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We believe that trustworthy health information should be free to everyone and we rely on advertising to make that possible. Providing authoritative experiences that are reviewed by physicians and other health and wellness professionals is expensive, but it’s an invaluable service. We collect and securely process your personal data to deliver a relevant experience and support our business, so we ask that you allow cookies in order to access all of our content and features.

We and our partners process your personal data in the following ways:

• store and/or access information on a device
• use limited data to select advertising
• create profiles for personalised advertising
• use profiles to select personalised advertising
• create profiles to personalise content
• use profiles to select personalised content
• measure advertising performance
• measure content performance
• understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources
• develop and improve services
• use limited data to select content

We collect the following categories of personal data:

• Identifiers, such as name, email address, physical address, telephone number, IP address.
• Internet, electronic network, and device activity and device information and related identifiers, such as information about your interactions with the Services, device and advertising identifiers, information about your device hardware and software (as more fully described in the section above, “Information We Collect”).
• Geolocation data, such as your general location inferred from an IP address.
• Legally protected classification information, such as gender and marital status.
• Inferences from some of the above information to create a profile reflecting, for example, your preferences.Sensitive personal information, such as information concerning your health (e.g. health condition), race and ethnicity, preferred pronouns, sex life, or sexual orientation, and login information allowing access to a user account.
• Other information that directly or indirectly identifies you, such as date of birth, account preferences, and information on any publicly available social media profile of yours through which you use the Services.

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