Information Automatically Gathered about all Visitors

We collect aggregate and user-specific information on which pages consumers access or visit. This information is used to generate reports that help us assess the value of/interest in the various websites we provide. We use the information collected to improve the content of our web pages. We can build a better site if we know which pages our users are visiting, how often they visit and how long they stay on a page.

Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, including your IP address (but not the email address), when you visit our sites. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users and to measure traffic within our sites. To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we may utilize a standard feature of browser software called a “cookie.” A cookie is a small piece of computer code that is deposited on your hard drive by our site. Browsers typically recognize when a cookie has been sent to your computer and give you the option to refuse or allow it. A cookie does not actually identify you, just the computer that you are using to access our site. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers, content partners and sites that are reached from links on our site may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we cannot control. We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs so that we can deliver a better and more personalized service. It is a cookie, for example, that allows us to deliver to you any personalized information each time you visit a site. Additionally, we can access cookies later in your current session or in a later session on our site in order to improve your visit to our website, as in the following examples. You may block or disable cookies or other trackers by changing the settings on your browser, but doing so may prevent you from accessing certain functionalities on the site.

About Third-party Advertising

OMA is not responsible for any opinions or statements on the OMA News page. OMA disclaims all warranties with regard to the information posted, whether posted by OMA or any third party. This disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. OMA has no liability for damages and/or injuries including, but not limited to, special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever arising out of the use or performance of any posted information. Defamatory, abusive, profane, offensive, illegal or unauthorized copyrighted material is not permitted. Persons posting any information represent and warrant that the material is either original in all respects or that permission to reproduce the materials has been granted by the copyright owner. OMA reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by these guidelines. Discussion of future prices and/or prices paid for services or supplies may be in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. Such discussions are strictly prohibited and OMA is not responsible for any such discussions. These companies may use information (generally, not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to this website and to other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies may employ cookies and clear GIFs to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and clear GIFs is generally not personally identifiable, unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or e-mail message. We encourage you to read these businesses’ privacy policies if you should have any concerns about how they will care for your personal information. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, see the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer education web page. Google is an ad network partner that displays ads on our website. To improve your ad experience on our website and elsewhere on the Internet, we may send non-personal information to Google based on your browser’s activities, such as type of pages viewed and categories of interests, so that the advertising you see is relevant to you. Google also may use information regarding its own users to select which ads to display.

Information Gathered by Voluntary Submission

To make use of certain features on our website (such as the Members-only section), visitors need to register and to provide certain information as part of the registration or participation process. We may ask, for example, for your name, e-mail address, and zip code. The information you supply will help us offer you more personalized features, tailor our site to your interests and make them more useful to you. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. If you do not supply the information we need, though, we may be unable to provide you with services and content we make available to other visitors to our sites. Of course, even if you want to remain completely anonymous, you are still free to take advantage of the wealth of content that is otherwise available, without registration on our site.

E-mails from OMA

Upon registering with our website, you may begin receiving communications from us. In addition, if you have signed up for any of our automated account services, we will send you transactional e-mails regarding the status of your account, including confirmations, notices of expiration and renewal and other related electronic correspondence. If you have signed up for any of our e-mail communications, you may stop receiving them if you follow the “unsubscribe” instructions located near the bottom of each newsletter. We may send you an e-mail inviting you to participate in subscriber or website user surveys. Such surveys greatly help us improve our services and the value of our web site.

What We Do with the Information We Gather about You

We may perform statistical, marketing and demographic analyses of our subscribers and their subscription patterns. In addition, we may generally inform our advertisers about our subscriber base. When we present information to our advertisers—to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website—it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our sites. In some cases, though, we may provide information to legal officials as described in the following section, “Compliance with Legal Process.” In some cases, we contract with third parties to provide services on our behalf, including credit card and bill processing, shipping, e-mail distribution, list processing and analytics or promotions management. We provide these third parties with only the information necessary for them to perform their specific services. These service providers are restricted from using this information in any way other than to provide services to us, and they may not share this information with anyone else nor may they resell this data.

Compliance with Legal Process

We may disclose personal information, if we or one of our affiliated companies is required by law to disclose personal information or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to comply with a law or some legal process to protect or defend our rights and property, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website or to protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public.

A Right to Be Forgotten

In compliance with GDPR, you have the right to request to be “forgotten”. You can find this information on the Privacy Information page. Please note that this request will only delete information on this site. If you have previously submitted information on other Obesity Medicine Association related websites, you must request to be “forgotten” on each of those sites.

A Final Note

A numerous amount of links to third parties are contained on our site. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to those companies’ websites; therefore, you should refer to each of those individual sites to obtain information on their privacy policies. If you cannot find the privacy policy on any of these sites once you have arrived to a site via a link from our site, you should contact that site directly for more information. OMA reserves the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Policy, simply by posting such addition, change, update, or modification on this site. Any such addition, change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the site. Users should review the Policy regularly to learn about changes.