Privacy Statement

The Hysterectomy Association has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site.

The Hysterectomy Association use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. However, it does not gather personal information about you, simply information about your computer and the connection to the internet that it uses.

Our site’s registration form requires users to give us contact information, such as their name and email address.  The customer’s contact information is only used to contact the user if they have subscribed to our mailing list.

Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings by choosing to un-subscribe and a link is provided at the bottom of each message to facilitate this process.

This site may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

The Hysterectomy Association uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor’s contact information to send orders to our customers. The customer’s contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings.

In addition to this we have registered The Hysterectomy Association with the Information Commissioner and comply with our registration with the Data Protection Act. You can find out more about how we use your personal information by going to the Information Commissioners web site at: www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

We do not pass any of your confidential and personal information on to any other third party unless it is being used in the processing of any order you have made.

Our Use of Cookies

The Hysterectomy Association website uses Google Analytics to track activity on our website which collects anonymous data about a given browser, along with the information requested and sent by the browser’s operator (the visitor). Cookies do not identify individual people and no personal data is collected.

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years

Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes

Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Expires: 6 months

For more information about Google Analytics visit Google Analytics website.

The Hysterectomy Association web site also uses Cookies to keep track of your shopping cart whilst you are on our website, it may remember items you have added to your shopping cart basket if you do not go through the complete order process. You can remove these items by clicking the ‘clear basket’ link. If you create an account on our shop we will use cookies to identify you so we can retrieve your information so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our site upon log in.

If you create an account on our forums, we will use cookies so we can retrieve your information so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our forums to log in.

Security

The The Hysterectomy Association web site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All data is protected using the most advanced methods available. We do not store financial information like credit card numbers or personal information such as social security numbers on this site.

Un-Subscribe

The Hysterectomy Association gives our customers the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive mail list messages.

  • Every email sent from our automated system contains a link at the bottom to un-subscribe. When you use this link you will automatically be removed from our mailing list.

Corrections/Updates

The Hysterectomy Association gives our customers the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

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