e-manus.com understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of e-manus.com and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

This Privacy Policy applies to the e-manus.com Web site owned and operated by ELLA Ltd.

The e-manus.com Web site contains links to other sites. Once you enter another Web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that e-manus.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on e-manus.com.
We hope that reading our Privacy Policy gives you a clear idea of how we manage information about you.
While you may use some of the functionality of e-manus.com without registration, many of the specific services on our website require registration. If you use our Web site without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons. If you choose to register with our Web site, we require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. Depending on service you have selected, we may also collect Personal Health Information. Your Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information are linked with unique user profile identificator. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information you submit to e-manus.com Health. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and tools and our ability to contact you as contemplated in this Privacy Policy. For example, your email address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.

Even if you do not register with e-manus.com, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site, special promotions and newsletters.

Cookies

We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and your use of the Web sites of selected advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every computer accesses a e-manus.com Web site is assigned a different Cookie by e-manus.com. The information collected by Cookies (i) helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on Web pages or in newsletters, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Web site and selected advertisers' sites, (iii) how many people open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user's log-in, as navigation aides and as session timers.

Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our Web site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Cookies to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.

Web Beacons (also often referenced as "clear GIFs", "web bugs", "1-by-1 GIFs", "Single-Pixel GIFs", "1 x 1 Pixels", or "clear Pixels")

We also may use Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and the Web sites of selected advertisers, and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information collected by Web Beacons (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website and advertisers' sites, (ii) how many people open our emails, and (iii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our Web sites. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Web Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Web Beacons to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.

We collect Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to us when you register as a member of e-manus.com and/or when you update your member profile. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you emails about Web site maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.

Newsletters & Emails to You

At registration and at various times as you use e-manus.com, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email from e-manus.com. These emails will not contain Personal Health Information.

In order to subscribe to such newsletters via email, we need your contact information, such as name and email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by simply clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email newsletter. You may also unsubscribe or change any of your email preferences by changing your profile within the e-manus.com Account Settings. If you are experiencing difficulties with our automated unsubscribe service, please use our Contact Form. e-manus.com Customer Service will unsubscribe you from that newsletter in two to three business days.

In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the website of a third party which, acting on behalf of e-manus.com, notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to your selected destination; this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.
When you use e-manus.com "Email a Friend", e-manus.com emails the article or other content you designate to your friend's email address and identifies your email address as the sender. e-manus.com uses the friend's email address to send your friend the particular email you requested.

Emails You Send to e-manus.com

This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to e-manus.com by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to e-manus.com. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but are not always able to do so.

Public Forums

As a service to our users, e-manus.com features public forums where users with similar interests or medical conditions can share information and support one another. We also offer online discussions moderated by medical or healthcare experts.
You should think carefully before disclosing any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information in any public forum. What you have written may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes.

Website Registration and Interactive Tools on e-manus.com

After you have registered as a member of e-manus.com, you may choose to use certain e-manus.com interactive content, tools and services that may ask you to voluntarily provide other types of information about yourself including Personal Health Information. Some of the tools (like certain quizzes or calculators) do not retain your Personal Health Information, while others store your Personal Health Information in accordance with the authorization you provide at the time you use the tool.

Listed below are some of the security procedures that e-manus.com uses to protect your privacy:
1. Requires both a personal username and a password in order for users to access their Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Health Information.
2. Uses firewalls to protect information held in our servers.
3. Utilizes Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption in transmitting Personally Identifiable Information to our servers. In order to take advantage of encryption technology, you must have an Internet browser which supports 128-bit encryption.
4. Closely monitors the limited number of e-manus.com employees who have potential access to your Personally Identifiable Information.
5. Requires all e-manus.com employees to abide by our Privacy Policy and to be subject to disciplinary action if they violate it.
6. Backs-up our systems to protect the integrity of your Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information.

Despite e-manus.com efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.