General Disclaimer
The opinions stated here are those of Kati Kleber and Brittney Wilson. We are not speaking on behalf of any current or former employer, professional nursing organizations, or other organization. We maintain HIPAA standards and respect the privacy of any past or present patients, their loved ones, colleagues, and other members of the healthcare team. Any patient encounters that might be mentioned are collective memories and details have always been changed to protect patient privacy. If you happen to think we have written about you, Carly Simon sang a little song that was probably about you too.
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Terms of Use
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Copyright Policy
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HIPAA
We abide by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) at all times. Any information that bears any resemblance to reality, in terms of personal health information, is a coincidence. Patient stories are scrambled and changed significantly to protect those involved.
Hold Harmless
All content provided is for entertainment purposes only. We do not provide medical or legal advice. Any professional recommendations or statement are based on opinion and any actions taken are of your own free will. Should you chose to take action based upon content read on this site, you do so at your own risk and agree to hold the author(s) harmless.
Privacy Statement
This website uses cookies to provide speedier delivery of content and serve ads. Any information collected about you by using this site will be kept private. We will not sell your email address or put you on any lists you did not opt-in to. We are not responsible, however, for any of the privacy practices of our advertisers, partners, affiliates, or audience.
Our website contains some affiliate marketing links, which means we get paid commission on sales of those products or services we write about. Our editorial content is not influenced by advertisers or affiliate partnerships. We use a 3rd Party to enable these affiliate partnerships.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including
Google Analytics
Health Media Academy uses Google Analytics’ 3rd-party audience data such as age, gender, and interests to better understand the behavior of our customers and work with companies that collect information about your online activities to provide advertising targeted to suit your interests and preferences… These companies also use automated technologies to collect information when you click on our ads, which helps track and manage the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
You may opt out of the automated collection of information by third-party ad networks for the purpose of delivering advertisements tailored to your interests, by visiting the consumer opt-out page for the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and
WooCommerce
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
What WooCommerce collects and stores
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes
like estimating taxes and shipping - Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
To keep track of cart data, WooCommerce makes use of 3 cookies:
- woocommerce_cart_hash
- woocommerce_items_in_cart
- wp_woocommerce_session_
The first two cookies contain information about the cart as a whole and
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 5 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
We also accept payments through Discover Card. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Discover, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the Discover Privacy Policy for more details.
We also accept payments through Visa. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Visa, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the Visa Privacy Policy for more details.
We also accept payments through American Express. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to American Express, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the American Express Privacy Policy for more details.
Reserve Rights
We reserve the right at any time to change the focus of this site, shut it down, sell, or changes our the terms of use at our own discretion.
Advertisers, Sponsors, and Affiliates
We work with different advertisers, sponsors, and affiliates to bring you quality content. We cannot be held liable for the actions of any of these vendors. If you buy a product or service through any links on this site, we may earn a commission, but we cannot service any issues or claims related to those products. You will need to contact that company directly to resolve any disputes. We will not be able to assist.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional information
For Users with accounts located in European Data Region, all processing of Personal Data is performed in accordance with privacy rights and regulations following the EU Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 (the Directive), and the implementations of the Directive in local legislation. From May 25th, 2018, the Directive and local legislation based on the Directive will be replaced by the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Health Media Academy’s processing will take place in accordance with the GDPR.
Letters to the Editor
Communications and content sent to the editor may be shared with our staff. Responses to specific questions on social media or via email may be combined and shared publicly in blogs, books, social media shares, or other formats. Please see our contact page to get in touch with us.
Contact Form
Health Media Academy uses Contact Form 7 to contact us. Please see their privacy policy for more information.