Privacy policy for acne science

acnescience.com provides this privacy statement to make you aware of our privacy policy, practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we have a link to it available at the bottom of every page on the site.

Personal Information

We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you fill out a form to request more information, register a profile in our discussion forums, register for one of our email notification lists, or establishing an account with us in our online product center. Personal information collected by acnescience.com often is limited to email address, but it may include other information when needed to provide a service that you have requested.

Log Files

Like most standard Web site servers this web site uses log files. This includes recording internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type use, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that a website may place on your hard drive to allow a website to identify you. The use of cookies is a common practice on many websites. For example, if you allow a website to remember your login name or password, the website places a cookie on your computer. Cookies cannot read any other information on your computer hard drive.

Our web site may place cookies on your computer to allow us to identify you. We may use cookies to measure web traffic, to offer you certain services, and to customize your visit. Some of our business partners also use cookies on our site (advertisers for example). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.

Web Beacons

A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.

This web site may serve third party advertisements that may also use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our website, to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. The owners of this web site do not have access to this information. We provide advertisements to enrich your web surfing and from companies including Google Adsense, Burst Media, Value Click Media, etc. Please check the websites of these internet advertisement providers for their respective privacy policies.

Personal Information Use

acnescience.com will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. As previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited materials from us and we will do everything we can to honor such requests. Local country laws and policies are applied where they differ from those in the USA. Your permission is always secured first, should we ever share your information with third parties that are not acting on our behalf and governed by our privacy policy.

External Links

Links to third party web sites on the site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the acnescience.com site. acnescience.com has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their privacy policies. Thus, acnescience.com does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so at your own risk.

Security

acnescience.com is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

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