Your privacy concerns are important to femtalkusa. This Policy is designed to provide you with the information you need to control your personal information.

1. You may use the femtalkusa website without giving us information which identifies you, such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card and similar information. We refer to these types of information as "Personally Identifying Information".

2. We collect Personally Identifying Information only if you voluntarily provide it on the website. If you do not wish to provide some or all of the information requested on a screen, or if you have concerns about maintaining the confidentiality of any information, do not provide it.

3. We may request general information, such as your postcode, in order to identify the sponsor for your area, and for statistical purposes. For convenience, this information may be stored on your hard drive in a "cookie file." If you wish to block or delete such files, most browsers provide a method for doing so. This type of general information, as well as information concerning the websites from which users visit our site, and other similar information, may be provided to third parties in aggregate form.

4. Our "Ask-The-Doctor" feature is designed to be anonymous. Prior to your one-to-one, anonymous chat, you will be asked for your state and zip or post code, certain generic demographic information and for a topic of interest. You will not be asked to provide Personally Identifying Information during a chat session, and you should not include it with your question.

5. Postings in Discussion groups, on the other hand, may be viewed by anyone who visits that chat room. Participation in these chat rooms is designed to be based on fictitious names selected by you. You should exercise caution not to provide Personally Identifying Information or other information that you would not want seen by others in such chat rooms.

6. We reserve the right to use, without Personally Identifying Information, any questions, comments or other information submitted by users in books, articles, commentaries, research or similar ways.

7. If you visit a website which is linked to the 'femtalkusa' website, you should consult that website's privacy policy before providing Personally Identifying Information.

8. We will use Personally Identifying Information provided by you for the purpose for which it is given to us. For example, to respond to a request for further information, or to have a Sponsor contact you at your request. It also may be used by us, or by entities with which we contract, for transmission of newsletters and advertisements in which you may be interested, and for such other purposes which are disclosed at the time the information is given. If you receive information that you do not wish to receive, please contact us or follow the instructions for removing your name from the circulation list for that item.

9. femtalkusa's policy is that the website may be used only by individuals over the age of 18, and we urge parents to supervise their children's use of the website. We do not collect any information from children. However, if a parent learns that a child has submitted Personally Identifying Information to our website, the parent should contact us and that information will be deleted.

10. In making your decision whether to provide Personally Identifying Information, you should be aware of the general risks of transmitting information over the Internet. Our website generally does not use encryption. Credit card transactions are processed through e-commerce protocols that we believe are standard for the industry. While femtalkusa attempts to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing our files or tampering with our website, we cannot guarantee that these efforts will always be successful.