Website Privacy Practices
Third Root values the privacy of our visitors’ personal information. This Privacy Policy Addendum will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of our website Third Root.org. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
We have organized this Addendum under the following topics:
Part 1: About This Privacy Policy and Using Our Site
Part 2: Non-Personal Information We Collect About You
A. Cookies
B. Web Beacons
C. Aggregate Data
Part 3: Personally Identifiable Information We Collect About You
A. Emails You Send to Third Root
B. Market Research
Part 4: Disclosure of Your Information
A. Disclosure of Aggregate Information
Part 1: About This Privacy Policy and Using Our Site
This Privacy Practice Addendum applies to the ThirdRoot.org website owned and operated by Third Root LLC. The Third Root website contains links to other sites. Once you enter another web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Third Root is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every website that you visit through a link or advertisement on Third Root.
Part 2: Non-Personal Information We Collect About You
The only information we collect when you visit and browse the ThirdRoot.org website is Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons.
A. Cookies
We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our website through the use of Cookies. Every computer accessing the ThirdRoot.org website is assigned a different Cookie by Third Root. The information collected by Cookies (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our web site, and (ii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Cookies are also used as navigation aides and as session timers.
Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. You do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site.
B. Web Beacons
We also may use Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our web site, and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information collected by Web Beacons (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website, (ii) how many people open our emails, and (iii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our web site.
C. Aggregate Data
Third Root may combine, in a non-identifiable format, the Non-Personal Information we collect about you with information from other users to create Aggregate Data that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate data does not contain any information that could be used to contact or identify you.
Part 3: Personally Identifiable Information We Collect About You
A. Emails You Send to Third Root
This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to Third Root by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to Third Root. We try to answer every email within 48 hours, but are not always able to do so.
B. Market Research
From time to time, Third Root, or its operations contractors acting on its behalf, may conduct online research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site, our sponsors and opinions on important healthcare issues, through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. This Personally Identifiable Information is used for research purposes, and is not used for sales solicitations. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by Third Root and its service providers and contractors and will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent or as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy. For market research surveys we will not knowingly accept survey responses from or conduct interviews with any person under the age of 18. In addition to collecting survey responses from our members, Cookies may be used to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some studies. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with Third Root site usage characteristics. You will be notified when we would like to use Cookies in this way and your consent will be requested for these Cookies.
Part 4: Disclosure of Your Information
A. Disclosure of Aggregate Information
Third Root may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our website and the activities they conduct while on our site. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We require parties with whom we share Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.
Part 5: Changes to this Privacy Policy
Personally Identifiable Information. We will inform you of a material change to the Privacy Policy, which means a change that expands the permissible uses or disclosures of Personally Identifiable Information allowed by the prior version of the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Third Root web site will indicate acceptance of the changes. You may of course choose to Opt-out of continuing to use the Third Root web site. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.
Non-Significant Changes. Third Root may make non-significant changes to the Privacy Policy that do not affect Personally Identifiable Information. For these instances, Third Root may not notify you of such non-significant changes.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places appropriate throughout our site so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.
If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email (if you have previously provided us with your email address), and by means of a notice on our home page.
