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You will find below the elements identified by the HONcode team at a precise date to justify the respect of the 8 ethical principles.
The content of this certificate has been collected and written by the Health On the Net Foundation (HON) and should not be used without previous permission granted by HON. A request for permission can be sent to:
HON.
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| 1. Information must be authoritative |
Editor: Lisa M. Rasolt, MSBA, CEBS
Program Director, Defeat Diabetes Foundation
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2. Presentation of the site
Mission:
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The Mission of Defeat Diabetes Foundation is to help save the lives of children, adults and families impacted by the physical, emotional, spiritual and financial pain of Diabetes through prevention and self management of the disease!
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| Audience:
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We are committed to continuing this work for the 24 million diabetics and 57 million pre-diabetics in the United States with the disease.
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| Purpose of the website
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Defeat Diabetes Foundation does NOT provide professional medical advice. The information we provide is intended to help you better understand diabetes. It is NOT intended to replace the advice of your physician.
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| 3. Confidentiality |
http://www.defeatdiabetes.org/about/text.asp?id=Web_Ad_Policy
Sharing Aggregate User Information
Defeat Diabetes Foundation may share aggregated anonymous statistical information regarding site usage and traffic patterns with our advertisers and sponsors.
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1. Our e-mail addresses are never sold or given away to third parties.
2. We keep all responses to surveys, registration forms, and other personal data private. Any information you provide when registering or requesting services or filling out forms, polls or surveys is kept private. We may release compounded statistics (for example, the number of parents with diabetic children), but your individual response is kept confidential.
3. We keep your donation, purchase and contact information private. When you donate to the Defeat Diabetes Foundation, we take special precautions with y...
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| 4. Information must be documented: Referenced and dated |
| Only data for one sample are displayed among those selected. |
Source: NIDDK, Complications of Diabetes in the United States
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Updated 15 January 2011
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| 5. Justification of claims |
This principle is not applicable for this site
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| 6. User support and adequation |
Contact Us
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| 7. Disclosure of funding sources |
http://www.defeatdiabetes.org/about/text.asp?id=Programs_and_Service
The Foundation maintains a website as a source of information for anyone interested in health and especially for "pre-diabetics" and diabetics that features content about diabetes, its complications and the importance of self-management.
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Our http://www.DefeatDiabetes.org website is funded mainly through monetary donations by individuals. We also receive in-kind donations from individuals, monetary and in-kind donations from corporations, advertisement revenue and revenue from our eBay store we apply toward the website.
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| 8. Advertising policy |
Visit Our Sponsors and Advertisers
DDF advertisement
Friendly Banner
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Editorial Independence
Defeat Diabetes Foundation maintains absolute editorial independence. Defeat Diabetes Foundation may receive funding from third parties who pay for the right to advertise their companies and products on our site.(...)
At times, third parties may pay for the right to sponsor certain areas of information on our site. Defeat Diabetes Foundation may agree to develop information about a certain topic in return for this sponsorship. However, Defeat Diabetes Foundation develops this information in accordance with our editorial policy and practices; sponsors have n...
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Defeat Diabetes Foundation has business relationships with companies who pay us to place advertisements or product and service offers on our Web site. We use the revenue from these relationships to help offset the costs of developing quality consumer health information.
While we accept advertising, we don’t specifically endorse any products or services.
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For this reason, all advertisements and sponsorship acknowledgments are separated from our consumer health information. Each is clearly labeled, for example, with the word "-“advertisement" running along the top, - side or bottom of the box in which the advertisement or sponsorship acknowledgment appears.
Information marked –“advertisement” may include advertisements and offers from third parties, as well as "in-house" advertisements that will link you to consumer health information we wish to highlight.
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