External Link and Website Disclaimer Policy

This privacy policy describes what information EBMed from you when you visit our websites and how we handle that information. This policy applies to EBMed.info.

For EBMed.info under this privacy policy:

We do not collect personally identifiable information (PII) about you unless you choose to provide that information to us.
Any personally identifiable information (PII) you choose to provide is protected by privacy and security practices.
We may automatically collect and temporarily store information related to your visit to our website that is not personally identifiable information (PII).
EBMed does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personally identifiable information (PII) about our visitors unless required for law enforcement or by federal law.

What is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)?

PII is information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, either alone or when combined with other information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual.

PII can include:

Sensitive data, such as medical, financial, or legal information;
"Neutral" information, such as name, facial photos, or work address; and
Contextual information, such as a file for a specific health condition that contains a list of treated patients.

Information Automatically Collected and Stored

When you visit our website, we use Google's Universal Analytics (UA) software to automatically gather and temporarily store a variety of information about your visit. The basic information we collect during your visit includes:

The name of the domain you use to access the Internet;
The date and time of your visit to our website;
The pages and documents you viewed on our website;
The URL of the website you visited prior to ours;
The type and version of your Web browser and operating system; and
Your location at the time of your visit, down to the city-level.

We do not associate any of the data we automatically collect with your personally identifiable information (PII). Instead, we aggregate this data from all users' visits in order to improve our website and provide a better user experience to our visitors. The aggregate data is available only to Web managers and other designated staff who require this information to perform their duties. We retain this information only for as long as needed for proper analysis. The Google Analytics Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Cookies

Websites can automatically place small text files, known as "cookies," on their visitors' computers. Cookies identify the unique browser used by the visitor unless you delete them or they expire. On each subsequent visit to the website, the visitor's browser will retrieve the cookie, allowing EBMed to aggregate the number of return visitors. EBMed uses "cookies" to test and optimize our websites' design and content. We use two types of cookies on the EBMed website:

We use session cookies to gather data for technical purposes, such as improving navigation through our website and generating statistics about how the website is used. Session cookies are temporary text files that expire when you leave our website. Cookies delete automatically from your computer as soon as they expire. We do not use session cookies to collect personally identifiable information (PII), and we do not share data collected from session cookies.
We use multi-session cookies, or persistent cookies, to customize our website for frequent visitors and to test variations of website design and content. Multi-session cookies are cookies that are stored over more than a single session on your computer. We do not use multi-session cookies to collect personally identifiable information (PII), and we do not share data collected from multi-session cookies. Our multi-session cookies expire two years after your last visit to our website. These cookies delete automatically from your computer as soon as they expire.

You can block cookies from your computer by opting out. Blocking session cookies from your computer will not affect your access to the content and tools on our websites. Blocking multi-session or persistent cookies may affect the personalization of the information on these websites.

Demographic and Interest Data

On some portions of our website, we have enabled Google's Universal Analytics (UA) and other third-party software (listed below) to provide aggregate demographic and interest data of our visitors. While some websites use these tools to present you with advertisements, EBMed only uses them to measure demographic data. EBMed has no control over advertisements presented to you on other websites. This means that third-party vendors, including Google, may show you public health campaign advertisements created by EBMed and its agencies on non-government websites based on your visits to the EBMed website. For the software listed below, we have included links to the company's websites where you can opt-out of having these tools collect data and/or serve you interest-based advertising.

Third-Party Websites and Applications Used by EBMed

EBMed maintains official pages or accounts on third-party websites in order to better engage and communicate with the public. Third-party websites are websites that we do not maintain or control. We have accounts on some third-party websites so we can connect with people interested in health and human services information. Examples of third-party websites that EBMed uses include YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

All official EBMed information available on third-party websites is also available on the EBMed website. The third-party website's security and privacy policies govern your activity on their website. Users of third-party websites often share information with the public, user communities, and/or the third-party organization operating the website. It is important for you to review the privacy policies of third-party websites so you understand how they use and share your information. You should also adjust the privacy settings of your account on any third-party website to match your preferences.

If you have an account or profile with a third-party website and choose to follow, like, friend, or comment on a third-party website managed by EBMed, certain personally identifiable information (PII) associated with your account may be available to us based on the privacy policies of the third-party website and your privacy settings within that website. We do not share personally identifiable information available through these websites.

EBMed conducts and publishes a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for each use of a third-party website. Each use of a third-party website may have unique features or practices. EBMed sometimes collects and uses the information made available through third-party websites.

EBMed archives some information that users submit or publish when engaging with the EBMed through official EBMed pages or accounts on third-party websites (e.g., by sending a message, posting a comment, "following," "friending," or taking similar actions). This information may contain personally identifiable information (PII), such as an individual's username, other public account information, and any information provided in a message or comment, when such information is available based on the user's privacy settings and the terms of the site. For example:

On Facebook, EBMed may automatically archive posts, messages, replies and comments sent to or from EBMed.info accounts in the following sections: 'About,' 'Albums,' 'Event details,' 'Event discussions,' 'Photo activity,' 'Private messages,' 'Reviews' and 'Timeline activity'.

EBMed uses the following third-party websites and applications.

Google AdWords: EBMed occasionally uses Google AdWords to provide online advertisement delivery and tracking. EBMed may employ tools provided by Google AdWords to support Display Advertising, including Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, data collection via advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. This means that third-party vendors, including Google, may show you public health campaign advertisements created by EBMed and its agencies on non-government websites based on your visits to the EBMed websites. To implement these tools, EBMed and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to the EBMed website. These cookies collect information about visits to the EBMed website, but do not collect personally identifiable information (PII). The Google AdWords Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Google Analytics: EBMed may employ tools provided by Google Analytics to support Display Advertising, including Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, data collection via advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration and/or Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. This means that third-party vendors, including Google, may show you public health campaign advertisements created by EBMed and its agencies on non-government websites based on your visits to the EBMed website. To implement these tools, EBMed and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to the EBMed website. These cookies collect information about visits to the EBMed website, but do not collect personally identifiable information (PII). The Google Analytics Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Widgets: EBMed offers widgets that provide specific EBMed site content to any website that includes the widget code. You can install an EBMed widget on any website simply by adding the EBMed-provided code to a website's source HTML code. If you choose to install EBMed widgets, they will not collect any type of personally identifiable information (PII) from your websites visitors.

Website Security

In order to maintain website security and ensure the EBMed websites is available to the public, we use software programs to monitor traffic and identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage to the EBMed website. Law enforcement may use information from these tools to help identify an individual in the event of investigations and as part of any required legal process.

EBMed maintains this website and there are federal laws that protect it. The government can arrest and prosecute individuals for illegal activity if they violate these laws.

Last Updated: June 30, 2023