of the terms of this privacy policy, as it will govern our use of the information you have provided.
We will update this privacy policy as we deem necessary, so be sure to reread it from time to time. By submitting information to us, you agree that DBT may use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
In order to gain access to certain areas of our site, you may choose to provide information. If you do submit information to us, we will use that information for the purposes for which it was submitted. We may also use your information in other ways, such as to contact you about other DBT activities, newsletters or as otherwise disclosed to you at the point of collection. For example:
- If you join our e-mail list, we will have a record of your e-mail address and all other information you choose to provide. We may contact you by e-mail occasionally such as when a new post by our authors is published.
We will receive any other information you choose to provide, such as optional information or comments you submit. By commenting on a post, you give us permission to edit it, post it on the DBT website, and use it in appropriate settings designed to illustrate the importance of bringing hope and wellness to all who are touched by Parkinson’s. To protect your privacy, please do not include any identifying information in any comment you post.
You should be aware that we use third-party vendors to provide services on this site and in our offline operations. The information that you submit on this site may be provided to those vendors on a confidential basis so that those vendors can provide services (such as maintaining our server or sending e-mail messages) on our behalf.
Other than as described in this privacy policy, or as may be necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of our organization, our donors, or others, or as may be necessary to comply with applicable law, DBT will not give or sell the personal information you provide online.
Information Automatically Collected and Stored
As is true of most websites you enter, we automatically collect and store some information about your computer and your visit and store it in log files. This information includes information such as your computer’s (or your ISP’s) Internet Protocol (IP) address (this is not your e-mail address); the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g., “webmd.com” or “parkinsonsmi.org”); the name, version, and specifications of your computer and your computer’s operating system; the Internet address of the website, if any, from which you came to our site; the date and time you arrived at our site and how long you spent on the site; and which pages you visited.
We use this information to formulate statistics (possibly with the help of outside experts) that show the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. For example, we use the browser information to help us design our website so that as many people as possible will be able to view the pages correctly. These statistics do not reveal personal information.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are either placed on your computer’s hard drive (“persistent cookies”) or in your computer’s Random Access Memory (“session cookies”). We use both persistent cookies and session cookies on www.DeepBrainThoughts.com.
- Session Cookies: We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate certain sections of our website. If you choose to provide personal information by using an interactive application on our site, such as by joining our e-mail list, or registering with Team Parkinson’s, or making an online donation to the DBT , we place a session cookie on your computer so that you will be recognized as you move around the webpages. Unless you opt-in to change these session cookies to persistent cookies (see Persistent Cookies below), the information is only used for the duration of your browser session. For example, if you join Team Parkinson’s and then navigate through different pages of the website, the cookie will maintain the information you entered when you filled out the registration page. As you move through the site, any fields requiring information about you that has already been captured will automatically appear. However, once you close your browser window, the session cookie times out. If you open a new browser window and return to our website, your personal information fields will not be filled automatically.
- Persistent Cookies: We use persistent cookies to provide greater accuracy in our analysis of the information that is automatically collected about your visit to our site. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. These cookies do not collect personal information. We do not link the information collected through these cookies with other personal data that you provide to us.
In certain circumstances, you may be given the option to turn a session cookie into a persistent cookie on your computer (e.g., “Would you like us to remember your password?” messages). If you opt to turn a session cookie into a persistent cookie, that persistent cookie will remember your personal information (e.g., user name and password) and will not time out at the end of your browser session. See “Your Help is Needed” for more information.
- Disabling Cookies: Persistent cookies leave a record on your computer that you have visited our site. However, you have the ability to remove cookies from your computer. Your Internet browser’s “Help” section will give you information on how to delete cookies. In addition, there are many websites that provide browser- and operating system-specific information on how to delete cookies. When thinking about whether you want to delete cookies, you should be aware that some sites require cookies to function properly. If you delete cookies, you may have to re-register with some sites or you may notice difficulty in browsing some sites after you delete cookies.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. The security measures used on this site include, but are not limited to, industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, Verisign certificates, firewalls, and other internal policies to maintain the security of stored data. While we follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100 percent secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Remember, many breaches of security occur when users are not vigilant in protecting their own information. The next section of our privacy policy suggests some actions you can take to help control the security of your personal information.
Your Help Is Needed
Although the DBT does its best to protect your privacy on our site, we need your help.
- You have control over your own privacy. Think carefully before providing any personal information.
- Although this site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, no e-mail or web transmission is completely secure against interception. If you are worried because your communication is very sensitive, do not send it via e-mail or submit it online.
- Remember that we cannot protect your privacy once you leave our site, such as by “hyperlink.” So when you visit other websites including webpages within www.nwpf.org that belong to other organizations, check each one’s privacy policy yourself, and be careful about the information you offer up.
- You should be aware that in certain areas of this site we may utilize personalization measures designed to make your site experience more enjoyable (i.e., personalized links in e-mail that allow data fields to be automatically populated with certain personal information). We need your help to protect the information embedded in these links. You should always keep your e-mail account information secure and not allow others to access your e-mail account.
- You may be given the option to turn on a persistent cookie on your computer (see Use of Cookies above). Remember that once you have set a persistent cookie that is linked to your personal information, anyone can access your personal information by using your computer.
- In addition to the records left on your computer by cookies, your browser and operating system contain other records of your web browsing and other actions (e.g., browser history). As with cookies, you can find information about how to clear these history trails in your browser’s “Help” section or through other websites that provide detailed information for each browser and operating system. See Use of Cookies – Disabling Cookies above.
How to Unsubscribe or Contact Deep Brain Thoughts About Your Information:
- If you do not want to receive any e-mail from us in the future, send an e-mail message to info@DeepBrainThoughts.com indicating that you would like to removed from our electronic mailing list. You may also use the ‘unsubscribe’ feature to automatically remove you from our electronic mailing list.
- If you wish to review the contact information we have on file for you, correct your contact information or provide a change of address, or inform us how you wish your contact information to be used, please contact info@DeepBrainThoughts.com.
You may contact DBT by e-mail, as follows:
E-mail: info@deepbrainthoughts.com