Last Update:  October 30, 2010

This privacy policy details the personally identifiable (i.e., information that can be used to identify or locate a specific person) and non-personally identifiable information (i.e., information that can not be used to identify or locate a specific person) that may be obtained from visitors to our site.

Personally Identifiable Information

We may ask you for your first name, email address and other personal identifiable information that can be used to specifically identify you or your location.  We may ask for this information in order for you to leave comments or suggestions, subscribe to our future newsletter, register for a forum if we decide to add a forum to this site, conduct periodic surveys in order to enrich the content of our site, or sell our own products or services. 

In all cases where we receive information of a personally identifiable information from you, we will never sell, transfer or disclose your private information without first getting your prior permission to do so.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We use the services of a third-party, Google, to provide us with various reporting tools (e.g., "Google Analytics") that enable us to generate reports that show various non-personally identifiable information derived from each visitor to www.DiabetesPatientSite.com, who has not "opted-out" from receiving cookies as described below. 

These reporting tools use data collected and stored on "log files, "cookies," and "Web beacons," which are usually small data files typically comprised of alphanumeric text strings uniquely associated with your browser and information about the type of sites you have previously shown an interest in based on the sites you have previously visited on the internet. 

If you have not opted-out from receiving cookies, as described below, each time you visit our site, Google will collect and store non-personally identifiable information about your browser, and store that data in a cookie, or cookies, and place one or more cookies on your computer or device that you use to access our site.

The following describe the types of non-personally identifiable information Google collects from your browser if you have not "opted-out" of cookies as described below when you visit our site:

Log Files, Cookies & Web Beacons

Our site is hosted on Google's computer servers, where our site's pages are stored and where your browser or other device makes a computer language request to Google's servers to access our site's pages whenever you click on one of our page's links or directly enter and submit the uniform resource locator ("URL") via your internet address bar. 

The home page URL of this website is:  http://www.diabetespatientsite.com.  We capitalize letters in our site name throughout our site's pages for better readability by our visitors, but it is unnecessary to capitalize the letters in our site name whenever you enter and submit our site's URL in your browser's internet address bar in order to retrieve our site's pages from Google's servers.

When your browser makes a computer language request for our site (or page) address URL, Google's servers are capable of collecting and logging your unique browser information and store that information in log files, which are stored on Google's servers. 

Google also stores information received from your browser on cookies and Web beacons that get stored on your computer for future access by Google's servers.  Google uses the information stored in log files on its servers, cookies and Web beacons stored on your computer, to produce and deliver to us various tracking reports that help us to better serve the needs of our visitors. 

Google, site partners and Google certified ad networks also use your browser information stored in log files, cookies and Web beacons to better manage and serve Google AdSense and Google certified network advertisements placed on our site, as well as advertisements placed on other sites you may visit on the internet, based on the web pages you visited on our site, as well as other sites you have previously visited on the internet. 

For instance, if you had previously visited a site about weight-loss, prior to arriving at our site, Google and its certified ad networks may recognize your preference for weight-loss information from cookies already stored on your computer, and through the information contained in the stored cookies on your computer, place relevant interest-based, weight-loss advertisements on our site, and on other sites you visit, targeted to the type of website(s) you visited prior to coming to our site. 

Google stores data collected in log files, cookies and Web beacons, non-personally identifiable Information from each visitor's browser which typically include:  visitor's internet protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, Internet Service Provider ("ISP"), date and time stamp of your URL request to our site, referring and exit pages from our site, and the number of clicks on links, banner and contextual advertisements served by Google's AdSense, Google certified ad networks and other third-party vendors. 

DoubleClick DART Cookie & Opt Out Procedures

Google, as a third-party provider, uses cookies to serve ads on http://www.DiabetesPatientSite.com.
Google's use of the DoubleClick DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visit to our site and other sites they visit on the Internet. 

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting and opting-out of the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following link: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our advertising partners may use log files, cookies and Web beacons on our site. Our current third-party advertising partner(s) include:

• Google Adsense

and Google's certified ad networks listed on Google's site at:  http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94149      

We have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers, such as Google and Google certified ad networks and third-party vendors.

You should refer to the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their specific privacy policies and for instructions about how to opt-in or opt-out of certain privacy practices they maintain.  This privacy policy of http://www.DiabetesPatientSite.com, does not apply to, nor do we control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options.  You can perform an internet search for your browser name and add "disable cookies" to locate a link to that browsers individual site's instructions on how users can manage cookies for that particular browser.