However, information about your condition and treatment will never be linked to personal information about you (e.g., your name, postal or e-mail addresses, doctor's name, etc.) unless you explicitly agree to let us do so for a specific purpose. Indeed, if you choose, you are welcome to a make up a fictitious user name.

At the same time, recording accurate information about your condition, treatments, and care providers will make certain features of Thyroid-Cancer.net more useful to you (e.g., the Personal Thyroid Page). Other website services can only work if you provide us with your e-mail address. We need this, for example, to remind you about prescription refills and to notify you about new research related to your particular condition.

Thyroid-Cancer.net will not provide lists of patients with or without their diagnoses and treatments to any pharmaceutical company, insurer or employer, hospital or health system, doctor, or researcher. If any of these entities have special services that might be of interest to people with certain thyroid conditions, we will let you know. Then you can decide if you want to contact them directly.

Thyroid-Cancer.net will strive to maintain independence in our editorial commitment to the best interests of patients with thyroid cancer and their families and friends. We are currently supported solely by private donations from these people. In the event that in future we accept unrestricted educational or research grants from corporate sponsors, they will have no right to dictate the topics that we cover or the views that we present. We will also notify you of any such corporate donations on our Site Supporters page.

While no website can ever promise absolute and perpetual security of your information, Thyroid-Cancer.net will make every reasonable effort to maintain a smoothly functioning, safe, long-term service for our users.

Disclaimer: All health and health-related information contained within this Web site is intended to be general in nature and should not be used as a substitute for a visit with a health care professional. Your health care provider should be consulted in regard to matters concerning the medical condition, treatment and needs of your family.