What does that mean for you?

* The owner of this Web-site has agreed to anti-spam policies along with following email marketing best practices: if you are a registered user of a Medicare-Sherpa.com website and have supplied your email address, Medicare-Sherpa.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new posts, features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Medicare-Sherpa.com and our services. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. You can opt out at any time by clicking on the opt-out option in the footer of the email.

* This means that Medicare-Sherpa.com may only send you email communications regarding content posted to our site. And, it means that you can have the confidence that you may safely unsubscribe at any time.

Also, in keeping with the law, Medicare-Sherpa.com, agrees to include valid contact information on every communication to you. If you do not see our name in the email, delete it.

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Medicare-Sherpa.com's editor monitors the email delivery to our customers to insure that these best practices are not ignored or abused. If you feel that one of our contributors has sent you unsolicited email, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

How to protect yourself from SPAM

Spam is unsolicited email. Medicare-Sherpa.com only sends emails to those who requested to receive it, this is called permission-based email.

1. Do you see your email address in the FROM line?
2. Are you receiving email from non-specific addresses such as:
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3. Are you receiving the same non-specific emails from multiple email addresses?
4. Are you receiving multiple emails from an unrecognized email mailing list?
5. Does the originating address appear to be fake?
6. Does the email's subject line contain false or misleading information?
7. Does the email fail to provide a working link to unsubscribe?
8. Does the site fail to process your unsubscribe requests within 10 days of the request?

If your email meets any of this criteria, DO NOT OPEN IT and delete it immediately - it is SPAM.

Medicare-Sherpa.com's Stand on Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us. Our privacy policy is based on a Creative Commons Share Alike license.

* We won't ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
* We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our site, or protect our rights.
* We don’t store personal information on hosting service's servers unless required for the on-going operation of our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Medicare-Sherpa.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Medicare-Sherpa.com's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Medicare-Sherpa.com visitors use its website. From time to time, Medicare-Sherpa.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Medicare-Sherpa.com does not collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. However, we do subscribe to a spam prevention service from Akismet and may need to request this type of information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Medicare-Sherpa.com website choose to interact with Medicare-Sherpa.com in ways that require Medicare-Sherpa.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Medicare-Sherpa.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Medicare-Sherpa.com – by purchasing access to the Akismet comment spam prevention service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Medicare-Sherpa.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Medicare-Sherpa.com. Medicare-Sherpa.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Medicare-Sherpa.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Medicare-Sherpa.com may monitor the most popular posts on the site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Medicare-Sherpa.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Medicare-Sherpa.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Medicare-Sherpa.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Medicare-Sherpa.com behalf or to provide services available at Medicare-Sherpa.com websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Medicare-Sherpa.com websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Medicare-Sherpa.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Medicare-Sherpa.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Medicare-Sherpa.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Medicare-Sherpa.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Medicare-Sherpa.com website and have supplied your email address, Medicare-Sherpa.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Medicare-Sherpa.com and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a email or via one of our comment mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Medicare-Sherpa.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Medicare-Sherpa.com uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of website, and their website access preferences. Medicare-Sherpa.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Medicare-Sherpa.com websites, with the drawback that certain features of Medicare-Sherpa.com websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Medicare-Sherpa.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Medicare-Sherpa.com sole discretion. Medicare-Sherpa.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.