Yoofgate respects our users and we are committed to protect the privacy of the users on our Site at all times. Registration information and certain information about you are subject to our Privacy Policy. Confidentiality of data relating to individual general users, including their identity, is respected by this Website and forms the basis of our Privacy Policy. Yoofgate undertakes to honor the legal requirements of medical/health information privacy that apply in the United-States ("HIPAA") and country and state where the Website is located. For this reason, when you are a general user, you may visit and navigate within this Site without providing any information that may be used to reveal your personal identity. We collect non-specific information such as first name or username, e-mail, and age for general statistical and tracking purposes. There are exceptions that apply to users of the Classified Ads and Swap services. We may ask for personal identification from you in connection with your use of the Classified Ads and Swap services. Such personal information is deemed necessary in order to conduct business with Yoofgate and between users. We will only collect this information if it has been voluntarily submitted to us. Also if you send us an e-mail with questions or comments, we may keep those for future reference.

Users who are private forum moderators should also adhere to Yoofgate's Privacy Policy and honor the legal requirements of medical/health information privacy that apply in the United States ("HIPAA") and country and state where the Website is located when sponsoring private forums involving patients or medical users as private members. It is against Yoofgate's Privacy Policy to obtain personally identifiable private information from private forum users and disclose such private information in the private forum.

We do not disclose the existence of other active private forums to private forum moderators and general users. However, under certain specific circumstances, for example, we may disclose this information when a business entity is interested in purchasing the Site and needs to conduct a due diligence evaluation. Under such special circumstance, we may disclose all relevant information of the Site under signed confidentiality agreement with such business entity.

Users acknowledge and agree that Yoofgate may disclose users' personal information (if collected and available) if required to do so by law (such as search warrant subpoena statute or court order) or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, enforce Yoofgate Terms of Use agreement, or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Yoofgate, its members, employees, users and third parties, and the public, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. For general users, the e-mail address that you supply to use this service will only be used as a means of communication between you and Yoofgate. You understand that through your use of the services of this Site, you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of the information that you supply (upon registration and user-generated content), including the transfer of this information to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing, and use by Yoofgate and its affiliates. Similarly, for users of Swap and Classified Ads services where more personal information is collected, the e-mail address, address, and phone number that you supply to use these services will be used as a means of business communication between you and Yoofgate and among users of such services. You understand that through your use of the Swap and Classified Ads services of this Site, you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in this Privacy Policy) of the information that you supply (upon registration and user-generated content), including the transfer of this information to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing, and use by Yoofgate and its affiliates. Furthermore, you understand and agree that all information in this Site may be transferred as part of a sale to a third party business owner.

Please note and be aware that if you ever give out your personal information online, through a message board or to a private forum moderator for example, that information may be collected and used by third parties. Our goal will always be to protect our users' privacy, we cannot however guarantee the security of information you chose to post in the public areas, including the private forums.

Last updated on November 12, 2007