The Advisory Board Company/American Health Line learns certain information about you from your visit to www.americanhealthline.com and what we do with this information depends on what you do when you are visiting the site. This policy explains the uses we currently make of this information and lets you know what choices, access and security you have with respect to information we collect. The Advisory Board Company reserves the right to modify this policy without advance notice by posting a new version on our website.
What information do we collect and how can you access it?
Unless you send us an e-mail or customize your americanhealthline.com home page, we collect and store only the following information about you: your registration information, username and password (if you access the password-protected web pages on this site); the date and time you access the site; the pages you visit; and the name of the domain from which you accessed the Internet. We use the information to measure the number of visitors to various portions of our website and to help us improve our web services. We may also use the information to link your username and password to particular areas of interest on our site. Our site will use "cookies" to recognize your computer and user name and password. Cookies help us customize and improve the site for you. You must have cookies enabled on your Internet browser; however, you do not have to accept cookies to use the Americanhealthline.com website. Disabling cookies will eliminate your ability to access the password-protected web pages on this site.
If you send us an e-mail or an e-mail address, create a profile or choose to customize your americanhealthline.com home page, we will collect and store the information you enter. What we collect depends on what you enter. You can edit your profile and home page by clicking My Profile. To delete your profile, send an e-mail with the subject heading "Delete profile" to ahl@advisory.com. We will delete your information from the internet-accessible portions of our website. Please be advised that when your profile is deleted, you will no longer be able to access the password-protected portions of this site. We reserve the right to keep all information in an off-line form for archival purposes or as otherwise required by law.
How is this information used?
The Advisory Board Company/American Health Line will only use the information you provide to help us create a better website experience for you. The Advisory Board Company/American Health Line does not tolerate "spam" and will never give or sell your personal information collected through this website to any other person or organization without your explicit permission. The only exceptions to this promise are that we may be required to disclose certain information to a court, government regulator or law enforcement agency (including the issuance of a valid subpoena), or as required to protect our rights and property and/or enforce our Terms of Service Agreement; in these events, we shall have no duty to notify you of our disclosure. We may use aggregate data (information about our base of users in general, from which all personally-identifying information has been removed) for any purpose.
Security
The Advisory Board Company/American Health Line will make reasonable efforts to use the latest security technologies to ensure that the information you provide is secure. However, we remind you that the Internet is not a secure environment. The Advisory Board Company/ American Health Line strongly encourages you to communicate over secure communication channels whenever possible, and especially when discussing any sensitive business information.
Children
The Advisory Board Company/ American Health Line serves general users of the World Wide Web. We support and comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and other laws and we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of thirteen, nor do we share such information with third parties.
For more information
If you would like any more information about The Advisory Board Company or its Online Privacy Policy, please email us at ahl@advisory.com or write to us (and include your e-mail address) at:
Attn: American Health Line
The Advisory Board Company
2445 M Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037