Privacy Policy

RateMyNaturopath.com (the “Website”) is an online service that allows users to rate various naturopath practitioners.

RateMyNaturopath.com Inc. (the “Owner”) cares deeply about online privacy.  If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please contact our Policies Department as listed on our “Contact Us” page.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

 When you register with the Owner you provide us with certain personal information including your name, email address, gender, personal interests and age.  We use this to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Website.

The Owner also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site.  This data is used to manage the website, track usage, and improve the website services.  This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members.  User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

User profile information which may include members’ pictures, first names and/or last names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction. Users’ full names are never directly revealed to other users by the Owner, unless included in the user profile or otherwise disclosed by the user.

You post content and reviews (as defined in our Terms of Use) on the Website at your own risk.

We may also use a user’s email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service.

From time to time, the Owner or a partner may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on the Website.  Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate.  We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from.  It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Use of Cookies

When someone visits the Website, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser.  We use these cookies to store visitors’ preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information.  We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.  Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.  However, some Website features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. Please note that the Owner allows third party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer.  Advertisers’ use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Owner’s Privacy Policy.

Links

The Website may contain links to sites.  The Owner is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites.  Our privacy policy only governs information collected on the Website.  We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Public Forums

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, video reviews, friends lists and fan club lists, Photo Galleries, Calendars, HumourLogs, Message Boards, or any other Public Forums that the information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information

Users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as ‘Edit Profile’ and ‘Account Information’.

Email Choice/Opt-out
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by selecting ‘Do not send me notification emails’ in the user profile ‘Account Settings’.  Users who do not wish to receive the Owner’s newsletters may choose not to by selecting ‘Do not send me RateMyNaturopath.com newsletters’ in the user profile ‘Account Settings’.  All notification emails and RateMyNaturopath.com newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.

Third Party Advertising

Ads appearing on this Website may be delivered to users by the Owner or one of our Web advertising partners.  Our Web advertising partners may set cookies.  These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement.  In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on.  This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.  This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by the Owner and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security
User accounts are secured by member-created passwords.  The Owner takes appropriate precautions to protect our users’ information.  We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff.  Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information.  Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time.  For any additional information about the security measures we use on the Website, please contact us as at our email address as listed on our “Contact Us” page.

Information Sharing
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, the Owner will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary:  (1) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) to enforce the Owner’s  Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; (3) to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (4) to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of the Owner, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.  The Owner reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of the Owner or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.  For more information see the ‘Changes in Our Privacy Policy’ section below.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy.  If we make changes, we will post them on the Website to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it.  A user is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted.  If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Website for 30 days.

Contacting the Website
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this Website, please contact us at our email address as listed on our “Contact Us” page.