Privacy Policy for Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com, also referred to as LDRD in this document.

Personal Information
Lyme-disease-research-database.com collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, email address and telephone number.

This information is collected if you request information from us and sign up to join our email list or request some other service or information from us. The information collected is internally reviewed, and used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries. 

Third Party Services
We do use third party services for our newsletter, helpdesk and order processing. The information may be stored on the third party servers. All third party services are reputable and GDPR compliant.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site and sending out an email. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.

Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our system to recognize your browser.

The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have come to the site for the first time, or have returned to a specific page. If you personalize the site's pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables start-cleaning-business.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying settings in your browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. Beacons are also referred to as web bugs. They are commonly used by sites that use third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a website.

As you browse this website, Google Analytics and advertising cookies will be placed on your computer to collect demographic and interest information, but we do not tie the cookie to any personal information that you provide to us. If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you may use their opt-out tool... https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

We do not run any adverts on our website and no data is being collected via advertisements.
Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions should not cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Lyme-disease-research-database.com is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.

Non-Personal Information
In some cases, Lyme-disease-research-database.com may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.


How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records, or would like to update or correct that information, please use our Contact Us page.


Updates and Effective Date
Lyme-disease-research-database.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.


Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to Lyme-disease-research-database.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.
Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.



Information Collection and Use 
Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com does not sell, share or rent any of the information collected on our sites to any third party in manners different from what is disclosed in this privacy policy. Below is a list of the various ways in which we collect information.


Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com believes that you should control your healthcare decisions, including what information you receive from us. The choices are yours to make. You can tell us if you don't want to receive the Newsletters by unsubscribing from any newsletter you receive, or by e-mail, phone, or mail request.


Newsletter Sign-up
If you choose to subscribe to the Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com Newsletter, we need your e-mail address for delivery. You can unsubscribe to any newsletter directly from the Newsletter or through the Newsletter sign-up page simply by entering your e-mail address and clicking unsubscribe.

Traffic Patterns
We collect traffic patterns and site usage information throughout our site. As part of this we collect the URL you came from in entering our site, what browser you are using, your IP address, and the URL you go to from our site if it is a link or advertiser on our site. In addition, we use Cookies to assign a unique, random number to identify your computer. Cookies, by themselves, cannot identify you personally or any other individual using your computer. Cookies allow us to keep track of shopping carts, login information (for increased security), and site traffic patterns and usage.

E-mail a Friend
If you choose to use the E-mail a Friend feature, we ask for your friend's E-mail address to deliver the information. This will be a one-time correspondence from Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com.


Members Area
We do not share any information submitted in the members/ donor area.

We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party, without prior consent. We may share non-personal, aggregate information regarding customer demographics, traffic patterns, sales, and site usage with our partners, advertisers or sponsors. We will never willfully disclose personally identifiable information about our customers to any third party without prior consent.

In special cases Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com may believe it is necessary to disclose personally identifiable information in order to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating or causing injury to or interference with Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com rights or property, other users, or any other party that could be harmed by such activities. We may also disclose or access personally identifiable information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.


Consent
By using the Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com web site, those sites powered by Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com, and the services available to you on our sites, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described above. If we change our privacy policy, we will immediately post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of our policies.

Links to LDRD
Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com has provided links to various sites that we believe provide valuable information to you, our viewer. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or actions of such web sites.


We will notify you directly if there is a major change in our privacy practices. We will take reasonable measures to obtain written or active e-mail consent from you if Lyme-Disease-Research-Database.com is going to be using the information collected from you in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection.