Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 5, 2010

This Privacy Policy will answer your questions about the kinds of information we or our agents collect and how it is used. We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. For this reason, please check regularly for the most recent version of our privacy policy.

If you have any further questions or comments, contact us at support@HMETalk.com.

1. What information does HME Talk gather and how is it used?

We collect information about your visits to our sites, such as your Internet service provider, browser type, operating system, pages accessed on our sites and the date and time of access to optimize your user experience and enhance your time spent with us online. We also receive information telling us what site you linked to our site from.

When you send us an email, we will retain the content of the email, your email address, and our response in order to handle any follow-up questions you may have. We also use this information to measure how effectively we address your concerns.

We retain your name, and may retain other personal information such as mailing address and email address. We may ask you to voluntarily provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with our services or products, and contact preferences. We may combine this information with information about you which we gather from other sources. We may use the information to design offers customized to your interests.

We and our co-sponsors and affiliates may also send informational or promotional email messages to you, which you may opt out of receiving as described below.

2. With whom does HME Talk share my personally identifiable information?

We do not sell your name or other personally identifiable information to third parties, and do not intend to do so in the future. We routinely share your information with our co-sponsors and our affiliates. From time to time, we may engage third parties to process your information on our behalf; however, HME Talk requires that these third parties comply with HME Talk’s privacy policy when processing this information.

We may share with third parties anonymous, aggregated information about all our users.

We may disclose personally identifiable information to government authorities or to third parties pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process, to the extent we are required by law to do so.

Please note that information that you provide in email messages for distribution to HME Talk subscribers or post on public message boards is accessible by subscribers and may be publicly available on HME Talk’s website.  HME Talk’s Terms and Conditions of Use restrict the use of such information by others.  However, HME Talk is not responsible for others’ use of information provided by users.

3. How does HME Talk use cookies, tags, and similar technologies?

HME Talk uses cookies, tags, and other similar technologies. These technologies allow us to recognize your preference information and remember your sign-in information and facilitate effective site administration.

You may elect to refuse cookies; however, doing so may affect your use of some portions of HME Talk’s and our partners’ web services. Please refer to your browser Help instructions to learn more about cookies.

HME Talk may use third party tracking providers to act on HME Talk's behalf to track and analyze your usage of our sites through the use of cookies, pixel tags / web beacons, and similar technologies. These third parties collect, and share with us, as we may request, web site usage information about visits to our sites, measure and research the effectiveness of our advertisements, track page usage and paths followed during visits through our sites, help us target our Internet banner advertisements on our sites and on other sites, and track use of our Internet banner advertisements and other links from our marketing partners' sites to our sites. The information collected on HME Talk’s behalf by these third parties does not contain your name, address, email address, or any other personally identifiable information.

4 .How does HME Talk comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)?

If a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian may email us, and we will remove the information and unsubscribe the child from any promotional contact opportunities.

5. How do I tell HME Talk that I don't want to be contacted for promotional purposes?

You may request to be removed from HME Talk's informational and promotional email subscription lists by selecting the unsubscribe link in any promotional message or by contacting us at support@HMETalk.com with the subject heading “unsubscribe.” If you have questions about removing your name from our subscription lists, you may contact us at support@HMETalk.com.

6. Links

HME Talk’s site and distributed email contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those sites, and HME Talk’s Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected from you by those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each site that collects information from you.

Thank you for participating in HME Talk. Please do not hesitate to contact Us at support@HMETalk.com if you have questions.