Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

The Knowledge Exchange Network (“KEN” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.drkristennguyen.com (our “Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

on this Website.
in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by KEN or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By choosing to access or use this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change periodically (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after changes are made indicates acceptance of those changes.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect information from and about users of our Website, including information:

By which you may be personally identified, such as name, email address, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information“);
That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as photographs; and/or
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT DIRECTLY FROM YOU WHEN YOU PROVIDE IT TO US

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide when leaving comments on our Website, including the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our Website, posting or submitting material, submitting a contact form, or requesting further services. Names and email addresses submitted through contact forms are never used for marketing purposes, and they they are never shared with third parties outside of KEN.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Your search queries on the Website.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY AS YOU NAVIGATE THE SITE

We may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns as you navigate the site, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

Tools used for automatic data collection may include:

Browser cookies: You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, disabling cookies may prevent you from accessing certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our system will automatically issue cookies when you visit our Website.
Web beacons: Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit KEN, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM THIRD PARTIES

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from third party websites. These websites may collect data about you by:

using cookies
embedding additional third party tracking, and/or
monitoring your interaction with the embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Some of this Website's content or applications, including advertisements, are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may:

use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website.
collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

KEN does not control third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

HOW WE USE YOUR DATA

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your subscription status.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To use and redistribute photographs you submit to us to share.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us, through our contact form. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates. KEN is a participant in affiliate programs, which allows us to earn a referral fee for sales made on other sites through our referral links. We will always disclose when affiliate links are included in our content.
To an automated spam detection service.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients, or if you provide a photograph for us to share on our website, in our emails, and on our social media accounts.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Knowledge Exchange Network, our customers, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

DATA SECURITY

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we handle users’ personal information, we will post a notice on this page. We will also update the privacy policy modification date below. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

This policy was last modified on July 22, 2024.