ActivHealth International, Inc. (aka "ActivHealth") is committed to bringing you information through its PHD Network (the "Network") that's tailored to your individual needs and, at the same time, to protecting your privacy. The following is a summary of the various ways we treat the information you provide us while using the PHD Network.

The Network does not collect personally identifying information except with your specific knowledge and consent. And we do not share such information with any outside party without your explicit consent, so there's no need to send us an "opt out" message to prevent your name from appearing on a million mailing lists.

During enrollment, you will be providing us with information that will reveal your personal identity in conjunction with the Personal Health Assessment that is used to establish your personal wellness program on the Network. That personal information is maintained on the ActivHealth server and not available to other entities without your express permission.

Sometimes, in the course of viewing a topic on the PHD Network, you will provide us with data that doesn't reveal your personal identity -- height, weight, that sort of thing. We use this sort of information to determine what's appropriate to show you, but we don't connect it to any name, address, or other identifying information. This way, we can give you customized information without compromising your privacy.

In a few cases -- if you email a question or some feedback to us, for example -- we may request your name, email address or other information so that we can, for example, email you with a personal reply. If you choose to supply this information we will use it only for the specific purpose for which you supply it -- unless we tell you otherwise at the time of collection, in which case you'll have an option to forbid other uses by us.

In other cases, we may require certain personal information, such as an email address. Again, we will use such information only for the specific purpose for which you supply it -- unless we tell you otherwise at the time of collection, in which case you'll have an option to forbid other uses by us.

We will never share any of your personally identifying data with any other party without your explicit permission, nor use it for unapproved commercial purposes.

A few special cases are worth noting:

• From time to time we may run competitions or request material we can publish; to participate, you may have to supply us with your identity, and perhaps agree to have it publicly associated with your submission. The exact rules vary from case to case, and will be noted clearly on the relevant pages. Your participation will always be voluntary and knowing.

• We may offer to send you information or updates from ActivHealth via email or otherwise; obviously, signing up will put you on a specific mailing list. We will not put you on any other mailing lists, from us or anyone else, without your permission.

• As a part of our agreement with Duke University Medical Center, they will have access to certain aspects of our database for the purposes of conducting scientific research. In the course of that activity, they may have access to certain demographic and health data about participants. However, they will not be given any personally identifying information about individual participants without the express permission of each participant who might be involved in that study.

• You may have read about "cookies," nuggets of information that are placed by a Web site in a storage place on your own computer. ActivHealth uses cookies to:

  • Control the display of ads -- to ensure that you don't see the same ad too many times in a single session, for example -- and track usage patterns on our site.

  • Spare you from having to type in the same vital statistics (weight, height, etc.) over and over. Cookies enable us to complete many of our questionnaires for you automatically -- after you've filled out the information once, of course.

  Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information, such as your name.

  While using the Network, you may notice that our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies, either directly or when you link to their sites. We cannot directly control what our advertisers or these cookies do, but it's our policy that advertisers on the Network should use cookies the same way we do.

  If you don't like cookies, your Web browser likely includes an option that allows you not to accept them. We don't recommend using this option, though: It makes browsing our site a less enjoyable experience.

• Finally, while your individual information is protected as outlined above, we reserve the right to use aggregated, anonymous data about our users as a group. For instance, we might report to potential advertisers that a certain percentage of our users is interested in weight loss, based on information requests.

• This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time; notice of changes will appear on this page, so check back often. Any such changes will be prospective, never retroactive.

If you have concerns or questions about any aspect of this policy, please send us email. We welcome your feedback. You can also send us regular mail at the following address:

Privacy Policy Coordinator
ActivHealth International, Inc.
95 White Bridge Road, Suite 102
Nashville, TN 37205