Our Privacy Policy

The mission of the Alliance to Make US Healthiest ("the Alliance") is to provide leadership and facilitate actions by organizations and individuals that encourage or sustain health and well-being. The vision for the Alliance is to make the United States the healthiest nation in a healthier world. Our website, healthiestnation.org, is a hub that connects and engages our nation’s trusted thought leaders, committed organizations, and interested individuals around health education, activation, and leadership.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Alliance to Make US Healthiest website. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how we collect and use the personal information you share with us through this website.

The Alliance to Make US Healthiest website serves as a facilitator of dialogue and action for reforming our nation's health and well-being. Members are allowed to create unique personal profiles online in order to communicate with other Members of the site, share information, post articles and information, share resources and tools, join groups, participate in forums, and participate in events. Members must recorgnize that any content that they seek to post to the Alliance website must comply with this Privacy Policy, Alliance's Terms of Use, and all applicable laws. Violations can result in prompt removal of the information, and may include other legal remedies. We have the right to revoke or withdraw membership based on improper use of this site, including the posting of improper or illegal content.

This Policy applies to the healthiestnation.org website only. It does not apply to any sites or blogs that may be linked to our site but are not owned, controlled or operated by the Alliance to Make US Healthiest.

By using or accessing the Alliance to Make US Healthiest website, you agre to accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy as they apply to your personal information.

Information We Collect

Browsing as a Visitor. You are allowed to browse certain parts of our site without becoming a Member. If you do so, we collect certain information sent by your computer browser (called "cookies"), along with your computer internet protocol (IP) address. This information does not identify you by name. We collect this information to let us know when individuals have returned to our website for additional visits, and to help us improve our website quality and deliver better content to you. You are allowed to remove or block cookies from your computer using the settings in your browser.

Becoming a Member. If you choose to become a Member of the Alliance to Make US Healthiest, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships with other Members, send messages, perform searches and queries, organize or join groups or forums, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. To do so, we first collect personal information from you such as your name, email address, photograph, telephone number, and address. You are also asked to choose a user identification and a secure password. You are then permitted to post information to your profile, share your information with other Members, and participate in groups and fourms. If you choose, your profile information or the part of it that you designate (such as your name and/or photograph) can be available to site Visitors as well as Members. Please be sure to review this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use in detail, since they contain certain limitations on what can be posted, as well as information about your rights and potential liabilities.

Making a Donation. If you choose to make a donation to the Alliance to Make US Healthiest, you may do so via the PayPalâ„¢ link provided on our website. If you are not a PayPal member, you will be asked to become one and to set up a login password. Your confidential credit card information will only be available to PayPal, for purposes of processing your donation, and will not be available to the Alliance to Make US Healthiest. However, your donation information (amount and type of donation, as well as the contact information for the individual or organization making the donation) will be provided to us so that we can keep track of donations and so that we can send you a thank you note.

Posting Content to Our Site

You are permitted to post content to our site in accordance with this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and applicable laws. We have the right to remove any content that we find to be inappropriate, including, for example, pornography, nudity, profanity, sexting, discriminatory comments, copyrighted materials, unauthorized downloads, and other offensive content. You may also be held legally responsible for any content that you post to your profile or accept from others that is illegal or violates any laws.

Although we allow you to set certain privacy options that limit access to your personal information, please be aware that no security measures, including those implemented by Internet sites such as ours, are perfect or impenetrable. You should also be aware that other Members of the site with whom you share personal information may, in turn, use that information in a manner inconsistent with your expectations. For example, they may decide to share your information with others, post it to blogs or maintain it in storage locations that are not adequately safeguarded. Accordingly, even if you request removal of your personal information from this site, your information may still remain viewable in the sites of other Members or in cached or archived pages or files maintained by other Members or third parties who may have received your information from them.

We therefore encourage you to evaluate carefully the information that you choose to post about yourself on this and other Internet sites, since despite the security safeguards, it may be viewed or accessed by unauthorized persons.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on the Alliance to Make US Healthiest website is a violation of our Terms of Use and should be reported to us through our Contact Us link..

