DR. VITUS BLOG

1. Company
HelpAReporter.com is owned and run by
Cision US Inc. (a Cision Company)
(“HelpAReporter.com”, “HelpAReporter”,
“HARO”, “us”).
To contact us with questions about this
privacy policy, write to:
Cision, 12051 Indian Creek Ct., Beltsville, MD
20705
2. Scope
Cision has adopted this Privacy Policy to
inform its customers and others about how it
protects personally identifiable information and
other information that may be collected when
users visit the HelpaReporter.com web site.
This Privacy Policy covers HARO’s treatment
of personal or personally identifiable
information (“Personal Information”) that may
be collected when you are on the
HelpaReporter.com website, and when you
use the services of HelpaReporter.com. The
privacy of your nonpublic information is
important to us. This includes, but is not
limited to, your name, email address and any
other personally identifiable information. We
use safeguards to protect your privacy and
confidentiality. This Policy Statement
discusses information we collect and the
manner in which it is used.
3. Information Collection
Our primary goal in collecting personal
information is to provide you with a smooth,
efficient, and customized experience.
HelpaReporter.com is sensitive to the
protection of customer identifiable information
which an individual or another customer
reasonably expects to be kept private.
Customer identifiable information means
information which can be associated with a
specific entity or individual, including, by way
of example, a customer’s name, e-mail
address, and information about on-line
activities which can be directly linked to him
or her.
If you become a HARO Source member, we
will create an account for you, at
HelpaReporter.com, which will contain your
name, e-mail, and other identifying
information. This account will be used to send
out the periodic emails. If you respond to an
anonymous posting, we will retain that
response (and even if you are not a Source
member, we will retain that email
information).
If you become a HARO Journalist member, we
will create an account for you, at
HelpaReporter.com, which will contain your
name, e-mail, and other identifying
information. This information will be displayed
on our emails we send out to the Source
Members listing your request for information.
If you post a request for information
anonymously, we will create a Google filter for
incoming emails which will then forward those
emails which properly comply with the
instructions to you. We will receive copies of
those emails as well as any responses which
did not properly comply with the instructions.
HARO may also collect Personal Information
from your usage of the HelpaReporter.com
website. If you do nothing during your visit but
browse through the website and read the
information contained on the Web pages, we
may gather certain information about your visit
automatically, such as your IP address, the
date and time you access a given page, and
the pages you visit. We use cookies to identify
return users, so that they need not log in each
time they arrive.
We use data collection devices such as
“cookies” on certain pages of our websites.
“Cookies” are small files placed on your hard
drive that assist us in providing customized
services. We also offer certain features that
are only available through the use of a cookie.
Cookies can also help us provide information
which is targeted to your interests. We use
this information to determine our members’
demographics, interest, and behavior to better
understand and serve you and our community.
Please note that your personally identifiable
information will be stored and processed on
our computers in the United States. The laws
regarding the handling of personal data in the
United States may differ from the laws of
other countries but, as we explain below,
Cision. will hold and transmit your information
in a safe, confidential and secure environment.
Under some circumstances we may require
certain additional information, including, but
not limited to your credit card and/or bank
account billing information. We use this
financial information, including your name,
address, and other information to bill you for
use of our Services such as enrolling as a
member of a HARO or engaging in any other
kind of activity or transaction that uses
financial information on the website, you
consent to our providing of your financial
information to our service providers and to
such third parties as we determine necessary
to support and process your activities and
transactions, as well as to your credit card
issuer and/or bank for their purposes. These
third parties may include the credit card
companies and banking institutions used to
process and support your transaction or
activity.
4. Our Use of Your Information
We use information in the files we maintain
about you, and the other information we obtain
from your current and past activities on the
websites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems and enforce our Terms of Service.
At times, we may review the data of multiple
members to identify problems or resolve
disputes. You agree that we may use
personally identifiable information about you to
analyze website usage, improve our content
and service offerings, and customize our
website’s content, layout, and service. These
uses improve our websites and may better
tailor them to meet your needs. You agree that
we may use your information to contact you
and to deliver information to you such as
administrative notices, service offerings, and
communications relevant to your use of the
website. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you
expressly agree to receive this information.
If you are a Source Member, we use your
email address to send you our email listing of
requests for information and may also let you
know of information relating to HARO, Cision,
or Cision’s subsidiaries or affiliates. If you are
a Journalist Member and post a request
anonymously, we will use your email address
to forward responses to your request.
