Privacy Policy
Last Modified: April 10, 2017
Confidentiality is important to Quit the Habit (QTH’s) mission and our sites are fully committed to respecting your online privacy.
This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for www.QuitTheHabit.org and the various related websites, networks, and other services on which a link to this Privacy Policy is displayed. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
What we collect
What we do with the information we gather
Security
How we use cookies
Links to other websites
Controlling your personal information
QuitTheHabit is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Our goal is to ensure you remain anonymous on this site and that none of your personal information is known. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with the terms in this privacy statement.
QuitTheHabit may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from March 16, 2017.
What we collect
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We may collect the following information:
- Your email
- Your alias name
- Your location – state and city
- Your gender
- How you got started with your habit
- How long you have had a habit
- What was it that made you say you have had enough
- How did you prepare for starting in recovery?
- Birthdate
- Quit date
- Other information that we may add in the future
- Contact information including email address
We will use your information that you provide to respond to you and to provide potential sponsors, governmental agencies and clinics with general demographic information about our members including their:
- Age ranges and counts by age
- Geographic location and counts by region
- Recovery statistics
- Any other general information that will allow us to gain funding to better support this site and our community
We use this information to understand your needs and to provide you with better services.
We do encourage our community to keep all information private and to only share with us their email address. We encourage you not to share your email address with others.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to provide you with information, notify you of changes to our site or to notify you of changes to this privacy policy.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our articles and our support services.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.