Privacy policy

Effective Date: June 30, 2008

We hope that you enjoy using TheCarrot.com. To honor your privacy, we would like to make you aware of the choices you have about how your personal information is collected, used and disclosed. This Privacy Policy is also incorporated into the Terms of Use for TheCarrot.com.  By accessing or using TheCarrot.com, you agree to accept those Terms of Use.  As our online services are upgraded and/or changed, you acknowledge and agree that we may change our Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notification. We suggest you check our Privacy Policy for its effective date on a periodic basis.

Please note that TheCarrot.com contain links to other websites and that our Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of those sites. We recommend that you review the privacy polices associated with those sites and contact the owners of those sites if you have questions regarding their policies.

Security

TheCarrot.com has physical, administrative, and electronic security measures designed to safeguard your information from improper access or use, both within our organization and from outside sources. TheCarrot.com uses industry standard HTTP encryption for all user data submitted and accessed over the internet. Consistent with HIPAA security requirements, all user identifiers entered via trackers are encrypted for your security.

Information Collected on TheCarrot.com

1. This web site places “cookies” on your hard drive to maintain session connections and to provide anonymous information about your browser and about traffic to our site. These tools identify your browser and may include your web page request, internet protocol (IP) address, and the date and time of your request. We collect this information so that we can properly administer our system and gather aggregate information about how our site is being used, including the pages visitors are viewing, and the frequency with which they visit our site.

• To work correctly, out site requires that cookies and JavaScript be enabled. If you reject our cookies, you will not be able to login to our site.

• When you view pages on our site, our affiliated advertisers and their Ad Servers may use cookies to collect non-personal information. We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or how they manage the information they collect. When clicking on advertisements on TheCarrot.com, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of the sponsoring sites. You should read each advertiser’s privacy policy to determine what information is being collected about you and how it is used.

2. When you register to use TheCarrot.com, we recommend that you sign up with an anonymous user name. The information that you provide during the registration process will be limited to your user name, password, e-mail address, and any referral codes. If you wish to enter information from other than your computer, you may also choose to enter additional information, such as mobile phone numbers, to facilitate use of trackers from hand-held or mobile electronic devices.

Once you have registered to use TheCarrot.com, you will have access to both the personalized services of the site and its community or public component. The personalized services include:

• Account information, including my user name, my password, my e-mail address, how I heard about TheCarrot.com, marketing preferences, and any mobile phone number I choose to use in conjunction with the site’s tracking services.

• Tracking information, which incorporates text, images and data to help you monitor various aspects of your daily life. Trackers have been developed to help you monitor a wide range of subjects such as your medicines, daily diet, exercise, weight, blood pressure, blood glucose levels. The information you submit can be in the form of text and/or photos. Information submitted through trackers can be summarized for you through a variety of reports.

When you choose to use trackers on TheCarrot.com, the personal information you submit may be aggregated by TheCarrot.com without any user identifiers for various purposes including site management and aggregate reporting to registered users. For example, TheCarrot.com may collect information on the number of people accessing specific components of the web site or using specific trackers, without any personal identifiers. In registering for the site, you explicitly grant Health Analytic Services, Inc./TheCarrot.com the rights to use your information in an aggregate form without any personal identifiers.

• E-mail communications regarding web site content, problems or questions with specific trackers, and functionality. E-mail communication that you send to us via the e-mail links on our site may be shared with staff at Health Analytic Services, Inc./TheCarrot.com to address your inquiry. If you provide personal health information, such as asking a question about a specific tracker, it will be used only for the purpose of answering your e-mail. Also, from time to time, we may send you a service-related e-mail, asking you about our response to your e-mail, such as whether your questions were answered promptly, the level of service you received and any recommendations regarding our service.

The community or public component of the web site consists of the content that you submit for public access by all viewers on the web site, including any search engines that may access the site. The content may consist of blogs, forums, comments, photos, postings and uploads. When submitting any materials to the community/public section of the website, you give Health Analytic Services, Inc./TheCarrot.com the irrevocable right to use your materials for any purpose, and to modify, edit, publish or distribute those materials in any form on any media.

You are welcome to use the community sections of the site to discuss general issues around a variety of subjects, but it is recommended that you not post confidential or private information on any community sections of the site in order to protect your privacy. You should be aware that once information is posted to the public section of the web site, control over its usage no longer rests with Health Analytic Services, Inc./TheCarrot.com. Whatever you post to the public forum may be seen, disclosed or collected by others in ways we are unable to predict, including contacting you or using your personal information for unauthorized purposes

How to Contact Us

If you have any specific questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation, please contact us via e-mail, using the “Contact Us” link at the bottom of the home page.