Privacy Policy & Terms of Use
About Us. Carolina Teen Health is owned and operated by the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (SC Campaign). The SC Campaign is a non-profit organization committed to the prevention of adolescent pregnancy in South Carolina through education, technical assistance, public awareness, advocacy and research. Carolina Teen Health is a critical part of this mission. Through this website the SC Campaign is able to offer teens research, resources, and information about teen pregnancy and how to prevent it.
What Information is collected. You can generally visit the website without revealing your identity or providing any personal information. If, however, you decide to participate in certain activities, including online polling or registering to receive updates from Carolina Teen Health, we may ask for your name, age, email and other information related to the activity. As a participant, you may also be asked to provide information about your experience with the SC Campaign (e.g., enjoyment of activities, frequency of participation, project specifics, etc.). Carolina Teen Health.org is not directed to children under the age of 13 and does not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of 13. Should we learn that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us, we will delete it from our database.
How we Collect Information. We collect personal identifiable information from you when you voluntarily submit it. We do not use cookies or other internal tracking mechanisms to collect any personal information about you. We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. Moreover, we do not share or otherwise disclose your personal information to outside parties other than third party site administrators (for operational and maintenance purposes only). Access to your information is limited to those SC Campaign employees, such as administrators, who need it for administrative and programming purposes.
How Information is Protected. We take reasonable measure to protect the privacy, accuracy, and reliability of any personal information you choose to provide to us and to protect such information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We also safeguard your personal information by limiting the number of employees who may access such information and by permitting access to it only for administrative and programming purposes. Please note that while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you choose to transmit through the use of Carolina Teen Health.org We are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that inadvertently receive your personal information.
How to Update Information or End Participation. You will always have the opportunity to update your information. If you have submitted personal information through Carolina Teen Health.org and you would like to access that information, you may send an email to cth@teenpregnancysc.org. We will use reasonable efforts to supply you with this information and correct any factual inaccuracies that you identify. You can let us know at any time if you wish to end your participation in Carolina Teen Health.org activities by emailing us at cth@teenpregnancysc.org. Within a reasonable time of your giving this notice, your information will become inactive in our database, and it will no longer be viewed, accessed, or used by the SC Campaign employees. If, however, you decide to participate again in any CarolinaTeenHealth.org activities, we reserved the right to access your prior information at the time of renewed contact or participation.
Terms of Use
Information on carolinateenhealth.org does not constitute medical, legal or other professional advice. Users should always visit or speak to a qualified health service provider in person before starting any new treatment or with any individual questions or concerns regarding a medical condition.
Warranty and Liability
The South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy assumes no liability for any diagnosis, treatment decision, or action taken based on information found on carolinateenhealth.org or websites linked to it in anyway. The SC Campaign does not assume any responsibility for and is not liable for any risk for your uses of Carolinateenhealth.org or the internet.
Under no circumstances shall the SC Campaign be liable for injury, loss, claim, damage or any incidental or consequential damages arising either directly or indirectly out of or in any way connected with the Carolina Teen Health website, or any failure or delay in updating our including any information or materials on the Carolina Teen Health website, or any use of or inability to use any materials on the Carolina Teen Health website, even if the SC Campaign has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Submission of materials by Users
When you submit a question, article or other materials to Carolina Teen Health through the website, you authorize us to read, edit and publish it to the website where it can then be read all over the world and downloaded and copied. Do not submit anything if you do not want your question, article, or materials posted and read by others. Before posting any question, or other work to the website, SC Campaign staff will edit it to make the content clear and protect your anonymity. Please remove any personal information that could be used to identify you or others mentioned in your submission before submitting anything onto Carolinateenhealth.org. The SC Campaign is not obligated to and makes no representation that we will publish any particular submission. All material you submit must be original work. Once a submission is published on the website the SC Campaign may take it down for any or no reason.
Waiver of Responsibility for Defective or Contaminated Material
While the SC Campaign makes every effort to ensure the correctness of data, the SC Campaign disclaims responsibility for any errors or omissions, such as unintended inaccuracies or typographical errors, in the materials. You also understand that the SC Campaign cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading through the service will be free of “infection” or “viruses,” worms, “Trojan horses,” or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. Users are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy their particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a procedure outside of the Carolina Teen Health website for reconstruction of any lost data. Use of the Carolina Teen Health website and the internet generally is at the user’s own risk.