Quit Smoking Online is deeply committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our sites and all our members.  Below is a statement of our information gathering, protection, and disclosure policies.  

Although Quit Smoking Online members are free to share their email address, quitting date, and other membership application information in message board posts to other members, Quit Smoking Online shall treat all application information, including e-mail addresses as confidential. All e-mails or other correspondence containing any information of a personal nature shall be treated as confidential. Please be advised that our managers have a long standing policy of not sharing any member personal information with any other member, including not disclosing member e-mail addresses.

When posting messages please keep in mind that all message board posts are visible to all non-member site visitors as well as to members.  When posting messages take care and exercise sound judgment in disclosing personal identifying information as doing so immediately makes it public information.  The information on message boards is permanently archived and becomes a public treasure chest that helps aid future arrivals in breaking nicotine's grip upon their life.  From time to time old member posts should be expected to be posted to again and brought to the top where they'll become the focus of the entire group. Archived posts may also be used as a research tool to aid us in evaluating past performance and in improving the site.

Be advised that our information management policy allows all public forum resources to be used for worldwide smoking cessation and prevention purposes so long as there are no costs or charges ever associated with their use.  In theory this means that one or more of your thought provoking threads or posts could be used as a youth nicotine dependency prevention teaching tool in a Philippine classroom, as part of a free handout at an Africian smoking cessation seminar, or simply e-mailed and shared between Australian smoking friends.

Quit Smoking Online does collect IP address data that is made available to us, and allows us analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement, and gather broad information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. 

Quit Smoking Online may from time to time provide members with links or pages that allow or invite members to participate in surveys, polls or other informal or formal research.  If a link is provided to a page on any site other than Quit Smoking Online please read that site's privacy policy before participating.  We or an independent research organization may from time to time conduct performance evaluations to determine nicotine cessation rates using both archived member posts and if necessary direct e-mail communications with members.  Any independent research organization acting on our behalf shall be required to execute a privacy and non-disclosure agreement ensuring that identifying member information and email addresses shall be kept strictly confidential.

Quit Smoking Online contain links to other sites.  Please be aware that we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of any linked sites.  We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

All visitors and members can rest assured that no identifying member information shall ever be sold, leased or otherwise disseminated and that all communications containing personally identifiable information shall be safeguarded and treated as confidential. If you have any questions please contact us.

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