Use of Information Obtained by Alliance to Make US Healthiest

When you become a Member of the Alliance to Make US Healthiest, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, including your identity and the information you choose to post, is then displayed to other Members and, if you choose, Visitors, acccording to your specifications. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by the Alliance to Make US Healthiest that we think you may find valuable, to request your participation in surveys, or for other Member-related information purposes. If you do not want us to contact you, please let us know (via the Contact Us link on our website) and we will remove your information from our marketing list.

The Alliance to Make US Healthiest may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many Members are interested in a particular aspect of health and well-being..

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

The Alliance to Make US Healthiest allows you to choose which Members of our site will have access to your personal information, and also allows you to make some of your information available to site Visitors. The Alliance to Make US Healthiest may share your information with third parties for purposes of providing our services to you, including, for example, service-related emails notifying you of changes to our site or new services. We never sell or share your information with any third party for their own separate use. Also, if we do share your information with a third party service provider, we require them to agree in writing to adhere to substantially similar privacy and security requirements to those adopted by the Alliance to Make US Healthiest..

There may be infrequent instances where we are legally obligated to share Member information with law enforcement or respond to a subpoena. In addition, for children under age 18 who improperly register by giving a false age, we may share their information with their parent or guardian (after proper authentication of that individual).

Generally, you may withdraw your consent to receive such emails from Alliance to Make US Healthiest, although we reserve the right to send you notices about your Member status even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

If the Alliance to Make US Healthiest ever decides to sell its business, including this website, your personal information may be transferred to the new owner so the services can continue. In any such transfer of information, your information will remain subject to the provisions in any pre-existing Privacy Policy in effect when you provided your information to us.

Security

The Alliance to Make US Healthiest takes appropriate precautions to safeguard the personal information provided to us. However, please be aware that no security measures, including those implemented by Internet sites such as ours, are perfect or impenetrable. You should also be aware that other Members of the site with whom you choose to share personal information may, in turn, use that information in a manner that is inconsistent with your expectations. For example, they may decide to share your information with others, post it to blogs, or copy or store your information. Accordingly, even after removal, copies of your personal information may remain viewable in cached or archived pages or in files of other Members (through this site or otherwise) who have copied or stored your personal information.

You should also be sure to select a secure password (at least 6 digits, combination of numbers and letters) that is not easily recognizable. Do not share your password with anyone or store it in a place that can be accessed by others. You should change your password every 60 days, or in the event that you believe it may have been compromised. You are responsible for the content on your Member section.

Restriction of Site to Individuals Age 18 and Older

The Alliance to Make US Healthiest does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under age 18, please do not attempt to register for Alliance to Make US Healthiest or send any personal information about yourself to us. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to the Alliance to Make US Healthiest. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from an individual under age 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about an individual under age 18, please contact us through our Contact Us link.

Non-US Residents

By using the Alliance to Make US Healthiest website, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. In the United States, the privacy and security laws are not as stringent as those that apply in certain other countries (such as countries in the European Union.) However, we nevertheless take steps to protect your personal information. We also do not sell or share your information with third parties for their own separate use. When we do retain business partners, we require them to comply with privacy and security standards that are substantially similar to those that we have adopted, and require compliance with applicable laws. If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please use our Contact Us link to provide them to us.

Links

The Alliance to Make US Healthiest website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites, and encourage our Visitors and Members to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of other websites that they may browse. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by the Alliance to Make US Healthiest.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on the Alliance to Make US Healthiest website is readily available through the profile editing tools. The Alliance to Make US Healthiest Members may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Alliance to Make US Healthiest account may do so via the Contact Us link. Removed information may remain in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be available to Members of the Alliance to Make US Healthiest through your portion of the site. However, we are not able to remove information from other Members sections that pertains to you (unless it violates a law or the contents are otherwise unacceptable.)

Revisions and Updates

Your use of the Alliance to Make US Healthiest website is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use. We may periodically change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, such as when we add additional features to the site or as the legal requirements continue to evolve. If we make changes, they will apply prospectively only, to new information collected after the effective date, and not to information already collected. We invite you to review our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use whenever you visit the site.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via our Contact Us link, or write to us at info@healthiestnation.org.

Effective Date

This Privacy Policy becomes effective on March 27, 2009.