5. Sharing and Disclosure of Personal
Information
HARO will not sell or rent your Personal
Information to any individual, business, or
government entity.
HARO will share your Personal Information
with other entities if HARO is required to
respond to court orders, subpoenas, or other
legal process. HARO may also use customer
identifiable information to investigate and help
prevent potentially unlawful activity or activity
that threatens HelpaReporter.com’s users or
otherwise violates the Terms of Service
agreement.
HelpaReporter.com’s servers automatically
gather information about which pages are
visited within the HelpAReporter.com site.
HARO does not use that information except in
the aggregate. This information helps us
identify the type of website content or features
our customers value most. We may use
suppliers to assist us in collecting, using, or
otherwise processing for our benefit the non-
personal information obtained through the site.
We share much of our data, including
personally identifiable information about you,
with our parent, affiliates and/or subsidiaries
that are committed to serving your online
needs and related services, throughout the
world. To the extent that these entities have
access to your information, they will treat it at
least as protectively as they treat information
they obtain from their other members. Our
parent, affiliates and/or subsidiaries will
follow privacy practices no less protective of
all members than our practices described in
this document, to the extent alleged by
applicable law. It is possible that Cision its
affiliates, and/or its subsidiaries, or any
combination of such, could merge with or be
acquired by another business entity. Should
such a combination occur, you should expect
that Cision would share some or all of your
information in order to continue to provide the
Service. You will receive notice of such event
(to the extent it occurs) and we will require
that the new combined entity follow the
practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy, as it
may be amended from time to time.
6. Your Use of Journalist Members’
Information
Our services to our Source members include
postings of Requests for Information. Some
are posted anonymously; some contain our
Journalist member’s contact information. By
accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that,
with respect to other members’ personally
identifiable information that you obtain through
the services, Cision hereby grants to you a
license to use such information only for: (a)
HARO’s related communications that are not
unsolicited commercial messages, that is,
responses to the specific Request for
Information and (b) any other purpose to
which such member expressly agrees. In
addition, under no circumstances, except as
defined in this Privacy Policy, may you
disclose personally identifiable information or
confidential information about another member
(including Journalist Members) to any third
party without our consent and the consent of
such other member. Cision and our HARO
members do not tolerate spam. Therefore,
without limiting the foregoing, you are not
licensed to add a HARO member to your mail
list (email or physical mail) without their
express consent after adequate disclosure.
Further, you may only send a relevant
response to a specific request for information
and not use such information for any other
purpose. To report spam from other HARO
members, please Contact Us.
7. Security
Cision uses industry standard practices to
safeguard the confidentiality of your personal
identifiable information. Cision treats data as
an asset that must be protected against loss
and unauthorized access. We employ many
different security techniques to protect such
data from unauthorized access by others
inside and outside the company. However,
perfect security does not exist on the internet.
8. Access
We restrict access to nonpublic information to
people on the HARO team who need to
access that information in order to provide
HelpaReporter.com service to you.
9. Lawful Use of Site
HelpaReporter.com website services may only
be used for lawful purposes. Transmission of
any material in violation of any US or state or
local law, rule or regulation is strictly
prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:
copyrighted or trademarked material; material
that is threatening or obscene; material
protected by trade secret; or material which
violates a legally protected privacy right of an
individual. Persons under the age of 18 may
not access HelpaReporter.com.
HelpaReporter.com will cooperate with local,
state and federal courts and law enforcement
agencies in the investigation and prosecution
of claims of illegal activities when legally
obligated to do so. HelpaReporter.com will
comply with all legally enforceable subpoenas,
search warrants, court orders and other forms
of legal process. Under HelpaReporter.com’s
Terms of Service, the customer agrees to
indemnify and hold HelpaReporter.com and
HelpaReporter, its employees, officers,
directors and agents, harmless from any
claims, liabilities and expenses, including
reasonable attorney’s fees, resulting from the
customer’s use or misuse of the service which
damages HARO, HelpaReporter.com, its
officers, directors, employees and agents, as
well as any user, or another party.
10. Amendments
HARO will keep this policy current and
reserves the right to change this policy at any
time by amending the content of this
Statement. HARO will post a notice of
changes on the HelpaReporter.com website,
when and if the policy is amended. This
Statement and the policies expressed herein
are not intended to and do not create any
contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf
of any customer, user, or other third party.
11. Ownership
HelpaReporter.com, HelpaReporter, Help a
Reporter Out and HARO are the exclusive trade
names and marks of Cision.