CARTILAGE HEALTH PRIVACY & ADVERTISING POLICY
At Cartilage Health we respect the privacy of everyone who visits and uses our site. This Website undertakes to comply to the relevant legal requirements of medical/health information in the UK.
Personal Data
The Cartilage Health Website does not collect any personal data from you (e.g. name, address, telephone number or email address) unless you have provided this voluntarily. If you do not want Cartilage Health to have your personal data then please do not submit it.
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Technical Information
General information is gathered about visitors to this Web site. This data is not personally identifiable and is used to help Cartilage Health to improve the content of the site. Examples of the information that is collected included the country where you are accessing the site from, the number of visits each page receives, how long visitors stay on each page and the date and time of visits.
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Information Placed on Your Computer
Cartilage Health may store 'cookies' on your hard drive to allow your user details to be recognised when you visit the site again. The majority of internet browsers warn you before a cookie is stored and many allow you to block cookies if you do not want them to be stored on your computer. Please refer to your internet browser for details of these functions.
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Customer Purchase Transactions
Any details submitted via the Cartilage Health shop through the PayPal payment system are sent via a secure and protected channel. The information that is submitted to PayPal to process orders is not accessible to RehabMatters. The limited information that is collected by RehabMatters is not sold or distributed to any third parties.
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Funding
The Cartilage Health Website is primarily funded privately by Karen Hambly. Supporting funding is received from content-sensitive advertising from Google and Amazon and other relevant Affliates. Cartilage Health does not receive any financial support from any sports, medical, rehabilitation or orthopaedic companies or organisations.
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Advertising Policy
The content of the Cartilage Health Website is independent and advertising revenue has no influence on the content of the site. Cartilage Health will not accept advertising revenue that is conditional upon editorial input. The Cartilage Health Website is supported by content-sensitive advertising, including Google, Amazon and relevant Affliates. The links provided by companies other than Cartilage Health may contain cookies but these are the responsibility of the respective companies and are not accessible to Cartilage Health.
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Advertising Cookies
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In particular, Google, our main third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on the Cartilage Health site. Google's use of the 'DART' cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
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