The Taking Care of Your “Girls” Commitment
Our commitment is to uphold the highest standards of health information and integrity. Our goal is to supply you with vital health information and personal encouragement while respecting your privacy and individuality.

We welcome your participation at TakingCareOfYourGirls.com, and rely on you to help us keep this site a safe, respectful, welcoming place on the Web. Therefore, we ask that you abide by the Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct that appear on the pages in this section.

Terms of Use
Your use of TakingCareOfYourGirls.com requires your continued acceptance of and compliance with our Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct. Please take this time to familiarize yourself with these important policies and rules.

TakingCareOfYourGirls.com is an online information and communications service, subject to your compliance with the Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct. TakingCareOfYourGirls.com is designed to be a book web site, a vital resource, and a safe community focused on breast health, as well as a comfortable place for visitors to find emotional support and share experiences. Information provided on this web site should not be used in place of consultation with, or the advice of, your physician or other healthcare provider. TakingCareOfYourGirls.com does not recommend self-management of health problems.

TakingCareOfYourGirls.com may change any term in these Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct at any time. The changes will appear in these Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct, and your use of the site after any changes have been posted will constitute your agreement to the modified Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct. Therefore, you should read these Terms of Use each time you access the web site, before you begin using it.

Copyright and Limitations on Use. The Content displayed on the web site ("Content") is the property of TakingCareOfYourGirls.com or its licensors, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. This web site and Content the may be used by you only for your personal and non-commercial use. You agree not to copy, reproduce, modify, display, perform, publish, create derivative works from, or store any Content from the web site.

Use of Content from the book, Taking Care of Your “Girls:” A Breast Health Guide for Girls, Teens and In-Betweens,’ is restricted to book promotional and publicity purposes and without charge. Content must be utilized verbatim without any deletions or modifications. Such Content use is restricted to 500 words or less, and is free of charge, as long as full title book credit is given directly before or after the citation. If an outlet wants to use an excerpt larger than 500 words, written permission is required from Random House’s subsidiary rights department and a fee may be applied. To request consent to utilize over 500 words of Content, contact TakingCareOfYourGirls.com.

This web site includes facts, views, graphics, illustrations, opinions and recommendations of individuals and organizations deemed of interest to the community concerned about breast health. TakingCareOfYourGirls.com, the book, Taking Care of Your “Girls:” A Breast Health Guide for Girls, Teens and In-Betweens, and its Content licensors and providers are not giving medical or other professional advice. TakingCareOfYourGirls.com/Taking Care of Your “Girls:” A Breast Health Guide for Girls, Teens and In-Betweens and its Content licensors and providers do not guarantee or warrant the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of, or otherwise endorse, these facts, views, graphics, illustrations, opinions and recommendations. You should always seek the assistance of a medical or other healthcare professional for medical and other health matters.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY. Due to the number of sources from which the Content is obtained, and the inherent hazards of electronic distribution, there may be delays, errors, omissions, or inaccuracies in such Content and the web site. THE CONTENT AND THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES. USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE CONTENT AND GRAPHICS AT THIS WEB SITE IS AT THE USER'S OWN RISK.

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Links to Third Party Sites. As a convenience to you, this web site contains links to web sites operated by persons or entities other than TakingCareOfYourGirls.com. Such links are provided for your reference and convenience only. You agree not to hold TakingCareOfYourGirls.com responsible for the content or operation of such web sites. A link or hyperlink from TakingCareOfYourGirls.com to another web site does not imply or mean that TakingCareOfYourGirls.com endorses the content on that web site or the operators or the operations of that web site. TakingCareOfYourGirls.com specifically disclaims responsibility for materials posted or activities that occur on linked sites. TakingCareOfYourGirls.com does not review materials posted or activities occurring on linked sites. You are solely responsible for determining the extent to which you may use any content at any other web sites to which you might link from TakingCareOfYourGirls.com.

If you wish to make purchases from an area of the web site or an affiliated web site, such as Amazon.com, operated by a person or entity other than TakingCareOfYourGirls.com, you may be asked by the merchant or operator from whom you are making the purchase to supply certain information, including credit card, debit card, or other payment mechanism information. You agree not to hold TakingCareOfYourGirls.com liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of any such dealings with any merchant or operator from which you are making the purchase. You agree that all information you provide in connection with such purchase shall be accurate, complete and current. You agree to pay all charges incurred by users of your credit card, debit card, or other payment mechanism at the prices in effect when such charges are incurred. You also will pay any applicable taxes, if any, relating to any purchases you make. You are reminded that such sites are separate from TakingCareOfYourGirls.com, subject to their own policies and terms, including privacy policies.

