The Wortham Laboratories Privacy Policy   Welcome to Wortham Laboratories.  This PRIVACY POLICY outlines our responsibility to your information as you visit and interact with our website. We view internet privacy as a paramount concern to our visitors, and intend to clearly outline how your information is handled during and after your visit. Thank you for your trust.   Wortham Laboratories Primary Disclosure Wortham Laboratories conducts our online programs at Wortham Laboratories.com; our server providers are all located within the United States. To contact Wortham Laboratories regarding our privacy policies, visit our website's contact section to reach our inbound service desk. COPPA GUIDELINES Children's Online Privacy Act of 1998, United States This site is not actively involved in attracting, marketing to, or collecting information from visitors under the age of 13.  We also are not involved in the collection, receipt, storage or transmission of secure legal or medical documents that would contain prohibited personally-identifiable information. Wortham Laboratories asks that all documents considered sensitive be sent by postal mail, parcel post or fax. This site does not participate in online gaming or adult-related material. EUROPEAN SAFE HARBOR GUIDELINES Intended Compliance Statement:   European Directive on Data Protection 1995-1998 Wortham Laboratories has charged our Information Technology Department with the goal of complete European Safe Harbor compliance according to the following directives: http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/SHPRINCIPLESFINAL.htm It is our belief we meet and/or exceed all Safe Harbor guidelines with regard to our web presence and internal operations.   Our European customers are of high importance to the operation of Wortham Laboratories, and we invite comments and questions regarding Safe Harbor be directed to our Director of I.T. QUESTIONS, CONCERNS AND RESOLUTION FOR PRIVACY ISSUES U.S. DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL: Wortham Laboratories Online Privacy/Safe Harbor Compliance c/o  Jason M. Kibby 6340 Bonny Oaks Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee USA 37416 Statement of Purpose/Visitor's Right of Refusal Why we collect data on our Wortham Laboratories website Wortham Laboratories clearly identifies the purpose for which information is collected at all locations on our site. Information collected is utilized only for the purpose intended. Wortham Laboratories collects personally identifiable information to ascertain whether participation in our programs and online library should be permitted, and to serve those to whom access is granted. Wortham Laboratories may request, with specific approval, endorsements from practitioners and member businesses who specifically agree to provide information regarding their experience with Wortham Laboratories in their own words. Any such document would only be utilized as agreed, and only when such use is authorized by signature. Wortham Laboratories does not sell personally-identifiable information, and does not provide this information to any party not involved with specific Wortham Laboratories functions. In addition, no third party without specific stated interest in the data collected ever receives personally-identifiable information from Wortham Laboratories. Right of Refusal: In all areas where Wortham Laboratories collects personally-identifiable information user is given an option whether or not to receive further documentation from our laboratory.   Certain documents may be sent out of necessity or in the public health interest related to our products.   We specifically denounce the use of unauthorized, unsolicited electronic mail (Spam). No opt-out features are currently applicable to the 'contact page' as this information is used SOLELY for the purpose intended and does NOT become part of a corporate database outside the requests of the individual user. Consumers who have communicated with Wortham Laboratories at any time can easily update, change or opt-out of any of our programs by using the contact form provided at worthamlabs.com. Wortham Laboratories does not sell any products directly to consumers at this time, nor would any information collected via our website be utilized now or in the future for that purpose. Checkbox Submit Policy: Wortham Laboratories defaults all options regarding additional participation or use of data to "Select One," "Off," or "No." Wortham Laboratories avoids all situations where site visitors might unintentionally opt for programs or services in which they did not intend to participate. Visitor Transparent Technology/Cookies: Wortham Laboratories servers maintain "logs" which automatically collect standard access data, such as page views and accesses to resources (graphics, pages, script files). Servers also collect IP addresses and browser versions. None of this information is personally-identifiable, and is used solely to generate aggregate use data for site analysis, reporting and improvement. Wortham Laboratories does deposit a "cookie" that allows our library users to travel freely throughout the access-restricted areas of our site.   This "cookie" does not contain personally-identifiable information beside a username and password, and expires upon logging out of our system. Wortham Laboratories does not participate in any industry products or services which would allow the sharing of our user's cookie data for recognition or participation on other sites. Declaration of Partnerships and Associations: Wortham Laboratories currently has no partnership or association with third-party content providers, and does not forward consumers to any third party site other than clearly noted on our pages.   