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Privacy Policy and Copyright Information

Copyright
You may not reproduce or distribute information, photos or graphics without prior written permission from Burk-Elder: Hale, Third To request permission to reproduce or distribute information on this site, please contact us. This site is owned and operated by Burk-Elder: Hale, Third Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Burk-Elder: Hale, Third, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. Bionaid is a trademark owned by Burke Hale, Inc. Bion Plus Bionaid AuH2O and Bion Bionaid Goldwater are trademarks that have been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office by BioaAquatic Ltd. and issued serial number: 77350722. Their use on this website is authorized under agreements with BioAquatic Ltd. and Burk Hale, Inc.

Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Usage tracking
Burk-Elder: Hale, Third tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Burk-Elder: Hale, Third does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). Burk-Elder: Hale, Third sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Burk-Elder: Hale, Third uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.

Use of Information
Burk-Elder: Hale, Third uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic articles. We send out articles to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the article), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Burk-Elder: Hale, Third NEVER shares mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners. When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas, we do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

Information Sharing
Burk-Elder: Hale, Third will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Opt-Out Policy
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
• Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.

Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Burk-Elder: Hale, Third If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.