Privacy Policy
Barbara Ellin Fox respects individual privacy and is committed to protecting personally identifiable information in conformity with applicable legal and ethical standards.This Privacy Policy and Notice of Information Practices sets forth Barbara Ellin Fox’s practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information that you may provide through this site. Please read this entire Privacy Policy before using this site or submitting information to Barbara Ellin Fox through this site.
By using this site and whenever you submit information through this site to Barbara Ellin Fox, you agree with the terms of Barbara Ellin Fox’s Privacy Policy and Notice of Information Practices written below.
Privacy Policy and Notice of Information Practices
Information Barbara Ellin Fox Collects
Personally Identifiable Information
Barbara Ellin Fox only collects personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, telephone number or email address, when you voluntarily submit it to Barbara Ellin Fox.
Cookies and Other Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We collect information about your usage of our site through cookies and similar technology. There are two types of cookies: session cookies (non persistent cookies) and persistent cookies. Session cookies temporarily store non-personally identifiable information about your visit to our website in your computer’s memory. The cookie is deleted as soon as you close your browser. Persistent or permanent cookies will uniquely identify your browser and will permanently save in your computer’s memory information requested by the website.
With cookies the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.
We also track the total number of visitors to our website, the number of visitors to each page of the website, and the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers. On certain Barbara Ellin Fox websites, we may also ask users that have opted to receive information to complete a survey. No personally identifiable information is gathered in any of these processes.
How Barbara Ellin Fox Uses This Information
Personally Identifiable Information
This information may be used by Barbara Ellin Fox personnel or agents of Barbara Ellin Fox to obtain more information, to improve this site, or to provide you with information that you have requested or additional information which Barbara Ellin Fox believes may be of interest to you.
Barbara Ellin Fox does not sell any of your personally identifiable information for marketing or advertising purposes.
Cookies and Other Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Cookies allow us to bring you the content and features likely to be of greatest interest to you based on your previous activities on our site. In Barbara Ellin Fox sites that require passwords, you are giving us explicit permission to use a “persistent cookie,” which is a small data file that is generated when you enter your assigned user id and password and access the site. This file is saved in your computer’s memory, and enables your browser to access each page that is in the password-protected area.
Pixels, or transparent GIF files, are used to help us manage our online advertising. For example, third party vendors, including Google, show Barbara Ellin Fox ads on sites on the internet. These vendors also use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to Barbara Ellin Fox’s website.
We use other non-personally identifiable information, including information obtained through surveys, to improve this site.
Storage and Transfer of Information
Barbara Ellin Fox, or in some cases its agents, may store the personally identifiable data collected via this site in an electronic database. Barbara Ellin Fox and its agents may also exchange such data with each other or with you over the internet or over intranet systems for the purposes of processing the data, mailing information to you in response to your request, or otherwise carrying out the services described above. We may also release your personally identifiable data in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, or applicable law or regulation.
While Barbara Ellin Fox makes every reasonable effort to protect the personally identifiable data collected through its websites, please be aware that there is always some risk involved when submitting data over the Internet. We cannot guarantee that our website is 100% safe from illegal tampering or “hacking.” Any data transmitted over the Internet may be at risk; however, once it is received at Barbara Ellin Fox and entered into its database, it has the same protection that Barbara Ellin Fox extends to its own confidential information.
Your Information Choices
Personally Identifiable Information
If at any time you wish to stop receiving emails or other communications from us, or if you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to have that information deleted from our records, please notify us. You may also request access to personal data about you that Barbara Ellin Fox holds and you may have the opportunity to request a correction or amendment to your personal data.
As a reminder to you when exchanging emails, any email that you send or receive on your employer’s email system may be the property of your employer. Consequently, your employer may have the ability to review your personal information sent via email.
Please note that although we attempt to adhere to requests to remove personal data from our records, it may not be possible to remove all copies depending on the manner in which the information was submitted to us. In addition, we reserve the right not remove or amend information provided to us regarding an adverse drug effect and information is otherwise required to be retained by law.
Cookies and Other Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. If your browser is set to reject cookies, sites like ours that are cookie-enabled will not recognize you when you return to the site and some site functionality may be lost.
Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.
Links to Third Party Sites
As a convenience to our visitors, our sites currently contain links to a number of other (non-Barbara Ellin Fox) sites that we believe may offer useful information. The privacy policy presented here does not apply to those sites. You should contact these sites directly for information on their privacy policies, confidentiality agreements, and data collection/distribution procedures.
Please note that linked non-Barbara Ellin Fox sites may also use cookies. Barbara Ellin Fox cannot control the use of cookies by these non-Barbara Ellin Fox sites. In addition, when you link from a Barbara Ellin Fox website to another website, that site may have the ability to recognize that you have come from a Barbara Ellin Fox site. If you do not want any other websites to know that you have been on this website, we recommend that you do not use the links provided in our site.
Children’s Policy
Our websites are not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect personal information from any person we actually know is a child under the age of 13.
Privacy Policy Updates
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. If a change to this Privacy Policy results in a materially different use of your personally identifiable information provided prior to the date of the change, you may opt out of such use by providing notice to Barbara Ellin Fox.
This privacy policy only applies to websites linked to it. A different privacy policy may apply to other Barbara Ellin Fox websites you visit.
This privacy policy was last updated 07/11/2021.