Recognizing Waterborne Disease
 and The Health Effects of Water Pollution
Patricia L. Meinhardt, MD, MPH, MA, Author

WaterHealthConnection.org Privacy Policy

The Environmental Protection Agency, Arnot Ogden Medical Center and the author respect your privacy. We are providing this Privacy Notice to you to explain our online practices in order to offer this Internet informational resource and educational tool to you. By visiting this site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Statement.

Information Collected and Purpose:

In order to offer this internet resource to you, there are several types of information that we collect from all visitors to the Website. When you register to use WaterHealthConnection.org we will collect certain personal information from you. The type of information will vary but may include name, address, email address, phone number, billing information, credit card information for requested educational credits, and your organizational affiliation and title. This information will only be used to process your requests, answer emails, and to notify you about new information or upcoming events that pertain to WaterHealthConnection.org. WaterHealthConnection.org may share personal information with our partners in order to provide you with continuing education credits.

WaterHealthConnection.org may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process served on WaterHealthConnection.org; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of WaterHealthConnection.org; or (c) protect the personal safety of WaterHealthConnection.org personnel or members of the public in urgent circumstances.

Security Features:

WaterHealthConnection.org realizes the importance of security. We require that a user has a “secure session” using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology anytime billing information is supplied. The SSL technology encodes information being sent over the internet between your computer and WaterHealthConnection.org which ensures the information transmitted remains confidential.

A user ID and password are also required to log onto the website. This provides an additional layer of security in order to protect your information. Please remember to always click on the “Log Out” link which is located at the top of every page.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, and despite our efforts, WaterHealthConnection.org cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.

Tracking and External Links:

WaterHealthConnection.org uses session cookies which do not personally identify users nor do they collect information from the user’s computer. The session cookies are erased when the browser is closed.

This Website contains links to many other sites. Please be aware that the Environmental Protection Agency, Arnot Ogden Medical Center and the author are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. This privacy statement applies to WaterHealthConnection.org website only. When you click a link to another site, we encourage you to read that site's Privacy Statement before proceeding on to view the information at that external site. The inclusion of any link on this Website does not imply endorsement of that external site by the Environmental Protection Agency, Arnot Ogden Medical Center or the author.

Changes to the Internet Privacy Policy:

We reserve the right to amend this Internet Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason. Notification that this Internet Privacy Policy has been amended will be noted by the “Page last modified” date at the bottom of this page.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or require any clarifications of our Privacy Statement.


Patricia L. Meinhardt, MD, MPH, MA, Author

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