The information on the Institute for Natural Medicine’s website is not intended to diagnose or treat disease. This is an information website only. If you have a medical emergency, call 911, or are experiencing a non-life threatening health concern, contact your healthcare provider.
This website privacy policy is provided by INM regarding information about our practices for collecting, using, and safeguarding the information you provide to us through this website.
Personal Information
You are welcome to browse INM’s website without providing personal information. However, to access certain options, offers, or services on our site, you will be asked to provide some personal information to view specific types of content. As always, you can unsubscribe from our programs at any time. Occasionally, you may receive an invitation to participate in a survey or poll about our site content, services, or products. Your responses are anonymous, unless you choose to provide your contact details.
Cookies and Web Tracking
Like other web companies, INM uses cookies and other non-personal technologies on our website. If you aren’t familiar, cookies are bits of computer information that are temporarily stored on the browser when you visit this website. They do not identify you the person using the computer, but tell us how many users visited our site, the pages they accessed, and if there were any technical problems. By collecting this information, we can tailor our website’s content and ensure functionality.
We also use certain web analytics and performance cookies to monitor web traffic. Performance cookies are tools such as Google Analytics. It tells our team how many visitors came to the site, how they found us, and the types of content that readers are interested in.
We use analytics to view the categories of content that interest you. We may contact you via email when we acquire new content that may be of interest. Of course, you may opt out of this feature at any time.
And, you are welcome to decline any browser or flash cookie by changing your web browser preferences to block any of these technologies. If you do so, you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features.
Sharing Your Information
Consistent with applicable laws and requirements, the personal information that you provide to us through this website may be used internally to improve your experience. We do not sell your personal information. However, if we are hosting a sweepstakes contest, entries may be shared with our host partners. See more contest rules at the bottom of this page.
In rare instances (ie legal situations), the company may be required to share information, such as transfer of ownership, regulatory or legal matters, safety and security issues, or as otherwise required and/or permitted by law. If this ever happens, we will limit the transfer to the information that is relevant to the circumstances and, as is possible, require the recipient to uphold an equivalent level of data protection.
Linked Websites
INM contains links to third-party (“external”) websites. Our company does not endorse or make any representations or endorsements for the accuracy of content located on linked external websites. And, we are not responsible for any linked external website’s privacy policies, content, products, data collection procedures, materials and activities, etc.
Your Safety Online
To be consistent with applicable laws, INM has adopted reasonable and appropriate measures designed to safeguard the confidentiality of your information and protect it from loss, misuse, alteration, destruction, or unauthorized access. Despite our efforts, there is always some risk that your data will be improperly accessed, including, for example, during your transmission of the information to us.
Policies for Children and Emergencies
This website is not intended to collect or maintain any information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we collected any information from anyone under the age of 13, we will purge it immediately, except for responding to a question or inquiry on a one-time basis from the individual.
The information on Naturemed.org is not intended to diagnose or treat disease. This is an information website. If you have a medical emergency call 911, or are experiencing a non-life threatening health concern, contact your healthcare provider.
Rights of Access, Correction of Objection
We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information on file is accurate and current. If it changes, please update your information on our website. You may also access or request correction of the information that we have retained about you, or request that we delete your information.
Policy Changes
Please review this policy periodically as we may update it to reflect changes to our practices, new requirements, and new security risks and safeguards. The changes become effective upon posting the new version of this policy, and those changes that relate to the use of personal information apply to information that is collected after posting.
Contact
If you have any concerns about these policies, please contact us immediately, admin@naturemed.org or call 206.486.3380.
Institute for Natural Medicine
4500 9th Ave, ND
Suite 300
Seattle Washington, WA 98105
206.486.3380