Online Communications. Certain areas of the web site enable you to access online programs (“Forums”), where you can participate in online communications. Such communications may occur in real time and are not edited, censored, or otherwise controlled by TakingCareOfYourGirls.com. TakingCareOfYourGirls.com cannot and does not screen content provided by you or other users.TakingCareOfYourGirls.com does not endorse, and specifically disclaims any responsibility or liability for any content posted on the Forums, whether the topic is first selected by TakingCareOfYourGirls.com or a user. The Forums are a free service provided to users of TakingCareOfYourGirls.com. By posting a message in the Forums, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. If you do not want to be bound by these terms, then do not access or use the Forums.

You agree to be fully responsible for your own postings and agree to access and use the Forums at your own risk on an "AS IS" basis. While TakingCareOfYourGirls.com has no obligation to monitor the Forums, TakingCareOfYourGirls.com reserves the right to monitor content on the Forums and to remove content that TakingCareOfYourGirls.com, in its sole discretion, determines to be harmful, offensive, unlawful or otherwise in violation of these Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct. TakingCareOfYourGirls.com cannot and does not guarantee that it will post or continue to post every message or other content you or other users submit to the Forums. Also, TakingCareOfYourGirls.com reserves the right to edit or abridge postings for any reason and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in TakingCareOfYourGirls.com's sole discretion.

By posting a message, uploading a file, or engaging in any other form of communication through a Forum, you are granting TakingCareOfYourGirls.com a perpetual, exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, and sell any such messages, files or communications.

Rules of Conduct
You must abide by the following rules when accessing or using any program or service of TakingCareOfYourGirls.com:
Additional Legal Terms. These Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct and your rights and obligations shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without giving effect to principles of conflict of laws. You expressly agree that any legal proceeding between TakingCareOfYourGirls.com and you concerning your use of TakingCareOfYourGirls.com, these Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct, or the parties' obligations hereunder shall be brought exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

You further agree that TakingCareOfYourGirls.com 's failure to enforce strict performance of any provision of these Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. If any provision in these Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect, and the invalid or unenforceable provision shall be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision.

All rights not expressly granted herein are hereby reserved.
What To Do If You Believe a Posting Violates These Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct. If you believe that a posting or other online communication violates these Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct, TakingCareOfYourGirls.com encourages you to contact us <http://www.breastcancer.org/contact_us/> .

Privacy Policy
The policy of TakingCareOfYourGirls.com is to respect the privacy of all web site visitors to the extent permitted by law. This online privacy statement is intended to inform you of the ways in which this web site collects information, the uses to which that information will be put, and the ways in which we will protect any information you choose to provide us.

There are four types of information that this site may collect during your visit: network traffic logs, web visit logs, cookies, and information voluntarily provided by you.

Network Traffic Logs
In the course of ensuring network security and consistent service for all users, TakingCareOfYourGirls.com employs software programs to do such things as monitor network traffic, detect computer viruses, and monitor and improve the performance of the web site. Information collected from these activities is used only for the purpose of maintaining the security and performance of TakingCareOfYourGirls.com’s network. Personally identifiable information from these activities is not released to external parties without your consent unless required by law.

Web Visit Logs
The TakingCareOfYourGirls.com web site collects and stores information from online visitors to help manage the site and improve service. This information includes the pages visited on the site, the date and time of the visit, the internet address (URL or IP address) of the referring site, the domain name and IP address from which the access occurred, the version of browser used, the capabilities of the browser, and search terms used on our search engines. This site makes no attempt to identify individual visitors from this information: any personally identifiable information is not released to external parties without your consent unless required by law.

Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information stored by your web browser on behalf of a web site and returned to the web site on request. This site may use cookies for two purposes: to carry data about your current session at the site from one web page to the next, and to identify you to the site between visits. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you may turn them off in your browser, or may set your browser to ask you before accepting a new cookie. Some pages may not function properly if the cookies are turned off. Unless otherwise notified on this site, we will not store data, other than for these two purposes, in cookies. Cookies remain on your computer, and accordingly we neither store cookies on our computers nor forward them to any external parties. Unless otherwise notified on this site, we do not use cookies to track your movement among different web sites and do not exchange cookies with other entities.

Information Voluntarily Provided by You
In the course of using this web site, you may choose to provide us with information to help us better understand and serve your breast health information needs as well as those of other girls and women. For example, you may send us electronic mail (through a mailer or a web form) to request information, complete a poll or a survey, sign up for a mailing list, or send us your address to receive materials. Any personally identifiable information you send us will be used only for the purpose indicated.

The submissions will be processed and recorded to help us update our web site and better respond to similar requests. Research survey information will be collected, analyzed and presented anonymously—without any personally identifiable information—in collaboration with our research partners. We will not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information without your consent, except to the extent required by law. If you do not wish to have the information used in that manner, you are not required to provide it.

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