Our Privacy Policy

Brass and Ivory: Life with MS and RA is a personal, non-commercial blog that allows visitors to read content, leave comments, share material on social networks, subscribe to content, and connect with the blog owner.

Any personal information shared with the blog owner in private communication (e.g., email addresses, contact information, names, personal or medical information) is kept confidential and is never used for commercial purposes or personal advantage.

Comments or other content publicly posted by visitors cannot be considered private or confidential and may be used by unrelated parties out of our control. Comments may be deleted, by the author or the blog owner, but cannot be edited.

This blog does not share personal information with third parties nor do we store any information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze and optimize content and your reading experience through the use of cookies.

Our website uses cookies - small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites - to help provide you with the best experience we can. Our cookies:

• Allow you to add comments to our site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest
• Compile anonymous visitor statistics to help us continuously improve our website

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information
• Collect any sensitive information 
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Currently we are using Google Analytics to analyze the audience of the website and improve our content. Personally identifiable information is not collected from Google Analytics. For further information about Google Analytics, visit their privacy policy page.

You can turn off the use of cookies at anytime by changing your specific browser settings. If you choose to set your browser to reject cookies, you will still be able to access this blog but may not be able to take full advantage of functionality.

We are not responsible for republished content from this blog found on other blogs or websites used without our permission. We take no responsibility for the content or policies of websites to which this blog may link.

This blog honors the health information privacy laws established in the United States.

This Privacy Policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on July 11, 2015. If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly here: brass.and.ivory@gmail.com.

If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the site. Your continued use of the site implies acceptance of this Policy.