Privacy and Security Policies

We take your privacy and the security of your data seriously. The Privacy and Security Policies below spell out how we deliver on that promise.

These Policies apply to this site, Naked Multiple Sclerosis (www.NakedMS.me), the Site, which is owned by Caramia Hartley of Antigua & Barbuda. Caramia also owns the associated site of Cure Multiple Sclerosis (www.CureMS.me) for which similar Policies apply.

Caramia and the Site cannot do everything to maintain your privacy and keep your data secure. You have to help too. Please see Your Part at the end.

These Policies and ‘Your Part’ form part of the Terms of Service of the Site.

If you have any questions or concerns about these policies, and your part, please Contact Us.

Privacy Policy

Information entered by you, or collected about you, on the Site, is confidential. At no time is any information held about you ever given, disclosed, sold or traded to any other group or individual, unless specifically requested by you, or unless to comply with applicable laws, a subpoena or other legal process.

You can edit (change) any information entered by you, at any time. Such changes take effect immediately. The history of such changes is kept for data recreation and potential dispute resolution purposes.

The precautions taken to protect your information are described in Security Policy below.

Specific aspects of some information storage and use by the Site are:

Email

In regard to email use, and your email address or addresses:

• No emails are sent to non-members by the Site. (No email addresses are collected except for Members.)
• When you become a member, you will not be spammed, nor will your email address be passed on to any group or individual who might spam you.
• You will be sent membership and payment confirmation type emails.
• From time to time, you will be sent emails with new or significant items of site or MS News.
• You will not be pestered with marketing/sales emails.
• You can unsubscribe at any time from the News type emails via the unsubscribe link included in every email. You cannot unsubscribe from the confirmation type emails while you remain a member.

Credit Cards

You may pay using a credit card but the Site does not store any credit card information, not even momentarily.

Instead, we focus on MS matters and make use of a specialist online payments company, AlertPay, to handle all payment processing tasks.

AlertPay keeps your credit card or balance data safe, and handles the transactions without ever revealing any of your credit card or balance details to us.

If ever you should wish to cancel a membership, you can do so via your AlertPay Account.

IP Address, Browser and Computer Information, Visit History

The IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer you use to access the Site; information about your browser, plus each action you take during a visit are recorded.

This information

• assists with security measures - suspicious activity can be tracked
• allows the potential provision of geographic alternatives on the Site
• helps in allocating affiliate scheme commissions if applicable
• provides data for statistical analysis of traffic, trends, marketing results, and server loads
• helps with site user interface design improvements

Cookies

A Cookie is a small computer file stored on your computer hard drive by your browser. The Site uses cookies to allow you to be identified automatically when you return to the site, and as part of maintaining your identity (“state”) during a visit. The Site will not function correctly for members if cookies are disabled in your browser settings.

Our Site cookies hold no personal information about you, just settings information and a coded session identifier for logged in members.

Cookies are updated on every page view, and last for a year.

If you Logout from the Site, the cookie identifier for you is deleted. If you access a Site via a public computer e.g. at an Internet cafe, then it is recommended that you logout before leaving the computer.

You may also delete Site cookies via your browser if you should wish.

Comments

Only logged-in members can post comments. This ensures that spam type comments cannot be posted, and that the owner or poster of every comment is known and recorded.

Comments posted to the Site are public i.e. they are not private to you.

You retain Copyright ownership of your comments.

Your and the Site’s responsibilities for comments, plus the Site’s comment moderation policy, are detailed in Terms of Service - Comments and Posting.

Security Policy

Protecting your information to keep it from being accessed by unauthorised persons is a vital concern of the Site both for your sake and mine. Nothing would destroy the reputation of the Site faster than a security failure, so we take security very seriously. We hope that you will also.

Specifically:

Password

Membership accounts are password protected.

The Site software ensures that your username and password are unique to you.

Passwords are stored encrypted in the Site databases using what is called one way encryption. This means that the password cannot be retrieved in its original encrypted form. Thus, if you forget the password, we cannot tell you what it was, and can only issue you with a new temporary password after confirmation that you are entitled to be given one.

But you also must please do your part to ensure that your password are effective in keeping your data safe, as listed in Your Part below.

Hosting

The Site is hosted with Hostgator in the USA, managed from Antigua & Barbuda.

Hostgator hosts approximately 2% of the world’s internet traffic and provides the following to enhance security for the Site:

• Servers always up to date for security and other updates
• Enterprise grade firewalls
• Redundant internet network connectivity via 10 backbone and fiber providers fro reliability and speed
• High levels of data centre physical security, system security, and operational security versus viruses, and other malware, detailed here.

The Site Itself

The Site has been developed with security in mind. Security starts with good design and programming. NakedMS.me is built on the WordPress platform, one of the most widely used open source blogging systems.

No data received over the web by the Site is used without checking to ensure that it is harmless.

Sessions for member activities are identified only by an encrypted id, with no personal information.

No Physical Transport or Storage of Your Data

Your data is never transported anywhere by physical means i.e. it is never copied to tape or DVD for transport by post or courier, and thus potential loss.

Instead, all Site data, stays within the secure Hostgator data center, or moves via an encrypted internet link to another secure data center for backup purposes. No physical offsite tape or DVD copies are kept.

Your Part

The Site cannot do everything to maintain your privacy and keep your data secure. You have to help too. Please:

• Take responsibility for any data that resides on your own computer or local network, as the Site has no control over that whatsoever.
• Keep your personal information including email address accurate and up to date.
• Choose a password that others won’t be able to guess easily. Don’t use your birthday, your pet’s name, or any such easy to crack passwords.
• Keep your password secure at all times, and don’t let anyone watch you enter your password.
• Change your password from time to time.
• Change your password immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of it.
• Logout after finishing a Site session on a public computer.
• Do not respond to any email which asks you for your password or other sensitive information. (No email from the Site will ever ask you for such information.)
• Keep your own computer(s) up to date with updates.
• Run anti-virus software on your computer(s) and keep it up to date.