The privacy of our visitors to PharMA is important to us. Our privacy policy reflects our commitment to safeguarding your experience!
At PharMA, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is a bit more about the types of information we receive and collect when you visit PharMA, and how we safeguard your information. We will never sell your personal information to third parties.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
On PharMA we collect names and email addresses only if you comment on a post or subscribe to our newsletter.
COMMENTS
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form. We also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
MEDIA
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
CONTACT FORMS
At the PharMA Blog we utilize a contact form to collect information for our newsletter; this information includes name and email. The information is used only for our newsletter groups…it will never be sold. You can opt out at any time.
COOKIES
If you leave a comment on PharMA you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content. This includes tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.
ANALYTICS
PharMA uses Google Analytics to count our daily users and to collect other information like location (by state), general demographics (age), and how long users remain on our website. This information helps us provide the most relevant content we can to the people who want it. We may use this data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you.
Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests.
SENSITIVE DATA
We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliations, or sexual orientation. When we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time.
Your personal data will only be used for the purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at ma@phar-ma.com. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by emailing us at ma@phar-ma.com at any time. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other purchases or transactions.
DATA SECURITY
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data.
DATA RETENTION DISCLOSURES
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for. This is for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
THIRD PARTIES WE RECEIVE DATA FROM
We receive data from our advertisers to run pertinent ads on our site. This data does not compromise your security. We check visitor comments through an automated spam detection service. We collect information from visitors who comment on our site via Akismet anti-spam service. The information typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL. Other information included is directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself.
YOUR RIGHTS
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data. This includes the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent. If you wish to exercise these rights please email us at ma@phar-ma.com.
As a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. Please email us to exercise this right.
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices or for further questions, please contact us.
AFFILIATE DISCLAIMER
PharMA contains some contextual affiliate links. This means that we get a commission should you make a purchase through affiliate links that we share. We also work with affiliate links on our social media pages including Instagram and Facebook. PharMA also contains sponsored blog posts. All sponsored content is disclosed at the top or bottom of the post.
We only link to and promote items and brands we truly love and use. All opinions are our own. We are not responsible for the quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or any other aspect of these products and services.
In addition, a merchant will likely have privacy policy and data collection practices that are different from ours. If you make a purchase from a merchant on their site or on a site that we have posted a link to, the information obtained during your visit to that merchant’s online store or site. The information that you give as part of the transaction, such as your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number, and credit card number, may be collected by the merchant and us. For more information regarding a merchant, its online store, its privacy policies, and/or any additional terms and conditions that may apply, visit that merchant’s website and click on its information links or contact the merchant directly.
PharMA is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
PharMA is also a participant in the Club Target affiliate program. This means that if you click on a product link and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission or gamified reward at no additional cost to you.
*Disclosed in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
ADDITIONAL TERMS
Unless otherwise stated, The PharMA Blog owns the rights to all content and images on PharMA.
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