We do, however, specifically disclaim participation in and/or responsibility for any third party content which may be accessed directly through our site or at the suggestion of any literature on our site. Declaration of Revenue Model: Wortham Laboratories utilizes the website located at worthamlabs.com to assist appropriate medical practitioners and industry professionals with our specific line of products. The website is ancillary to our core business of providing such products to the medical community.   Wortham Laboratories does not generate revenue directly related to any website operation, other than how these website services integrate into our overall program structure. We do not sell advertising or currently conduct any type of electronic commerce via our site. We do not sell personally-identifiable information. Wortham Laboratories does not aggregate and sell demographic information related to our users. Links/Advertiser Privileges: This site may use clearly identified links to external sites on our pages. These links will forward your browser to destinations of other companies and content over which we have no control. We includes these links to provide information of interest, and a convenient method to visit businesses, topics, distributors and partners discussed on our site. While we encourage you to visit linked content where appropriate, we also ask that you study privacy policies on any website prior to entering personally-identifiable information. Wortham Laboratories does not participate in any advertising affiliate, syndication, multi-level, banner advertising or related program. Wortham Laboratories does not have any advertising on our site other than marketing and training for our own products; we specifically disclaim all third party sites including those of our distributors (over which we have no control with regard to online content).   Information Disclosure: 1) Personally-identifiable information is not stored in any generally-accessible web directory, other than registered business information necessary to publish the contacts of our distributors and other core partners. 2) Wortham Laboratories principals have an extended relationship with our external hosting providers, and every confidence web servers are physically inaccessible to the general public. 3) Wortham Laboratories mail forwarding forms utilize secure technology to encrypt data collected at the browser, and would notify if standard (non-encrypted) e-mail were utilized to send information from the browser to Wortham Laboratories. Wortham Laboratories employees collect comments and information from the public via e-mail after the message has been securely transmitted from the visitor's browser to our e-mail system. None of this information is stored in public directories, and is removed from the server after accessed. Secure server issues notwithstanding, Wortham Laboratories notifies all users that internet transmission of data must be considered inherently insecure, and we suggest you utilize other means to communicate sensitive documents.   We are able to send and accept files using PGP encryption. Wortham Laboratories stores information as necessary on our internal computer systems, in addition to database and paper files necessary for business operation. This information is kept in business files for various lengths of time depending upon need. Due to the necessity of storing information related to continual business operation, it is not possible to state a definite length of time between information entry and secure disposal. External service providers: Where this site uses outsource/external hosting or outsource/external application services, we have no agreements or intentions to allow the external host or ASP to access, use or market our personally-identifiable information in any manner other than the intended use when supplied by our site visitor. This site does not relinquish ownership of, sublease or share personally-identifiable information with an outsource hosting or application provider. Where this site uses outsourced customer service or technical support, we have no agreements or intentions to allow the external service to access, use or market our personally-identifiable information in any manner other than the intended use when supplied by our site visitor. This site does not relinquish ownership of, sublease or share personally-identifiable information with an outsource customer service or tech support enterprise. Currently, Wortham Laboratories utilizes none of the above services outside our external hosting provider. Security Statement and Disclaimer: Wortham Laboratories is not currently aware of any threat to personally-identifiable information collected via our website. Wortham Laboratories is aware that responsible measures taken to protect personally-identifiable information cannot be guaranteed to operate with perfect success, although the detailed information provided here is an accurate representation of the intention of this organization to handle personally-identifiable and sensitive data with integrity and diligence. Wortham Laboratories offers that no company can represent its data as totally secure, as technological security development and the efforts by some to thwart security are both emerging in parallel. Implied Consent and Release of Liability By visiting the Wortham Laboratories website, you agree to hold harmless Wortham Laboratories and its suppliers, employees and members in all circumstances where voluntary action on your part was taken to deliver personally-identifiable or sensitive information via this website. Be it also noted that additional methods of contacting Wortham Laboratories, including telephone, fax and standard U.S. mail are clearly listed on this website should any visitor feel uncomfortable with sending sensitive information via the internet. By using the Wortham Laboratories website, you consent to the collection and use of your information as outlined in this policy; this policy may be regularly updated with such updates noted specifically on this page. Last Update of the Policy:  01-10-04