Privacy Policy

Any information that you provide (whether registering as a site user or registering for the newsletter) will be kept completely confidential. Information you provide will be stored in our own database only so we can continue to provide you with the services for which you registered. The information will only be viewable by the webmaster (Matthew Hogg) and occassionaly trusted IT professionals. Any correspondance via email, regular mail, or telephone will only be seen/heard by the webmaster. Under no circumstances will your information be shared with any 3rd party (company, market researchers etc).

We use third-party companies (Google, Kontera, Amazon) to serve ads and these may collect non-personally identifiable information (e.g., the pages you visit, and which links you click, which ads you see and click on, and the categories of search terms you enter) when you visit The Environmental Illness Resource. These companies may use the information outlined above (which does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies often use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information (see 'Cookies' below). If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here .

Cookies

Cookies are small files automatically installed on your computer when you visit certain web sites. These files can be used for various reasons, some harmless, some malicious. In addition to the cookies used by third-party advertising partners, as above, The Environmental Illness Resource will store cookies on your computer if you register as a user. The cookies are used in the login process e.g. so the site knows if you are logged in or not and how long you have been logged in. We will not use cookies for any purpose other than to ensure the site itself functions correctly with regard to members logging in. Cookies may also be stored by your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) so that if you return to a page at The Environmental Illness Resource you have previously visited, it will not have to load the data for the page all over again. This reduces the amount of time webpages take to load thus improving your online experience.

Funding Sources

The Environmental Illness Resource is funded entirely through advertising revenue (see 'Advertising Policy') and commissions from products sold through our store and other pages throughout the site. The site has no sources of external funding.

Advertising Policy

You will see various forms of advertising on the this site. Text advertising is supplied by Google and you will see a number of 'ad units' in various locations on each page. Advertisements provided by Google clearly state 'Ads by Google'. You will also notice that in the text of most pages some of the words are double underlined in green. When you hover your mouse over these advertisements will be displayed. These advertisements are provided by Kontera. For both of these forms of advertising The Environmental Illness Resource receives a small fee each time an advertising link is clicked.

You may also see products for sale throughout the site. For any of these (Google and Kontera excluded) The Environmental Illness Resource only receives a commission if you follow a link to a vendors website and make a purchase there.

We only show advertisements that are relevant to the content of the site i.e. health.