Your name, email address, or any other information you provide to us will never be given out to anyone...that's our promise to you!

We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our website's commitment to protecting all of our visitors privacy whenever they visit our site.

The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for our web site:

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

We are pleased to offer you the reassurance that your visit will never be recorded or sold to anyone who might later approach you through regular mail or email solicitations. This Web site receives personal information that is voluntarily given out and collects information in such areas as the "Daily Email Support Program" - (Trial and Purchased Program), "Ex-Smokers List", "Remembering Those Who We Lost From Smoking", "Why & How You Quit", and "The Straw That Broke the Camels Back" which personally identifies you. We do not share any of this personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information that is provided by users for any purposes. All information included in these interactive areas is only added once approval is given from the visitor/authors.

We use outside ad companies to display ads on our web site. (Please see Google Advertising Cookie Privacy Policy Below).

While visiting QuitSmokingSupport , your exploration of our material is private unless you voluntarily choose to make your identity known to other readers in our various bulletin boards or interactive participation areas. You choose whether or not to include your email address or to use an alias name. You never have to include your email address, real name, or personal information anywhere on this site unless you choose to do so!

When you click on any of the external links on this site you will no longer be on QuitSmokingSupport's web site and may therefore be visiting a web site which will/may track your stop at every page, and sell this information to companies who will try and sell you products or services related to the topics found on the pages you visited. This site contains links to other sites. QuitSmokingSupport.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Our Visitor Bill of Rights

Whether our visitors are members of the public or healthcare professionals, we believe that we have certain duties and obligations when it comes to being chosen as their online quitting smoking health information provider. The following principles are the standards that we have set for ourselves to better meet their expectations of service and quality from our web site. This is our commitment to you:

QuitSmokingSupport.com will support a superior visitor experience.
QuitSmokingSupport.com provides serious, in-depth, trusted information and interactive tools to assist you in quitting smoking or to help you to help someone you know and care about to quit smoking.
All content adheres to sound editorial principles and utilizes the provision of evidence-based content from peer-reviewed sources.
All users can expect active and well monitored online communities – bulletin boards, chat, live events - where they will be treated with compassion and respect.
QuitSmokingSupport.com will provide full and complete disclosure of sponsor and advertising relationships.
All sponsorship programs are designed to add value to the visitor experience.
All visitors can expect the utmost privacy as outlined in our published privacy policy.
QuitSmokingSupport.com provides consistent navigation that takes the visitor as quickly and intuitively as possible to the information or services sought.
Our Newsletters

If you decide to submit your email address to us in order to be added to our mailing list, you may be assured that you will not receive separate emails from other marketers as a result of joining our newsletter. You will receive no offers from our sites other than those made through the newsletter itself, which, of course, you have elected to receive. You may unsubscribe at any time through the text and link provided in the newsletter. There is no means on the site to allow you to unsubscribe.

Our Surveys

You may elect to respond to our brief on-site Visitor Surveys. Some of the information requested is of a personal nature but there is certainly no obligation to answer every question.

Our Bulletin Boards and Support Group Policies

Our Support Groups have a bulletin board format that allows our visitors the opportunity to interact with our on-line community for quit smoking support. These areas are strictly moderated to keep inappropriate messages from being posted. You are offered the opportunity to include your email address with your message but you are not obligated to do so. If you do include your email address then it is visible to the general public on the bulletin board and we cannot control the actions of any 3rd parties. We will not sell email addresses from our bulletin boards.

Cookies

A cookie is a very tiny piece of text we're asking permission to place on your computer's hard drive. If you accept a cookie, then your browser adds the text in a small file. The purpose of the file is to let us know when you visit QuitSmokingSupport.com. This text, by itself, merely tells us that a previous visitor has returned; it doesn't tell us anything else (who you are, your email address, or anything personal). They are similar to the stamp placed on the back of a child's hand when visiting a fair or carnival; they merely indicate that you have visited before.

Cookies help us evaluate your use of our site, such as what kind of information you want to see and what kind you will never read. Cookie technology allows Web sites to ask for your registration and preference questions only once. The next time you return to the Web site you will not necessarily need to "sign in" again. Remember that cookies are "non-executable" pieces of code; that is, they are incapable of doing anything to your hard drive.

Cookies are easy to delete from your hard drive; talk to your systems administrator or your Internet provider for detailed instructions.

We hope you are reassured that QuitSmokingSupport will not knowingly violate your privacy in any way. Please feel free to use our pages as you deem appropriate to help yourself. If you have any questions or concerns concerning our privacy policies please feel to email us!

Google Advertising Cookie and Privacy Policies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

What is the DoubleClick DART cookie?

The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by