Health Organization for Pudendal Education - Privacy policy
This policy explains in detail how “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” along with its affiliated companies (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”,
“Health Organization for Pudendal Education”, “https://www.pudendalhope.info/forum”) and phpBB (hereinafter “they”, “them”, “their”, “phpBB software”, “www.phpbb.com”, “phpBB Limited”, “phpBB
Teams”) use any information collected during any session of usage by you (hereinafter “your information”).
Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.
We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing “Health Organization for Pudendal Education”, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).
Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid email address (hereinafter “your email”). Your information for your account at “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your email address required by “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of “Health Organization for Pudendal Education”. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated emails from the phpBB software.
Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at “Health Organization for Pudendal Education”, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “Health Organization for Pudendal Education”, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your email, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.
We do not inspect, extract, store, or save any of your private information from you or your computer other than what is required in order for us to authenticate you and to make sure someone else is not trying to access your account. Our server software allows you to save into small text file "cookies" on your own local computer certain kinds of this information that we require containing your log-in username, secure ciphered one-way hash of your password into another coded value (but not your password itself), your log-in session ID, and your e-mail address that you use to register. Cookie information like passwords, auto log-in data, and browser preferences displaying what you may have typed (such as in auto-completion fields) are all stored locally on your computer. We do not store it on our server. The Internet Protocol address of your computer connected through your Internet Service Provider is visible to the moderators. Moderators/site administrators do not know or have access to your password. We can reset your password manually at your request. After we reset your password we encourage you to change it as soon as possible (and then we will no longer know or have access to it).
Passwords will only be reset manually by the site administrators at your request. If you click on "I forgot my password" on the log-in page and reset your password yourself, the site administrators will not know your new password. Any other information that you choose to supply is optional. Your username and signature if you choose to have a signature are publicly viewable.
We do not sell or make available to third parties or companies any data collected or any information provided by you during registration. Only site administrators can access this data. All e-mail addresses used by members to register will be kept confidential by the website-forum administrators and will not be disclosed unless required to do so by law; however, we cannot take any responsibility for any tracing of your personal information posted on the forum. Site administrators are appointed by the Health Organization for Pudendal Education Board of Directors and may change at any time. This is a public forum and is therefore open to anyone to read and use your posts without registering. Search engines will lead people to forum messages. This allows members searching for answers to their questions about pudendal neuralgia to find us, and permits us to provide help and advice to them.
We would like to remind you that you should keep your personal identity private. Here are some suggestions that should assist you in retaining your privacy:
1. Keep your personal information private.
2. Do not post your full name, home address, telephone number, email address, or anything else you want to keep private on the forum, unless you want the world to know about it.
3. If you do want to exchange personal information with another member, you should do so using private messaging, so long as you are comfortable doing so and you are confident about the recipient.
4. We recommend that you should use a real first name and a single letter for your last name or a number or an abbreviation which is familiar to you. This way we are communicating with actual people, but not revealing our full names. It is acceptable to use an alias if you prefer not to use your real name but please choose an alias that is like a real name. Please make sure that you choose a username and password that you will be able to remember!
5. There is no minimum age requirement to use the forum since we are unable to monitor with any accuracy the age of the forum posters.
6. You can edit your own posts but only moderators can fully delete posts. If you edit the content out of your post, there will still be a blank post that shows you posted there.
Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.
We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing “Health Organization for Pudendal Education”, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).
Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid email address (hereinafter “your email”). Your information for your account at “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your email address required by “Health Organization for Pudendal Education” during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of “Health Organization for Pudendal Education”. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated emails from the phpBB software.
Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at “Health Organization for Pudendal Education”, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “Health Organization for Pudendal Education”, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your email, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.
We do not inspect, extract, store, or save any of your private information from you or your computer other than what is required in order for us to authenticate you and to make sure someone else is not trying to access your account. Our server software allows you to save into small text file "cookies" on your own local computer certain kinds of this information that we require containing your log-in username, secure ciphered one-way hash of your password into another coded value (but not your password itself), your log-in session ID, and your e-mail address that you use to register. Cookie information like passwords, auto log-in data, and browser preferences displaying what you may have typed (such as in auto-completion fields) are all stored locally on your computer. We do not store it on our server. The Internet Protocol address of your computer connected through your Internet Service Provider is visible to the moderators. Moderators/site administrators do not know or have access to your password. We can reset your password manually at your request. After we reset your password we encourage you to change it as soon as possible (and then we will no longer know or have access to it).
Passwords will only be reset manually by the site administrators at your request. If you click on "I forgot my password" on the log-in page and reset your password yourself, the site administrators will not know your new password. Any other information that you choose to supply is optional. Your username and signature if you choose to have a signature are publicly viewable.
We do not sell or make available to third parties or companies any data collected or any information provided by you during registration. Only site administrators can access this data. All e-mail addresses used by members to register will be kept confidential by the website-forum administrators and will not be disclosed unless required to do so by law; however, we cannot take any responsibility for any tracing of your personal information posted on the forum. Site administrators are appointed by the Health Organization for Pudendal Education Board of Directors and may change at any time. This is a public forum and is therefore open to anyone to read and use your posts without registering. Search engines will lead people to forum messages. This allows members searching for answers to their questions about pudendal neuralgia to find us, and permits us to provide help and advice to them.
We would like to remind you that you should keep your personal identity private. Here are some suggestions that should assist you in retaining your privacy:
1. Keep your personal information private.
2. Do not post your full name, home address, telephone number, email address, or anything else you want to keep private on the forum, unless you want the world to know about it.
3. If you do want to exchange personal information with another member, you should do so using private messaging, so long as you are comfortable doing so and you are confident about the recipient.
4. We recommend that you should use a real first name and a single letter for your last name or a number or an abbreviation which is familiar to you. This way we are communicating with actual people, but not revealing our full names. It is acceptable to use an alias if you prefer not to use your real name but please choose an alias that is like a real name. Please make sure that you choose a username and password that you will be able to remember!
5. There is no minimum age requirement to use the forum since we are unable to monitor with any accuracy the age of the forum posters.
6. You can edit your own posts but only moderators can fully delete posts. If you edit the content out of your post, there will still be a blank post that shows you posted there.