Privacy Policy

Please read the following policy regarding our privacy practices and how you share with others on the PhysioSecrets platforms, and how PhysioSecrets utilizes your user information.

Please read this policy carefully. By using PhysioSecrets, or otherwise indicating that you agree to this policy, you consent to and authorize our using your personal information as described in this policy. If you don’t consent to us using your information as described, please stop using PhysioSecrets and, if you are a user, delete your account. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

What information does PhysioSecrets collect, and how?

We collect information from you, when you give it to us directly or give us the OK to get it from another source. For example, when you register for PhysioSecrets, you voluntarily provide your Full Name (First and Last), email address, and similar information.

We collect information from your browser, computer, or mobile device, which provide us with technical information when you use PhysioSecrets as a visitor or user. Like nearly every other online service, we automatically collect technical information created when you visit or use PhysioSecrets or read a message from us, including:

• Device data, which tells us about the device you’re using: what type and model it is, its operating system and version, its unique identifier, crash data (if applicable), and what settings you’ve enabled. Your device and software settings affect what information your device makes available to us.
• Log data, which is automatically recorded by our servers based on data sent by your app or browser. This typically includes the date and time you visited, the browser or app version you used (and its settings), the URLs you came from and go to, your IP address and protocol, and how you used PhysioSecrets (for example, which links you clicked on).
• Cookie data, which comes from “cookies” (small data files stored on your computer or mobile device) and similar technologies. Cookie data helps us recognize you, your preferences, and learn more about you; some, but not all, cookie data is associated with your PhysioSecrets account. You can configure your browser to reject cookies, but doing so may prevent you from logging into our website.
• Geolocation data, where you (and your phone) are physically on the Earth.

We collect information from our vendors and, in the US, from advertisers. For example, we obtain map information from mapping companies, and an advertiser may provide us with information about sponsored post effectiveness.

How do we use the information we collect?

We use information to identify and invite potential new users.

We use information to get you started on PhysioSecrets:

We use information to operate PhysioSecrets and to improve our products and features:

• To help publish content and view and respond to content from users.
• To highlight popular topics or resources.
• To improve communication by and among PhysioSecrets and its users.
• To understand the aggregate demographics of the users and forums we serve.
• To respond to your support requests and comments.
• To promote safety and security to help verify accounts and activity, and to promote safety and security on and off of our Services, such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our terms or policies.
• To provide users with access to services that may be of interest.
• To test and evaluate potential new products and features on PhysioSecrets.
• To diagnose and resolve problems, analyze trends, and monitor aggregate usage and resource needs.

Where available we use information to provide and improve advertising and other commercial offerings. Privacy is an important to PhysioSecrets so we do not give your personal information to advertisers without your authorization. Rather, we use information:

•      To measure whether an advertisement was interesting to users.
•      To measure whether an advertisement was effective for the advertiser.
•      To help target offers and other ads, based on what we think will be interesting to you.

As said above, to prevent spam, we will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties, and we won’t share it with a third party unless we have your authorization.

We may customize the advertisements and other offerings you see on PhysioSecrets based on information from our advertisers, or on your actions on PhysioSecrets. In the future, we may also offer ads that are personalized based on your actions off PhysioSecrets.

In the future, we may present you the option to purchase goods or services through a third-party payment processor. If you choose to make a such a purchase, we may share your information with the payment processor as necessary to conclude the transaction, as well as with the company or person you’re buying from. Any information that you provide for sharing for this purpose will be subject to their privacy policy.

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information with companies we do business with, including our advertisers (in the US or where available) as well as government agency users or other organizational users.

In limited circumstances (for example to highlight resources or topics), we may make snippets of Content available, without your name or other identifying information, to the public (meaning non-users and search engines).

We may share your personal information with third-party service providers doing work for us. These third parties are contractually required to use it only to provide their service to us, and contractually barred from using it for their own purposes. (For example, we use a company to help test and analyze the performance of our website and mobile applications.)

Legal and Safety Reasons. We may retain, preserve, or share your personal information if we have a good-faith belief that (a) we are legally required to do so in response to a legal request (e.g., a subpoena, search warrant, court order, or other request from law enforcement) or (b) that it is necessary or appropriate to do so to protect our rights, property, or safety; to enforce our User Agreement or any other agreements we have with you; or to prevent physical injury or other harm to any person or entity, including yourself and users of the general public. Our legal team reviews every request received from law enforcement, and we frequently seek modifications of requests that we believe are procedurally flawed or too broad.

Other Services and Websites. In using PhysioSecrets, you may come across links to websites and services operated by third parties (for example, if a user shares a link to a video on YouTube). These third parties have their own privacy policies, which will apply to your activity if you click on the link and access their website or service. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for such external sites’ privacy and security practices.

How do we respond to legal requests or prevent harm?

We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards. We may also access, preserve and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you and others, including as part of investigations; or to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. For example, we may provide information to third-party partners about the reliability of your account to prevent fraud and abuse on and off of our Services. Information we receive about you, may be accessed, processed and retained for an extended period of time when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation, or investigations concerning possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm. We also may retain information from accounts disabled for violations of our terms for at least a year to prevent repeat abuse or other violations of our terms.

Amendment. From time to time we may make changes to this privacy policy. If we materially change our privacy policy, we will take steps to notify you in advance of the change, for example by emailing you or by posting a notice in your forum feed. If you continue to access or use PhysioSecrets after the date any revised privacy policy comes into force, you will be deemed to have consented to the revised privacy policy.

Contact Us

Email: [email protected]

Address: 73 Highland Hill Lane, Flat Rock, NC 28731

Last update:  November 12, 2018